Sentences with phrase «of early voting as»

Critics of the state's election system point to restrictions on party enrollment and the lack of early voting as some causes of New York's chronically low voter turnout.

It's a special election, though, and very few people had taken advantage of early voting as of this weekend, meaning that a candidate able to pull a core group of supporters to the polls has chance.

Not exact matches

Talk of rate hikes are in the air Wednesday after minutes from the Bank of England's last meeting showed two out of nine board members voted for a rate hike as early as this month, the first time in three years that policymakers have done so.

Earlier this week, Georgia Representative Hank Johnson introduced two bills that he believes will help improve voting security a few years down the road: the Election Infrastructure and Security Promotion Act, which, if passed, would classify voting systems as critical infrastructure to be protected by the Department of Homeland Security; and the Election Integrity Act, which will map out a planned response for voting system failures and control the types of voting machines states are allowed to buy.

Indeed, those stocks had been on a tear earlier this year, with Facebook shares up as much as 25 % a couple of weeks before the election — but then the FANG stocks suddenly «rolled over,» Gundlach said, falling 10 % as a group as the vote approached and the presidential race got narrower.

With three - quarters of the vote counted, as of 9:00 a.m. local time, the early results showed that no one party or bloc would have a majority of votes enabling it to govern alone.

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.

[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.

If a majority of the Commission votes to move a proposed rule forward, it could appear on the SEC's website as early as April 18.

Additionally, Rafael Bostic will assume leadership of the Atlanta Fed in early June and sit on the FOMC next year while the Richmond Fed is continuing its search for Jeffrey Lacker's successor, who will have a vote in 2018 as well.

It's entirely possible that the House of Representatives could vote today, the Senate Tomorrow, and the President could sign the bill as early as Wednesday.

Pop superstar Jennifer Lopez was joined by Hillary Clinton at a free concert in Miami Saturday night, where the Democratic presidential candidate urged supporters to head to the polls for early voting as her campaign was rocked by a renewed FBI probe of her emails the previous day.

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.

Earlier this week, the Southern Baptist Convention — which is the largest Protestant denomination in the world — voted to «call [their] brothers and sisters in Christ to discontinue the display of the Confederate battle flag as a sign of solidarity of the whole Body of Christ.»

Though its electoral successes were widespread at the local and state level the success of the early Socialist Party as a movement with mass was very much linked to the personality of Eugene V. Debs who polled nearly a million votes in the presidential campaign of 1912.

I love that study, it shows how the manuscripts of the OT were put together into what we now have as the OT by the scribe Ezra, and also shows the science of manuscripts, and how the NT that we now have was circulated whole as early as 100AD, and that no council ever voted on what was to be «in» the Bible, because the books of the Bible were dictated by the apostles themselves.

Although we are early into the new year, it seems as those the readers of the magazine are carrying that assessment in their voting records.

When the measure, known as Proposition 42, was approved on a second ballot (after having been voted down only a day earlier), it touched off a fire storm of criticism, mostly from coaches who stand to lose the services of youngsters whose academic prowess has not kept pace with their athletic skills.

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

The Potters gave Hughes a vote of confidence weeks ago, and as we revealed earlier this week — they have already been casting their eye over potential successors.

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.

Sources on the Internet are reporting that the House of Representatives may vote on the Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act of 2010 this week and possibly as early as today.

[3] I categorised each MP based on numerous sources such as their Parliamentary voting record, signing of Early Day Motions, memberships of groups such as Better Off Out or the pro-EU European Mainstream, and speeches.

Staten Island DA Dan Donovan paid a visit to the Capitol earlier today, and not only refused to discuss a gubernatorial endorsement, but also declined to reveal who he would vote for in November for fear of having that misinterpreted as an endorsement.

@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 early as 2005, an unofficial independence referendum was held in Iraqi Kurdistan and 99 % of about 2 million votes supported a sovereign Iraqi KurdistaAs early as 2005, an unofficial independence referendum was held in Iraqi Kurdistan and 99 % of about 2 million votes supported a sovereign Iraqi Kurdistaas 2005, an unofficial independence referendum was held in Iraqi Kurdistan and 99 % of about 2 million votes supported a sovereign Iraqi Kurdistan.

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.

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.

Klein's comments were a rebuke of the mainline Senate Democrats» earlier in the day referring to the eight - member IDC as «the rogue Democrats» while also challenging them to vote for «resistance» amendments — measures designed to bolster liberal policies in the wake of Donald Trump's presidential election.

Rep. John Katko says he won't support the new Republican proposal to repeal Obamacare that could head to a vote in the House of Representatives as early as Friday.

«I remember going into Tamale 2014 to elect National Officers, Chairman Wontumi called us in the early hours to not vote for Kwabena Agyepong and Paul Afoko as they're not in the good books of then candidate Nana Akufo - Addo.

Many of the measures were listed on Cuomo's 2018 State of the State agenda, including closing a loophole in election law that allows for unlimited political donations through a network of limited liabilities companies, as well as early voting.

No surprise, as the Club's District Leader, Jacob Gold, had earlier become the first Brooklyn member of the Democratic State Committee to pledge his vote at the party convention to Cynthia Nixon.

Theresa May is expected to approve the creation of about 10 Conservative peers and at least one for the Democratic Unionist party, perhaps as early as Friday, in an attempt to improve her position in the House of Lords, which has voted 15 times against her government over Brexit.

Over the weekend and in an address on Monday, Cuomo had announced that election reforms such as early voting and automatic registration, which he proposed last year, would be part of his agenda again in 2017.

The WFP vote was, as one attendee muttered on her way into the downtown Albany hotel earlier in the day, «kind of a foregone conclusion» after Cuomo on Friday evening announced he would no longer seek the party's backing.

The group, NYCLASS, «feels very good» about the chances of a new measure being unveiled as early as January, as pressure has been mounting for a compromise after Mayor de Blasio and City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito failed to corral enough votes for an outright ban or other reforms.

If, I as suggested earlier on this thread, they get 39 % of the popular vote it is quite possible that Tory + UKIP+BNP in England will top 50 %.

(ref earlier, I know AV isn't technically PR, but didn't want to use the phrase «electoral reform» as I'm in favour of early voting, mobile voting etc and not everyone might understand electoral reform in the narrow technical sense)

If the result is tight, or if the popular vote gives a different winner to the tally of seats, as much will depend on fixing a narrative in the early stages as straightforward math.

The EU referendum could be held as early as June so clarity is needed about what will happen in the event of a vote to leave.

Reps. Carolyn Maloney and Jerry Nadler announced this afternoon that the House leadership has agreed to have a straight - up vote on the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act when members return from their August break — perhaps as early as the week of September 20.

Had it not been for the «yes» votes of at least one of the IDC members — Sens. Diane Savino, Dave Valesky, Dave Carlucci and Jeff Klein — the measure would not have had sufficient support to pass, as Sen. George Maziarz is still at Albany Med after he fell and hit his head earlier today.

The bill in the City Council, which could come up for a vote as early as Thursday, would only allow Uber and similar cab - apps like Lyft to bring 201 new cars onto the road in the next year — a steep drop - off from Uber's planned addition of 10,000 new vehicles.

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.

Chris Grayling, one of the six cabinet members who favour Brexit, had earlier dismissed a 28 - page Cabinet Office report warning of what Cameron called a «decade of uncertainty» if Britain votes to leave, as «completely ludicrous».

It is because I object to the new - fangled idea that an early election would result from a motion, perhaps proposed by the Opposition, any MP or even the Government themselves, that requires — this is contrary to all constitutional precedent and history since our Parliament first sat representing the electors of this country — the support of two - thirds or more of those eligible to vote as Members of Parliament.

(As of early Wednesday morning night, unofficial returns put State Senator Adriano Espaillat ahead by about 1,000 votes.)

After receiving 58.5 percent of the vote in Tuesday's election, Braunstein will replace fellow Democratic Ann - Margaret Carrozza as the assemblyman, based on unofficial results with all precincts reporting early Wednesday morning, NY1 said.

The 26 board members of the New Visions Democratic Club — which Peralta has been a member of since it began in 2002 — voted unanimously to kick him out as long as he remains a member of the Independent Democratic Conference, which he joined earlier this month.