Sentences with phrase «of the eligible voters who»

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.
I would say half of the eligible voters who usually do not vote because they're young.

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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.
Surely there must be some kind of formal definition of where the boundary lies, so that voters know who they are eligible to vote for and where to find their polling place.
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.
He therefore implored all Nigerians to see the value of this national asset and work with the Commission to continue to improve it saying, «we can continue to work together with stakeholders and indeed all citizens to ensure that all ineligible registrants and entries are removed from the register and that eligible voters who have not registered take advantage of the ongoing CVR.»
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.»
«A smart leader is the one who surrounds himself with smarter people to advise him or her so once you make that determination, that someone is eligible to stand and the voters allow that to happen, I'm sure the other aspects of maturity to rule will be secondary.»
Out of the 31,395 active voters who reside in our District and are eligible to vote, 23,541 felt it was important to voice their opinion about who would become the next President of the United States.
The Board of Elections will provide two separate ballots for voters who are eligible to vote in both the presidential primary and the Assembly special election.
In addition to securing the support of Delegates to the June 2nd Convention, in order to appear as Greens on the Georgia ballot, these partisan candidates are also required to file petitions with signatures representing 5 % of the number of voters who are registered and eligible to vote in November's General Election.
Less noticed, most of those leaving are voters or vote - eligible, while those who are arriving are non-citizens.
There are roughly 2 million eligible voters in New York State who are unregistered, he said, 1 million of whom live in New York City alone.
No one understands the transformative power of data analysis better than Democratic consultant Ken Strasma, who helped propel Barack Obama into office by devising a mathematical model that predicts the political behavior of nearly every eligible voter.
This is a smart film that arrives in theaters just about the time that the Electoral College will vote a disastrous choice by mandate of «the people,» putting in office a man that received only 27 % of the votes of those who were eligible to cast ballots and who will take his place in the White House because forty - three percent of registered voters stayed home on Election Day (or went to a bar, or pool hall or whatever.)
Last month, Youth Connection Charter School (YCCS) created an education campaign to make the political system relevant to young people, educate and involve YCCS students who are eligible voters, and discuss their concerns and ideas relative to the main issues in the election that impact all facets of their lives, including violence, employment, affordable education, -LSB-...]
The mission of the Washoe County Registrar of Voters Department is to ensure that each citizen of Washoe county who is eligible to register and vote is able to do so; that Washoe County's Elections are operated with the utmost integrity, transparency, and accountability; and that the department is know for excellence in customer service and the administration of elections.
The bill would presumptively consider all registered voters and all persons 18 years of age or older who hold a valid driver's license or photo ID as «residents» eligible for a dividend.
Democrats have also increasingly come to depend upon young people, women, and minorities, who make up a growing proportion of eligible voters.
To be eligible for the office of Justice, a person must be a registered voter who resides in Florida and must have been admitted to the practice of law in Florida for the preceding 10 years.
Working with a bipartisan team of national research firms — Public Opinion Strategies and the Mellman Group — Pew surveyed policymakers, voters, home visitors, and mothers who were eligible for or had participated in home visiting.
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