Sentences with phrase «more eligible voters»

All 50 states use total population as their basis for drawing district lines, but the challengers said the rural state Senate districts in which they lived had vastly more eligible voters than urban districts, making their votes count for less, in violation of the Constitution.

Not exact matches

With more than 80 percent of eligible voters turning out to vote, two - thirds of them were implacably opposed to the project, which would have lasted at least a decade.

That order followed a similar, non-binding independence vote that took place that year, in which more than 80 % of voters chose independence — although only 2.3 million out of the region's 6.3 million eligible voters took part, AFP noted.

We can choose now to retreat once again into those echo chambers or begin to listen more attentively to one another — to love our neighbors by learning about them and their needs and perspectives whether black, white, Asian, or Latino / a; whether Christian, Muslim, or none; whether upper, middle, or working class; whether voter or one of the nearly half of eligible voters that sat out this election.

Too bad for those neanderthals, since only two - thirds of eligible voters were needed to allow women more than guest or visitor status.

Election is about voters electing those they want to lead them, and a credible voter register helps to ensure that those who vote are the true eligible voters, the card reader, which authenticates the voter identity, helps to make the voter register more robust and resistant to moon - light and landslide bogus figures.

This can be done by way of a relative majority (more than 50 per cent of votes cast), an absolute majority (more than 50 per cent of eligible voters) or some form of a super-majority (60 per cent or two - thirds majority of voters).

Gianaris estimated that automatic registration would expand New York's pool of eligible voters by more than 2 million people.

Vote Better NY seeks the following common sense changes to New York's voting laws so that every eligible New Yorker is registered to vote, voters have more than one day to get to the polls, and every voter can cast a ballot that counts:

More voters — Deadlines for registering and for switching parties must be closer to election dates, eligible voters should be automatically registered when they conduct business with various state agencies, and early voting is a must, perhaps starting the weekend before Election Day.

A little more than 28,000 people, less than 5 % of eligible Bronx voters, voted for Diaz in the April 21 special election.

Among the district's 87,443 eligible voters, there are roughly 25 percent more registered Republicans than Democrats.

Inec says more than 80 % of the nearly 70 million eligible voters have obtained their identity cards.

The governor's allies questioned her residency after combing through her voter history, suggesting she might not be eligible to be a candidate for governor, and darkly hinting there was more dirt where that came from.

The requirement is no more than 5 % of the number of registered voters eligible to vote for that office in the party primary.

Hispanics now make up more than half of the residents and almost half of the eligible voters.

He concluded that because 300,000 eligible voters lack photo IDs, the law would «prevent more legitimate votes from being cast than fraudulent votes.»

The Census Bureau estimates that more than 15 percent of all eligible voters had moved in the past year, and three million eligible voters did not vote in 2000 because problems with their registration.

Relying on your own graphs, between 1987 and 2015, the population of eligible voters has more than doubled from ~ 1800 to ~ 4700: an increase of ~ 161 % by adding ~ 2900 new potential voters.

That suggests we could reasonably trim the reach number by up to 80 %, but let's be a little more generous and assume that half the people that see the #LSBencher tweets are eligible voters.