Sentences with phrase «vote during an election campaign»

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Cambridge Analytica is accused of collecting the personal information of 50 million users of the Facebook social network without their consent and would have used it to develop software to predict and influence voter voting during the campaign American election according to the New York Times and the Guardian.

While I understand that the NDP must feel intense pressure to capture votes — including from people who have never taken a course from John Smithin — I often wish that the NDP would show a bit more policy leadership on the issue of the deficit and debt. I was particularly disappointed during the 2008 federal election campaign when Mr. Layton stated, unequivocally, that the NDP would not run a deficit in the following year if elected (even though it was clear that Canada was entering a recession).

As a result, the Opposition parties will likely vote against the bill and the Harper Government will again use this against them during the upcoming election campaign.

Schaffner says that before Obama's election, political scientists believed that «when candidates used language during a campaign, or during a debate, that was explicitly racist, voters would indicate that they liked that candidate less and were less likely to vote for them.

Isikoff then dived into the controversy about Russia's role in the election and the role specifically of Cambridge Analytica, a London - based company that uses data mining and data analysis to create so - called psychographic profiles of voters to predict their vote — and which Parscale had hired during the campaign.

The image of a woman who is battered for 20 years by her clergyman husband and who would forgive him, «because the Bible tells her to,» the image of a young mother and father who can not understand why their three - year - old daughter was sexually abused in the day care center to which they had entrusted her each morning; the image of a woman who was sacked from the women's program of her church because she refused to comply to the request of the president of the church that she and the other women vote for him in his election campaign; the image of a 14 - year - old migrant domestic worker who faces the death sentence on trumped up charges, because she would not give in to the sexual demands of her employer; the image of a male priest of a church saying that every time he beats his wife she should thank him, because she is one step closer to salvation; or the priest who would make sexual advances on a woman who out of vulnerability turns to the church for pastoral comfort... these are but a glimpse of the many such images that are gathered during the course of this Decade.

During the week, however, they engage in political campaigns, vote in elections, decry the emergence of hereditary dynasties and resist the centralization of power.

From the dinner table to carpool lines to the voting booth, children engaged with their parents about the candidates and the campaign more than they might have during previous presidential elections.

For instance, during the 2005 election campaign we found between 58 % and 62 % of voters said they were certain to vote, and actual turnout was 61 %.

Consisting of 25 images, one for each day of the election campaign plus one taken during the height of the coalition talks, Roberts focused on the relationship between canvassing politicians and the voting public.

Twitter said that during the election campaign, it removed tweets «that were attempting to suppress or otherwise interfere with the exercise of voting rights, including the right to have a vote counted, by circulating intentionally misleading information.»

And the Labour Party, which had opposed the referendum during the election campaign, has now come out in support of the vote.

During his time in the legislature, Brian has sponsored legislation and worked with colleagues to extend and strengthen tenant protections; increase New York's commitment to cleaner more sustainable energy sources and greater efficiency; prevent people from being exposed to toxic chemicals; increase the minimum wage; ensure equality in civil marriage laws; strengthen laws intended to keep guns out of the wrong hands; and promote cleaner, fairer elections by modernizing voting and closing loopholes in campaign finance laws.

The election is taking place during term time, and the Sheffield University and Sheffield Hallam University Students Unions are running a joint campaign to ensure that as many students as possible register to vote.

Anas Sarwar: «During the election campaign, the Deputy Prime Minister said: «We will resist, vote against, campaign against, any lifting of that cap» on tuition fees.

During the 2016 elections when l visited his community to campaign, he organized people in the community just opposite the venue, inciting them to vote against me.

During the campaign season ahead of the 2016 elections former Road and Transport Minister Dzifa Attivor called on Voltarians to vote for the NDC because she will be jailed if the NPP wins the election.

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I am a member of You Gov and Populus and I can tell you I was rarely asked my opinion about voting intentions during the last election campaign.

Wisconsin state director of Obama for America in the general election; during the primaries Kanninen took leave from his position as chief of staff to Sen. Robert Jauch (D - Poplar) to work on the campaign in WI, OH (early vote lead) and NC (deputy political director and GOTV political director).

Some of them openly expressed their disappointment in this administration and apologised to the former President for voting against him in the 2016 election because of lies told them about him and his government by the Npp, and failure on their part to critically evaluate promises the Npp made during the campaign.

The review on the federal level comes after Trump claimed voter fraud was behind the popular vote victory by Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election and hinted during the campaign the vote itself could be «rigged.»

We hope that, following the outcry during the election campaign, Theresa May has now abandoned the manifesto pledge for a free vote on repeal of the Hunting Act.

But May baffled and frustrated many of her own MPs by saying during the election campaign that she supported fox - hunting would offer a free vote on lifting the ban.

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Such an overhaul is not entirely unprecedented particularly given that Steele ousted incumbent RNC Chairman Mike Duncan from the job in the vote last week and his entire message during that campaign was built around the idea that change was needed after the disastrous GOP showing in the 2008 election.

Spikes in absentee ballot applications in several City of Albany wards during this year's primary election has some campaigns concerned that voters are being misled on valid reasons for absentee ballot voting.

It does become a problem if it is an indication of soft support for Labour, if the government become less unpopular once they have a better economy behind them, if minor parties establish themselves as alternative recipients of anti-government votes or if during an election campaign it becomes more of a choice between two alternatives, rather than a judgement on the incumbent.

During the last two elections New York and Pennsylvania Republicans campaigned on repealing and replacing so - called Obamacare — but House Republicans have yet to vote on a replacement plan.

Both Walsh and Juanita Perez Williams, the Democratic candidate for mayor who lost the election by roughly 4,000 votes, also said during the campaign a community grid would give local artists a positive opportunity to paint murals in a section of downtown.

Not only did tactical voting take place during the Labour leadership election (held under AV) but it was actively encouraged by all campaigns I would presume.

Rangel said Tuesday that he wanted the ethics committee to announce a date for the trial hearing, instead of leaving him and the chamber on hold during campaigning for upcoming primary elections and the November midterm vote.

2005 incidentally was the last time I voted Labour, having also campaigned during that election as a Labour Party member.

Although Mr Cameron has previously voted to reduce the abortion limit, his decision to raise the issue during the early days of the election campaign is likely to prove divisive.

In fact the only person to be accorded vox - pop quote status during the radio news highlights: Labour MP Graham Stringer... While «not in a position» to pass judgement on Mr Woolas» conduct during the campaign - in which he was accused of stirring up racial tensions to win votes - Mr Stringer said election battles in marginal seats were not «Sunday - school outings».

And it isn't as though Compass isn't able to organise a quick ballot — it did so during the election campaign on tactical voting, but that's another story.

During the election campaign, when the Tory media whipped up an English nationalist fear of a Labour government backed by SNP votes, Labour just adopted the framework instead of rebutting it.

For decades, Democrat and Republican presidents and congressional candidates have been promising to do it — during elections, that is, when they knew it'd get them votes and campaign contributions.

Among them he says are the increasing dip in the credibility of the Electoral Commission, the constituency creation and boundary settings, the determination of who qualifies to vote especially following allegations of some foreign nationals on the voters» register, the bigger issue of financing the activities of the EC and national elections, ensuring sustainable peace and security before, during and after elections and the use of gate speech, inflammatory language and dangerous campaigning tactics.

They do indeed tend to improve during election campaigns compared to their figures immediately prior to the campaign — it doesn't follow that they improve compared to their mid-term figures, in fact their share of the vote in 2005 was almost the same as their mid-term support in 2003.)

You know that Romney lost the Latino vote; your research has revealed a number of reasons for this — the Republican attitude in general toward immigration, Romney's own statements about «illegals» in during his primary campaign, the views of his running mate, Paul Ryan, and the statements and opinions of campaign surrogates and conservative Republicans throughout the election process.

For one thing, support for the House climate bill was a key element in the loss of the Democratic majority in the House of Representatives in the 2010 election, with Democrats» votes for the bill featuring prominently in GOP advertising during the campaign.

Unlike previous elections, climate has received significant discussion during the primary campaign and is another issue that voters may want to carefully consider when they vote next November.

Updated Mon 11 Nov 2013, 1:23 pm AEDT The ABC's Vote Compass policy tool received more than 1.4 million responses during the 2013 federal election campaign.

During the campaign for the 41st Canadian federal election, I volunteered as a Citizen Blogger for CBC News Canada Votes 2011 Your Take, for the British Columbia region.

Overall, the Report emphasizes that significant changes to election procedures are necessary to keep pace with modern voting habits and to address issues that arose during the campaign.

Because Dr. Kogan almost certainly used Kosinski's publicly available white paper to at least partially come up with the data - harvesting and processing techniques that Cambridge Analytica used to assault democracy during the Brexit vote, the 2016 Republican primary campaign of Ted Cruz, and The 2016 US presidential election.

Wylie's testimony came a day after Wylie and two other former insiders presented 50 pages of documents that they said proved Vote Leave violated election finance rules during the referendum campaign.

During the campaign, TREB also launched www.YourHomeYourVote.ca, where consumers could learn more where the federal parties and individual candidates stand on key housing issues, learn about election events, get information on voting and read an informative blog.