Not exact matches
April 30 - A
state of Michigan board
voted on Monday to end active oversight of Detroit's finances after the city managed to balance its budgets since exiting bankruptcy
in 2014..
Each
state was decided by a razor - thin margin, which allowed Clinton to win the popular
vote by roughly 3 million
votes yet still lose
in the Electoral College.
Homeland Security told Congress
in June that 21
states were targeted during the 2016 presidential race, and that while a small number were breached, there was no evidence any
votes were manipulated.
(California regulators
voted unanimously Thursday to shutter Diablo Canyon, the
state's last remaining plant,
in 2025.)
In 2017, that was 22 states, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, including at least 10 that voted for President Trump in the 2016 electio
In 2017, that was 22
states, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, including at least 10 that
voted for President Trump
in the 2016 electio
in the 2016 election.
A council resolution needs nine
votes in favor and no vetoes by Russia, China, the United
States, France or Britain to pass.
In separate lawsuits against the
state, Michigan's Republican attorney general and Trump asked
state courts to prevent the recount, saying Stein should not be allowed to seek one because she finished so far behind Trump and Clinton that she couldn't have won, even if some
votes were miscounted.
Stein has argued, without evidence, that irregularities
in the
votes in all three
states suggest that there could have been tampering with the
vote, perhaps through a well - coordinated, highly complex cyberattack.
«If he refuses to withdraw and wins, the Senate should
vote to expel him, because he does not meet the ethical and moral requirements of the United
States Senate,» Gardner said
in a statement.
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.
Pollsters surveyed 517 registered Hispanic voters
in the
state, and 35 percent said they would
vote for Romney
in the primary compared to 20 percent for Gingrich.
The
state didn't
vote for him
in 2016, and when some of his wealthy hometown friends pushed him last month to help on SALT deductibility, he joked, «You guys seem to be doing OK,» according to The New York Times.
But that wasn't all that depressed Clinton's
vote: Hansen said a far lower number of provisional ballots than typical for a presidential election played a role, as did a recent strict voter - ID law that was
in effect for its first presidential election
in the
state.
A full 94.35 percent of business - owner respondents
stated they were planning to
vote in November, with 4.54 percent undecided and a mere 1.11 percent not intending to cast a ballot.
Martin Schulz of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) has
stated repeatedly that the party wants to stay
in opposition rather than joining another coalition, despite gaining 20.5 percent of the
vote in September's election.
The chair of the county's GOP said he first realized there could be a big flip
in the
vote after the
state's April primary,
in which Trump attracted the vast majority of Luzerne County voters.
Senators are attempting to craft their own legislation, but Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has
stated he's not sure the chamber will muster the 50
votes needed to pass an overhaul, especially
in the CBO report's wake.
The Keystone
State's
vote for Trump was its first for a Republican presidential nominee since 1988 — and four northeastern Pennsylvania counties played a monumental role
in making that happen.
Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy, whose
state of Connecticut shouldered the killing of 20 children
in Newtown
in 2012, led a filibuster on Wednesday to try to force a
vote, insisting he would stay on the Senate floor «until we get some signal, some sign that we can come together.»
WASHINGTON — President Trump's major policy moves over the course of his first year
in office have had a common denominator: They either overtly favor his base of support — the roughly one - third of voters who solidly back him — or they appear to penalize those
states that
vote Democratic.
State senators
voted 37 - 12
in favor, the House 81 - 17.
Prior to that recount, he was leading
in the
state by about 70,000
votes and had won the seven - county Pittsburgh metro area by nearly 60,000
votes.
The bill
states that bank rescue fund HFSF will have full
voting rights on any shares it acquires from banks
in exchange for providing
state aid.
Of course, if just 1 % of Trump voters
voted for Clinton
in the three highlighted
states, «we would be having a very different conversation,» he added.
April 30 (Reuters)- A
state of Michigan board
voted on Monday to end active oversight of Detroit's finances after the city managed to balance its budgets since exiting bankruptcy
in 2014.
Teamsters President Jim Hoffa sounded resigned to the right - to - work measure's passage,
in a statement released shortly after the
vote, but promised a voter backlash like those seen
in other Midwest
states.
Sanders and Clinton are both campaigning aggressively
in California, among several
states voting Tuesday.
As a whole, those counties were about 1 -
in - 5
votes cast
in the
state and are a mix of the factories around Youngstown, the farms down the Ohio River Valley, former coal country
in the south and into the Cincinnati suburbs.
But black
votes for Obama were inconsequential
in preventing Alabama's nine electoral
votes from being delivered to John McCain and Mitt Romney, both of whom defeated Obama
in that
state with 60 % of the
vote.
Black voters
in red
states should
vote as they usually do for candidates, down the ballot — and leave their choice for President blank.
The 1965
Voting Rights Act requires
states to create and preserve districts
in which minority
voting groups can elect their candidate of choice.
The Nebraska Public Service Commission, a five - member regulatory body,
voted 3 - 2
in favor of the project, which would give TransCanada permission to build the pipeline through the
state.
But J. Gerald Hebert, director of the
Voting Rights and Redistricting Program at the public - interest Campaign Legal Center
in Washington, said the
states drew districts with more black voters than necessary to «dilute their
voting strength
in order to achieve a partisan gain.»
By converting «wasted» presidential
votes into «none of the above» or support for third - party candidates
in Oklahoma, Arizona and other deep red
states in the South — the Confederacy, essentially — black voters would exert pressure on party leaders to not take black voters and their issues for granted.
Of the almost 5.4 million
votes cast
in 2012, only about 430,000 came from that part of the
state — less than 10 %.
Black migrants from the South fanned out to cities across the Midwest and Northeast — St. Louis, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Philadelphia, New York —
in states that happened to be rich
in electoral
votes.
Some 14
states have enacted more restrictive
voting laws than they had
in the 2012 presidential election, according to the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law.
Moon estimated that
in 16
states with a total of 278
votes in the Electoral College, «the Negro,
in a close election, may hold the balance of power.»
As we saw
in the United
States last year, when legal debt limits are approached, politicians invariably
vote to raise them.
Except to the delight of television news reporters across the continent, that man's name was Harry Baals, which prompted the deputy mayor to
state that, despite the 17,000
votes in favour, they probably wouldn't put the name of the city's longest - tenured mayor on the centre.
Not only do we think black voters should abstain from
voting for the Democratic presidential nominee
in red
states, we also think black voters should continue their role as pivotal voters
in battleground
states.
It's politically risky for the federal government to ride roughshod over
state laws
voted in by a majority of the people, says William McGrath, a partner at the Washington, D.C. - based Potomac Law Group.
In Virginia, a court upheld 12 state legislative districts and rejected a constitutional challenge, even though lawmakers made sure that at least 55 percent of the eligible voting - age population in each district was African - America
In Virginia, a court upheld 12
state legislative districts and rejected a constitutional challenge, even though lawmakers made sure that at least 55 percent of the eligible
voting - age population
in each district was African - America
in each district was African - American.
As they enthusiastically did
in 2008 and 2012, black voters should turn out
in massive numbers this November
in states where their
votes can determine the margin of victory for the Democratic nominee — Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, North Carolina and Florida.
In 2013, Kennedy sided with more conservative justices to effectively block a key component of the law, although its provisions prohibiting states from diluting minority voting rights remain in effec
In 2013, Kennedy sided with more conservative justices to effectively block a key component of the law, although its provisions prohibiting
states from diluting minority
voting rights remain
in effec
in effect.
According to estimates by the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, black voters contributed roughly 70 % of Obama's share of the
vote in the
state, both
in 2008 and 2012.
In tandem, the campaign is investing heavily in next - door Pennsylvania, a more Democrat - friendly state whose 20 electoral votes would make Trump's overall victory all the more unreachabl
In tandem, the campaign is investing heavily
in next - door Pennsylvania, a more Democrat - friendly state whose 20 electoral votes would make Trump's overall victory all the more unreachabl
in next - door Pennsylvania, a more Democrat - friendly
state whose 20 electoral
votes would make Trump's overall victory all the more unreachable.
Although it's not illegal to be registered to
vote in multiple
states, according to CNN, it is illegal to cast a ballot
in more than one
state.
I will be asking for a major investigation into VOTER FRAUD, including those registered to
vote in two
states, those who are illegal and....
For instance, various regulatory delays
in Alaska forced the
state to wait nearly two years for its first legal recreational cannabis sales, which came last month, after
voting to legalize
in Nov. 2014.