Sentences with phrase «only eligible voters»

If people who were ineligible to vote were evenly distributed, the difference between counting all people or counting only eligible voters would not matter.

Counting only eligible voters, on the other hand, is based on the principle that voters hold the ultimate political power in our democracy.

Texas currently counts everyone in the state, including illegal immigrants, before carving up districts of proportional population size, but the challenge argues that only eligible voters should be counted because the current system creates some districts with much larger numbers of eligible voters than others.

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 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.

Too bad for those neanderthals, since only two - thirds of eligible voters were needed to allow women more than guest or visitor status.

It's the only direct defense against the purest form of ballot - stuffing (adding fake votes not associated with any eligible voter).

Your ballot can't contain your name because your vote is supposed to be secret, so to ensure that each voter votes only once and only registered voters can vote, each polling place has a list of the people eligible to vote there and can cross people off as they arrive.

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.

The 2013 Democratic primary runoff for public advocate, for instance, cost the city $ 13 million and only drew 6.9 percent of eligible voters, according to FairVote.

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.

Other Westchester Municipalities having School Board And 2018 - 2019 Votes include The Peekskill City School District (2 seats up), Greenburgh Central School District, New Rochelle Public Schools (One (1) full Five - year term and one (1) Two - year term [unexpired portion of a vacant term]-RRB-, Scarsdale Public School District, the Mamaroneck Union Free School District (which includes public school system for Village of Larchmont residents), Port Chester Public Schools, Tuckahoe Union Free School District (one (1) board seat), Pelham Public School District (Eligible Pelham voters may vote on a two - proposition bond proposal to fund facilities / infrastructure projects and athletic facilities / fields upgrades), Rye City School District (There is only one Polling Place: The Rye Middle School Gymnasium at 3 Parsons Street.)

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

The plaintiffs, Sue Evenwel and Edward Pfenninger, argued that district populations ought to take into account only the number of registered or eligible voters residing within those districts as opposed to total population counts, which are generally used for redistricting purposes.

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

«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.

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.

First contention, the Polls got it wrong: This is utter poppycock to say the least, the only thing the Poll got wrong was the wrong Government given only 24 % of all eligible voters actually voted for the Tories, that's right, 76 % hate the fuckers and still we have a Tory government — time to abandon support for First Past The Post me thinks.

Only about one - sixth of eligible voters cast ballots, records show.

Sixty - six percent (66 %) of voters agree with the legal challenge and say states should only count eligible voters when setting the size of legislative districts for voting purposes.

Unofficial results from the Monroe County Board of Elections show only about 7 % of eligible voters cast their ballot Tuesday.

This probably doesn't surprise many people, but only about 43 percent of eligible voters turned out for legislative races in Ulster County's 23 county legislative districts in 2013.

In 2010, New York ranked last in the nation for voter turnout, with only 32 percent of the 13.4 million eligible voters actually exercising their constitutional right.

When only 30 % of eligible voters show up to cast a ballot, that tells us there is something fundamentally wrong with our election system.

Only 31 % of eligible voters vote.

Only an estimated 5.6 % of eligible voters saw candidate information from the Home Office.

«Only 268, 942 eligible voters have in their possession PVCs to exercise their voting right on Saturday election.

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.)

In 2013, only 52 percent of eligible voters turned out.

In the 2007 election only 33.1 per cent of eligible voters cast their ballots.

Accessibility Ballot anonymity Individual and independent verifiability Non-reliance on the trustworthiness of the voter's device (s) One vote per voter Only count votes from eligible voters Process validation and transparency Service availability Voter authentication and authorization

Only 34 per cent of eligible voters cast their votes in this election, even less than the 37 per cent voter turnout in the 2011 election.