Sentences with phrase «of voting booths»

Legal Issues Related to the Elections If you're more interested in election law than how the candidates would apply the law, check out these two posts: Discussion of how the outcome of voter registration lawsuits, now ongoing, may change the outcome of the election, from The Indiana Law Blog, and an analysis of laws addressing campaign activity within the vicinity of voting booths, from Timothy Zwick at Concurring Opinions.

Standing at the half court line with 20 other voters who had shown up just before 8 a.m., Deacon filled out her ballot in a couple of minutes at one of the voting booths.

1) Starting from the assumptions that a high participation rate is a good thing, why don't they increase the number of voting booths in the US to increase the participation rate?

But in the privacy of the voting booth, those same voters pulled the lever for his opponent.

In the privacy of the voting booth, most just couldn't cross the abortion line.

highplainsperson, please do stay out of the voting booth.

In November every republican will get the chance to do the same thing the delegates in Florida will do in the privacy of the voting booth.

You're saying that the location of the voting booth has no effect on outcome.

Populist Democrats could blow those grey hared old Republican Senators right out of the voting booth.

Quinn's devastating loss stands as proof that in the privacy of the voting booth we are even less post-chauvinist than we are post-racial in our preferences.»

The primary ballots are all printed on a single sheet of paper, and the voter decides in the privacy of the voting booth which primary he or she will participate in.

Not exact matches

It is only when we show the collective strength of our voices, in the streets and at the voting booth, will they start to listen.»

I don't think we have to worry about the Christian vote (they say one thing in public and do quite the opposite in the privacy of their bedroom, home, office, or voting booth.

Religion News Service: Black pastors move to counter new voter ID laws African - American clergy are joining forces with civil rights groups to push for increased voter registration ahead of the November election, spurred on by new voter laws they say restrict opportunities for minorities to enter the voting booth.

Both politicians and so - called Christian leaders are stoking the anxieties of evangelicals to drive them into the voting booth or to drive them out of the culture, but as Henri Nouwen said, «Fear only engenders fear.

How funny... he managed to pause right at the exit of the church door... for all the world to see him... in a perfectly orchestrated photo shoot... 45 days before voters go to the voting booth.

There is little difference between religious discrimination in a public advertising medium and racial, creedal or sexual discrimination in the voting booth, the sale of housing, or as the basis for employment.»

They, and their gullibility, may be going into the voting booth this fall and casting their votes based on what this «Man of God» says.

The boxes we check in the voting booth reflect only a small part of who we are, and like a lot of things, they usually represent something of a compromise...» [read more]

They became headless, heartless, and ruthless... their only power was at the voting booth, rather than in the community of the wounded and seeking.

If he wants to love a group of Iraqi women with purple fingers fresh from the voting booth, then we will shoot and kill the insurgent who is racing his bomb - laden car toward the polls.

If we want to love the group of Iraqi women with purple fingers fresh from the voting booth, then we will shoot and kill the insurgent who is racing his bomb - laden car toward the polls.

They attend mass, confession and partake of communion, but when they pull the voting booth curtain closed they vote against MEN telling them what they can and can't do with their body.

«The voting booth is not some sort of sacred cow that you can't talk about.

«If we can tell you what to do in the bedroom, we can certainly tell you what to do in the voting booth,» said the Minnesota minister, an evangelical leader of a nondenominational church, who expects to endorse Republican John McCain during his «Pulpit Freedom Sunday» sermon.

Ideology grown in denominational hothouses is really unhelpful, both to Christians and American civic life, and especially» from a Lutheran view» to a theology of the priesthood of all believers, believers called to exercise part of their priesthood in the voting booth.

Here's hoping that the real Americans out there really get to the voting booth and for lack of a better term (just don't care) select a backlash vote against this evangelical crap.

He also said the Republican nominee «reminds me so much of my father,» who once advised Falwell Jr. that when he went into the voting booth, he was not electing a pastor, but a president.

Regardless of the stance of evangelical leaders, what are «rank and file» evangelicals actually doing once they enter the voting booth?

Maybe the media should focus on the real issues instead of the religion of the candidates we might actually get some info to use for making an intelligent decision in the voting booth.

Just when a «gender gap» at the voting booth surfaced in 1980, and women in politics began to talk of capitalizing on it, the Republican party elevated Ronald Reagan and both political parties began to shunt women's rights off their platforms.»

The site of their ministry is not the institution but the house where they live, the place where they work, and the political communities represented on the ballots in their voting booths.

Imagine you've just read Plato's Republic and then — conscientious citizen that you've now become — you enter a Chicago voting booth on election day and scan the list of candidates.

It is sad that so many people feel that their best option in the voting booth is «a lesser of 2 evils» I blame the party system we have.

Stop voting out of tradition and religious belief, do you think the Jew or Buddhist in the next booth cares who the best Christian is.

I'd need to turn atheist to pull that voting booth handle in favor of a politician who goes against what Jesus Christ said in the Sermon on the Mount.

Rightfully, Massimo's colorful booth was voted Best of the Festival.

Sample dozens of different DISC - IT meals, collect recipes, and be the judge by voting for your favorite booth or meal.

Craft fairs are also great places to test new products because you can get direct feedback from your buyers — or if you're scared to ask them face to face, why not set up a mini voting booth or chalkboard poll, like Folksy seller Ruth Robinson did at one of her markets stalls.

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Do they really think the public will go into the polling booth thinking «oh well I would vote for Labour but they can't be trusted on the economy, and I would vote for the Conservatives but they might deliver the wrong kind of recovery, so I think I will marry economic efficiency and social justice and vote for the Liberal Democrats instead»?

Wake up residents of Rochester — register to vote, get out the vote, and use your power at the voting booth to de facto term limit her out of office if you know what's best for you!

«Requiring ID at the voting booth seems like a simple step to me to help ensure the security of voting and prevent fraud,» said Gallivan.

First - unlike the convoluted constitutional ballot measures we see in the voting booth each November, these are going to have to be presented as either one entire batch of changes (almost guaranteed to fail because everybody can find something serious enough to disagree with) or as individual questions for people to affirm or deny.

When it comes time to voting, they don't even have 5 minutes of time to make it to the voting booth.

Appelbaum, who is a strong supporter of Andrew Cuomo and has been among Schneiderman's biggest critics in the race, said the caller made a link between Rice and former President George W. Bush because she was a former registered Republican, and noted her lengthy absence from the voting booth.

If it is unable to do so, the Scottish people will automatically return to the voting booths to select a second round of MSPs.

Since the first poll conducted in August, Brown is down just two percentage points, now with 49 percent of likely Democratic voters saying they plan to choose him at the voting booth tomorrow.

With his tenacity, the whole idea of a Jamesport nuclear plant actually made its way to the voting booth, in the form of a ballot proposition in the 1979 town elections.

In an advisory ahead of Tuesday's primary, Liedka says voting has been a «family affair», pointed out his son Luke has been in a voting booth seven times before, making Tuesday's primary Luke's eighth time in a voting booth.