Sentences with phrase «individual voters in our state»

Awarding Connecticut's electoral votes to the winner of the national popular vote may disenfranchise a majority of the individual voters in our state.

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Of course, marijuana remains very much illegal on the federal level, though the Obama Administration has typically allowed individual states to freely regulate the drug in accordance with voters» wishes.

Trump insisted that «we have a lot to look into» regarding dead individuals, undocumented immigrants, and voters registered in multiple states being on voter rolls.

The state's propensity to assign individuals identities through voter registration lists and social security numbers or more generally to reinforce conceptions of individual rights serves as an example; the roles of educational systems (through individualized test scores) and professional careers (organized around cumulative skills attached to the individual's biography) provide further examples.7 This work is important because it shows the dependence of self - constructs on markers in the culture at large: the self is understood not only in terms of internal development but also as a product of external reinforcement.

The answer depends mostly on where the voter is registered, because American election laws and procedures are for the most part determined by the individual states, even in elections for federal office.

What Labour needs is a new social democratic revisionism, that heavily focuses on restructuring the welfare state, to unite communitarian and cosmopolitan voters, in an era of globalization, high inequalities, increased demands for choice, and an ageing population This requires applying the principles of solidarity, reciprocity and individual empowerment, in relation to reforming the welfare state, to make it more effective at tackling poverty and providing economic security, and to satisfy rising demands for choice.

The same will be true in the struggle for control of Congress next year, as state parties, individual campaigns and outside groups spend tens of millions of dollars targeting their voters and working to get them to the polls.

New York State caps individual donations to candidates running for local office using a formula based on the number of registered voters in a given district, which varies slightly from year to year — but leaves the single donor ceiling around $ 16,000 in a Republican primary for Nassau County executive, and $ 48,000 for the general election.

Individual members have spoken out against the disenfranchisement of minority voters in both the state legislative and congressional lines, but there has been no organized opposition effort to date.

Silver has been one of the most consistently powerful politicians in New York state, but he is elected not by voters, but individual members of the Democratic conference.

«The ratings give voters a scorecard on how their individual legislator voted and how many times they force local governments — reeling from unfunded mandates — to raise taxes or nanny state proposals that interfere in how we choose to live our lives... As long as voters continue to hold Legislators responsible, we believe New York will become a business friendly place that people no longer have to flee in order to save on taxes.»

«Perhaps simplistically,» a Council of Europe report states, «voters are known generally to prefer faces to institutions, individuals to collectives, the more so if they feel they have had an effective say in exercising a personal preference.»

«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.

«State - sponsored attack groups are not interested in affecting individual voters.

In a Show - Me Institute poll released in May 2007, 67 percent of Missouri voters and 77 percent of African Americans said they favored a law that would «give individuals and businesses a credit on either their property or state income taxes for contributions they make to education scholarships that help parents send their children to a school of their choice, including public, private, and religious schools.&raquIn a Show - Me Institute poll released in May 2007, 67 percent of Missouri voters and 77 percent of African Americans said they favored a law that would «give individuals and businesses a credit on either their property or state income taxes for contributions they make to education scholarships that help parents send their children to a school of their choice, including public, private, and religious schools.&raquin May 2007, 67 percent of Missouri voters and 77 percent of African Americans said they favored a law that would «give individuals and businesses a credit on either their property or state income taxes for contributions they make to education scholarships that help parents send their children to a school of their choice, including public, private, and religious schools.»

In addition to the NAACP, the League of Women Voters of Florida joined to challenge the law as did several individuals including state Sen. Geraldine Thompson and several Americans United for Separation of Church and State: Rabbi Merrill Shapiro, the Rev. Harry Parrott Jr., and the Rev. Harold Brostate Sen. Geraldine Thompson and several Americans United for Separation of Church and State: Rabbi Merrill Shapiro, the Rev. Harry Parrott Jr., and the Rev. Harold BroState: Rabbi Merrill Shapiro, the Rev. Harry Parrott Jr., and the Rev. Harold Brockus.

Projects run the spectrum of legal work from representing voting rights organizations and individual voters in federal and state courts, immigration and asylum efforts assisting detainees and victims of domestic violence to partnering with commercial clients» in - house counsel on naturalization and consumer law projects, and collaborating with a non-profit to advise their grant recipients on topics including contracts, corporate governance, and tax issues.

The definition the term «employee» to mean: an individual employed by an employer, except that the term «employee» shall not include any person elected to public office in any State or political subdivision of any State by the qualified voters thereof, or any person chosen by such officer to be on such officer's personal staff, or an appointee on the policy making level or an immediate adviser with respect to the exercise of the constitutional or legal powers of the office.

In another case, in the late stages of the November election, Schweickert said the company acquired data on voters who voted early — data it collected from local counties and states — and linked the information to individual Facebook profileIn another case, in the late stages of the November election, Schweickert said the company acquired data on voters who voted early — data it collected from local counties and states — and linked the information to individual Facebook profilein the late stages of the November election, Schweickert said the company acquired data on voters who voted early — data it collected from local counties and states — and linked the information to individual Facebook profiles.

Using «psychographic» profiles of individual voters generated from publicly stated interests really does work, according to new research presented at the Def Con hacking conference in Las Vegas, Nevada.»

«Ads targeted using profiles generated from individual voters» stated interests are more successful in shifting attitudes according to Online Privacy Foundation