Sentences with phrase «of voting participation»

Many individuals and groups propose improvements in voting access such as early voting period, same day registration, and even Election Day held on weekend as remedies for the lack of voting participation.

Not exact matches

- Starbucks will be joining the TurboVote Challenge in a technology - supported attempt to make it easier for employees to vote, as part of nonprofit Democracy Works» larger goal of 80 % voter participation in the 2020 election.

We put such a high value on the right to democratic participation that we forbid voters from making tradeoffs of this kind, from weighing how much they value their ability to vote against how much they value some quantity of money.

One share, one vote is a «psychologically important part of the free enterprise system,» which helps to encourage market participation, Whitehead says.

While common stockholders are afforded certain voting rights, economic participation in the event of a liquidity event or declaration of dividends is subordinate to creditor and preferred shareholder cash distributions.

Mobile voting has been near and dear to Tusk's heart for some time and he has recently been promoting one company as a potential solution to the challenge of the lack of participation, particularly when it comes to local elections where turnout is often in the range of 10 to 15 percent.

• Participation in an anonymous survey of «camper» opinions regarding «current events» such as best (fake) news media, who they would vote for if they had it to do over, health care, tax code restructuring, immigration, etc. • An exciting and provocative five person panel discussion planned and prepared by veteran campers prior to arriving at CK.

With social media marketing, there is an assumption that there is already involvement with the social communities involved — profile (s), network of friends, content submission, voting and participation.

Shareholder participation in the governance of corporations in this manner gives meaning to the vote and should be promoted.

However, Archbishop Glenn said he knew people would «disagree and disapprove» of his participation in the ceremony, but the Scottish vote as «amounts to another significant and sad moment in the life of the Anglican Communion».

Demonstrating how thoroughly progressive thought — as defined by Abramson — has shattered classical liberalism in Canada's medical ranks, 79 percent of the Canadian Medical Association doctors recently voted against conscience protections for physicians opposed to participation in euthanasia.

For years her denomination published a periodical, Women's Chains, which fought for the right to vote, advocated total participation of women in society (including Congress and the White House), and suggested imprisonment for the inventors of the high - heeled shoe.

Though other mainline denominations have opened the doors to the full participation of gay members, the UMC's General Conference spent the last 44 years consistently voting to maintain the denomination's ban on same - sex unions and on ordaining non-celibate clergy.

Note: There were three levels of participation in high school athletics used: junior varsity (JV) / intramural; varsity; and elite athletes — varsity athletes who were also either a team captain or voted most valuable player (MVP)

«Realizing their costly and unfair error, Senate Republicans now cynically propose an August primary date, knowing full well that voter participation in midsummer will be minimal if not outright suppressed and that the votes of military personnel may not be fully counted.»

Democratic participation, whether in the form of votes or protests, is far more extensive in India today than in the United States or Germany.

This high level of participation in political affairs is not typical for a country where the declining voting rate in the national elections stands at 65 % (2009).

A year - long «Chinese Vote» project was launched, aiming to generate greater interest in political participation, through a series of workshops and conferences.

The East Timorese authorities are doing their best, but ongoing international assistance is also required to help remove barriers to participation by expanding the reach of EMBs into rural areas and increasing access to voting facilities.

Given typical US voting participation rate (shy of 60 % even on high - turnout Presidential elections, never mind other lower turnout elections), finding such a person isn't hard.

I believe there's going to be an attempt at first to say, at non - participation, to maintain the course of 30 voting no.

I know of no firm metrics (other than voting patterns, which are flawed as participation rates are so low 38 % - 62 % typically for national elections), though there is a plethora of writing on the effectiveness of government.

Despite prohibition and violence, which affected participation and the accurate counting of the votes, the referendum took place thanks mostly to the organisation, efforts, and inventiveness of different sectors of the Catalan civil society.

So I don't see how PR offers the whole solution to issues of participation and engagement in politics, though it is important to make more votes count for something on general election day.

Also, range voting satisfies the participation criterion, i.e. casting a sincere vote can never result in a worse election winner (from your point of view) than if you had simply abstained from voting.

Voter participation in the council run - off election last weekend, counting everybody who mailed in a ballot or voted early, was 4.21 percent of the people who were registered to vote.

Assembly Speaker Carl E. Heastie and Election Law Committee Chair Michael J. Cusick announced the Assembly's end - of - session passage of reform legislation to overhaul the state's election process in order to increase voter participation, ensure greater access to the polls, protect voting rights, and promote efficient, voter - friendly registration and elections.

Broadening participation by limiting the use of proxy votes and allowing for resolutions to be distributed via email and posting on the Party website.

Allowing voting during the week preceding an election — including on the weekend — would enable more New Yorkers to vote, and bring New York closer to the goal of full voter participation.

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?

However — and here's the rub - this interest does not necessarily convert into participation — with less than half of Brits saying that they are excited at the prospect of voting on 7th May (44 %).

«Although the government principally advanced a theory that Dean Skelos's arrangement for or participation in certain meeting constituted circumstantial evidence of a quid pro quo for legislative votes, it also argued in the alternative that the meetings themselves satisfied the official - act requirement,» the panel wrote in their decision.

It permitted the Conservatives to point to the possibility of SNP participation in a Labour - led government, an unappealing prospect for many English voters who might otherwise have been tempted to vote Labour.

Making the vote mandatory is a way but I think there are other ways to increase it such as promotion of more transparency in the electoral process, allowing independent parties to seat in the polling table (juridically and electorally), increase the participation of people with disabilities and others.

The early voting measure is the first part of a three - point plan Ryan is pushing for, which will address low turnout and boost election participation by citizens across New York State.

«New York ranks consistently as one of the nation's worst in terms of voter participation, driven by state laws that create obstacles to voting,» said Megan Ahearn, program director for the New York Public Interest Research Group, «Much of the rest of the nation has developed practices that improve voter turnout.

New York is one of only 13 states that does not offer early voting and because of that and other antiquated laws we have some of the worst voter participation in the nation.»

In the ongoing fight between Democrats and Republicans over election procedures like voter ID and early voting, the Democrats are supposedly the champions of higher turnout and reducing barriers to participation.

Again, the conclusion of their work was that Facebook's get - out - the - vote message could have driven a substantial chunk of the increase in youth voter participation in the 2012 general election.

«The potential of a tool like this to help boost participation is enormous - in the Netherlands, 1 - in - 3 voters used Vote Match's sister site «Stemwijzer» in the last Parliamentary elections and is seen as a trusted tool that can help boost turnout.»

«Rather than feel forced to cast their vote for a candidate they do not support, or choose not to vote at all, the «none of the above» ballot line has given voters the option to cast a protest vote, while encouraging continued participation in the electoral process.»

This is still above the sort of participation seen in the US mid-term elections (around 40 per cent) and well above the recent vote for UK police commissioners (just 15 per cent), but the implications remain alarming for Europe's political establishment.

I don't think their submissions clearly demonstrate the harm to the voting interests and the effective political participation of covered minorities groups.

Gov. David Paterson's former campaign manager Richard Fife OpEds in favor of moving up primary day and allowing early voting to boost voter participation.

«Lowering the voting age to 16 would reflect and support citizenship education and youth participation programmes, linking the formal democratic process to their understanding of citizenship»

In other words, I'm interested in the elections where the main / only reason one can assume for the low turnout is voter apathy / bad set of choices to vote for / general - low - election - participation culture.

The «gang of three» member praises Obama for choosing Rick Warren: «By rejecting the call to dis - invite Reverend Warren and by welcoming him to deliver the inauguration ceremony's invocation in Washington, DC, Barack Obama has sent a message of inclusion... that we should be welcome all the time, not only to be used when they want our votes, support and participation in coalitions to benefit others.

In October Mr. Krupski became a minority of one on the Suffolk Legislature when he voted to oppose the county's participation in an $ 8.9 million project to try to fortify a 3,100 - foot stretch of downtown Montauk ocean shoreline.

Kombiz Lavasany, another Drinking Liberally activist who was in attendance, said Franken gave a speech about the importance of building social capital as a form of democratic participation that transcended voting.

The Rosendale Town Board voted last week to send a letter to the two designated co-lead agencies on the State Environmental Quality Review (SEQR) of the Pilgrim Pipeline project, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) and the New York Thruway Authority (NYTA), urging them to guarantee ample opportunities for «meaningful public and municipal participation» during the scoping phase of the review process.