Sentences with phrase «get them to the polling booth»

«Could ridesharing mitigate voter suppression where marginalized communities have lost the full protection of the Voting Rights Act and find it hard to even get to a polling booth,» Sasjkia Otto thought.

No, it's not when you get to the polling booth, twizzling a sweaty pencil in your disillusioned palm, trying to decide where to put your cross of disappointment, when you suddenly have to pay # 2 extra for huge, black - rimmed glasses to see the whole sorry process in three dimensions.

That's the crucial distinction between strong polling and a winning election strategy: people may support restricting benefits, but to get them to the polling booth you need to give them something to improve their own lot.

Not exact matches

Craft fairs are also great places to test new products because you can get direct feedback from your buyers — or if you're scared to ask them face to face, why not set up a mini voting booth or chalkboard poll, like Folksy seller Ruth Robinson did at one of her markets stalls.

Even in London where there were no other elections apart from the AV referendum, over a third of voters managed to get out of bed and make it to the polling booths.

I'm excited to see so much support for Randall in this poll, but I know that polls are easy — getting to the voting booth is the part that matters.

The goal of SVRD is not just to getting more young voters registered, but to actually get them to the voting booth — according to the city's Board of Elections, only 11 percent of registered voters 18 to 29 years old went to the polls in the 2013 mayoral election.

«If there is anything happening in your polling booth, get your recorder or your phone to record it, because you may need it in the course of writing your report.

Emperor Palpatine has won a seat on Odessa Council, and Chewbacca got arrested while driving Darth Vader to the local polling booth on Sunday 25 October, where the Dark Lord wasn't allowed to vote.