Sentences with phrase «first election i voted»

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The 2008 election showed just how powerful social media could be in driving votes, and President Barak Obama's 2008 campaign was, and is, widely viewed as the first general - election campaign to focus on social media as its primary mode of marketing (Howard Dean's bid for the 2004 Democratic nomination also used social media heavily.)

«I voted for Trudeau the first election — I didn't know any better,» says Lean.

After the Brexit vote and the election of Donald Trump, the Netherlands will give the first indication of whether populism will shape 2017 too.

But that wasn't all that depressed Clinton's vote: Hansen said a far lower number of provisional ballots than typical for a presidential election played a role, as did a recent strict voter - ID law that was in effect for its first presidential election in the state.

Last week, Cal Henderson, the co-founder and CTO at Slack, cast his vote in a U.S. election for the first time.

After last week's Iowa caucuses, Tuesday's New Hampshire primary will have a hard act to follow after the excitement and controversy that came out of the first voting event of the 2016 presidential election cycle.

Opposition leader Julius Maada Bio of the Sierra Leone People's Party led with 43.3 percent of the vote in the first round of elections but failed to secure a majority vote needed to win, according to the electoral commission.

In 2012, the first election under those new maps, Republicans won a 33 - seat majority in the U.S. House even though Democratic candidates across the country received 1.4 million more votes than their Republican opponents.

On Election Day, more than 69.4 million Americans voted for Obama to become the 44th president of the US — and the first African - American to hold the position.

Schiff said the Obama administration should have acted more forcefully in responding to alleged Russian election interference when first made aware of the intelligence community's assessment prior to the November 2016 vote.

Centrify, a proponent of a relatively new approach to enterprise security called Zero Trust, on April 16 at the RSA Security Conference revealed the industry's first IT campaign to Secure the Vote for the 2018 elections.

There was a brief lull in Europe's crowded election calendar, but polls in the run - up to the first round of voting in France's presidential contest in late April suggested the centrist - candidate Emmanuel Macron was gaining support, which continued to soothe market concerns about a possible victory for the populist Marine Le Pen.

He previously served as the party's first vice-president and the party's candidate in Highwood in the 2015 election, where he earned 187 votes.

Concerns that the French presidential election would see a surge of support for populism among French voters were allayed by the results from the first round of voting toward the end of April.

Election history was recently made as Sierra Leone became the first country to use blockchain technology to verify voting results in their presidential eElection history was recently made as Sierra Leone became the first country to use blockchain technology to verify voting results in their presidential electionelection.

By the time the 2000 election rolled around, the first I was old enough to vote in, I had become a poster child for the Religious Right.

Polls opened at 8 a.m. Friday in Iran as Iranians cast ballots in the first parliamentary elections since the 2009 vote that sparked riots and accusations of rigging.

Last election, for the first time in my life I did not vote.

But Rodriguez is closing the Republican National Convention's first day with a prayer Tuesday, helping to give presumptive nominee Mitt Romney entrée to the Latino community, a swing voting bloc that has largely abandoned the Republican Party over immigration policy in recent elections.

I did not vote for Mr Obama the first time, but he sure will get my vote in the next election!

First, because there's money in it: the pink pound is now a substantial economic factor in these things, just as in London, at least, the pink vote has to be courted by politicians seeking election.

Whenever I hear Christians (or anybody for that matter) complain about the direction of our government, the first question I ask them is, «Did you vote in the last election?»

That said, Turow found «there are a lot of unknowns for this generation: we grew up in the recession, we've got a trillion dollars in student loan debt, we don't trust our government (the first political event I can remember is the Lewinsky scandal, and then the Gore versus Bush election, when the popular vote did not get the presidency).»

I made calls yesterday to «first time voters» (either new voters, people who moved to CO or folks who hadn't voted in the last presidential election).

Living in South Africa and voting in the first ever democratic elections taught me that EVERY VOTE COUNTS!

Jeremy Corbyn's reach and ability to win votes will shortly be put to the test, first with a series of local and devolved elections and then with June's referendum on Britain's membership of the EU.

Under this Fourth Republic, we have been lucky to have managed our differences so well that despite the high profiled bitter contest of 1998 in Sunyani, Candidate J.A Kufuor who emerged as our flagbearer courted the support of other opposition parties to win the 2000 first and second round elections to become the second President of the Fourth Republic with an appreciated votes at the presidential level for the party and increased seats in Parliament that we occupied the Majority side of Parliament.

The first six months will be eaten up by French, German and Dutch elections and the last six months by votes on the deal in London and Brussels.

I think you can avoid this with (i) a primary election day for all parties where voters have to choose which party to vote for OR (ii) a Labour - only primary election day where people who want to vote have to register first.

There are of course lots of other voting systems than first - past - the - post which promise more democratic election results, like approval voting, alternative vote and their many variants.

New York would be the first major city in the U.S. to allow noncitizens to vote in local elections under a bill before a City Council committee.

The Presidential Advisory Commission on Elections is investigating claims initially made by President Donald Trump first made as a candidate that votes were cast illegally, which he later attributed to his loss in the popular vote tally.

Since McCartney's selection in March 2007 - «an absolute lifetime ago» - the Conservatives took 2,000 votes off the Lib Dems in the 2008 elections before topping the poll in the European elections «for the first time in living memory».

Putin succeeded in mobilising enough support to win the presidential elections on the first round with 64 per cent of the vote.

Whatever the outcome on May 6th, this election will be remembered, first, as the surge of extreme parties who have swept a third of expressed votes, while the two main parties combined totalled only 56 % of vote share, and, second, as a referendum on the President.

First, there is the numerical victory of the 2010 parliamentary elections, in which — despite gerrymandering and other governmental shenanigans — the opposition won 48 % of the vote.

It was the first election on the country with two women as the most voted.

But after an election, it is too late to introduce a nomination vote as the first item of business.

But I guess that if forced to choose between those two and only those two (and the first - past - the - post system effectively does force people as far as elections are concerned), they will likely vote for candidates from the Democratic Party.

While general elections still are ofte first across the line, there is no direct votes for the highest office.

People are not supposed to win preferential voting system elections in the first round and he smashed his opponents, winning in all three categories of voters.

By contrast, with an election method that allows you to specify preferences there are no downsides to giving your first vote to any party at all.

What I don't really see is how the Labour party holding three pilots in this Parliament, or even selecting all of its candidates in some form of primary at the next election or the time after would make any really significant difference to arguments for or against first - past - the - post, the Alternative Vote, AV +, AMS, STV and various hybrids thereof.

Today, I went to vote in elections to select a regional mayor for the first time.

Since the Supreme Court has now prevented itself from acknowledging the question of whether Barack H. Obama is or is not an Article II «natural born citizen» based on the Kenyan / British citizenship of Barack Obama's father at the time of his birth (irrespective of whether Barack Obama is deemed a «citizen» born in Hawaii or otherwise) as a prerequisite to qualifying to serve as President of the United States under the Constitution — the Court having done so at least three times and counting, first before the Nov 4 general election and twice before the Dec 15 vote of the College of Electors — it would seem appropriate, if not necessary, for all Executive Branch departments and agencies to secure advance formal advice from the United States Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel as to how to respond to expected inquiries from federal employees who are pledged to «support and defend the Constitution of the United States» as to whether they are governed by laws, regulations, orders and directives issued under Mr. Obama during such periods that said employees, by the weight of existing legal authority and prior to a decision by the Supreme Court, believe in good faith that Mr. Obama is not an Article II «natural born citizen».

This was halved at the first election following the introduction of above the line voting, and at the last election only 3.75 % votes were counted as informal.

According to Ipsos Mori, which has been asking voters the same question at every general election since the early 1980s, 2010 was the first year when as many people said they were voting on the character of the leader as much as they were on his party's policies.

First, as the list would be published before the election, it would be open to the electorate to vote for it directly.

This year, the East Timorese voted in their country's third parliamentary election since independence — the first to be run by the East Timorese themselves.

The African - American vote has become a major focus during this national election with the presence of the first serious black contender, Barack Obama.