Sentences with phrase «of early voters»

A line of early voters waits outside the Franklin County Board of Elections, Monday, Nov. 7, 2016, in Columbus, Ohio.

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As of November 7, more Republican - affiliated Pennsylvania voters had cast early ballots than Democratic voters, according to TargetSmart voter file data obtained by the NBC News Data Analytics Lab.

In one case, ICE officers were said to be «following a lead» and that they «received information» on the specific room number of a suspect who hours earlier had shown the front - desk clerk a Mexican voter ID card.

Early returns suggest a significant majority of voters in the State of Washington have approved an initiative to privatize the state's remaining government liquor stores.

At a private event in New York earlier this year, Jess McIntosh, former vice president of communications for Emily's List, discussed the group's desire to reach new millennial voters and members who consume news and form their political views outside of traditional media.

WASHINGTON — The political action committee founded by John R. Bolton, President Trump's incoming national security adviser, was one of the earliest customers of Cambridge Analytica, which it hired specifically to develop psychological profiles of voters with data harvested from tens of millions of Facebook profiles, according to former Cambridge employees and company documents.

As early as 1979, the Globe and Mail identified Kinsella, then 38 years old, as a key insider who felt «he best understands the mind of the Ontario voter.»

As part of an aggressive new voter - targeting operation, Cambridge Analytica — financially supported by reclusive hedge fund magnate and leading Republican donor Robert Mercer — is now using so - called «psychographic profiles» of US citizens in order to help win Cruz votes, despite earlier concerns and red flags from potential survey - takers.

Earlier this week, a whistleblower claimed that Cambridge Analytica, a London - headquartered political consultancy and data analytics firm, had used data collected from millions of Facebook profiles to gain an understanding of American voter behaviour.

LONDON — Conservative strategist Stephen K. Bannon oversaw Cambridge Analytica's early efforts to collect troves of Facebook data as part of an ambitious program to build detailed profiles of millions of American voters, a former employee of the data - science firm said Tuesday.

The Trump campaign had rejected early overtures to hire Cambridge Analytica, and Trump himself said in May 2016 that he «always felt» that the use of voter data was «overrated.»

The Strategic Counsel poll referenced earlier, for example, found that 15 percent of voters ranked the environment as the most important issue, up from three percent in the last election.

In early 2017, global investors were rightly concerned about the potential for a populist backlash by voters in France and how it might affect Europe and the rest of the international economy.

Meanwhile, with an election expected in early 2012 (regardless of fixed election months), Elections Alberta is warning that at least 300,000 Albertans are still missing from the official voters list.

In the first such event of a year crowded with European elections, the Netherlands prepared to go to the polls in mid-March, potentially providing an early reading of political sentiment among European voters following several populist upsets in 2016.

The adjustments faced by the United Kingdom after its voters» decision to leave the EU were brought into sharp relief by the weakness of the British pound, which fell following the UK government's announcement it would seek to start negotiations with the EU about the terms of the UK's departure early in 2017.

Over two days of testimony before Congress earlier this month, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg dodged a litany of questions from lawmakers about how the data of 87 million Americans ended up in the hands of voter profiling firm Cambridge Analytica.

But in the early primary state of South Carolina, with voters scheduled to go to the polls on Saturday and candidates working the state furiously this week, local evangelical pastors are using their influence to rally church members towards salvation, not electioneering.

The first is Bill Freehan, an eleven - time All - Star catcher for the Detroit Tigers who deserves a good look by the committee responsible for correcting the mistakes made by earlier Hall of Fame voters.

According to a Pew Research Study from earlier this month, only 16 percent of evangelical voters said they would vote for her.

Lindsay says that the motherhood angle could be refreshing to evangelical voters, who constitute a majority of the Republican electorate in early states like Iowa and South Carolina.

A lot of these candidates in the earlier campaign season had their religious ideas exposed to the voters, causing viewers to at least be aware of religion, and how if affects elections.

Contrary to conventional wisdom, I find that (1) it is better to lose later in the season than earlier, (2) AP voters do not pay attention to the strength of a defeated opponent, and (3) the benefit of winning by a large margin is negligible.

Teams may not like where they are ranked and want to catch the eyes of voters by blowing out opponents in the early tournaments.

You said, referring to the earlier votes, that, «The Cary district put two referendum questions to the voters in November — an $ 8.1 million bond issue to buy 80 acres of land and build a swim center and ballfields, and a tax - rate increase to operate the facilities.»

or never got to vote because there were too few early voting places, or too few voting places to process the volume of election day voters.

Fight Back PAC, the political action committee formed with the sole purpose of ousting senators who voted «no» on gay marriage last December and replacing them with «yes» voters, sent out an early - morning e-mail with the subject line: «8 Months + $ 800,000 = 3 New Votes for Marriage Equality!»

As you might recall, Crowley was less than forthcoming earlier this week when asked by reporters about Lancman's claim the party is trying to siphon Jewish voters away from him by running Gottlieb — a late add to the NY - 6 field who has well - documented (thanks to Chris Bragg) ties to Meng and also (oddly) certain elements of the Queens GOP.

Redistricting in the early 1990s was bad enough, with certain Democratic urban legislators teaming up with suburban Republicans to sketch sprawling monsters linking scattered pockets of (presumably) like - minded voters, in the process often creating a slew of safe Republican districts enveloping a handful of others packed to the gills with minority and other reliably Democratic voters.

Condi was supported by others earlier as being a shock and awe VP choice.It won't happen.She has expressed no interest in being a public candidate, and likely would be very bad at it.In many ways, she is a delicate flower; and would not easily survive in the political garden of vipers.And what would she add to the GOP ticket?A slight tick up for black voters?

While the early days of Cameron's leadership were all about reaching out to new groups and voters beyond the traditional Tory core, since taking power his agenda has been very much in line with that of Conservative leaders and governments since 1979, being characterised by cuts to social expenditure and the privatisation of public services.

@user4012 about 2), the final election day is just the end of a lengthy electoral process; if voters are better educated and use that education all through the process a demagogue should be stopped earlier in the process (so, for a party supporter it would not be end as [My demagogue] vs [candidate from other party], because [My demagogue] would have been voted out in the primaries; in these primaries such a voter would have the option to vote for other candidates more ideologically acceptable).

«As an early supporter of the Working Families Party and a member of the New York State Senate's Independent Democratic Conference, I have always believed that voters should have choice,» Savino said in a statement released by her campaign committee this afternoon.

The main goal of the Democratic party's field organizing is to get their supporters off their butts and to the polls, either on Election Day or (even better) beforehand — absentee ballots are field - organizing gold, since every early ballot in the bank represents a voter who WO N'T need to be hassled in person or over the phone before November 4th.

Sen. Neil Breslin, who, as I mentioned earlier today, is facing an active primary challenger in Luke Martland, has been striving to put some distance between himself and the dysfunction of his Democratic conference at a time when voter disgust with Albany — and incumbents in general — is running very high.

Expect furious spates of last - minute campaigning from all the candidates, who are trying desperately to let voters know about the court - ordered, earlier - than - usual elections.

«The League of Women Voters, Common Cause, NYPIRG and a host of other concerned organizations have repeatedly called upon the Senate Republicans to join us in our call for a unified, early primary election date.

We looked earlier at C&E Magazine's coverage of a Facebook API change that gets rid of a popular way to connect Facebook to a voter file, but that wasn't the only juicy story in this issue's Technology Bytes column.

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.

While it's too early to determine how solid Spitzer's lead is — it is still unclear if he will have enough petition signatures to gain ballot access — 67 percent of voters in the poll believe the former governor should be given a second chance after resigning amid a prostitution scandal in March 2008.

Brinson is the keeper of a massive e-mail list of much - coveted Christian voters that Huckabee is using to reach and organize people in early - voting states such as Iowa.

The party raised concerns over the inclusion of Dr Nii Narku Quaynor, a renowned computer scientist, Chairman of the National Information Technology Agency (NITA) Board of Directors, who's a known member of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) and His Lordship Justice VCRAC Crabbe, a former Justice of the Supreme Court who had earlier publicly stated that there was no need for a new voters register to be compiled.

For all of those voters who already cast ballots through absentee or early voting, the new candidate will get all their votes.

When BritainThinks asked swing voters in Watford their expectations for 2018 in focus groups earlier this year, they painted an almost universally gloomy picture of uncertainty, anxiety and division — in fact, it feels like the only thing we have to be proud of as a nation is the Royal Family.

According to Ipsos Mori, which has been asking voters the same question at every general election since the early 1980s, 2010 was the first year when as many people said they were voting on the character of the leader as much as they were on his party's policies.

In dozens of conversations with swing voters, there's no evidence of real animosity — unlike in the early 2000s.

Some voters in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens reported waiting hours to cast their ballots, with officials reporting broken scanner machines, confusion at some polling sites and early reports of high turnout.

First, the pessimistic one outlined by Marshall Ganz in the early 1990s, suggesting that ever more precise targeting of voters will narrow the electorate by leading campaigns to focus their efforts on fewer and fewer people leaving others outside the process.

The Mayor's reform package included proposed legislation to allow same - day voter registration, pre-registration of 16 - and 17 - year - olds, and early voting, and to require ballots to be designed in a more voter - friendly way.

Democratic lawmakers, along with the League of Women Voters, rallied outside the Senate chambers Tuesday for bills that would allow same - day voting and early voting by mail in New York state.