Sentences with phrase «percent voter participation»

Gateway is aiming for 100 percent voter participation among its 36,000 members this fall.

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After a series of phone conversations with company officials that began in August 2015, Flaxman came to Starbucks headquarters in December to talk with chairman and ceo Howard Schultz and other leaders about what he and his team considered a wildly ambitious goal: TurboVote would help lift voter participation to 75 percent, at a date to be determined.

About 55 percent of voters opposed the Park District taking part in any kind of public - private partnership, and about 69 percent were against the district's participation in the center.

Less than one - half of 1 percent of voters donate to political campaigns, making New York dead last among the states in citizen participation (and 48th in voter turnout).»

This article running in the Dallas Observer states that the Dallas City Council run - off election had a participation rate of 4.21 percent of registered voters.

Among the long list of accomplishments that includes participation in nearly every major education policy decision since the mid-1980s - O'Connell said he is most proud of his role in getting voters to approve a ballot measure that reduced the threshold for passing school bonds to 55 percent.

A 2016 survey by the Annenberg Public Policy Center found that only 26 percent of Americans can name all three branches of government, which was a significant decline from previous years.1 Not surprisingly, public trust in government is at only 18 percent2 and voter participation has reached its lowest point since 1996.3 Without an understanding of the structure of government; rights and responsibilities; and methods of public engagement, civic literacy and voter apathy will continue to plague American democracy.