Sentences with phrase «vote efforts do»

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Lacking a ground game in the state, as he did across the country, Trump relied on state and local parties, such as Ferrance's, to drive the get - out - to - vote efforts.

The report said that while Russian operatives did not change vote tallies, Russian President Vladimir Putin had ordered an elaborate effort to propel Trump to the presidency — not only via hacking but also through the dissemination of «fake news» aimed at undermining Clinton and boosting Trump.

I don't believe any ownership effort has the 24 votes necessary to force out Goodell.

Cambridge Analytica did not engage in efforts to discourage any Americans from casting their vote in the presidential election.

However, the same way investors are growing leery of Washington's political rhetoric, they are also putting less weight on the endless parade of speeches by voting members of the Fed — specifically, Janet Yellen, Stan Fischer, Bill Dudley, and Lael Brainard — in an effort to manipulate markets without doing anything.

Never before has such a massive conservative effort to get people to vote been done.

Reed did not endorse any candidate during the GOP primaries, but now is planning major get - out - the - vote efforts for Trump.

Whatever happens doesn't change your vote, so it is a fruitless effort, but that is what liberalism is.

When they asked us to vote on the medal, I wrote back and said, «If you want to send the silver medal to me, fine, but don't make any effort.

And with the Democratic enrollment edge in this district, even despite the Senate GOP's best gerrymandering efforts during the redistricting process, it certainly didn't help Amodeo to be splitting the left - of - center vote with Davis.

The labor - backed party has Facebook ads posting today, part of a broader effort aimed at pressuring the eight - member bloc as Democrats hold a numeric majority in the state Senate, but do not have the votes to form a governing coalition.

Rich Beeson, the political director for the Romney campaign, says that the problem wasn't the GOP get - out - the - vote efforts, but the astounding success of the Democrats to turn out groups that generally didn't vote in such large numbers.

But Brown's campaign did spend $ 106,500 in the final two weeks leading up to the general election in what was termed a get - out - the vote effort.

«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.

In 2013, the New York Public Interest Research Group complained to the state's Joint Commission on Public Ethics that the party's efforts amounted to lobbying — the ads didn't urge people to vote for someone, but rather to support a pending policy action — and should be disclosed as such.

HARTFORD — One of the chief architects of the 25 - hour takeover of the U.S. House of Representatives to force a vote on gun control legislation said Friday he didn't agree with efforts by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee to raise money off...

And we do this by supporting efforts in all 50 states to ensure that every eligible citizen can register and vote, and that each vote is accurately counted.

Cuomo himself did little to motivate turnout, ignoring Teachout, who had meager resources for her own get - out - the - vote efforts and mostly relied on volunteers.

The damage you can do to a single ballot, a single ballot box, a single court house and so on require an increasing number of coconspirators without exceptions, with numbers and efforts in proportion to the tampered votes.

As the Rokita court noted, voters who lack Photo ID undoubtedly exist somewhere, but the fact that Plaintiffs, in spite of their efforts, have failed to uncover anyone «who can attest to the fact that he / she will be prevented from voting» provides significant support for a conclusion that the Photo ID requirement does not unduly burden the right to vote.

Up until this point, Democratic members of the panel haven't been part of the committee's investigation into the climate change case, nor did they vote to subpoena records related to the efforts by Schneiderman's office and other attorneys general around the country.

Still, that effort by Ed Cox, and his approach to getting it done, created intense friction within the party and an upset at the GOP convention that saw Levy fail to get enough votes to qualify for the ballot.

«The campaigns have to operate as if they don't know what turnout will be and do intense «get out the vote» efforts,» Sherrill added.

Republican leaders in the state Senate did not respond to requests for comment on Hoylman's bill, but on Wednesday they defeated an effort by Senate Democrats to force a vote on several gun control measures including a bump stock ban.

State Sen. Rob Ortt of North Tonawanda said last week he would back Senate Democratic efforts to force a vote on Skelos on Monday, as they did to no avail last Wednesday.

Efforts to enact early voting and other reforms were unsuccessful when the state Senate, led by a coalition of Republicans and breakaway Democrats, did not act on the bills.

Republicans defeated that effort, just as they did last week when Democrats tried to force a vote on their bills.

I don't understand or accept efforts to undermine them by keeping legislation from a public vote.

He also said that the number of complaints was part of a «concerted effort» by people protesting New York City's closed primary system that does not allow independents to vote.

But more political efforts, like doing away with fusion voting and creating a publicly funded campaign finance system, could still be a tough sell.

DO NOT VOTE FOR ED BROUNSTEIN In an effort to mislead Jewish voters, his early posters had Jewish stars around the border.

NEW YORK CITY — Mayor Bill de Blasio said he was «disappointed» that a bill to add more speed cameras around schools didn't come to a vote in Albany this session — and said the city will now boost other Vision Zero efforts instead.

All efforts must now be made to fight any effort by opponents to achieve their goal of killing the deal through the back door when they could not muster the votes to do so directly.

They don't like immigrants and find the world a scary, hostile place; but there's a reason their efforts and votes bypassed the Tories: they hate them.

And does their social media effort actually translate into votes?

However a lot has been made of the fact that while both polls had an effort to take account of people's personal and tactical voting behaviour in their own constituency, they did so in different ways — Ashcroft asks a two stage question, asking people their national preference and then how they will vote thinking about the candidates and parties in their own constituency; ICM asked people the voting intention question including the names of the candidates standing in Sheffield Hallam.

By a 7 - 0 vote, the board made it clear that it would do what it could to discourage the effort by the Broad - affiliated group, Great Public Schools Now, to grow what is already the largest charter school population of any school district in the country.

Consider that so much of the big money flowing into Massachusetts is «dark money,» meaning that its source does not have to be revealed, the harsh reality that that whether or not a Massachusetts resident votes on Election Day 2016 is a matter of public record, but these same voters will never know exactly which billionaires were responsible for the record breaking effort to mislead them into voting Yes on Question 2.

Just a couple of weeks before the Bridgeport vote Rhee dropped $ 100,000 into the effort to pass Finch's proposal, and that doesn't even count the tens of thousands more that they failed to reveal in their campaign finance reports.

Despite arduous efforts by CCSA, the Oakland Unified School Board voted in June to place a $ 475 million bond measure on the November ballot that does not specifically include charter schools.

Shortly after a divided Baltimore County school board voted to hire Verletta White as superintendent last month, dissenting members began a lobbying effort to ask the state schools chief to do something none of her predecessors have done in at least a half - century.

He voted in favor of the Bipartisan Student Loan Certainty Act in an effort to keep interest rates from rising, but he does not fully support tying federal rates to the market.

We fully recognize the competition we face against larger shelters and rescue organizations in this contest, but please do not be discouraged or consider your vote a wasted effort.

Any time we did a «best games» list on ONM or CVG it was a collaborative effort: as such, some games I loved were voted out and some games I never liked were voted in.

Donations to support this effort can be made online at the Web site of Vote Hemp, the industry's lobbying group, where you can also find sample letters and easy ways to contact elected officials; see our What Can I Do?

This should ensure a much strong agreement when a global price is negotiated because voting for a higher price does not simply burden your own country, it harnesses the efforts of all other countries on your behalf.

«Judge Posner basically thinks that efforts to engage the unengaged are futile or otherwise not worth it, and a view of democracy that accepts that 50 % of the population doesn't vote is preferred to one that asks how can we get more people to engage to effect decisions made by others that impact on their lives... «I think this view is so depressing I can't envision how he wrote 400 pages describing it.

Unable to vote, Anwar wants the community to join their effort and do what they can to keep teenagers safe.

«Although they didn't change actual votes or alter the outcome, their efforts were an attack on our democracy.

To give readers an incentive to make the effort to vote, I'm offering the following: If you vote and post you voted on Facebook (I'll be looking to see that you did.)