Sentences with phrase «registered voters went»

Last October, Catalonia's leaders defied the Spanish government by holding an independence referendum; 90 % of Catalans voted sí (although only 42 % of registered voters went to the polls).

Validation is the process a registered voter goes through to confirm his or her name in a voters» register prior to an election.

Not exact matches

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

Fliers went out this week that will give Lockport Water District customers who are registered voters a chance to say «yes» or «no» to Lake Michigan water — a question this community has wrestled with for more than seven years.

Marist decided to play it safe by also polling registered voters (that's how Siena went, saying it's too early for the «likely» route), and those numbers are: 55-29-10, 6.

it's really only a small percentage of registered voters in Iowa who are going to show up at caucus.

By urging tribunals to strike down the use of the card reader, the implication is a return to our prior election system, going back to the 2003 and 2007 era where Mike Tyson, dead people and ghost names on the voter register produced huge votes recorded on election day to declare people winners of election.

However, you seem to imply that just by announcing the proposed cut (sometime last year I think) it would somehow go directly into the consciousness of voters who aren't political obsessives and so make a difference to the LD ratings The truth is that for the LD's it will take a general election campaign and Clegg / Cable / Hune hammering the issue home in debate after debate after debate for it to register with people who don't pay much attention to the ups and downs of everyday politics, let alone the tax proposals of the 3rd party.

President John Dramani Mahama has encouraged prospective voters to «go out and register» for their first voter's ID card ahead of the 2016 general elections.

He endorses Siena's decision to poll registered voters, saying it's too early to do as the Q poll did and go with the likelies.

He assured all NPP members and sympathisers, and the majority of Ghanaians and stakeholders in Ghana's electoral process, who are desirous of a new voters» register ahead of the 2016 election, that, «we want the world to know that no amount of intimidation is going to stop those of us asking for a new register to go about our peaceful advocacy for a new register.»

Go and register, get your first voter's ID card and vote.»

«It is going to make it much easier for voters to register, and that is always a good thing,» said Mylan Denerstein, Cuomo's counsel.

We'll go door to door, house to house, and community to community to register and poll voters and encourage them to support Democrats.

He said should the court even go ahead nullifying Zanetor's election because she's not a registered voter, there will still be ample time for the NDC to set a date that may favour Zanetor's inclusion in a re-run.

In the opinion of CADA, election threats come in different forms and may include intimidation, registering minors and foreigners, multiple registration, etc. during voter registration exercise or targeting of election officials, intimidation or harassment of journalists, incitement to violence in the media or public, protecting, expanding, or delineating turf or «no - go areas», attacks on election rallies or candidates, intimidation of voters to compel them to vote or stay away, physical attacks on election materials such as snatching and destruction of ballot boxes, armed clashes among political parties, violent clashes among groups of rival supporters, vandalism and physical attacks on property of opponents, targeted attacks against specific candidates or political parties, attacks on rivals who have either won in elections or were defeated, violent street protests and efforts by armed police to maintain or restore order, tear gas, firing on protestors, attacks by protestors on property or the police, escalation and perpetuation of ethnic or sectarian violence.

Obrempong Yaw Ampofo also reported from Amenfi West Constituency in the Western Region that, some Fire and Police service officials whose names were not found on the special voter's list, were advised to go to their original constituencies where they registered.

«There are too many things that can possibly go wrong; the printing of the pink sheets, the actual count of the voter's register,» Cassely - Hayford said.

The Democratic People's Congress (DPC) has urged eligible Nigerians to take advantage of the on - going Independent National ElectoralCommission (INEC) voter registration to register and obtain voters»...

«Going to sit quietly at the premises of the Electoral Commission and holding placards with inscription that Ghanaians demand a new voters» register, there is no way any person should ever think this activity pose security threat to the Electoral Commission.»

In a not too distant land, our sister country Nigeria has conducted an election that meets internationally acceptable best practices and according to the then commissioner of Nigeria (Prof. Attahiru Jega) «it's illogical not to change a register that has so many irregularities in it», and after changing the Nigeria voters register, his team went ahead to clean it from 73.5 million to 58 million people all in an effort to follow best practices and ensure transparency in order to win the trust of the citizenry in the Commission.

On the opening of the voter register, Mrs. Matilda Amissah - Arthur called on members of the community to make sure they go check on their names in the register that has been opened, so that they would not face problems on Election Day.

74 % of registered voters in New York State are not optimistic about where the state is going.

The New York State presidential primary had extremely low turnout, as did last week's congressional primary, with 7 percent of registered Republican voters going to the polls.

Only 70,000 GOP voters — less than 20 percent of New York City's 470,000 registered Republicans — are expected to go to the polls for the Sept. 10 primary.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's push to register more people to vote needs to go further, the League of Women Voters said in a statement on Monday.

The defeated incumbent MP at the party's primary in November 2015, Nii Armah Ashietey, went to court to challenge the eligibility of Dr. Zanetor to contest, arguing that she was not a registered voter at the time.

We have 74 million registered voters as at today (February 1), but we are already inching close to the million mark for new registrants, registered in the last three weeks and we are going to continue with the registration as provided by the Electoral Act until close to the election.»

Go the NY State voter lookup search engine to see if you're registered in Delaware County.

The INEC Chairman disclosed that as at last week, the Commission had 74 million registered voters, hinting that by projection, the figure could hit between 80 and 85 million by 2019 due to the on - going nationwide Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) exercise.

Even though registered Republicans outnumber Democrats in the 23rd district, it's not uniformly red — voters there went for President Obama by a very slim margin in 2008.

The goal of SVRD is not just to getting more young voters registered, but to actually get them to the voting booth — according to the city's Board of Elections, only 11 percent of registered voters 18 to 29 years old went to the polls in the 2013 mayoral election.

Nearly two months ago, 51 % of registered voters statewide said the state was moving in the right direction, and 44 % said it was going in the wrong one.

Occurring at the same time as the Presidential vote with Barack Obama seeking re-election against Mitt Romney, over half of the registered voters in AD57 went to the polls for the general.

Without going into the technicalities or the merits of the proposal for a new voters» register, advocates for the new electoral roll have put forward their arguments be they valid or not.

«I think the rank and file in the Senate are going to have difficulty going back to their voters, including the numbers I showed you from conservatives and registered Republicans, they're going to have a very difficult time showing up on Election Day saying I'm against this when they are all for it,» Silver told reporters.

Following the 2014 ruling that banned the use of the NHIS cards for registration, Abu Ramadan went back to the Supreme Court this year, seeking among other reliefs a declaration that the voters» register was not credible for the polls in November.

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.)

September 28, 2012 • A consulting firm hired by the Republican National Committee to register voters in five battleground states has been let go after one of its workers apparently submitted over 100 questionable registration forms in Florida's Palm Beach County.

So theoretically, a cost / benefit analysis based on this data would yield a conclusion that goes something like this: since there are more «pro-climate issues voters» than ardent climate naysayer voters — even amongst registered Republican voters — and politicians would come out on top if they vocalized a platform that included climate solutions.

All of us registering voters and signing up voters to receive their ballots at home are not going to stop until voting day.