Sentences with phrase «for voter identification»

All 50 states use Help America Vote Act 2002 as a minimum for voter identification in Federal elections (president, senators, house of representatives, etc.).

He also encouraged the youth who have attained the age of 18 and the elderly who could not register for their voter identification cards to do so during the limited registration exercise by the EC.

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Companies may also encourage registration for a particular party, distribute voter registration information advocating for or against specific candidates, prepare and distribute voter guides that advocate for a particular candidate, and finance voter mobilization, such as voter identification activities, some legal experts say.

This is important to them because Democrat voters have traditionally been more likely to find requests for identification difficult to fill.

They arise, too from electoral bases of legitimacy: from Senators» identifications with state interests and cultures, from Representatives» dependence upon their districts» majority party voters and party activists for biennial re-election.

Morey said Throne - Holst may have a slight advantage at this point, given her higher name identification from her multiple runs for elected office and her compelling personal story as a single working mother with children in college that will resonate with primary voters.

Terry McAuliffe, former chair of the Democratic National Committee and gubernatorial candidate in the 2009 Democratic gubernatorial primary, says that he is hearing from sources on the ground that the lines are being slowed down by Republican poll watchers who are demanding excessive proof, such as extra forms of identification, for many voters.

For instance, it was considered highly unusual to conduct an election in which voters» identification is never checked, not during the registration process nor at polling stations.

Therefore, having found use of the NHIS card for registration as a voter to be unconstitutional, the Supreme Court had power to order the Electoral Commission to remove or delete the affected registrations from the register of voters and provide all affected persons a fresh opportunity to be registered as voters using a constitutionally - compliant form of identification.

Councilman Vincent Gentile, a Democratic candidate for Congress, today broke with much of his party and with President Barack Obama by endorsing voter identification laws.

Problems like jammed scanners have been getting resolved fairly smoothly, but early in the morning, another concern was raised, when Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz announced on his Twitter page that he was getting reports of polling locations asking all voters for identification.

Voters whose existing details can not be confirmed by data matching with a single Department for Work and Pensions database of national insurance numbers have to provide additional forms of identification.

The commissioner even called for a law obligating voters to show photo identification at the polls — a measure Republicans have fought to push through in numerous states.

As it stands, only 17.6 percent of voter registrations come through the DMV, which has stricter identification standards for registration than other offices.

A federal court struck down North Carolina's voter identification law for precisely that reason, alleging the Republicans who crafted it targeted black voters «with almost surgical precision.»

Ramadan argues that a Supreme Court ruling in 2014 that the National Health Insurance Card was an illegal form of identification for voters strengthens his latest suit.

Senate Democrats have already put $ 10 million into turnout for contested races and began a detailed voter - identification effort months ago, while the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has brought on grass - roots organizing expert Michael Whouley to head up its turnout efforts.

In an election that observers agree reflected the aspirations of Democratic voters to turn the page on the Bloomberg era, Quinn's close identification with the mayor, including the leading role she played in allowing him to run for a third term in 2009, outweighed whatever credit most LGBT voters gave her for leadership on issues related to their sexual orientation and gender identity.

He further explained that due to the convenience of procuring an NHIS card as compared to a driver's licence and other means of national identification, there was the possibility that a huge number of people registered for the voter's identification card with an NHIS card.

He says the electoral commission collects basic information about the prospective voter and the type of identification used for the registration.

Last week, de Blasio called Schulkin's assertions about voter fraud — which he dismissed as an urban legend — and the municipal identification program «crazy» and proof that he is not fit for his position.

Such an approach is counter to the «wave» of state legislation Perez saw being put into place starting in 2010 to make it harder for voters to register, such as requiring photo identification, or restricting early voting.

Republicans, in a rapid sequence of votes over the next eight weeks, plan to legalize concealed weapons, deregulate the telephone industry, require voters to show photo identification at the polls, expand school vouchers and undo an early release for prisoners.

The appeal arose out of a suit by the Northeast Ohio Coalition for the Homeless filed in 2006 regarding Ohio's then - new voter identification laws — specifically, whether Ohio must count ballots cast in the wrong precinct.

Yet, evidence from the United States — where conservative legislators have been tightening voter - identification rules for years — indicates that stricter identification requirements do, in fact, keep qualified voters from voting.