Sentences with phrase «from state voters»

The bond act required approval from state voters before any funding was distributed.

incorrectly blacklisted by overly fuzzy implementations of the Interstate Voter Registration Crosscheck Program, (supposedly a fraud preventative database cleaner for purging or flagging duplicate entries from state voter rolls), which fail to require mandatory Social Security Number and birth - date comparisons given two voters named John Doe,

On Wednesday, he did his own analysis of the voter purge in Brooklyn, crunching the numbers from the state voter file and looking at how Kings County routinely purges thousands of people from the rolls every year.

«The League has received many phone calls from individuals wishing to «unregister» themselves and remove themselves from the state voter database in order to remain anonymous to the commission,» the League's Jennifer Wilson said in a statement.

Not exact matches

«Voters in 28 states have chosen programs that shift cannabis from the criminal market to highly regulated, tax - paying businesses,» says Smith in a statement.

Exit polls from the state gave a peek behind the motivations of voters who helped deliver Sanders the stunning victory.

Voters in a dozen states will take part in «Super Tuesday» — a series of primaries and caucuses in states ranging from Alaska to Virginia, with Virginia the first to open its polling stations at 6:00 am (1100 GMT).

Not only do we think black voters should abstain from voting for the Democratic presidential nominee in red states, we also think black voters should continue their role as pivotal voters in battleground states.

States permit poll watchers so long as they are registered, trained, and abide by state rules designed to make sure voters aren't impeded or intimidated while getting to and from the polls.

In recent days, Clinton has brought her pitch to young voters in key battleground states, touting her college - affordability plan and her support from popular progressive politicians like Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders.

Most voters don't expect to receive protection from the military for free, or demand that others to pay for the Department of Education, Medicare transfers to the states, and all other federally - funded programs.

The complaint alleges that out - of - state voters were allowed to vote, and questions the integrity of results from Jefferson County, which is 43 % black and saw a 47 % turnout rate, which Moore called «highly unusual» — i.e. higher than expected.

He mentioned some of the claims, including one that five busloads of black voters from Mississippi came into the state to vote, which he said was proven false after an investigation.

The poll also found that 87 percent U.S. voters believe that U.S. Veterans Administration doctors should be allowed to prescribe medical marijuana in pill form to veterans suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in states where cannabis is legal.

According to the Current Population Survey, the number of young voters actually decreased by 1.2 percent across all three states from 2008 to 2012.

Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPoll: Republican support for Kanye West grew after rapper expressed support for Trump Giuliani calls on Sessions and Rosenstein to shut down Mueller investigation Fox News» Ingraham calls out Giuliani for contradicting Trump on Stormy Daniels» payments: «That's a problem» MORE says only voter fraud can prevent him from winning the swing state of Pennsylvania this November.

Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia, who is up for re-election in a state where 58 percent of voters approved of President Donald Trump during the first quarter, now finds himself 1 point underwater — 43 percent approve, 44 percent disapprove — after a net slide of 17 points from fourth quarter, the biggest decline of any senator during that period.

retained his spot atop the rankings after picking up 11 points from the previous quarter — 72 percent of registered voters in the Green Mountain State approve of his job performance.

The Bush administration imposed tariffs ranging from 8 % to 30 % on a variety of steel products, in part to make good on a campaign promise designed to appeal to voters in the Rust Belt states of Ohio and Pennsylvania.

The project is detailed in the contract as a seven step process — with Kogan's company, GSR, generating an initial seed sample (though it does not specify how large this is here) using «online panels»; analyzing this seed training data using its own «psychometric inventories» to try to determine personality categories; the next step is Kogan's personality quiz app being deployed on Facebook to gather the full dataset from respondents and also to scrape a subset of data from their Facebook friends (here it notes: «upon consent of the respondent, the GS Technology scrapes and retains the respondent's Facebook profile and a quantity of data on that respondent's Facebook friends»); step 4 involves the psychometric data from the seed sample, plus the Facebook profile data and friend data all being run through proprietary modeling algorithms — which the contract specifies are based on using Facebook likes to predict personality scores, with the stated aim of predicting the «psychological, dispositional and / or attitudinal facets of each Facebook record»; this then generates a series of scores per Facebook profile; step 6 is to match these psychometrically scored profiles with voter record data held by SCL — with the goal of matching (and thus scoring) at least 2M voter records for targeting voters across the 11 states; the final step is for matched records to be returned to SCL, which would then be in a position to craft messages to voters based on their modeled psychometric scores.

Super Tuesday is largely thought to be when the primaries and caucuses move from local to national, as voters in 12 states and one U.S. territory go to the polls next Tuesday, March 1.

In a later section, on demographic distribution analysis, the contract mentions the possibility for additional «targeted data collection procedures through multiple platforms» to be used — even including «brief phone scripts with single - trait questions» — in order to correct any skews that might be found once the Facebook data is matched with voter databases in each state, (and assuming any «data gaps» could not be «filled in from targeted online samples», as it also puts it).

Our team used a methodology known as multi-level regression and poststratification to crunch responses from more than 44,000 registered voters with state - level demographics such as gender, income, and education level.

From Patten's perspective, Trump's economic message on free trade and on jobs will resonate with all - important middle - class swing state voters.

Evrything this man has done has damaged our national security and compromised our freedoms, from suing states who want to initiate simple voter safeguards to working to help the public «schools» usurp the role of child - rearing from parents.

The only reason the popular vote was close is that voters from the intellectual states — alabama, mississippi, arkansas, kansas, nebraska, oklahome, texas — turned out in droves for their candidate (anybody but Obama).

The majority of Californians, including two - thirds of the state's black voters, have just had their core civil right - the right to vote - stripped from them by an openly gay federal judge who has misread history and the Constitution to impose his views on the state's people.

Constantly concerned about alienating the southern wing of the Democratic Party, the Kennedys sought to channel the movement away from attacks on state segregation statutes, which, they claimed, were local conflicts in which federal authorities were powerless to intervene, and into voter registration efforts in which the national state could be of assistance.

Hijacking jobs and econ omic growth to win political favor from special groups and ad vance an agenda that has been rejected by voters in 32 states..

Meanwhile, in the Florida Democratic primary, Sanders won sixty - five percent of the young voters despite losing the state decisively overall, and despite being an elderly garden gnome from Vermont.

One of the themes that emerges from Shattered (a chronicle of the Clinton campaign) is that the Clinton operation didn't want to make a strong play for working - class white voters in swing states.

By statewide referendum in 1991, voters in the state of Washington had reaffirmed the provision of the criminal code that outlawed persons in its jurisdiction from «knowingly causing or aiding other persons in ending their lives.»

With a few lines of coded racism and a string of angry tweets, the president of the United States got the bulk of the 37 percent or so of voters who still support him to do just that — to walk away from the NFL.

Of Notre Dame's four first - place votes, two come from résumé voters Black Heart Gold Pants and CougCenter; Florida gets its five from Florida State blog Tomahawk Nation, SEC blog Team Speed Kills, Kansas State blog Bring On The Cats, Notre Dame blog One Foot Down, and Matt Hinton of Sunday Morning Quarterback and CBS Sports» Eye on College Football.

Hancock has stated that the voters will start from scratch for each poll, ignoring their past selections in order to avoid the heavy emphasis on preseason expectations in ranking teams after games have actually been played, so nothing about any edition of the Playoff selection committee top 25 should have an effect on later results.

That was a bunch from Grant of Sacramento that got in because the voters were impressed by a pair of wins over state champions from Utah and Idaho.

When the number of voters in a third of seats in a particular state or territory deviates significantly from the average (over 10 per cent for a period of more than two months).

This question is state dependent; the routing of death certificate and how individuals are removed from the rolls of registered voters impacts the answer.

In the 41st Senate District, though the final vote count from the state Board of Elections isn't available yet, the WFP says it's likely its voters also provided a critical margin of victory for Democratic Senator - elect Terry Gipson over GOP Sen. Steve Saland.

While the exact rules vary from state to state, essentially a voter is voting for a set of electors chosen by the party, and the most votes for a given party / candidate selects that set of electors, so where there is winner takes all, the set of electors is equal to the total number of electors for that state

Evidence, again from Australia, though this time from state elections (where full preference listing is not required) suggests that the majority of voters will only cast a single preference.

At least 62 percent of voters from every region of the state and every party agree that Spitzer should leave his political aspirations on the shelf next year and refrain from seeking statewide office, although he does continue to have a reservoir of support (more than 40 percent) among black and Latino voters.

Having served billions of targeted voter - matched digital ads online, social media, and mobile devices over the past five years and helping to elect scores of Democrats up and down the ballot for offices ranging from senator and governor to state legislator and school board member, DSPolitical has earned a reputation as a progressive ally and committed innovator.

Though the measure on the state level is backed by Silver and broad support from voters according to polls, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said increasing it this year would be far too difficult to pass the Republican - led Senate.

ICYMI last night, Marcia Bystryn from the New York League of Conservation Voters said there is «a very good chance» that the group will spend in the six figures to support Republican State Senator Mark Grisanti's bid for re-election.

«House Republicans» midterm prospects grow dimmer with each passing day thanks to the endless supply of chaos, scandal and broken promises to voters from Republican - controlled Washington,» spokesperson Meredith Kelly stated in a press release.

Former Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno deemed Giuliani «Judas» for turning his back on the party's nominee, little - known state Sen. George Pataki, who ended up defeating Mario Cuomo in what was widely attributed more to voters» rejection of the liberal incumbent than their desire to see a GOP legislator from Peekskill in the executive mansion.

But voters in New York, more than four years away from the next presidential election, prefer former Sen. and soon - to - be-former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton make another run in 2016 over Cuomo.

And in the future too, we should expect to see ever more intense efforts to reach more and more potentially persuadable or potentially «mobilizable» voters in high - stakes, well - resourced, competitive elections, even as the majority of Americans who live in states and districts that are not competitive will hear less and less from campaigns as they, quite reasonably, use all available information to concentrate their resources where they think they matter.

This even applies to «well intentioned» initiatives and led several states from threatening to arrest international election monitors if they attempted to monitor elections from the polling place as only legal voters and poll employees are allowed in the polling place itself.