Sentences with phrase «from voters at»

Breaking Travel News speaks to Joseph Rijo Boswell, senior vice president, sales, at Mystifly, about recognition from voters at the World Travel Awards during the Grand Final Gala Ceremony 2017 in Vietnam.

It is clear that the only thing that will force lawmakers to move their positions is MORE public pressure and direct contact from voters at home.

The internal investigation by BOE comes after state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and City Comptroller Scott Stringer already announced they're investigating widespread complaints from voters at polling sites citywide during Tuesday's primaries.

Not exact matches

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).

In order to be put to voters, the tech tax will need the support of at least six out of the 11 city supervisors, and aside from its three co-sponsors, no other supervisor has yet given his or her support.

Despite receiving the support of local Conservative members and several leading Tory MPs, Goldsmith's decision to resign from the Conservative party in protest at the decision to build a new airport runway in his constituency meant he was barred from accessing the crucial local voter data he required.

The survey of 1,077 registered voters was conducted online by the Program for Public Consultation at the University of Maryland from Dec. 6 - 8.

Fiorina, who announced her bid for president last April and ended her campaign in February after failing to get more than single - digit support from voters, has often been at loggerheads with Cruz.

All of this is small beer compared to the massive costs of new F - 35 fighter jets alone, estimated at up to $ 30 billion, but for voters still reeling from a recession the Conservatives» offerings may be appealing.

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.

«That is an explicit acknowledgment that this payment was about the election and was about hiding information from voters immediately before the presidential election,» said Paul S. Ryan, vice president of policy and litigation at watchdog group Common Cause, which filed a legal claim over the payment.

In an emotional rally Saturday in Fort Lauderdale, politicians and Marjory Stoneman Douglas students called for a ban on weapons like the one used at the high school, and urged voters to kick out lawmakers who oppose the move or who take money from the National Rifle Association.

Giuliani told American voters that $ 130,000 was such a small, insignificant sum that his client could have paid it from his own funds at any time.

I think the issues with the movie extended beyond Twitter; the new voters I've talked to are less enthusiastic about it than the ones you've talked to (New Yorkers, you know), and it sounds like we've both heard from at least some voters who are drawing a bright line between the performances (thumbs up) and the movie (thumbs sideways).

The suit's claim that Trump knew about the payment and that it was aimed at keeping the affair from voters «confirms what we suspected,» said Paul Ryan, a top lawyer with Common Cause, one of the groups that have lodged complaints with the Federal Election Commission about the payoff.

With regards to the Facebook scandal specifically, Cambridge Analytica are accused of harvesting personal data from 50million Facebook profiles, data which was then used to psychologically profile victims to drive advertising campaigns, targeted at voters in the US elections.

Despite the rough first year, Premier Redford's Tories still have at least three years left until the next election to fulfill the promises made and mend fences with the bloc of moderate voters who saved their party from defeat one year ago today.

Canadian and Alberta voters need to understand that every time you get annoyed at Justin Trudeau and the way he manages the country all you need to do is listen to the radio and Charles Adler rant about him or read articles by Lorne Gunter and Rick Bell from the Edmonton Sun (who formerly worked at the Alberta Report, and helped Ted Byfield run the Alberta Report into the ditch, or read anything written by Colby Cosh or Ezra Levant and soon you will realize the propaganda and hate these clowns spread about their own political / religious views trying to scare the general population to their side or views.

At the same time, however, I think the NDP did get some support from (small c) conservative voters in the last election, who really wanted the PCs out but couldn't bring themselves to vote Wildrose.

Meanwhile, with an election expected in early 2012 (regardless of fixed election months), Elections Alberta is warning that at least 300,000 Albertans are still missing from the official voters list.

Over at Pine Trails Park, down the street from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High, a group of mothers of children too young to walk out spent the day signing up new voters with representatives from the League of Women Voters and getting anyone interested to sign various petivoters with representatives from the League of Women Voters and getting anyone interested to sign various petiVoters and getting anyone interested to sign various petitions.

Putting aside his mistaken belief that his voters are «Aussie Battlers» - when in fact they are hard - working small business owners and contractors, many of whom receive franked dividends from their business endeavors — it's worth looking at what all the fuss is about... Continue...

In Edwards» case, his lawyers argued $ 1 million in secret payments to Edwards» pregnant mistress by Edwards» donors were aimed at shielding his wife, Elizabeth, who died of cancer in 2010, not hiding the information from voters.

In 1998, at the height of the Clinton impeachment battle, evangelical voters were constantly confronting accusations from their secular, leftist friends that «it was all politics,» that evangelicals were less concerned with Bill Clinton's indiscretions than they were about his party identification.

I don't think the majority of American voters that can take the time from their very busy schedules to spend 10 minutes at the polls are pro-gay.

It is personified by Dr Evan Harris, the Liberal Democrat MP who lost his Oxford seat at the last election substantially because local church members drew voters» attention to Dr Harris» ulterior motives on a variety of issues from abortion to euthanasia.

The awareness of the predicament (on the part of both the politicians at the microphones and the voters in the streets) conceivably could lead to a reconstitution of the American idea, but the finding of the phoenix in the ashes presupposes a debate rising from an intellectual structure a good deal sturdier than the one lost in the wreckage of the World Trade Center.

Certainly when 46 buses carrying 2,500 black passengers from the Woodlawn Organization arrived at Chicago City Hall for voter registration, you could count on getting the desired unbelief and consternation, including police with machine guns.

Bishop Azariah of Dornakal, in theologically justifying the rejection of the reserved minority communal electorate offered by Britain to the Christian community in India, spoke of how the acceptance of it would be «a direct blow to the nature of the church of Christ» at two points — one, it would force the church to function «like a religious sect, a community which seeks self - protection for the sake of its own loaves and fishes» which would prevent the fruitful exercise of the calling of the church to permeate the entire society across boundaries of caste, class, language and race, a calling which can be fulfilled only through its members living alongside fellow - Indians sharing in public life with a concern for Christian principles in it; and two, it would put the church's evangelistic programme in a bad light as «a direct move to transfer so many thousands of voters from the Hindu group to the Indian Christian group» (recorded by John Webster, Dalit Christians - A History).

Asia's third - largest economy is recovering, with factory output surging, but food prices are growing at the fastest pace in 11 years and the government fears a backlash from millions of rural poor who are its main voters.

Technically, Davis is listed at PF, so he wouldn't steal votes away from Embiid at C unless the voters really want to just say he's a C. Second team All - NBA Defense for Embiid is fair, but the first team center is Drummond if you scroll up to a previous comment reply.

When you look at birth certificates and voter registration and spend all this time hunting, with this witch hunt that's been going on for the last number of months, I can't help but question whether the same thing would have been done from another team from another place, another race.»

You can lose hours of your day both looking at how voters from certain regions perceive certain teams, and you can lose even more hours trying to figure out the narrative behind it.

Had the group failed to collect signatures from at least 15 percent of the electorate by the end of this week, the park board could have sold the bonds without voter approval.

Alex Demos will be the Civic Betterment Party's village president nominee on the April 9 ballot after he gained 699 votes from Glen Ellyn voters at a Dec. 1 town meeting at the Glen Ellyn Civic Center.

Back in August, we looked at a long series of questions the campaign could answer, ranging from the effectiveness of mobile canvassing to the possibility of a voter backlash against highly targeted advertising.

At the same time, his voters were essentially being asked to swallow an attempt by Mitch McConnell to control TWO Senate seats, since the senior Senator from Kentucky had created Trey Grayson's candidacy by running out Jim Bunning.

And we need to stop engaging in a narrative that blames voters for Tory failures in managing our economy and for ideological budget cuts that have stretched our public services to breaking point.The left are good at diagnosing problems, but too often we shy away from pitching solutions.

British politicians may think they have a tough life, facing suspicion from voters and scorn from the media, but at least none of them have ever met the terrible fate of Mikhail Pakhomov.

Here's Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver taking a swipe at Ed Koch in response to the former NYC mayor's recent remarks that his fellow Manhattan Democrat is an enemy of reform and a «bum» who should be ejected from office by the voters this fall.

Labour is set to be the big loser from first - time voters not bothering to show up at polling stations, new research suggests.

What really jumped out at me were his numbers on data: small electoral campaigns will tend to buy voter lists from their county elections agencies, but the quality can be atrocious.

In that regard, any ruling party that is powerful of it's own - i.e., has intrinsic power not derived from voters; a power to stick to ruling despite the changing desires of people - is antidemocratic; so a «democracy through strength» is a danger that might (not always, but a possibility) turn into a dictatorship; and a «democracy through weakness» which is unable to do so and needs to re-estabilish it's power (and right to exist) at every single elections is a preferrable system of governance that would pay more attention towards their people, and be better for the people (as opposed to their own nomenclature).

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.

When Zephyr Teachout looked at the Republican candidates» sites from the point of view of an undecided voter a few weeks ago, she pointed out how few made it easy to find basic information about why someone SHOULD support the candidate.

JFK was more of a hawk than Nixon, LBJ was deeply and fully committed to Vietnam War even if he didn't start it (he subscribed to Domino theory); Clinton bombed the crap out of Serbia and got US into Kosovo, and didn't exactly refrain from shooting cruise missiles at Sudan / Afghanistan; Obama's presidency didn't exactly shape like the peace - on - earth triumph some of his voters deeply hoped for either.

The number of voters who don't know enough to form an opinion about the GOP trio ranges from 76 percent (for Turner, who has made name recognition — at least in NYC — a key argument of why he's the best candidate to face off against Gillibrand) to 84 percent (Maragos and Long).

For example, in California, when you apply for an absentee ballot, your name is removed from the list of voters at the polling place.

In the 2000 Florida election, at least 1,100 eligible voters were wrongly dropped from voting rolls in an attempt to purge a list of felons

The voter register is the most important tool for making election outcomes credible, it is like a credible and reliable scientific research which relies on the «sample frame»; it is the touchstone that gives assurance to the fact that the ballot, as expressed in an election, arose from the physical presence of eligible voters at the polling unit who delegated part of their sovereignty temporarily to elected officials.