Sentences with phrase «new voter identification»

Justice David Stinson found that there was a risk that some people would be unable to vote because of strict new voter identification requirements, but declined to grant an injunction.

The appeal arose out of a suit by the Northeast Ohio Coalition for the Homeless filed in 2006 regarding Ohio's then - new voter identification laws — specifically, whether Ohio must count ballots cast in the wrong precinct.

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The government is currently trialing the new system in Bromley, Gosport, Swindon, Watford and Woking and requires voters to present personal identification before...

TechPresident reports that the Obama campaign tested their new «Dashboard» system to let volunteers from around the country make calls into Wisconsin, the AFL - CIO has trialed software that matches voter lists with volunteers» Facebook friends to let them call targets that they actually know rather than total strangers, and the Walker campaign combined VoIP with digital voter files to automate the connection between identification calls and data entry.

Some Republican state lawmakers, upset by a federal judge's ruling against the state's voter identification law, are vowing to introduce new legislation.

The eight specific issues under the purview of the Commission include organizational and operational planning within INEC; Transparency and making information of public interest available and accessible; Biometric identification of voters; Voter education, Voter Register and the enrolment of new registrants; and the issue of exclusion of aspirants by political parties on the basis of wealth.

Thankfully, unlike 33 other states, New York does not have restrictive voter identification laws which do nothing more than throw up a roadblock to voters.

A New York Post story this week referred to a «firestorm» that Murphy has set off by proposing legislation that would require New York voters to show identification at polling locations on Election Day.

If courts find that the disenfranchising effects of stricter voter - identification requirements outweigh the limited benefits of eliminating vouching, then they may be unable to uphold the new rules under the Charter.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper even hinted at new voter - identification requirements during a photo - op with Opitz hours after the Supreme Court handed down its decision.

Still, it may only be a matter of time before another voter — like Rose Henry, who made the Charter application that the British Columbia Court of Appeal rejected that week — challenges the legislation's new, stricter voter - identification requirements in court.