Sentences with phrase «low voter turnout rates»
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.
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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.
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.
New York has one of the lowest voter turnout rates in the nation and that should embarrass us.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
Without parties, he said, there would be no one to mobilize minority and low - income voters, and turnout rates would drop.
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.
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.
New York State, for example, which has had lower than the national average voting rates, has low turnout rates from its younger voters.