Sentences with phrase «shows up to vote»

How does California guarantee that the person who registered is the person who shows up to vote?

You could imagine other solutions, especially with electronic voting systems, but, e.g., writing down the details of every person who shows up to vote and then cross-checking those lists after the fact would be much more cumbersome than checking the details of each voter against a pre-existing list.

So what happens is when someone shows up to vote and they have already been voted for they are either turned away or given a provincial ballot that never gets counted.

But that clearly shows no outcome is certain, so if you are thinking you don't have to show up to vote on Tuesday because there is no way the impossible could happen, take it from somebody who has learned from painful experience: You are wrong about that.»

NextGen Climate, which has a well - funded super PAC dedicated to electing lawmakers dedicated to halting climate change, launched a «text - banking» voter - turnout program late last year that attempted to motivate potential voters to show up to vote by sending personalized texts from actual organizers encouraging recipients to respond and start a dialogue.

For example, the UKIP voting and attendance record shows that a major reason Britain appears to have so little say (the criticism of which is their primary campaign message) is because they don't show up to vote.

All the favorable polls in the world won't help if the other guy's supporters show up to vote and yours don't.

When Obama's young - voter strategy was a waste of time,»cause the damn kids never show up to vote anyway?

What voters should be concerned about is the damage she causes to our economy when she does show up to vote.

Wright took an enormous amount of guff for fixing the vote Saturday by making sure his people showed up to vote for his candidate and his opponents did not.

Francisco Moya's campaign has redoubled its poll - watching operation after receiving reports this morning that voters at PS 89 in Elmhurst, Queens showed up to vote and received ballots that were already pre-marked for Moya's primary opponent, expelled ex-Sen.

«What we did see was a concerted effort by some folks to apparently, to protest New York's closed primary process by showing up to vote when they weren't registered to vote.

Not likely — particularly if Democratic candidates learn from the Obama campaign and use the internet to help make sure that their supporters are the ones who show up to vote in November.

Coming up with creative ways to fill those needs with meaningful content and engagement can mean the difference between a constituent who won't show up to vote next time or a constituent who will not only vote for that official but will also volunteer to reelect that him or her.

In the special election for the Assembly on Long Island last year, where Democrat Christine Pellegrino had a surprise victory, less than 11 percent of active voters showed up to vote.

«I think personally that New York City, as lazy as they are, they're not going to show up to vote.»

Citywide, voter turnout was similarly low, with just 14 percent of the 3,100,356 active registered Democrats showing up to vote.

He said quite often than not, the number of registered party members the CPP have, does not show up to vote during national elections, thereby making the party record single digits at some polling stations.

The party doesn't have a Senate candidate to drive turnout (Democrats finished 1 - 2 in the June open primary), and depending on whether the presidential race is called early on the East Coast, California Republicans may have even less of an incentive to show up to vote.

Will the 23,000 people who signed a petition to remove Carl Paladino show up to vote in the next school board election or is their interest only momentarily engaged when they're outraged about something?

For Democrats in New York looking to cater most to the people who show up to vote in primaries, learning to grow a backbone against the IDC may be mandatory.

The pollsters get opinions from everyone that picks up the phone, but determining which of those people will actually show up to vote is the challenge.

If you show up to vote and you do not have one of the acceptable forms of photo identification, you can still vote a provisional ballot.

There's no way of knowing how many of the people he spoke with are registered Democrats, and how many will show up to vote for him on September 10th, but his campaign would be rightly encouraged by the short stroll.

He said quite often than not, the number of registered party members the CPP have, does not show up to vote during national...

Kalman Yeger, another councilman from Brooklyn, expressed concern during the hearing that if the commission's recommendations go before the voters in 2019, a year when there will be no major races to bring voters to the polls, it could mean that few people actually show up to vote on what could be fundamental changes to how government works.

The next year, 36 percent of Nassau Democrats participated in the still - close presidential primary between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, while only 19 percent of Republicans showed up to vote in a race in which John McCain had a somewhat clearer lead in a race that was more subdued than the Democrats».

The political futures of Faso and Stefanik in 2018 may hinge as much on who does not show up to vote as who does.

The people who understand, who know it's a problem and who don't quite get how urgent it is, and who don't show up to vote and don't write to their senators and who don't holler and complain,» she said.

«We showed up to vote for him and now it's time for Justin Trudeau, the self - appointed Minister of Youth, to prove whether or not he wants to listen to our generation or just use us for backdrops in his selfies.»

Therefore even if they agree with me that these people should not be re-elected they will approve the conduct of those who are currently in office by not showing up to vote.

Not exact matches

So if voting isn't meant to break a tie, what's the purpose of getting a show of hands on an issue that's holding up your meeting?

Voted one of the top football and sports bars in America by Draft Magazine, Forbes, Esquire and MSN City Guides, the 5 - acre property is legendary to tailgaters, averaging three live bands, three DJs, and 100 part - time employees to manage anywhere between the 6,000 - 8,000 people that show up for a standard Packers home game.

Some voters in Jefferson County ended up crossing party lines to cast their ballots for who they thought was the best candidate in each of the races — defying the practice of party line voting in an election that showed a deep red - blue political divide.

Reasons have since been offered for the high - profile provincial misses — in the case of Alberta, a last - minute swing in voting intentions from Wildrose to the PCs; in B.C., the failure of those who said they'd vote NDP to show up on election day.

Proxy Democracy's website showed that Calvert and CalSTRS were planning to withhold votes for all three director nominees up for election in June.

The panel had been slated later on Wednesday to vote on whether to initiate contempt proceedings against Pearson, after he failed to show up last week for a deposition.

And it is not just the way he talks about the NRA, although that runs the risk of motivating the group's five million - plus members to show up and vote.

But when NDP members decided by a narrow margin to show Thomas Mulcair the door, they ended up trading a leader who was considered prime ministerial by a significant number of voters for one who is not — or at least who may not be in time for next year's federal vote.

Then you had a shareholder meeting where I think 80 % showed up and unanimously voted to sell the company.

When you pro-life contradictions stop acting like life begins at conception and ENDS AT BIRTH, when you stop using abortion as a political wedge issue to shore up votes and show that you actually understand and act on ALL the complex issues at work, you might actually find others more sympathetic to your alleged cause.

Whether reacting to a bumper sticker or listening to a radio talk show, deciding how to vote or where to invest time and money, recoiling at the prejudice a child has picked up at school or squirming under a company policy that seems unfair — people can not escape ethical issues.

«If we show up, if we let folks know that we're interested in them and we share a lot of common values, then we're not going to win 100 percent of the evangelical vote.

Recently when ever i watch AW on TV giving an interview i don't know weather to laugh or vote for him for the next president of France, he has become to arrogant, predictable robot like with his answers but most of all his undermining his supporters treating them like Children who don't understand, its possible you can do this if your decisions or play is always correct but to fail and pretend it like its anything ells but a failure is wrong, Arsen man up and say we fuc ed up and show your disappointment at players who are not giving all or just sub them if they are having a bad day its normal,

When they know that we'll show up on voting day and make our voice heard, they'll be far more likely to address the issues that concern us when they're actually in government.

«Why show up at the polls if there's no reason to vote?»

Baby Milk Action welcomes the fact the UN Human Rights Council voted to set up a working group to draft a Treaty to hold corporations accountable for human rights abuses as it states its experience has shown the Global Compact to be «worse than useless».

In an off - year election, Democrats desperately needed their base voters to show up... people who'd voted for Barack Obama twice.

For instance, if you're a Project Runway devotee and you vote via cell phone to have a cast member ousted from the show, you can be signed up to receive promotional text messages before the program airs and during commercial breaks.

So converting all that «online support» into voting might not only be difficult in just getting people to show up, it might also be difficult in that even if they show up they might not be able to vote in a primary in some states.