Sentences with phrase «same number of voters»

To ensure that each vote has roughly the same weight, each constituency should have roughly the same number of voters.

But suppose the people with the authority to draw district lines prefer party A. Even if they are obligated to make every district have the same number of voters, they could, at the most extreme, draw 1 district that has 20,000 B's and 9 districts each with 8,889 B's and 11,111 A's.

By contrast, the single - member constituencies we have today are a creation of the boundary commissions of 1884 that worked on the principle that all constituencies should have the same number of voters.

About the same number of voters said they think Cuomo's so popular because he's addressing average New Yorkers» concerns.

Not exact matches

When you look at birth certificates and voter registration and spend all this time hunting, with this witch hunt that's been going on for the last number of months, I can't help but question whether the same thing would have been done from another team from another place, another race.»

In the infamous Florida purge of 2000 — for which conservative estimates place the number of wrongfully purged voters close to 12,000 — Florida registrants were purged from the rolls if 80 percent of the letters of their last names were the same as those of persons with criminal convictions.

We should really be asking how democratic it is to limit the number of times that the voters in the West can elect the same person.

A couple of states have had higher turnout in the 2012 Republican Primaries than they had in 2008, but most have about the same or even less — not impressive, considering that this race is much more open and closely fought and that the number of registered voters has grown since last time.

There are statistics which show a very low number of reported voter fraud cases, but at the same time such statistics are useless unless the voting officials are focused on catching immigrants voting illegally.

The highest number of voters who turned out to vote in a referendum that was not held on the same day as another electoral contest was the 1,816,098 people who turned out to vote in the 2009 Lisbon Treaty (II) Referendum.

In fact, a new survey released just this past Fri., Sept. 27th by the non-profit research group Public Religion Research Institute, found that nationally, 56 percent of registered Hispanic voters identified with the Democrats, and only 19 percent identified with Republicans — the same number identified themselves as independents.

But Tuesday's numbers hardly indicate a solid prediction of what will happen on September 10; only 46 % of likely primary voters say they'll definitely vote for the same candidate they support today.

Our number one issue must be the same as that of the voter,» Ms Ryan said

But gay marriage advocates point to high poll numbers in support for the issue, with one showing 58 percent of voters believing same - sex marriage should be legalized.

Both questioned approximately the same number of likely voters — 600 to 611.

At the same time, redistricting is a process issue that's never going to be viscerally important to large numbers of voters in the way that meat - and - potatoes economic and social issues are.

Last week an Angus Reid poll found that only 83 % of Tory voters would support a Coalition candidate and the number of LibDem voters who would do the same would be even lower.

But if that same party wants to have a legislative candidate on the ballot in November, the number of voters within that legislative district to choose that party's primary ballot can be as high as 130 voters, i.e., over twenty times as high as the test for statewide candidates.

The Report suggests keeping the same percentages, but changing the base from the number of registered voters, to the number of votes cast in the last presidential election.

But the Supreme Court has never resolved whether voting districts should have the same number of people, or the same number of eligible voters.

The current system ensures representational equality, with elected officials tending to the interests of the same number of people, whether they are voters or not.

Siena was in the field for a new poll that same day (Feb. 16 through Feb. 20) and Cuomo's upstate numbers took another slide, with 50 percent of voters giving him an «unfavorable» rating, compared to 44 percent who viewed him favorably.

Overwhelming numbers of California voters supported many of the same policy solutions as school districts, including loan forgiveness and service scholarships, mentoring and support for recently hired teachers, and expanding residency - type programs.

Furthermore, overwhelming numbers of voters supported many of the same policy solutions as school districts, including loan forgiveness and service scholarships to incentivize new teachers to enter the field (85 %) and mentoring and support for recently hired teachers to increase their retention (90 %).

«These are the same voters who passed a record number of referenda last year, raising taxes on themselves to make sure their schools can provide a world - class education to their kids,» she said.