Sentences with phrase «for voter registration in»

Much of the 2012 payments came from the national party to pay for voter registration in the key states of Florida, Colorado, North Carolina and Virginia.

This legislation, «Voting By Non-Citizen Residents,» would allow immigrants who are «lawfully present in the United States» and have lived in New York for «six months or longer» on the date of a given election to vote provided they meet all the other current requirements for voter registration in New York State.

Not exact matches

Make it easy to register to vote by keeping voter registration forms at the office or enclosing them in onboarding materials for new employees.

DiCeglie said that, when the effort for 2016 first started in January of the previous year, the GOP was down by roughly 6,000 voter registrations in comparison with the Democrats.

There has been a 190 % spike in searches for «voter registration» since the conventions.

The nonprofit group Fight For The Future launched HelloVote on Thursday morning with the goal of boosting voter registration in several key battleground states by allowing voters to register directly via text message or Facebook Messenger.

In addition to calling your representatives, consider attending a town hall, writing letters the editor of your local paper, connecting with the local Democratic Party to help with voter registration efforts and to challenge voter suppression / gerrymandering, and (because it's becoming painfully obvious that progressives have ceded local politics to the extreme right for too long), running for office or helping a better candidate get the job.

, address given 2 August 1967, at a voter registration rally, Louisville, Kentucky, in Martin Luther King, Jr., Papers (Atlanta, Georgia: Martin Luther King, Jr., Center for Nonviolent Social Change).

But in competitive districts the new targeting scheme makes it possible for campaign assemblages to leverage their considerable resources to actually expand the electorate in significant ways, both in terms of persuasion efforts and get - out - the - vote efforts — and when the stakes are high enough, even through voter registration efforts.

Shane Hubers, a Republican who ran for local office last year, challenged the registration of dozens of voters — the majority of them Democrats — in Beaufort County.

The Chautauqua County Board of Elections released its official 2018 voter registration enrollment totals on Friday, revealing that, for the first time since 2008, there are more registered Republicans in the county than Democrats.

But Zeldin starts off with a larger amount of cash on hand, a Republican edge in the district's voter registration, a reputation for being a hard worker, and all the advantages of being an incumbent.

«Once again, New York's archaic voter registration system has highlighted dramatic shortcomings in the administration of elections across the state,» the New York Public Interest Research Group said in a statement, calling for automatic voter registration and same - day voter registration.

The Oneida County Board of Elections is responsible for voter registration and conducting elections throughout Oneida County, including 192 Election Districts in 48 Cities, Towns and Villages.

Mission Statement: The mission statement for the Oneida County Board of Election's office is to establish and increase public confidence in the electoral process by conducting voter registration and elections with the highest level of professional election standards, integrity, security, accuracy, and fairness.

On the other hand, a new system for voter registration brought in this time round is bad for Labour.

The Minority in Parliament say a new voter registration proposal that will allow a registered voter to guarantee for five people who can not prove their citizenship is a recipe for chaos.

When someone fills it out, they're emailed a voter registration form for their area that they can then print out and mail in (one day we may be able to register people directly via some kind of database upload, but not yet).

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.

Celebrations, dinners, galas and voter registration drives for members of the ruling RDPC party (Rassemblement Démocratique du Peuple Camerounais) are taking place in cities across the country, most predominantly in the central regions, i.e. those with geo - political links and a common socio - cultural heritage (more generally but problematically referred to as «ethnic» ties) to the ruling party.

Republican candidates have found it difficult to gain a foothold in some parts of Queens, but the GOP remains dedicated to providing an alternative to Queens County Democratic candidates and have since stepped up efforts with youth outreach, voter registration drives, and dedicating full support for Councilman Dan Halloran's bid for Congress.

In a press statement, NYPIRG called on Governor Andrew Cuomo and the state Legislature to establish automatic voter registration and updating of enrollment data and same - day registration (as in, on election day), and echoed calls for eliminating patronage in selection of BOE employeeIn a press statement, NYPIRG called on Governor Andrew Cuomo and the state Legislature to establish automatic voter registration and updating of enrollment data and same - day registration (as in, on election day), and echoed calls for eliminating patronage in selection of BOE employeein, on election day), and echoed calls for eliminating patronage in selection of BOE employeein selection of BOE employees.

The city expanded its efforts to register voters this year, providing voter registration forms in 16 languages when the state only requires five and allowing registration for people that take civil service exams through the Department of Citywide Administrative Services.

On October 13, one day before the state's voter registration deadline for new voters wishing to vote November 8, de Blasio spent about 30 minutes registering voters in downtown Brooklyn.

«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.

My bill would allow same day registration; allow early voting, allow voter registration via the internet; allow 16 - year olds to register and vote in certain elections; and codify Section 5 Pre-Clearance procedures for New York State.»

Kavanagh is hopeful that with the renewed focus on New York City's dysfunctional Board of Elections and Governor Andrew Cuomo's inclusion of proposals for early voting and automatic voter registration in his State of the State address, progress on the long list of voting reform bills in Albany may happen this year.

Senate Republicans, who are currently holding on to a thin majority despite a massive disadvantage in voter registration, have dangled the possibility of a constitutional amendment as a possible compromise, in exchange for a degree of latitude in this year's process.

«With all due respect, Sir, it is an affront to our dignity for anyone to suggest to us that once Zanetor registers in 2016 when the EC voters» register is opened for limited registration, this will correct the wrong.

Indeed, the current governing party in Bolivia, the Movimiento al Socialismo (or MAS), while committed to maintaining power by purely democratic means (and, in fact, responsible for an aggressive campaign to increase voter registration throughout the country) has stated that indigenous Andean (and by implication, Inca) culture is inherently socialistic.

As New York surveyed the damage, there came calls for state lawmakers to change the state's «archaic voter registration system» to address potential further disenfranchisement in the democratic process for some citizens.

About 594 registration centers have been opened for the limited voter registration exercise in the Ashanti region alone.

«I think it's an incorrect statement for anyone to say she's not a registered voter and that can not vote in the election while there is an upcoming limited registration yet to be held in April,» he told host Fiifi Banson on Anopa Kasapa on Thursday.

De Blasio, a Democrat running for reelection this year, has called for reforms like early voting and same - day voter registration that have stalled in the state capital.

For one, unlike fifteen other states — all but one of which outperformed New York in 2016 — we don't have same - day voter registration.

HB 141 would have prevented members of one party from switching their party registration on primary day so as to vote in another party's primary, although it would have retained the ability of independent voters to switch to any party on primary day for the purpose of voting in that party's primary.

«I wouldn't have gotten elected unless each time at least one million Democrats came out to vote and crossed the party lines to vote for me,» said Pataki, rightly pointing out that Turner will need to attract voters from the other party to win in the Ninth Congressional District, where Democrats enjoy a three - to - one registration advantage.

Automatic voter registration, approved in eight states and D.C., may also improve turnout via «two transformative, yet simple, changes,» the Brennan Center for Justice, a nonpartisan public policy institution based at New York University Law School, has written.

However, it is sometimes asked for in the not - uncommon case of incomplete registrations for first - time voters.

In a statement today, Gianaris applauds Cuomo for helping to initiate online voter registration, but also says he and Kavanagh will continue to push for other provisions in the legislation including pre-registration, automatic registration and the changing of registration deadlineIn a statement today, Gianaris applauds Cuomo for helping to initiate online voter registration, but also says he and Kavanagh will continue to push for other provisions in the legislation including pre-registration, automatic registration and the changing of registration deadlinein the legislation including pre-registration, automatic registration and the changing of registration deadlines.

We adopted the boldest and most pro-voter platform in history — calling for expanding early voting and vote - by - mail, implementing universal automatic voter registration and same day voter registration, ending partisan and racial gerrymandering, and making Election Day a national holiday.

He explained: «As you are all aware, the Commission rolled out, for the first time in its history, the continuous registration of voters nationwide on 27th April 2017.

In June, New York state Senator Michael Gianaris and Assembly Brian Kavanagh had introduced the Voter Empowerment Act of New York that included provisions for online voter registration.

«Governor Cuomo is the first in the last two decades to really understand that, putting forward the funding for two key projects, allowing online voter registration through the DMV... and funding the upcoming update of the campaign finance disclosure system.

City Council Member Gale Brewer, participating in her last meeting of the Technology Committee, which she previously chaired, before taking on her new role as Manhattan Borough President, said she was skeptical of Internet voting, noting that the potential requirement of I.D. cards was problematic given the Voter I.D. debates, but emphasized her support for improving reporting of election results and encouraging voter registration through other agencies.

It is too late for Democrats to switch registration, but unaffiliated and unregistered voters who want to vote in next week's Republican gubernatorial primary have until Thursday to register by mail or online, and until Aug. 11 at noon to register at their town offices.

Speaking during the inaugural meeting of the committee in Ado - Ekiti, the Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) in the State, Prof. Abdul - Ganiyu Olayinka Raji, stressed the importance of passing accurate information on guidelines for the on - going voters» registration and other relevant voter education.

The court had earlier in 2014 declared as invalid, the use of the NHIS card as for voter registration on the basis that some foreigners in the country hold such cards.

Now supporters of the rules change have ammo to support their cause, as a panel set up by the Democratic National Committee — the Unity Reform Commission, which included Sanders and Clinton campaign representatives — issued a report calling for all state parties to pass laws, change party rules or file lawsuits if necessary, to make it easier for voters to switch their registration to vote in Democratic primaries.

The amendments proposed the introduction of individual voter registration and for voters to prove their identity in polling stations, by showing commonly used forms of ID, such as a bank card.