Sentences with phrase «eligible voters with»

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With more than 80 percent of eligible voters turning out to vote, two - thirds of them were implacably opposed to the project, which would have lasted at least a decade.

The 2008 election saw the lowest voter turnout in Alberta's history, with only 41 percent of eligible voters casting a ballot (CBC.ca, 2008).

It would be interesting to know what percentage of eligible voters vote in North Dakota as compared with the states in which registration is required.

It's the only direct defense against the purest form of ballot - stuffing (adding fake votes not associated with any eligible voter).

I'm looking for a full sortable list of the results, for every constituency, ideally with as much information as possible: Turnout, # eligible voters, votes for each candidate (both # and %), winning majority (both # and %), etc..

I urge all eligible voters to go to the polls in November to select their next Congressional representative, along with their next statewide and local officials.»

This is not true, given that huge numbers of eligible voters don't have strong opinions on issues and that even people with reasonably well formed views may not flip their vote (even in competitive primaries) based on those views.

Zoe Davidson, Co-founder of Coalition Z, said, «As the basis for a functioning democracy, we must ensure that every eligible voter can cast a ballot with ease and efficiency.

In 2014, the state ranked 49th of 50 in the country, with just 29 percent of eligible voters casting their ballots in the general election.

«Eligible citizens who interact with government agencies are registered to vote unless they decline, and agencies transfer voter registration information electronically to election officials.

He therefore implored all Nigerians to see the value of this national asset and work with the Commission to continue to improve it saying, «we can continue to work together with stakeholders and indeed all citizens to ensure that all ineligible registrants and entries are removed from the register and that eligible voters who have not registered take advantage of the ongoing CVR.»

Saying that the effort will help ensure equal access to the ballot box on election day, Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has announced an Election Day hotline designed to help ensure that minority - language voters, people with disabilities and all eligible voters are able to cast «an effective ballot» during the September 10th primary election.

Of the 12,729 eligible voters in Saugerties, 5,530 cast votes; 510 absentee ballots were issued in Saugerties; so far, 332 have been received by the Ulster County Board of Elections, making definitive results of the Districts 1 and 2 races, along with the status of Schoonmaker's 42 - vote lead on Republican Donald Tucker, unknown until the ballots are counted on November 15.

«A smart leader is the one who surrounds himself with smarter people to advise him or her so once you make that determination, that someone is eligible to stand and the voters allow that to happen, I'm sure the other aspects of maturity to rule will be secondary.»

More voters — Deadlines for registering and for switching parties must be closer to election dates, eligible voters should be automatically registered when they conduct business with various state agencies, and early voting is a must, perhaps starting the weekend before Election Day.

For, the thought of preventing eligible voters from exercising their democratic rights is criminal, and ought to be condemned with no uncertain terms, for every eligible voter must feel free to exercise his / her democratic right without any interference from any quarters.

New York has struggled to promote voter registration — with less than 64 percent of eligible residents registered, it ranks 47th in the nation.

«The electorate is clearly disenchanted with our antiquated system of elections administration, with only 11 % of eligible voters turning out to vote in New York City.

The answers should be different as voting machines guarantee some basic details that online voting systems do not guarantee, as an example you can say that every voter at a machine has been authentified as being eligible to vote, something you can not be sure of with an online voting system.

There's just under four million foreign - born voters in England and Wales who'll be eligible to vote in the May election, with the majority from large, established Commonwealth migrant communities such as India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nigeria and South Africa.

All citizens who have been issued with the INEC permanent voters cards shall be eligible to participate in the election.»

Texas currently counts everyone in the state, including illegal immigrants, before carving up districts of proportional population size, but the challenge argues that only eligible voters should be counted because the current system creates some districts with much larger numbers of eligible voters than others.

Sixty - six percent (66 %) of voters agree with the legal challenge and say states should only count eligible voters when setting the size of legislative districts for voting purposes.

About 40,433 new eligible voters have also been captured onto the electoral roll during the continuous voter registration exercise, with 29,897 (52.7 %) out of the over 56,000 deleted NHIS registrants re-registering.

The EC also explained that the laws of Ghana allow people with dual nationality to be on the voters» register as long as they are eligible.

Turnout was lowest in New Fairfield, with fewer than 300 of the nearly 3,000 eligible voters showing up at the polls.

With just under 205,000 eligible voters in the district, turnout was a respectable — for an off - year — at just over 61 percent.

-- A solid majority of voters surveyed — 62 percent — said they agreed with Cuomo's proposal to make public school teachers eligible for tenure after five years, instead of the current three - year requirement.

In addition to securing the support of Delegates to the June 2nd Convention, in order to appear as Greens on the Georgia ballot, these partisan candidates are also required to file petitions with signatures representing 5 % of the number of voters who are registered and eligible to vote in November's General Election.

In 2010, New York ranked last in the nation for voter turnout, with only 32 percent of the 13.4 million eligible voters actually exercising their constitutional right.

Congressional races draw a significantly smaller percentage of eligible voters to the polls (and New York already ranks among the 10 states with the worst voter turnout), but the consequences of ignoring them can have a ripple effect.

County legislators were getting elected with, on average, 1,110 votes in contested districts that contained four times as many eligible voters.

When only 30 % of eligible voters show up to cast a ballot, that tells us there is something fundamentally wrong with our election system.

But following the announcement, critics said a one - week delay isn't enough to right the election, which they have described as a «chaotic and confusing» mess, with names omitted from voter guides, inexcusable delays and eligible moms and dads told they were not entitled to run.

2015 saw another year of record low voter turnout throughout much of New York, with the vast majority of eligible voters casting a vote against duopoly, corporate politics by refusing to participate at all.

New York also lacks Automatic Voter Registration which would allow eligible voters to automatically register to vote whenever they interact with a state agency.

How about moving deadlines for registering to vote and for changing parties closer to election dates, automatically registering eligible voters when they do business with state agencies, early voting, and making candidates» access to ballots easier?

The 2014 election had the worst voter turnout in 72 years, with less than one - third of the eligible voting population going to the polls.

The Census Bureau estimates that more than 15 percent of all eligible voters had moved in the past year, and three million eligible voters did not vote in 2000 because problems with their registration.

According to the Los Angeles Times, the makeup of eligible voters is mostly white (94 percent) men (77 percent) with an average age of 62.

Bowen's office says it contacts every California high school each year encouraging them to offer voter registration to eligible students with either paper registration applications or a link on the high school website to the state's online voter registration application at RegisterToVote.ca.gov.

The mission of the Washoe County Registrar of Voters Department is to ensure that each citizen of Washoe county who is eligible to register and vote is able to do so; that Washoe County's Elections are operated with the utmost integrity, transparency, and accountability; and that the department is know for excellence in customer service and the administration of elections.

Working with a bipartisan team of national research firms — Public Opinion Strategies and the Mellman Group — Pew surveyed policymakers, voters, home visitors, and mothers who were eligible for or had participated in home visiting.