Sentences with phrase «least from this voter»

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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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

Again, as with the Protestants, Catholic Perot voters were drawn from the least religiously observant.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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

receiving at a server a first plurality of records for a group of voters, each record comprising political demographic information associated with individual voters within the group of voters, wherein at least one record is associated with a first voter and wherein the political demographic information comprises information from voter registration records associated with each voter;

Thus, there is at least one voter ID proposal that would have prevented ineligible persons from registering in the first place.

Not in California, at least judging from the battle waged over the internet to pass Proposition 8, the 2008 ballot initiative that banned gay marriage in that state: The ProtectMarriage.com coalition used the Web to fuel fundraising, volunteerism, and voter...

The deadline for delivering at least 15,000 signatures from New York voters was August 19, and both efforts were successful.

This allows New York to redeem itself from the ignominious status of place dead last in turnout nationwide this year and in the nation with fewer voters going to the polls than in any midterm election for at least three decades.

Voters in East Hampton Town will have at least three chances in the coming week to hear from the candidates for East Hampton Town trustee.

Two of the candidates» names are familiar, at least to some First Congressional District voters, Kate Browning and Vivian Viloria - Fisher are former Suffolk legislators from points west.

Often candidates use obscure «regular voter» types (or at least district leaders) to file challenges to avoid looking too blatant about their effort to bounce opponents from the ballot.

At the very least, lawmakers and Cuomo seem to be taking their cues from voters on corruption concerns: A combined 90 percent of upstate voters believe corruption is either a «very serious» or «somewhat serious» problem.

At least 60 percent of voters from every region agree with that statement, as do 57 percent of voters who are either union members or have a union member in their household.

«I wouldn't have gotten elected unless each time at least one million Democrats came out to vote and crossed the party lines to vote for me,» said Pataki, rightly pointing out that Turner will need to attract voters from the other party to win in the Ninth Congressional District, where Democrats enjoy a three - to - one registration advantage.

Candidates must collect signatures from at least 1 percent of a districts voters to qualify by petition and avoid paying a fee.

Aside from lowering the voting age by a year, the bill would also require all pupils in the ninth grade or higher to receive at least eight full class periods of civics education and mandate that every New York high school provide each student with a voter registration form the year they turn 17.

Consistent with other Trump campaign figures who denied contact with Russians only to later be exposed as liars, apparently Cambridge Analytica met at least three times in 2014 and 2015 with Kremlin - connected executives from the Russian oil giant Lukoil, who «showed interest» in using data to target messaging to American voters.

Ms. Scott said 28,381 voters have not voted or otherwise been heard from since at least July, 2011.

Voters support the idea, 75 - 20, with 68 - 25 percent support among Democrats and 73 - 24 percent from voters with at least oneunion member in the housVoters support the idea, 75 - 20, with 68 - 25 percent support among Democrats and 73 - 24 percent from voters with at least oneunion member in the housvoters with at least oneunion member in the household.

Railing against the Soviets» «dirty jackboots» all over Europe, and how «Lady Thatcher saved us» from socialism made him sound stuck in a geo - political past, or at least a battered history textbook, not relevant to Conservative defectors, floating voters, and even loyal Conservative voters the party needs to target today.

The canvassing I have been doing — in some very «non elite» areas — suggests ordinar7y voters ARE switching from Labour to LibDem, at least in London.

Or maybe «Illegally Influenced» — We currently have at least one state being investigated for removing blacks from the voter registration lists.

The pressure to speed things up will grow, not least from Liberal Democrat ministers who need to be able to demonstrate tangible success on the environment to their voters.

The blog has also got some figures showing what proportion of voters in each region are now represented by at least one MP from a party they voted for.

Regardless of what may be the best campaign strategy regarding debates - and that from the Cuomo perspective, would be to not bother with either Batterdino or the LAZ, Andrew owes it to the voters of NY to step forward and engage in at least two debates with his opposition.

Barbara Bartoletti, with the League of Women Voters, says if the constitutional amendment is accompanied by a law that also requires the lines to be drawn in a less partisan manner, then it would be at least an improvement from the present system of unlimited gerrymandering.

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.

An NBC / Wall Street Journal poll has Weiner at 25 percent to Christine Quinn's 20 percent, and 49 percent of voters now say they are at least open to voting for Weiner, up from the 40 percent who said the same thing before he started campaigning.

Backed by at least $ 500,000 from former NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the political clout of ex-Arizona Rep. Gabby Giffords, gun control advocates last week turned in what they contend are enough signatures to add a voter referendum on Washington state's proposed Extreme Risk Protection Order to the ballot this November.

Article II, Section 2 of the Alaska Constitution states: A member of the legislature shall be a qualified voter who has been a resident of Alaska for at least three years and of the district from which elected for at least one year, immediately preceding his filing for office.

Single - payer aside, the more simplified position that the Affordable Care Act has some flaws is likely at the very least a middle point from which candidates can try to sow consensus among voters of all political stripes.

It also presented a chance to double down on his credentials and position himself as a progressive leader for New York — and perhaps the nation — as he faces a primary challenge from the left and a crescendo of voters across the country, at least within his own party, who seem to have little appetite or patience for moderates.

Both of their Republican challengers, Joe DioGuardi and Jay Townsend continue to suffer from a lack of name recognition, with at least 50 percent of voters saying they do not know enough about either candidate to form an opinion.

Brown continues to lead by at least 20 points with men, women, voters with and without a college degree, and voters from union and non-union households,» Siena's Steven Greenberg said.

And it may also signal that the body's newest members — those with the least ties to the Legislature's scandal - stained status quo — feel greater pressure from voters to be seen as part of the solution.

Until voters are freed from the election propaganda of special interests, the U.S. will continue to have the world's most costly and least efficient health care system and the worst health care outcomes of any developed nation.

The former Massachusetts governor picked up a key endorsement from Hispanic lawmakers — and that made a difference for at least some GOP voters.

The evidence from South Carolina shows that voters do at least sometimes evaluate school board members on the basis of student learning trends as measured by average school test scores.

Additionally, supermajorities of California voters support policy changes to elevate teacher quality, including either eliminating teacher tenure or lengthening the time before teachers receive tenure from the current eighteen months to at least four years, taking performance into account when making layoff decisions, and making it easier to let go of underperforming teachers.

LA Times 15 Candidates File to Run for LAUSD School Board Seats Officials have 10 days to verify whether each has the signatures of at least 500 registered voters from the candidate's district.

The biggest change (and least popular with voters) is the rollback of the TFSA limit from $ 10,000 to $ 5,500 per year.

I - 937 was passed by the voters to diversify and clean up Washington's electric grid by requiring utilities to generate at least 15 % of their electricity from new, non-hydro, renewable sources such as wind and solar.