Sentences with phrase «state voters last»

The agreement incorporates parts of the dog - breeding initiative passed by state voters last November and parts of a bill rewriting Proposition B, passed last week by the legislature, which apparently had no problem ignoring the will of voters.

Initiative 1240, narrowly approved by state voters last fall, made Washington the 42nd state in the nation to allow charter schools.

Even though Utah's new voucher law flopped with state voters last month, the fallout is just beginning.

The bill was launched in the legislature almost immediately after state voters last month approved a new school - finance system.

State voters last fall approved a constitutional amendment to allow a total of four casinos on non-Indian land in three regions of the state: the Hudson Valley - Catskills, the Albany - Saratoga area and the Southern Tier, near Binghamton.

Under a measure approved by state voters last year, the siting board could have recommended one additional license in any of the three regions but chose not to.

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The party's anti-immigration and anti-European Union stance is resonating with voters amid a climate of fear of terrorism and social instability, especially after last month's attacks, for which the Islamic State terror group claimed responsibility.

The challenge is to prevent last - minute lies that could sway enough voters to swing an election result — which, in the United States, can be a matter only of thousands or even hundreds of votes.

In the last decade, the Bush Administration, seeking a Trojan Horse to privatize Social Security in the United States, applauded Chile's disastrous privatization of pension accounts (turning many over to US financial institutions) even as that nation's voters rejected the Pinochetistas largely out of anger at the vast pension rip - off by high finance.

Last month, Maine voters overturned the state legislature's passage of a same - sex marriage law.

Recently, New Jersey State Senator David Friedland introduced a bill calling for the establishment of frontons in Jersey City, Camden and Long Branch, even though last year New Jersey voters turned down jai alai in a referendum.

Overall, the park district «s budget is about $ 100,000 higher than last year, but Woods said recent state laws limiting the growth of property - tax revenues and the issuance of bonds without voter approval may put the district in a financial bind next year.

Both Tailor and Dirk Van Beek, representing Dixmoor voters, argued that the park district could be dissolved under state law since the district failed to hold regular meetings for the last five years, failed to acquire and maintain land for park purposes, failed to have a planned program of recreation and failed to pass an annual budget and act to levy taxes.

ICYMI last night, Marcia Bystryn from the New York League of Conservation Voters said there is «a very good chance» that the group will spend in the six figures to support Republican State Senator Mark Grisanti's bid for re-election.

At this point in 2014, the last gubernatorial election cycle for the state, there were 2,622,580 registered active Republicans — a growth of just under 10,000 new GOP voters.

That last group, Strach said, was most likely voters who moved out of state without notifying their local boards of elections.

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.

Strach said North Carolina's check found 765 registered North Carolina voters who appear to match registered voters in other states on their first names, last names, dates of birth and the final four digits of their Social Security numbers.

... The crosscheck also found 35,570 voters in North Carolina who voted in 2012 whose first names, last names and dates of birth match those of voters who voted in other states in 2012, but whose Social Security numbers were not matched.

Additionally, the analysis found 155,692 registered North Carolina voters whose first and last names, dates of birth and final four Social Security number digits match voters registered in other states but who most recently registered or voted elsewhere.

Five Long Island school districts, all in Suffolk, are asking voters to approve an override of their state - imposed property tax caps — more than twice as many as last year, according to the state comptroller's office.

A statewide telephone survey of Likely Voters finds Cuomo with 54 % support versus 38 % for Paladino, the winner of last Tuesday's state GOP Primary.

State Sen. Toby Stavisky greets potential voters before voting during last week's primary at a polling station in northern Queens.

The deadline to switch was in October of last year, long before the primary season began and serious voter interest in this state was sparked.

Paladino was here last week for a rally that, if anything, highlighted the struggles within the conservative voter base over the measure, even if polls show most New Yorkers are in favor of updating the state's assault weapons ban.

The Buffalo businessman won some 94 percent of the vote in his native Erie County in last week's GOP primary, but the bulk of the state's population — not to mention enrolled voters — is concentrated in the five boroughs and on Long Island.

«Last year, the Republican led Senate passed legislation that would allow the voters of this state, who are paying for these pension, to decide if stripping a politician convicted of corruption of their pensions is warranted,» McGrath said.

After all, the party won well over 40 % support at the last election, with a lot of it coming from older and white British voters, from Leavers, and from those with small - c Conservative values and a belief in a smaller, less active state.

Nearly 100 Capital District voters packed the auditorium at the Guilderland Public Library last Tuesday night for a panel discussion titled «Would New York State Benefit from a Constitutional Convention?»

By a similar 60 - 29 percent margin, likely voters say it «will be an expensive waste of time,» rather than a «once in a generation opportunity to bring our State Constitution into the 21st Century,» according to a new Siena College Poll of likely 2017 New York State voters released last hour.

(Last week, the BOE Executive Director Micheal Ryan told the Observer that people were removed from the rolls for moving out of Brooklyn, or if their mail from the BOE was bounced back by the United States Postal Service — including a group of 70,000 voters who had previously been tagged on rolls as «inactive voters» and did not respond to intent to cancel notices from the board.)

When this question was last asked in June 2017, 45 % of voters thought the state was on track, and 43 % believed it was off course.

Last month, with Election Day around the corner, that seemed to change as de Blasio renewed his call for a system that will encourage voting in a state with one of the lowest voter turnout rates in the country.

Last Thursday, as British voters went to the ballot box, former FBI Director James Comey sat before a United States senate intelligence committee hearing to provide testimony on the events leading up to his firing by President Trump.

Andrew Cuomo is entering a re-election year with his best favorability rating since the last re-election campaign, his best job performance rating in eight months, his best re-elect rating in this cycle, and with several State of the State proposals that are popular with New York voters.

Similar proportions of Democratic voters in New York State held these views when Marist last asked this question in November.

In no state with open primaries in the last forty years is there any instance in any state when more than 6 % of the state's primary voters chose a minor party primary ballot.

The day before, de Blasio will speak in Nebraska, which has been a reliably red state in recent cycles, but is also where voters last November favored a referendum to raise the state's minimum wage — a central cause for de Blasio.

Formed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo last year, the task force includes Assemblyman Steve Englebright; state Sen. Thomas O'Mara; Stephen Acquario, executive director of the New York State Association of Counties; Marcia Brystryn, president of the New York League of Conservation Voters; and Michael Rosen, head of the Food Industry Alliance of New state Sen. Thomas O'Mara; Stephen Acquario, executive director of the New York State Association of Counties; Marcia Brystryn, president of the New York League of Conservation Voters; and Michael Rosen, head of the Food Industry Alliance of New State Association of Counties; Marcia Brystryn, president of the New York League of Conservation Voters; and Michael Rosen, head of the Food Industry Alliance of New York.

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).»

Last week, the governor signed it, making the state the ninth to enact automatic voter registration.

The Democratic Party and the presidential campaigns of Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders will sue the state of Arizona over voter access to the polls after the state's presidential primary last month left thousands of residents waiting as long as five hours to vote.

Stringer himself, described by insiders as «in near panic» over his poor showing with black voters, belatedly responded last week by hiring two well - regarded African - American political operatives: Patrick Jenkins, a longtime confidant of US Rep. Gregory Meeks of Queens; and Kevin Wardally, an associate of the late Bill Lynch and an official at the Cuomo - controlled state Department of Labor.

But Cuomo's willingness to use his bully pulpit — a poll last month showed he is viewed favorably by 70 percent of the state's voters — elevates the issue above others that he has pushed for with less vigor, such as raising the state's minimum wage.

Last week, New Yorkers got a peek into the efforts to influence the upcoming question to be put to voters on whether they want to convene a state constitutional convention.

The last Republican elected was George Pataki, a pro-choice, pro-death penalty state legislator from Peekskill, who toppled Mario Cuomo in 1994 by siphoning support from independent and Democratic voters.

Barbara Bartoletti, with the League of Women Voters, says in 1967, the last time a convention was held, most of the delegates were state lawmakers, judges and party leaders.

With Kurantowicz as director, Voters for Good Government made a splash in 2012 by spending about $ 300,000 on a last - minute burst of negative ads and mailings aimed at trying to defeat a half - dozen Democrats and flip control of the state Senate.

The group is run by Liz Kurantowicz, the former state Republican Party official who managed Voters for Good Government, the independent - expenditure group that ran afoul of the State Elections Enforcement Commission last year by paying Foley's pollster, an expense that the commission says Foley's campaign should have incustate Republican Party official who managed Voters for Good Government, the independent - expenditure group that ran afoul of the State Elections Enforcement Commission last year by paying Foley's pollster, an expense that the commission says Foley's campaign should have incuState Elections Enforcement Commission last year by paying Foley's pollster, an expense that the commission says Foley's campaign should have incurred.

Crain's predicts that New York City will become «a test case for what independent expenditures can do in municipal elections,» and city voters can expect to «experience some of what their counterparts in presidential swing states did last year.»