Sentences with phrase «for voter participation»

I also worked collaboratively with other local artists, primarily on Black Cutural installation pieces also for voter participation.

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- Starbucks will be joining the TurboVote Challenge in a technology - supported attempt to make it easier for employees to vote, as part of nonprofit Democracy Works» larger goal of 80 % voter participation in the 2020 election.

Gateway is aiming for 100 percent voter participation among its 36,000 members this fall.

Then there's data from the US Census, which suggests that an election day holiday would not increase participation for lower - income voters:

It is only practical to hold the state primary on the same day as the federal primary, allowing for a stronger and more cohesive voter participation.»

The League of Conservation Voters Education Fund (LCVEF) works with our state LCVEF partners, educates the public, media and elected officials about key environmental issues, works to increase voter participation in the democratic process and mobilizes a diverse network of activists to advocate for sound environmental policies.

The current system limits the participation of voters and creates unneeded obstacles for independent and third party candidates to run for office.

It's time for New York to do everything we can to encourage greater voter participation.»

It's time for Albany to pass real voter reform bills to make participation easier, not harder.»

«At a time in New York where our citizens experience too many barriers to participation, I am gratified that this opinion invites a new era of truly online voter registration, an incredibly exciting step that will help make the state election process more accessible and simpler for all,» Schneiderman said in a statement announcing the opinion.

It permitted the Conservatives to point to the possibility of SNP participation in a Labour - led government, an unappealing prospect for many English voters who might otherwise have been tempted to vote Labour.

«New York ranks consistently as one of the nation's worst in terms of voter participation, driven by state laws that create obstacles to voting,» said Megan Ahearn, program director for the New York Public Interest Research Group, «Much of the rest of the nation has developed practices that improve voter turnout.

«Anything that can be done to improve New York's appalling voter participation rate is worth doing,» said Blair Horner, executive director of the New York Public Interest Research Group, a nonprofit that advocates for better election laws.

Instead, she said, the groups are focusing on helping the poor, battling global warming, increasing voter participation, and rights for immigrants.

«Rather than feel forced to cast their vote for a candidate they do not support, or choose not to vote at all, the «none of the above» ballot line has given voters the option to cast a protest vote, while encouraging continued participation in the electoral process.»

* I'm thinking of metrics like voter participation, party membership, candidate recruitment, donations, willingness to work in civil service or the legal profession, etc., but I'm not sure what metrics are actually relevant or are used by experts, so I defer to the answers and their references for how to measure this.

In other words, I'm interested in the elections where the main / only reason one can assume for the low turnout is voter apathy / bad set of choices to vote for / general - low - election - participation culture.

Legal assistance for poor New Yorkers, requirements that more police interrogations be videotaped and a push to encourage voter participation are among the New York State Bar Association's priorities for 2016.

The governor's special counsel for ethics, Jeremy Creelan, says the process, in addition to increasing voter participation, will also reduce fraud.

Cox, who is remaining neutral in the race, says the intense focus on New York can only be good overall for party participation and voter turnout.

It is also an important pre-condition for the deployment of sensitive materials to polling units / stations and increases the level of participation of voters in an election.

That's about average for off - year local elections, way short of predictions from advocates of single - member districts, who had argued that replacing multi-member districts with one - on - one contests voters would result in better - known candidates and greater voter participation.

Jacques David, an attorney for The Legal Aid Society and member of the Brooklyn Voters Alliance, pointed out in a letter to The Suffolk Times last summer that New York ranks 41st out of 50 states in voter participation.

The state's attorney general and Assembly speaker have proposed an early voting system for New York that they say can improve voter participation and democracy.

Horner said, «New York is really notorious in terms of having difficult obstacles for voters to surmount in order to vote,» and that the rules contribute to New York having one of the «lowest voter participation rates in the country.»

For some reason I've become obsessed with NYS Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's recent order ending «English - only» elections in ten upstate counties by applying a federal law enacted to ensure voter participation by American citizens of Puerto Rican heritage that are illiterate in English.

Automatically registering eligible voters encourages civic participation, and provides a vehicle for state agencies to efficiently transfer voter registration information to the Board of Elections.

«New York's voter participation lags behind other states not because we are apathetic, but because our process is too restrictive - especially for already marginalized communities.

Regenerating organs for patient transplants, research and policy questions for «smart» vehicles, advances in the fight against cancer, and voter participation in elections will be discussed in Austin, Texas at the 2018 American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Annual Meeting, the...

Gronke studied Oregon's motor - voter law, which enables people to register to vote when they apply for or update their driver's license, and found it increased participation by voters from both parties, in both rural and urban areas.

To encourage civic participation, the Center developed a useful curriculum for students in grades 4 - 12 designed to «demystify the voting process,» with lessons that help students understand voter registration, how voting works, and the steps it takes to become an informed voter.

She's also a tireless advocate with a proven track record of fighting for and working - on a broad cross section of human and civil rights ranging from race, women's rights, immigration, voter participation and labor.

She was the director of the Puerto Rican Association for Community Affairs (PRACA); co-director of Atrévete, a group dedicated to voter registration and political participation organized by the Migration Division; member of the boards of National Women's Political Caucus, National Association for Bilingual Education (NABE), and Puerto Rican Educators Association; and a member of various other organizations.

Among the long list of accomplishments that includes participation in nearly every major education policy decision since the mid-1980s - O'Connell said he is most proud of his role in getting voters to approve a ballot measure that reduced the threshold for passing school bonds to 55 percent.

D4D thanks advisory committee member, Rachel Comey, who hosted the event, and Christene Barberich, Stacy London & Arden Wohl for their inspiration, hard work and deep generosity in putting their vintage collections to work to promote voter participation for 2017 and 2018.

Furthermore, considering the many state laws that coerce party membership in return for primary election participation, and the nevertheless huge and growing numbers of registered independents, it is obvious that a large majority of US voters don't give a darn about party membership.

«Establish a statutory holiday on polling days for provincial and municipal elections to encourage voter participation.»

As I mentioned in my last post, Turnbull's narrow win has left us with a government standing for nothing but delaying various inevitable outcomes, including * equal marriage; * participation in global action on climate change; and, most notably * Turnbull's removal from office, whether by voters or, more likely, by his own colleagues.

Depending on which cohort was being targeted, the efforts encouraged pro-Trump voters to intensify political participation, black voters to abandon Hillary Clinton for Trump, and Muslim voters to consider Clinton an Islamophobe.

There are three major reasons, in my opinion, that contribute to the lack of voter participation in elections, and they are these; 1) Eligible voters believe that their votes count for nothing, that their votes will not have any effect on the outcome, 2) That many, if not most, politicians are sadly the same (in it for their own personal gain, be it fame, a stepping - stone toward future appointments, or simply to satisfy their uber egos).