Sentences with phrase «over the voters register»

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) is asking the Police to investigate and bring to book its personnel that unleashed mayhem on pro-opposition groups who were demonstrating over the voters register.

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Over 6 million Floridians have already cast their ballots in early voting, more than the total 5.9 million cast by registered voters in 2000.

Many are Independents but the advantage goes to the Democrats over Republicans among registered Catholic voters.

A recent Gallup Daily tracking poll showed registered Jewish voters preferred Obama 68 % to 25 % over Romney.

As IPPR's new report into political inequality shows, less than half of 18 — 24 - year - olds voted, compared to nearly four - fifths of the over-65s, while three - quarters of «AB» individuals cast a ballot, against just over half of «DE» registered voters.

The Court issued a warrant for the owners of the station, host of the station's «Pampaso» programme, and the panelists, who threatened to kill judges over their handling of a case on the credibility of the voters» register to appear before them to answer for contempt charges.

With perhaps just over two months until the general election, voters may have less than a fortnight to register to vote once the polling date has been announced by the prime minister.

The Ashanti Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party, Mr. Antwi Boasiako has switched over to the defensive mode following threats by Koku Anyidoho to sue the New Patriotic Party's Vice Presidential nominee for failing to provide evidence for his bloated voter register claims.

The party raised concerns over the inclusion of Dr Nii Narku Quaynor, a renowned computer scientist, Chairman of the National Information Technology Agency (NITA) Board of Directors, who's a known member of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) and His Lordship Justice VCRAC Crabbe, a former Justice of the Supreme Court who had earlier publicly stated that there was no need for a new voters register to be compiled.

The opposition New Patriotic Party [NPP] which is championing the course for a new register claiming over 76,000 foreign nationals are registered on Ghana's voters register which makes the electoral roll not credible joined other parties at the debate.

New York Democratic Party activists who backed Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders for president in 2016 — and now support Cynthia Nixon for governor over Cuomo — have drafted a resolution to force the state Democratic Committee to pass a rule allowing independent or «nonaligned» registered voters to vote in the 2018 Democratic primary for governor, on Sept. 13.

The pro-opposition pressure group had had running battles with the police over its decision to hold street protests in support of calls for the compilation of a new voters» register.

According to a new survey report from the Pew Internet and American Life Project, 88 percent of registered voters have some kind of cell phone, and of those, over half are smartphone users.

Looking at the generic congressional ballot, the Democrats (44 %) have a five - point advantage over the Republicans (39 %) among registered voters nationally, unchanged from last month.

In a recent Siena College poll, he held a 58 percent to 27 percent lead among registered Democrats over the activist and actress Cynthia Nixon, who is trying to appeal to more liberal voters.

For a party that has just over 13,000 registered voters, we were able to put over 33,000 votes on our line in certain elections.

The method in which their new Chief Executive has been appointed is a poignant example of this problem and a source of a great deal of the ire of the protestors: elected by 689 votes from a 1,200 - seat committee of business elites, the three and a half million registered voters of Hong Kong had no say over who should lead them for the next five years.

While paper ballots have yet to be counted, the Board of Elections reported 1,026,169 ballots cast with over 4.3 million registered voters in NYC.

This, they said was because «we have examined the petition of the NPP over the compromise of the voters register» and «the National Democratic Party (NDP) is overwhelmingly struck by the evidence provided and in the party's opinion places an indelible mark of failed responsibility by the EC.»

West Long Branch, NJ — Democrat Bob Menendez holds a sizable advantage over Republican Bob Hugin in the 2018 race for U.S. Senate according to an early Monmouth University Poll of all New Jersey registered voters.

Beyond winning over some moderate Republicans and getting potential Democratic voters registered and to the polls, the midsummer GOP primary runoff will mark a turning point in the race to replace retiring Sen. Saxby Chambliss.

We have been working on the ground to engage voters in New York City registering and mobilizing nearly 95,000 people over the past three years.

In terms of registration, Nassau Democrats only slightly outnumber Republicans (by just over 61,000: 397,859 Democrats to 336,289 Republicans) while unaffiliated independents number 239,242 voters, almost a full quarter of Nassau's 1,025,598 registered voters.

As Mr. Rangel's lead whittled down to just 802 votes over the weekend, the Espaillat campaign hired election law guru Marty Connor and promoted a hotline available for voters to register complaints about Election Day shenanigans.

This will re-affirm Dr. Mahamudu BAWUMIA's claim that there are over seventy - six thousand (76,000) Togolese on the Ghanaian voter register.

He told The Herald, «I want to make it clear that, Dr. Valerie Sawyerr, has no hand in the court battle between Nii Armah Ashietey and Nii John Coleman against Dr. Zenator over her (Zenator) name not being on the voters» register.

The constitution minister was under pressure over voter registration, with fears that there could be a 20 % decrease in the number of registered voters as a result of the transition from the current system.

Abdullahi added, «During the first phase of the voter registration, over 35,000 voters registered in Bauchi State, out of which 15,000 are yet to collect their cards.»

In 2013, incumbent Republican Edward Mangano easily won re-election over his predecessor, Democrat Thomas Suozzi, in an election that brought out about 28 percent of registered Nassau voters.

Democrats enjoy a significant edge over Republicans in Erie County when it comes to party affiliations among registered voters.

With over 3.63 million new voters registered since 27th April this year and over 175 elections conducted since November 2015, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has made tremendous progress in deepening, sustaining and defending the integrity of the electoral process, the Commission's Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu has said.

The official noted that the number of the newly registered voters had exceeded the number recorded in the previous exercise by over 20 per cent.

The poll, which was conducted over two days on May 4 and 5, surveyed 532 registered voters and has a margin of error of plus or minus 4.2 percent.

Members of pressure group, Let My Vote Count have insisted they will picket at the premises of parliament and the Electoral Commission over their demands for a new voters» register.

However, on May 5 this year, the Supreme Court in a case filed by Abu Ramadan and Evans Nimako ordered the EC to remove from Ghana's current voter's register, the names of over 56,000 people who used NHIS cards as proof to register and voted in the 2012 elections.

New York Democratic Party activists who backed Bernie Sanders for president in 2016 — and now support Cynthia Nixon for governor over Gov. Cuomo — have drafted a resolution to force the state Democratic Committee to pass a rule allowing independent or «nonaligned» registered voters to vote in the 2018 Democratic primary for governor, on Sept. 13.

«If about 600,000 people — just over one per cent of registered voters — had decided differently, IN would have won,» he said later.

The Electoral Commission of Ghana over 5 months period has walked this Nation along a volatile path of uncertainty over what the future state of the voters» register is.

Ephson who says he is yet to complete work on the other six regions told StarrFMonline.com the statistics, as they stand now, makes it difficult to appreciate why any political party will jubilate over the ruling of the Supreme Court regarding the voters register.

Speaking on NEAT FM's morning show Ghana Montie John Boadu noted that the NPP is fully behind the three pressure groups — but said it's unfortunate that the groups have been prevented from picketing at the Electoral Commission Wednesday over a new voters» register.

The use of the recall is showing no sign of letting up, with 15 recalls already scheduled for the ballot in 2012, and the governor of Wisconsin facing a serious recall challenge, with over one million voters — 25 % of the state's registered voters — signing a petition that could lead to his removal.

Justice Jones Dotse in an interview said the Court was clear in ordering the removal of names of National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) card holders from the voters» register, settling a controversial debate over the judgment.

The governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) says comments by Supreme Court Justice, Jones Dotse over a recent ruling on cleaning the voters» register, is not different from the position of the Electoral Commission (EC).

The INEC chairman explained that during the CVR exercise in Edo State, over 2, 000 voters registered twice while some of them did not provide complete information.

ALBANY, N.Y. — A new poll of registered voters in New York shows Democratic candidate for governor Andrew Cuomo with a 2 - to - 1 lead over Republican Carl Paladino.

This is the case over whether Kansas must let voters register as members of parties that are not ballot - qualified but which are active in elections in that state.

The district has over 11,000 registered voters.

We need over a thousand petition signatures from registered voters in House District 15.

Chairman of National Peace Council and a member of the V.C.R.C Committee, Most Rev. Prof. Emmanuel Asante has discredited claims that the five - member panel set up by the Electoral Commission (EC) to look into concerns over the credibility of the voters» register recommended a validation process.

While adopting its Business Rule in removing over four million registered voters, INEC should realise that there is likelihood that some genuine names might have been removed by the AFTEX technology.