Sentences with phrase «making early voting»

We applaud Senator Kavanagh for making early voting a priority issue and for urging the Governor to fund this reform in the state budget,» said Jennifer Wilson, Legislative Director for the League of Women Voters of NYS.

«I'd like to thank Governor Cuomo for adding this funding to his budget proposal and recognize all of my colleagues in the legislature and the advocates, especially the Let New York Vote Coalition, who have worked tirelessly to make early voting a reality in New York.

«This piece of funding is needed to make early voting a reality in our state.

Only new legislation can make early voting a reality in New York, state Board of Elections spokesman Thomas Connolly said in an email.

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The hastily called vote poses significant logistical challenges that make it doubtful it could be held as early as next Sunday, experts said.

Earlier this week, Republicans on the committee voted to make the document public.

In addition, Didi made no comment on an earlier report that new investors will not have traditional voting rights as Didi's management reserves voting control under a proxy arrangement.

[20] In essence, this was an early version of the conflict of interest argument made below: promoters were using nonvoting common stock as a way of maintaining voting control for themselves.

No one knows when or if cannabis will be made legal federally, but Rea highlighted two upcoming milestones to rally the Canopy crowd in the meantime: California is expected to vote on legalization on election day 2016 or earlier, potentially opening sales to adults in an economy larger than Russia's.

The history was made under a new rule passed a day earlier that permitted newborns of senators on the floor during votes.

In Saturday's case, a former federal cabinet minister renowned as one of his generation's shrewdest campaigners made good on yet another case of frontrunner status, having earlier this year easily seized the helm of the creaky PC ship and seamlessly executed a merger vote to fuse the Tories and Wildrosers into a single party.

Amazingly, some extraordinarily courageous individuals (initially Arnold himself, journalists David Quinn and Breda O'Brien, the Iona Institute; later on, John Waters, retired Regius Professor of Laws at Trinity College Dublin, William Binchy and the distinguished historian Prof. John A. Murphy; the gay campaigners for a «No» vote, Paddy Manning and Keith Mills, deserve special mention) did succeed in making a difference to the eventual numbers, although not the outcome: in the early Spring, polls indicated that 17 percent of the electorate would vote against the amendment, but by the time the actual referendum came around, 38 percent were indicating a «No» vote, and that was the eventual outcome.

Early voting started a couple of days ago in Texas, and it sure makes it easy to vote for a primary election dated for May 29.

Those with the most chaotic lives are the least likely to vote, but writers like Ross Douthat and Michael Brendan Dougherty have speculated that one of the reasons Trump's earliest voting base was made up of working - class whites was because of the slow social collapse that Charles Murray wrote about.

And Robert Jeffress, senior pastor of First Baptist Church in Dallas and one of Trump's earliest supporters, said the «lewd, offensive, and indefensible» comments weren't enough «to make me vote for Hillary Clinton.»

After getting up early to vote and making it through a shorter than anticipated line at the -LSB-...]

The mother - of - three was once voted Miss England, but looked anything but as she trudged, make - up free towards her early morning destination:

With voting only lasting a couple more days, you should vote the maximum number of times to make up for being such a fool earlier.

The 19 - year - old punished his former club with his electrifying pace and was deservedly voted man of the match, making up for his disappointing return to Stade Louis II earlier in the campaign.

We all can do something to make sure Obama gets elected - talk to your friends, families and neighbors and make sure that they all get to the polls or vote early.

The Healthy, Hunger Free Kids Act of 2010, up for a vote as early as today, would attempt to fix some of these problems through a variety of means, including allowing schools in high - poverty areas to offer free meals to all students without any paperwork, making foster children automatically eligible for free meals, and giving incentives to states that improve their certification rates.

The burden of implementing early voting could fall heaviest on smaller and rural counties and they've proposed ways of making it easier for them to adopt the system, the letter states.

The bills include measures aimed at early voting in New York, making it easier to vote through an absentee ballot with «no excuse» voting, pre-registration for 16 - and 17 - year - old future voters, and making it easier to change a party ahead of a primary.

Second, the more optimistic one outlined by Peter Wielhouwer in the early 2000s, suggesting that more sophisticated targeting would also allow campaigns to identify more voters it makes sense to talk to and try to motivate, and thus expand the electorate as more people are turned out to vote.

Republican Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan indicated he was open to a conversation about making it easier to vote in New York, but questioned the cost of early voting days in advance of Election Day.

When Cuomo last week proposed reforms to make voting easier in New York state, he left something out: The cost, and how the additional expenses of maintaining early - voting sites would be covered, which worries local government officials.

Saratoga County Board of Supervisors shot down an early voting proposal made by Gov. Andrew Cuomo at their meeting yesterday.

Early voting and the other reforms will also ease pressure on polling sites, which will make voting more convenient.

Early voting will make voting less complicated for many New Yorkers who have to choose between casting a ballot and work, school, or personal commitments.

Cooper has has made an early play for the business vote by calling for a «fresh start» to undo the «anti-business» image the party developed under Ed Miliband.

Changes like early voting, no - excuse absentee voting, or same day registration to make it easier for people to vote are commonplace in other states, but are resisted in New York.

Remarkably Lamont came within 328 votes (and a fraught early morning recount) of leading the Conservatives to winning a second Westminster seat in the equivalent 2015 general election constituency, which would have made the Conservatives the second largest Scottish party in the House of Commons.

The mayor called on the state Legislature to pass broad voting and election reforms, including same - day voter registration, early voting, «no excuse» absentee voting, electronic poll books, consolidation of primary elections, reformatting ballots to make them more user - friendly, and pre-registration of 16 - and 17 - year - olds.

«And we should make voting easier, not harder, with same - day registration, no - fault absentee ballots and early voting.»

NEW YORK, NY (03/28/2018)(readMedia)-- Joining with 25 other organizations representing a variety of different issues from the Child Victims Act, to bail reform, to reproductive health, the Let New York Vote coalition made a final push for early voting in the NYS budget.

Our state's lack of early voting, makes it challenging for voters like me, juggling college and work schedules, to cast a ballot.

He also expressed support for public financing, lower contribution limits, early voting and making ballots more readable.

In order to increase voter turnout and make voting a more accessible process, it should be understood that instilling early voting — a process permitted in 37 states and the District of Columbia — and other procedures should be a priority.

Karen Scharff, with the reform group Citizen Action, says Cuomo and lawmakers also should act this spring to modernize voting requirements and make it easier to vote, through early voting and automatic voter registration.

We adopted the boldest and most pro-voter platform in history — calling for expanding early voting and vote - by - mail, implementing universal automatic voter registration and same day voter registration, ending partisan and racial gerrymandering, and making Election Day a national holiday.

All of the potential Republican candidates have made visits in recent months to the early voting state.

Davis said a constitutional convention could enact early voting and same - day registration to make it easier to vote and outlaw the gerrymandering of legislative districts.

To make it easier for New Yorkers to vote, Governor Cuomo is advancing legislation to institute early voting in the State.

«Reforms like early voting and extended registration deadlines will help New Yorkers make their voices heard.»

He also urged early voters who had «made a mistake» by voting for Mrs Clinton to change their ballots before Thursday's deadline.

Actor David Hyde Pierce, who's in his native Saratoga Springs to make his SPAC debut (with the Philadelphia Orchestra) this evening, explained to reporters earlier today why he decided to contribute to Sen. Roy McDonald after last month's gay marriage vote.

Cuomo has in his budget proposal $ 145 billion to make New York the 38th state in the country to allow early voting.

Davis says a constitutional convention could enact early voting and same day registration, to make it easier to vote, and outlaw the gerrymandering of legislative districts.

On that account, Friday was a mixed success for the governor, with pledges to introduce early voting, end cash bail for low - level offenses and codify the Supreme Court ruling that legalized abortion all failing to make it into the final budget deal.

Pelosi and other party leaders, including DCCC Chairman Steve Israel (N.Y.), have warned their freshmen that the worst mistake they can make is being inconsistent in their votes, flip - flopping from an earlier position.