Assemblymember Brian Kavanagh, a Manhattan Democrat, and State Senator Michael Gianaris, a Queens Democrat, have sponsored the Voter Empowerment Act, which provides for automatic
registration of eligible voters and online registration, and changes the deadlines for registration and party enrollment.
Not exact matches
It would be interesting to know what percentage
of eligible voters vote in North Dakota as compared with the states in which
registration is required.
London and other metropolitan areas have seen a decline in
voter registration, and the report suggested 3.5 million
eligible voters were not registered at the time
of the 2001 Census.
McDonald used voting -
eligible population (VEP), or the number
of eligible voters independent
of their current
registration status, to calculate turnout rates in each state on November 4.
Gianaris estimated that automatic
registration would expand New York's pool
of eligible voters by more than 2 million people.
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»...
New York has struggled to promote
voter registration — with less than 64 percent
of eligible residents registered, it ranks 47th in the nation.
About 40,433 new
eligible voters have also been captured onto the electoral roll during the continuous
voter registration exercise, with 29,897 (52.7 %) out
of the over 56,000 deleted NHIS registrants re-registering.
«We have achieved so much in terms
of registration of new
voters; we were able to register 65, 915
eligible residents as at June 19.
Automatically registering
eligible voters encourages civic participation, and provides a vehicle for state agencies to efficiently transfer
voter registration information to the Board
of Elections.
He pointed out that
registration and collection
of PVC is an important segment
of electoral process that requires the participation
of every
eligible voter.
He said this showed a difference
of 12,110 in between the two quarters, indicating a downward trend in fresh
eligible voters»
registration.
The Census Bureau estimates that more than 15 percent
of all
eligible voters had moved in the past year, and three million
eligible voters did not vote in 2000 because problems with their
registration.