Sentences with phrase «to get to the polls»

I have heard that it is common for some churches to offer bus services to help people get to the poll, with nobody complaining about that.

If you are registered to vote but can't get to the polling station, you can still apply for an emergency proxy vote.

Getting to the polling station keeps many people from voting.

It's just a matter of getting them to the polls.

I think it is important that everybody gets to the polls and gets their chance to vote no matter their party of choice.

In general if you know the name and address under which you are registered that will be enough to get you to the poll if you are in the right polling place.

It was also gathered some of supporters got to hear the news of his demise this morning on getting to the polling unit.

But you can't get yourself to the polls without a plan.

Election analysts declared that when the voters got to the polling booths, they opted for the «devil they knew».

In a presidential or similar elections, it's a habit, if one is a candidate, to get to the polling place, and vote, usually in the storm of camera flashes, from propaganda reasons, so self - voting is expected.

Democratic Rep. Dan Maffei has a slight edge in registered Democrats over Republicans in the 24th Congressional District, but he's struggled to get them to the polls in midterm elections during his previous campaigns.

Simply put: If your» e going to Direct Mail Hispanic voters over and over, then an effective IE also needs to make sure those same voters get to the polls.

Get out the vote: Access voting and registration rules for your state, help register friends, and make sure supporters get to the polls on Election Day.

Meanwhile, former President Bill Clinton is recording a robocall to voters to get to the polls for the special election.

«Could ridesharing mitigate voter suppression where marginalized communities have lost the full protection of the Voting Rights Act and find it hard to even get to a polling booth,» Sasjkia Otto thought.

In Erie County, he was joined by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, County Executive Mark C. Poloncarz and Buffalo Mayor Byron W. Brown, all of them pushing potential supporters to get to the polls Tuesday.

Chris Cillizza and Jim VandeHei have a great article in today's Post, «In Ohio, a Battle of Databases,» that looks in detail at how campaigns work with data behind the scenes to find voters, hit them with targeted messages and ultimately get them to the polls.

An organization that uses local volunteers to canvass neighbors — first registering them, then getting them to the polls — has an advantage that newcomers will not be able to match, he and other campaign officials insist.

Millions of Londoners got to the polls on May 5 to elect a new Mayor with responsibility for housing, transport and the police in the capital.

It will be interesting to see how many people get to the polls today to vote for their next Bronx Borough President.

According to Hanabusa, although the polling places in the two other precincts remained open during the storm, a number of voters could not get to the polls due to the inclement weather.

«It's going to come down to personal connections, candidates friends and family in the Ward and how good a job they do getting them to the polls.»

«So on the day of the elections, get to the polling centres early enough, vote and record the voter card number, and wait till they count your votes.

This happened TWICE before I even got to the poll site.

Unlike citizens in 34 other states across America, residents here can only vote ahead of time — by absentee ballot — if they can say their profession, business, studies, travel, illness or disability will prevent them from getting to the polls on Election Day.

Scaring people enough to get them to the polls matters.

Early voting numbers show that more work is needed to energize progressive voters and get them to the polls in states across the country.

They're counting on those dire warnings having an effect by the time people get to the polling station, and probably they will, but in the meantime the histrionics just turn people away.

That's the crucial distinction between strong polling and a winning election strategy: people may support restricting benefits, but to get them to the polling booth you need to give them something to improve their own lot.

Nearby state parties are making calls into the district urging supporters to get to the polls for the election on Tuesday.

Get to the polling station now and vote before its too late!»

The mood at the event held at the Como Restaurant on Pine Avenue was upbeat, with Cuomo running mate Kathy Hochul urging nearly 200 supporters to get to the polls Tuesday.

The press needs to ask the Speker Shelly Silver the «WHY» DiNapoli question before the voters got to the polls.

One of the SEEC's main arguments in its Tuesday letter was that the proposed pro-Malloy mailing is 99.6 percent devoted to photos and words supporting Malloy's re-election, while less than half of 1 percent of it contains a tiny printed message about how voters may get to the polls on Nov. 4.

Volunteers at polling stations were supposed to be able to alert local campaigns about low turnout so that campaign workers could bombard those precincts with telephone calls to encourage people to get to the polls.

Cambridge Analytica worked with a Washington, D.C. - based consulting company, The Herald Group, to promote the NRA's «Trigger the Vote,» aimed at registering voters and getting them to the polls.

I can only hope that democratic volunteers would help both republican and democratic voters to register and get to the polls.

We all can do something to make sure Obama gets elected - talk to your friends, families and neighbors and make sure that they all get to the polls or vote early.

Asking people how they plan to get to the polls, which the Analyst Institute has found can make a statistically significant difference in how many of them actually show up.

Also, check out the display ads each is running: again, Obama's ads are focused on helping people get to the polls, while Clinton's are general fundraising spots.

The «Mobile Pollwatcher» integrates with the VAN voter database so that ALL Democratic campaigns can share information about which voters need a little nudge to get them to the polls.

I think it has been divisive, and the nearer it gets to polling day, the more desperate it has got.»

The same will be true in the struggle for control of Congress next year, as state parties, individual campaigns and outside groups spend tens of millions of dollars targeting their voters and working to get them to the polls.

Christie isn't urging people in New Jersey to get to the polls in a tight election, he is promoting his own interview with Charlie Rose on CBS in which he denies all the sworn testimony about him in open court during the Brideggate trial which links him to the lane closures the touched off the scandal.

On a recent evening in the small basement office of the Alexandria Democratic Committee, Bob Mack and his team of McAuliffe volunteers crafted a plan for the nine weeks remaining until Election Day: focus on known Democratic voters — and get them to the polls.