Sentences with phrase «more ballot boxes»

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Wells suggests all this is happening because more voters are appearing at the ballot box who are not detected by opinion polls.

Federal judges found more problems in Texas» voting rights laws, ruling that Republicans racially gerrymandered some congressional districts to weaken the growing electoral power of minorities, who former President Barack Obama set out to protect at the ballot box before leaving office.

But the speech was more noteworthy for how it hammered away at what political strategists like to call «wedge» issues that will differentiate the Conservatives from their opponents at the ballot box.

Angell says with up to 10 states voting on marijuana legalization at the ballot box this November, he expects to see more states to implement their own state - sanctioned industries.

LincolnLabs, the fledgling group that organized the event (which was held in San Francisco in July), hopes to connect the two professions so that they can create start - ups, push their political ideology and help achieve more success at the ballot box.

The more red meat the Conservatives dish out to their base, the more keeping their party out of power next year stands to become a bigger ballot box priority for voters than punishing Trudeau for whatever disappointment he may have inspired.

Elections in the age of low - intensity conflict are generally managed more efficiently than in the past when ballot boxes were stuffed and opposition candidates killed, bribed, or exiled.

In the public square and at the ballot box, we must be more engaged, not less.

The Moral Right may have won some battles at the ballot box, but there is little evidence that those victories have led to more restrictive sexual behavior.

Politicians with large big toes are more likely to succeed at the ballot box, according to fresh research.

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More Sex, Lies and the Ballot Box is the professors» in depth study on how we vote in Britain and around the world.

The longer the White House and Downing Street back Mubarak and negotiate behind closed doors in order to engineer a slow transition, which might impede the Muslim Brotherhood from immediately taking power through the ballot box, the more it antagonizes the protesters throughout all of Egypt and drives them toward the Islamists.

He added, «I don't think there's a conspiracy, but nowadays, people in politics can change things a lot more than at the ballot box.»

This time it will be much more difficult for voters to reprove any one particular party because the agent responsible for recalling them to the ballot box is the Australian Electoral Commission.

However, the Labour candidate's support was largely made up of younger voters, while Goldsmith retains a commanding lead with older voting groups which have historically been more likely to get to the ballot box.

It would have given more voters more of a say, and so it would have improved the quality of our democracy at the level of the ballot box.

«Latinos who are able to vote need to come out and represent our community at the polls because for every Latino voter there are many more Latinos, like me, who are not able to make our voices heard at the ballot box,» Cruz added.

What was no more than a one - point lead over Labour in the local ballot boxes had seemed like small beer after the SNP's success in winning an overall majority at Holyrood a year earlier.

More likely, assuming a turnaround of the economy during 2010 and passage of expanded health care coverage as part of a health care reform package later this year, Democrats may be headed toward an era of ballot - box dominance.

Schneiderman's liberal leanings would likely make him a tough sell with more conservative Democrats upstate, though he has strong ties to organized labor, which helps at the ballot box.

This does not, of course, mean that they should not be used, but it does mean that there is a danger in viewing the laptop less as a means to express a view, and more as a «second ballot box» because, unlike an actual ballot box, it is simply not available to everybody.

The referendum brought three million more people to the ballot box than had bothered to cast a ballot to elect a government a year before.

«The security taskforce main agenda is to send 6 or more taskforces to NPP strong holds, hot spots on election day and that day, we are going to lynch them if they try it, we have also head that the security will be snatching ballot boxes and we want to tell them we [are] going to lynch them if they try it,» he stated.

Democrats in the state Senate gave Jennifer Shilling another two years as minority leader Tuesday, brushing aside a subpar performance at the ballot box that left Republicans with their largest majority in more than 40 years and uncertainty about whether Shilling will retain her own seat in the face of a recount.

New York was 41st out of the entire country when it comes to voter participation and Early Voting will assist in bringing more New Yorkers to the Ballot Box,» said Assemblymember Latrice Walker.

The Plan aims at: developing operational plans, processes and related instructions that take the needs of PWDs into account; designing layouts of polling stations to make them more accessible to PWDs; procuring magnifying glasses, tactile stickers for ballots boxes, large grip pens and other materials to assist PWDs and making cubicles, booths more accessible to wheelchair users.

As a New York native, I've seen firsthand how fusion voting, which allows multiple parties to endorse the same candidate, has failed to deliver on its promise of more choice at the ballot box.

Not necessarily — a negative anti-government vote counts just the same as a positive vote when it goes in a ballot box and the evidence from 2010 suggests that a large proportion of Conservative voters were driven more by anti-Labour feeling than support for the Tories.

The prosecutorial discretion power is so strong that it has actually become much more effective in forcing leadership change than a general election where political opponents seek to unseat them at the ballot box.

The creation of an organization backed by conservatives that focuses on winnable issues is a more likely avenue to success than the ballot box.

So Mike Long is saying if Cuomo dumps this law, we will have more choices at the ballot box?

Another piece of his agenda that Cuomo has already announced is his «Democracy Project,» which includes several measures to make online political advertisements more transparent; secure elections from cyberattacks, and improve New Yorkers» access to the ballot box through measures like early voting.

«You see this mad dash by major candidates to have their name appear on the ballot more than their opponents appear because they think it helps them at the ballot box,» he said.

The first count and three subsequent recounts on the night of the election had given Davidson a narrow majority, but after the ballot boxes were locked away overnight, two more recounts gave victory to the Conservative.

Some random sample of ballot boxes is counted manually and compared to the scanned results, and if there are problems, more stations are manually compared.

One might presume that the more prestigious (at least in name rcognition) Golden Globes are the precursos to the Oscars to which everyone should look at before checking off boxes on their Oscar ballot.

It's time for more parents to take to the courts, the ballot boxes, and to the streets for their kids.

What it does mean is that the movement will be more aggressive in articulating its positive vision for the futures of children at the ballot box, as it should be.

This growing interest is reflected in the overwhelming public support — 73.5 percent — at the ballot box last November for the passage of Proposition 58, the California state ballot initiative that creates more opportunities for bilingual education.

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The Smash Ballot is more of a suggestion box than an election.

Madam Justice Ryan's holding that «any interference with the right to put a ballot in the box must be justified under s. 1 of the Charter» will be helpful to any prospective challenge to the more restrictive voting process currently before Parliament.