Sentences with phrase «terms of voter participation»

«New York ranks consistently as one of the nation's worst in terms of voter participation, driven by state laws that create obstacles to voting,» said Megan Ahearn, program director for the New York Public Interest Research Group, «Much of the rest of the nation has developed practices that improve voter turnout.

Blair Horner, Executive Director of NYPIRG, said, «New York ranks consistently as one of the nation's worst states in terms of voter participation, driven by our archaic voter registration and election administration systems.

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New York State continues to lag behind other states in terms of voter turnout and participation.

Horner said, «New York is really notorious in terms of having difficult obstacles for voters to surmount in order to vote,» and that the rules contribute to New York having one of the «lowest voter participation rates in the country.»

Conducted in the shadow of a huge vote on membership of the European Union, what have we learned from «Super Thursday» and its lead up in terms of sub-national politics and voter participation in the UK?

Similarly, in the 2011 LSUC Bencher Election, voter turnout increased and reversed a long - term trend of decreased participation, but only rose to 37 per cent.