Sentences with phrase «of the eligible voters in»

«A full 70 per cent of eligible voters in this age group cast their ballots in the 2004 election... Zoomers own the ballot box.»

Many of those officials were not elected by the majority of the eligible voters in their districts.

Senate Democrats conducted a survey of eligible voters in New York on their voting patterns.

According to the National Institute for Latino Policy, 46 percent of eligible voters in the 13th Congressional District are Latino, 34 percent are black, 17 percent are white and 3 percent are Asian.

McDonald, instead, uses the total population of eligible voters in each state drawn from administrative records.

In Connecticut's statewide Republican primary last week, just 20 percent of eligible voters in Connecticut showed up at the polls.

The data analytics machine that presidential candidate Hillary Clinton used in her 2016 campaign — named Ada after the 19th - century mathematician and early computing pioneer — used state - of - the - art segmentation techniques to target groups of eligible voters in the same way that Barack Obama had done four years previously.

Not exact matches

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.

The Quinnipiac voters» poll finds that the majority of eligible voters are pro pot for medical purposes and in general.

That's an improvement from a historic low in the last provincial election in 2011, when 48.2 per cent of eligible voters went to the polls.

The 2008 election saw the lowest voter turnout in Alberta's history, with only 41 percent of eligible voters casting a ballot (CBC.ca, 2008).

Although many outside the US are drawing conclusions about Americans based on our presidential candidates, they might be surprised to learn that only 14 per cent of eligible voters chose either Clinton or Trump during the primary elections, (where both parties vote to nominate a candidate to represent them in the general election) and less than 30 per cent of eligible Americans voted at all.

The public seems to sense that, because in the 1974 elections only 38 per cent of eligible voters bothered to go to the polls and only 14 per cent were able to name the two candidates running for Congress in their district.

Even in a presidential year, only about fifty to sixty percent of eligible voters vote.

It would be interesting to know what percentage of eligible voters vote in North Dakota as compared with the states in which registration is required.

London and other metropolitan areas have seen a decline in voter registration, and the report suggested 3.5 million eligible voters were not registered at the time of the 2001 Census.

In the 2000 Florida election, at least 1,100 eligible voters were wrongly dropped from voting rolls in an attempt to purge a list of feloIn the 2000 Florida election, at least 1,100 eligible voters were wrongly dropped from voting rolls in an attempt to purge a list of feloin an attempt to purge a list of felons

The voter register is the most important tool for making election outcomes credible, it is like a credible and reliable scientific research which relies on the «sample frame»; it is the touchstone that gives assurance to the fact that the ballot, as expressed in an election, arose from the physical presence of eligible voters at the polling unit who delegated part of their sovereignty temporarily to elected officials.

Ineligible voters (including convicted felons) are included in these measures but the figures also indicate there is plenty of potential to engage new, eligible voters.

This is not true, given that huge numbers of eligible voters don't have strong opinions on issues and that even people with reasonably well formed views may not flip their vote (even in competitive primaries) based on those views.

For the sake of our democracy, we have an obligation to ensure that all eligible voters can freely and fairly participate in elections.

The parties also have a long - term interest in engaging the voters who are entering the electorate: we may live in an ageing society, but many of the voters who are eligible for the first time in 2015 will be around to vote in the next twelve or fifteen general elections.

Kavanagh joined City Councilmember Rory Lancman, Congressmember Hakeem Jeffries, Jarret Berg of the New York Democratic Lawyers Council, and other public officials and organizations concerned about voting rights, to call upon New Yorkers, especially attorneys, to help ensure that all eligible voters can cast their ballots without the kind of intimidation and voter suppression activities that Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has been inciting in recent days.

McDonald used voting - eligible population (VEP), or the number of eligible voters independent of their current registration status, to calculate turnout rates in each state on November 4.

Political scientist Michael McDonald's United States Elections Project studied voter turnout in the 2014 election by looking at the percentage of eligible voters who headed to the polls.

The state Republican Party has inserted itself into another party's contest on behalf of Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino, sending out mailers urging eligible voters to support him in the Reform Party Sept. 12 primary.

Since the middle class comprise the majority of eligible voters, the Democratic Party has been targeting them in its message, while continuing to preserve and enhance the programs that target the poor.

Only nine percent of eligible voters participated in the high - profile 2013 Democratic primary for Nassau County executive, when former County Executive Thomas Suozzi was seeking to reclaim his old job.

In 2004, as an accession country, Slovakia recorded the lowest turnout in the history of the European elections (just 17 % of eligible votersIn 2004, as an accession country, Slovakia recorded the lowest turnout in the history of the European elections (just 17 % of eligible votersin the history of the European elections (just 17 % of eligible voters).

In this case, the courts found that 40 % of eligible voters had been refused the ability to vote in a county electioIn this case, the courts found that 40 % of eligible voters had been refused the ability to vote in a county electioin a county election.

Organisations like the Electoral Reform Society have serious concerns about the move, which they say is being rushed and could result in a sudden drop in the number of eligible voters.

When a poll worker couldn't find Democratic mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner's signature alongside his name in the book of eligible voters, they tried to give him an affidavit ballot, his campaign said.

According to 24/7 Wall St., an average of only 59.2 % of eligible New York voters voted in the presidential elections from 2000 through 2012.

In 2014, the state ranked 49th of 50 in the country, with just 29 percent of eligible voters casting their ballots in the general electioIn 2014, the state ranked 49th of 50 in the country, with just 29 percent of eligible voters casting their ballots in the general electioin the country, with just 29 percent of eligible voters casting their ballots in the general electioin the general election.

Still, voters do approve of at least one of Cuomo's proposals: 62 percent support Cuomo's proposal to make teachers eligible for tenure in five years, rather than three years as it is now.

In 2016, the Supreme Court asserted that legislative districts should be drawn to include all people living within them, regardless of citizenship status, rather than based solely on the eligible voter population.

Section 7 of Article 2 of the Washington State Constitution states, «No person shall be eligible to the legislature who shall not be a citizen of the United States and a qualified voter in the district for which he is chosen.»

About a third of the roughly 51,000 eligible voters participated in the election, which was conducted by mail - in ballot.

Of the 12,729 eligible voters in Saugerties, 5,530 cast votes; 510 absentee ballots were issued in Saugerties; so far, 332 have been received by the Ulster County Board of Elections, making definitive results of the Districts 1 and 2 races, along with the status of Schoonmaker's 42 - vote lead on Republican Donald Tucker, unknown until the ballots are counted on November 1Of the 12,729 eligible voters in Saugerties, 5,530 cast votes; 510 absentee ballots were issued in Saugerties; so far, 332 have been received by the Ulster County Board of Elections, making definitive results of the Districts 1 and 2 races, along with the status of Schoonmaker's 42 - vote lead on Republican Donald Tucker, unknown until the ballots are counted on November 1of Elections, making definitive results of the Districts 1 and 2 races, along with the status of Schoonmaker's 42 - vote lead on Republican Donald Tucker, unknown until the ballots are counted on November 1of the Districts 1 and 2 races, along with the status of Schoonmaker's 42 - vote lead on Republican Donald Tucker, unknown until the ballots are counted on November 1of Schoonmaker's 42 - vote lead on Republican Donald Tucker, unknown until the ballots are counted on November 15.

Singas defeated her opponent in a September primary in which only 3 percent of eligible voters participated.

And nobody else did, even though upwards of 33,000 independent voters were eligible to write in a name.

According to the city Board of Elections, Trump received two out of the five write - in votes cast among eligible voters.

In this case, it's the holding of a closed - party primary in which only a handful of voters were eligible to participatIn this case, it's the holding of a closed - party primary in which only a handful of voters were eligible to participatin which only a handful of voters were eligible to participate.

Slightly over half of eligible Labor Party primary voters cast ballots in the party's leadership primaries by the time polls closed at 10 p.m. Thursday, already leading to worries in Yachimovich's camp that the low turnout could unseat her.

He also asked the court to make an order restraining Kanu and all members of IPOB from interfering, intimidating and harassing all registered and eligible voters in the Nov. 18 Anambra election.

New York has struggled to promote voter registration — with less than 64 percent of eligible residents registered, it ranks 47th in the nation.

«The electorate is clearly disenchanted with our antiquated system of elections administration, with only 11 % of eligible voters turning out to vote in New York City.

The Board of Elections would be required to send all eligible voters in the five boroughs a «voter history» card that will tell people how many elections they've missed in the past four years under a new bill being considered in the NYC Council.

The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously endorsed election maps that bolster the growing political influence of America's Latinos, ruling that states can count everyone, not just eligible voters, in drawing voting districts.

That is, if only half of eligible voters vote in a cycle, those 50 % in effect exert the power ceded by the absent 50 % as well.