Sentences with phrase «increasing number of voters»

But polls show an increasing number of voters want the popular Cuomo to announce sooner rather than later — the flip side of surveys showing lame - duck Gov. Paterson and the Legislature with historically low approval ratings.

Its efforts were solely directed towards increasing the number of voters in the election.»

Also there was an increased number of voters in rural areas.

Do the additional polling units increase the number of voters within a region or area??? If it does - Jega should resign.

Not exact matches

Trump responded that he thinks the number of black voters in the Republican party will increase.

But both parties saw sharp increases in the number of voters who want to hear less about religion from politicians.

The new law reduces the number of signatures required for a referendum to 7.5 percent of the registered voters from 15 percent and increases the number of days for a petition drive to 30 from 21.

These campaign ‐ style battles are being waged through an increasing number of «veiled actors» third ‐ party coalitions with misleading names that ask voters to «Save New York» or fight for «Fiscal Fairness» without revealing the powerful interest groups behind these messages.

More than half of the voters polled by Siena College said they felt the state was moving in the right direction; a steady increase in the number has been since Gov. Andrew Cuomo took office in January 2011.

By broadening their campaign to cover a larger number of constituencies, Ukip enjoys an exponential increase in its potential voters.

Democrats had a 5:3 advantage in the number of voters registering with their party, a ratio that was likely to increase as more immigrants and minorities came of voting age in the state.

«We expect this number to increase significantly as the Cahill campaign continues to educate voters on Schnedierman's record of corruption and incompetence as attorney general,» the campaign memo says.

He said he was not discouraged by the history of low voter turnout in the Bronx, citing increasing poll numbers since 2010.

But based on the results in the county's various municipalities, it certainly seems plausible that the results were driven by an increase in the number of suburban voters who cast their ballots for a Democrat rather than a surge in turnout among the solidly blue city voters.

The state is considering a plan to dramatically increase the number of casinos on non-Indian lands in New York, a proposal that could not go before voters until at least November 2013.

Of the 100 seats for which final voter registration numbers have been collated, 82 have seen a rise in registered voters since the 2015 election - but more than half the increase is in just 20 seats where numbers have risen by at least three per cent.

However, the tally that will be used for the calculation, should this bill be signed into law, will be in the spring of 2012, so the number by then would probably be slightly higher, as voter registration continues to increase.

Outsiders have suggested reforms, such as changing the number of votes one person can cast (currently, each voter casts three votes for three positions to be filled in their senate district) and prohibiting incumbent legislators from serving or, at the very least, banning them from increasing their pensions by doubling their salary for a year.

One reason the Coalition has been slow to adopt candidate quotas or non-quota means of increasing the number of women candidates is lack of pressure from their voters.

Two weeks ago, after the House of Commons vote on the budget, when Labour MPs joined with a number of Tory backbenchers to demand cuts in EU spending over the next seven years, slightly more voters (42 %) wanted the EU budget cut rather than maintained or increased (39 %).

It also showed an increase in the number of 2015 Labour voters who now say they will vote Labour again - up to 82 % from 78 % a week ago.

While his job performance rating is fairly steady, an increasing number of registered voters told Siena they would prefer to elect someone else in 2014: 41 percent this month, compared with 36 percent last month.

Each of the top minor parties — Conservative, Independence and Working Families — increased their number of registered voters from Nov. 2013.

Members of the Rochester Voter Alliance are working to increase the number of registered voters living in poor city neighborhoods.

The row comes amid mounting Labour concerns that increasing numbers of their traditional voters are switching to Leave as the 23 June referendum approaches.

The district currently represented by Rep. Charlie Rangel would keep all of northern Manhattan together and absorb a portion of the South Bronx and northwest Bronx, increasing the number of Latino and white voters there [clarified].

But merely changing which candidate appeared higher in the results still increased the number of undecided Indian voters who would vote for that candidate by 12 % or more compared with controls.

In one phase of the experiment, they tested a group of actual voters before the 2014 general election in India and found that biased search results could increase the number of undecided voters who chose one candidate by 12 % or more.

But what surprised researchers was the difference those rankings made: Biased search results increased the number of undecided voters choosing the favored candidate by 48 % compared with a control group that saw an equal mix of both candidates throughout the list.

NewSchools Venture Fund commissioned a MassINC poll of 625 Boston voters, which found 64 percent of respondents in favor of increasing the number of students who can attend charter schools and just 23 percent saying the limit on charters should stay.

Massachusetts voters will weigh in this fall in a referendum on whether to increase the number of charter schools in the state

Here's a look at a number of new laws aimed at increasing young voter education and participation.

But voters thought funds should be directed at traditional public schools rather than creating new charter campuses, with 59 percent favoring investments in traditional public schools over increasing the number of charter schools.

Furthermore, overwhelming numbers of voters supported many of the same policy solutions as school districts, including loan forgiveness and service scholarships to incentivize new teachers to enter the field (85 %) and mentoring and support for recently hired teachers to increase their retention (90 %).

The poll also found voters continue to be split on charter schools, with 39 percent favoring them and 35 percent opposed to increasing their numbers in New Jersey as part of a statewide plan to improve student performance.

Second, an increasing number of people are asking by what authority the Governor and Education Commissioner even have for requiring that Bridgeport's voters give up the democratic rights in return for a $ 3.4 million loan.

Juicy Excerpt: Silver's take was rooted in two realities: (1) three - point polling errors are common; (2) there was an unusually high number of undecided voters going into the election and that increases the chances for seeing a polling mis - prediction.

Increasing numbers of American voters think global warming is happening, and many say the issue...

Increasing numbers of American voters think global warming is happening, and many say the issue will influence how they vote in November, according to our national survey conducted in March of 2016.

Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine, a Republican, said in a court brief that the twin goals of the NVRA and its amendments were to increase voter registration and to reduce the number of ineligible registered voters.

The number of voters increased by a third over last year, with 9,105 people participating and commenting on those who they thought made their mark over the past 18 months.

In 2012, Arizona voters rejected a proposed constitutional amendment that would have increased the number of judicial nominees submitted to the governor from three to eight, and in 2013, the supreme court struck down a statute that would have increased the number of nominees to five.