Sentences with phrase «low turnout rates»

New York State, for example, which has had lower than the national average voting rates, has low turnout rates from its younger voters.

Elections officials in Onondaga County aren't counting on a busy day tomorrow, as they're predicting record low turnout rates.

Additionally, Ryan called upon the legislature to enact other voting reforms to modernize elections in New York, make it easier to vote, and expand voting options for all New Yorkers to help boost low turnout rates.

An example may be the 2016 US Presidential Election in which Clinton consistently polled above Trump, thus Clinton supporters assume that it's a sure - win for her, resulting in a low turnout rate for Clinton1.

Moreover, Latinos tend to have lower turnout rates than whites and African Americans, Venator - Santiago said.

Additionally, by - elections usually have lower turnout rates and are often used as a way for voters to protest against the current Government, making a Conservative victory in the general election more likely.

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While Seculars constitute a partial replacement for the departed Evangelicals in the Democratic coalition, their impact has been lessened by their low rates of turnout.

Disenfranchisement is a pretty rare political tactic on either the left or the right outside the United States, which has close to the lowest voter turnout rates among places that have genuine democratic elections.

Faced with this primary field, from the very beginning the campaign's senior staff placed an emphasis on reaching unregistered voters and those groups who historically have had low rates of voter turnout.

Given typical US voting participation rate (shy of 60 % even on high - turnout Presidential elections, never mind other lower turnout elections), finding such a person isn't hard.

«The turnout rates are far too low.

And while young people in general tend to vote at lower rates than the population as a whole, the signs are that student turnout in 2015 will be high.

New York has one of the lowest voter turnout rates in the nation and that should embarrass us.

«The high rate of spoiled ballots and lower turnout in elections fought under AV should trigger an alarm to those in the Labour movement who care about democracy,» she said.

Last month, with Election Day around the corner, that seemed to change as de Blasio renewed his call for a system that will encourage voting in a state with one of the lowest voter turnout rates in the country.

It contributes to the twin problems that politicians are held in low esteem and turnout rates at elections are low.

Without parties, he said, there would be no one to mobilize minority and low - income voters, and turnout rates would drop.

Rates for other low - turnout states have shifted New York state's ranking each year.

• Voter registration restrictions that give New York one of the lowest rates of election turnout in the nation, prohibiting same - day registration an mail - in voting.

Andrea Stewart - Cousins, the top - ranking Democrat in the New York State Senate, claimed New York state has one of the lowest voter turnout rates in the country.

Good government groups have long pushed for the change, noting New York's historically low voter turnout rates and saying that a more flexible voting system might help.

Critics of the state's election laws say the antiquated and hard - to - understand rules are the main reason why the state regularly has one of the lowest voter turnout rates in the nation.

New York's younger voters — those between 18 and 29 — had a voter turnout rate of 42 percent, lower than the national average as well.

Though the Labor Department reports the lowest unemployment rate in nearly five years, the turnout at a recent career fair indicates many Buffalo - area residents are still searching for a job.

Compared to other states New York has low voter turnout rates and is one of a minority of states that still doesn't allow early voting.