Sentences with phrase «of voter education»

Changing the system would also mean a fresh round of voter education about the new way of voting, costing a further # 26million.

The opposition political parties had earlier in Kaduna on Thursday boycotted the SIECOM's sensitization of voter education programme.

In his goodwill remark, the Senior Capacity Building Manager of IFES, Seray Jah, applauded the efforts of INEC at enhancing the knowledge of its voter education staff and extending it to the grassroots level.

Declaring the workshop open, Chairman of the Commission, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, represented by National Commissioner, Prince Solomon Adedeji Soyebi, said, «for any meaningful thing to be achieved in terms of voter education, it has to get down to the grassroots».

In his welcome address, the Head of Department, Voter Education and Publicity (VEP), Barrister Jacob Ayanda emphasized the need for the participants to take the training seriously as the new policy implies a profound diffusion of voter education to the grassroots as part of preparations towards the 2019 general elections.

The workshop is intended to improve the participants» capacity to replicate the training at the Commission's Local Government area offices for an improved overall dissemination of voter education to voters ahead of the 2019 general elections.

The Chairman explained how the additional budgetary provision would be expended to include salaries and Social Insurance contributions, recurrent expenses such as utilities, maintenance and others for 867 offices and residencies nationwide, including staff welfare, provision of core electoral expenses like the conduct of voter education, legal services and for renovation of office and residential buildings.

Professor Yakubu observed that the workshop was necessary to ensure the effective use of voter education to build greater confidence in the electoral process and ensure enlightened participation by the citizenry.

For that reason, he noted, the Commission places a high premium on them as the vanguard of voter education at the local government level.

He will also discuss the review of voter education messages as part of preparations towards the 2019 general elections.

Besides, the Plan also intends to develop a tactile ballot guide; accredit observers with disabilities, collate gender disaggregated data for PWDs and develop targeted messages, materials suitable for education methodology to reach PWDs; work closely with groups and organizations that work with PWDs to maximize impact of voter education campaigns and produce educational materials in braille and large font.

What is lacking in our electoral system is a strict adherence to global best practice in terms of voter education, sanctity of the ballot, a seamless collation of votes and a fast judicial process for those seeking redress.

Arguments against the implementation of these type of schemes normally revolve around the perceived complexity of the scheme and thus the additional cost of voter education and of counting and auditing the final vote.

In a press statement made available to news men in Benin City Thursday, the National Commissioner in charge of voters Education and Publicity, Mr. Soyebi Solomon said the decision to postpone the election was reached at a security meeting held with security agencies.

This was disclosed by Deputy Director of the commission in charge of Voters Education, Mr. Nick Dazang.

Not exact matches

Most voters don't expect to receive protection from the military for free, or demand that others to pay for the Department of Education, Medicare transfers to the states, and all other federally - funded programs.

The decision responded to two appeals brought by Walter Pierce, the governor of Oregon, about the Oregon Compulsory Education Act of 1922, a voter - passed initiative....

Top priority of the campaign is to call on elected officials to create legislation that supports economic justice, anti-racism and anti-white supremacy policies, women's rights, the ending of voter suppression, immigrant rights, LGBTQ rights, as well as affordable quality housing, healthcare and education.

In September the USCC put out «voter education» material listing the responses of Clinton and Dole to a wide range of questions on subjects as various as abortion, environment, land mines, foreign aid, and labor relations.

Join that with a terrible lapse in education quality, and with the segment of our population who actively sneer at education and you have a flock of voters waiting to be told how to vote by whoever tells them what they want to hear.

With every election cycle, the number of voters who grew up and went to school before there were national standards for public science education is decreasing.

When voters in Florida were approving a lottery, a survey found that the majority believed the lottery was going to pay the major portion of the state budget for education.

### College Education When voters without a college degree, with a four - year degree and with a post-grad degree were asked how many of their five closest friends had a four - year degree, the differences were stark.

Voters in Mt. Prospect - based River Trails Elementary District 26 approved a 50 - cent increase in the education fund rate, to $ 2.60 per $ 100, while their counterparts in Huntley Consolidated School District 158 agreed the district should sell $ 18 million in bonds to fund the construction of two new schools.

Streamlined sales pitches, voter confidence in the economy and the possibility of getting extra state money for voter - approved school construction projects all played a part, said Joe Kaczanowski, deputy superintendent in the Suburban Cook County Regional Office of Education.

@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).

«It's clearly an example of when you talk to voters about issues they care about, you cross party lines on issues like education and funding,» Pellegrino said.

Why not treat the Obamagirls and the 1984 ads as what they are — the creations of individual voters, thrown out for our education and enjoyment, and not necessarily indications of some general trend in the zeitgeist.

Voters being screened at Aguleri, during the Governorship Election on Saturday INEC Director of Publicity and Voter Education, Mr Oluwole Osaze - Uzzi disclosed this in a telephone interview on Saturday in Abuja.

The Reform Party was created by Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino's allies during the 2014 election year as a ballot line aimed at capturing voters who disapproved of the Common Core educations standards.

Mr. Dzakpasu explained that the perception emanates from the low education of voters about the commission and electoral processes.

The 2004 election cycle saw a dramatic rise in the number and size of nonprofit organizations that bought TV ads, organized voter turnout drives and conducted political «education» campaigns that were effectively working on behalf of (or against) one candidate or party, and because they used «soft money» in the process, their donors weren't limited in how much they could give and didn't fall under the strict disclosure rules required when trying to influence an election.

«And that, ultimately, even if a board of education may think this would serve the community well, it's still in the hands of the voters that elected that board to ultimately say yes or no, we think this is how you can best represent us.»

But that same poll found that Buffalo voters are an unhappy lot over the state of the city, with voters giving him poor grades for his handling of education and employment issues.

Liberal activists who have been critical of Cuomo on education and other issues think an insurgent with greater name recognition could provide a stronger challenge, even though polls say Cuomo is still popular among Democratic voters statewide.

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Instead, it is the Tories most voters are prepared to credit for the changes in the economy and the education system (regardless of whether they feel it is good or bad)-- 64 % of voters (and 63 % of Tory supporters) credit the Tories in government with responsibility for changes in education, and 73 % of voters (and 90 % of Tory voters) credit them for changes in the economy.

Similarly, 20 % of voters credit the Lib Dems with the changes in the education system, and even only 27 % of Lib Dem supporters agree.

Pollsters telephoned voters Jan. 12 - 16, days after Cuomo sketched out an election - year agenda that included tax relief and higher education spending in his annual State of the State address.

The League of Conservation Voters Education Fund (LCVEF) works with our state LCVEF partners, educates the public, media and elected officials about key environmental issues, works to increase voter participation in the democratic process and mobilizes a diverse network of activists to advocate for sound environmental policies.

The New York Academy of Sciences Environmental Sciences Section and Green Science and Sustainability Program, the Sallan Foundation and the New York League of Conservation Voters Education Fund will host an address by a senior member of Governor Spitzer's team about his strategic approach to the environmental, energy and climate challenges facing New York.

Young voters prioritise jobs as the number one issue which affects them personally, chosen by 45 per cent, ahead of education and training (37 per cent) and the state of the economy (36 per cent).

The Greens are currently claiming on ITV that the collapse in Lib Dem support and switch to them reflects the toxicity of their association with the Conservative Party: #BESFactCheck suggests that it is more likely reflect the fact that voters do not credit the Liberal Democrats with any of the major successes or the failures of the coalition government: fewer than one in five voters believe that the Lib Dems in government have been responsible for the upturn in the economy, changes in the NHS, changes in levels of crime, changes in levels of immigration and changes in the standards of education.

At 8:30 a.m., the New York League of Conservation Voters Education Fund hosts the third installment of their Getting New York City to 80 × 50 Policy Forum Series, with panels focusing on the waste sector, New York University Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, 295 Lafayette St., second floor, Manhattan.

Also at 8:30 a.m., the New York League of Conservation Voters Education Fund hosts the final installment of its Getting NYC to 80 × 50 policy forum series, New York University Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, second floor, 295 Lafayette St., Manhattan.

Action that would give all voters, regardless of their education, income, ethnicity or background the exact same chance to inform themselves about the most important vote the UK has seen for 40 years.

Further complicating Cuomo's task, 52 percent of voters want Cuomo to balance the budget without cuts to health care and education — the two biggest spending areas, which the governor - elect has been quite clear will likely suffer next year.

Our areas of work have included health care, education, after - school programs, voter participation, economic development and consumer issues.

«Only 21 percent of voters say that the Common Core standards have improved public education in New York.

Two new Quinnipiac University polls show that New York voters trust the teachers» unions more than Governor Andrew Cuomo to improve education in the state, and two thirds of New York State voters say the Common Core aligned standardized tests are not an accurate way to measure how well students are learning.