Sentences with phrase «even number of voters»

The changes are a result of redistributions — a process the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) uses to ensure that each electorate has a relatively even number of voters.

Not exact matches

Even as Mr. Harper pledged Tuesday to steer clear of radical change, investors and businesses in Canada and around the world are waiting to see how his government handles a number of hot files, now that the Conservatives won't face voters for at least four years.

Even though large numbers of voters vaguely suspect that the failings of the political system itself led the country into its current crisis, most evidently expect the system to perform a course correction more or less automatically.

@fishinear In many cases, mail - in ballots and in - person Provisional ballots are kept inside sealed envelopes that identify the voter, and are not even opened unless and until their total number equals / exceeds the margin of victory.

«What I've found fascinating in the last week of this process has been the numbers of people — probably not in the Labour party, may not even be Labour voters — who have written to me to say thanks very much for speaking up against austerity and for speaking up against inequality in society,» he says.

A couple of states have had higher turnout in the 2012 Republican Primaries than they had in 2008, but most have about the same or even less — not impressive, considering that this race is much more open and closely fought and that the number of registered voters has grown since last time.

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.

That is where I believe problems might originate: even if canvassers are not paid by the number of voters signed up (though maybe they might), those that turn in a decent tally of new voters are insuring they will continue to be paid to canvass, perhaps get paid a bonus... etc..

Privately, a number of women in political circles have looked askance at Cuomo's Women's Equality Party effort, suggesting the single - issue approach to woo women voters is dated and even demeaning.

That said, I could see this happenning in multi-seat constituencies in small populations; the need to present a minimum number of candidates even for marginal parties makes for some of the smaller ones including «fillers» (people who agree to be in the list so the list can be approved but who are not voters / supporters of the party)

Admittedly there are commuters currently wending their way home who will be voting, but based on progress from the morning into early evening, the number of London Labour voters that the GOTV operation will be able to deliver to the polls is running substantially below target.»

The commission investigated Monserrate's fund, to which a number of lawmakers also contributed, based on a joint complaint filed by Common Cause / NY, the NY League of Women Voters and NYPIRG, which also publicized the findings (had it not been for a press release from Blair Horner this morning, I would have had no idea this decision had even been reached).

But suppose the people with the authority to draw district lines prefer party A. Even if they are obligated to make every district have the same number of voters, they could, at the most extreme, draw 1 district that has 20,000 B's and 9 districts each with 8,889 B's and 11,111 A's.

Even significant numbers of Labour (26 %) and Lib Dem (35 %) voters thought the Conservatives» reputation was getting better.

Last week an Angus Reid poll found that only 83 % of Tory voters would support a Coalition candidate and the number of LibDem voters who would do the same would be even lower.

Speaking through his spokesperson, Lere Olayinka, Fayose said, «even though there were reports of malfunctioning of card readers, number of votes exceeding the number of accredited voters, and pockets of violence as well as buying of votes, the election was better than others conducted by INEC under the present government of the APC.»

The results suggest that a number of gaffes remain in voters» minds, even if they were not especially recent.

It is unfortunate that in today's Nigeria, the authorities seem so prepared to waste so much public resources in conducting elections as was the case in the Kogi State supplementary election, which many consider unnecessary, but was conducted on the grounds of a so - called 91,000 voters, who were yet to vote, and who may not even have had the Permanent Voter Cards, PVCs, whereas the total number of people who had PVCs was just 25,000, and APC was already leading by well over 41,000 votes.

We need a serious and big picture statement from Greg Clark or even David Cameron himself on how they plan to reconcile their extraordinarily ambitious targets to cut the UK's carbon emissions with the number one priority of the British voter; a return to job - creating, income - enhancing economic growth.

Washington (CNN)-- Only one day of campaigning remains before Florida primary voters go to the polls, and with time running out a new poll reveals that massive numbers of voters remain undecided even after months of tough politicking.

That the party seems to stand for almost nothing other than «independence,» and that a goodly number of non-enrolled voters view themselves as «independent,» make it even more attractive.

With the national surge in their support the party might do even better and add a third seat to their tally, especially if the Liberal Democrats lose a lot of votes, or northern Tory voters defect in numbers to them.

«I think most people are fiscally conservative... even many of our unaffiliated voters and a number of our Democrats as well.»

«To use this «momentum effect,» candidates will spend a lot of time in the coming months trying to persuade voters in Iowa and New Hampshire, even though the number of delegates distributed in these contests is actually very small.»

In a relatively short time, a stunning number of accountability - based leaders have been forced from office on a tide of voter resentment even while, as documented by historian Diane Ravitch, the likes of Gates, Broad, and hedge fund billionaires continue their corporate - style push toward school closures, choice, data - driven student and teacher evaluation, and high - tech innovation.

More recently, the group sent out glossy mailings to voters in a number of Connecticut legislative districts «thanking them» for their pro-charter school vote — a vote that will actually end up costing state and local property taxpayers even more money.

Second, an increasing number of people are asking by what authority the Governor and Education Commissioner even have for requiring that Bridgeport's voters give up the democratic rights in return for a $ 3.4 million loan.

Strangely the vast majority of people are financial illiterate, (basically a pet peeve, the reason our primary education system is so poor is that the worst enemy of a politician is an educated voter, few politicians desire an educated consumer) and trust without verification, and sadly do not want to spend even sixteen hours per year investigating the numbers and what they actually mean, and compare them to the alternatives.

So today states can easily get addresses of citizens for jury duty from any number of other databases, and some states have even passed laws against using voter rolls for this purpose.

Today also brought news that voter turnout is trending LOWER than in 2011, as a percentage of eligible voters and even in raw numbers.