Sentences with phrase «voter participation as»

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- Starbucks will be joining the TurboVote Challenge in a technology - supported attempt to make it easier for employees to vote, as part of nonprofit Democracy Works» larger goal of 80 % voter participation in the 2020 election.

«As a pro-life voter, I never intended my participation to imply unequivocal endorsement, and the DNC knew that and were fine with that.

In a discussion about the recent French presidential election at the Personal Democracy Forum unConference this past Saturday, Pascal - Emmanuel Gobry presented an interesting thesis: not only did Ségolène Royal's «net - centric strategy fail to win a majority at the polls, but her campaign's emphasis on citizen participation may have actually backfired entirely by undermining her perception as a leader and by leaving her dependent on a fatally unrepresentative group of voters.

This demands that women's participation as campaigners, voters and election workers is encouraged and protected.

It is only practical to hold the state primary on the same day as the federal primary, allowing for a stronger and more cohesive voter participation.»

Using innovative strategies of participation and ideological flexibility have served the M5S well, as it has been able to attract voters from all corners of the political spectrum.

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.

As the author of the Voter Empowerment Act, I am proud to support efforts to increase dismal voter participation rates and have a process that encourages, rather than discourages, voter enfranchisement.»

«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.

Cuomo announced the proposal during his State of the State Address last month, presenting it as a way to boost voter participation and modernize the election system.

Some proposed measures to increase voter participation include nonpartisan elections and instant runoff voting as well as stronger voter education.

«The potential of a tool like this to help boost participation is enormous - in the Netherlands, 1 - in - 3 voters used Vote Match's sister site «Stemwijzer» in the last Parliamentary elections and is seen as a trusted tool that can help boost turnout.»

The grounds on which these reliefs were sought by Zanetor in the Supreme Court were that; The learned judge erred in law when he assumed jurisdiction to interpret article 94 (1) of the constitution holding that once the applicant had put herself out as a contestant in the parliamentary primaries of the NDC she was caught by article 94 (1)(a) which requires that she must be a registered voter at the time of her participation in the primaries.

Voting reform advocates favor universal, automatic registration as a way to streamline and simplify the registration process, to eliminate matching problems between state databases, reduce the possibility of voter registration fraud, and maximize voter participation.

Board of Elections Commissioners Russell Stewart and Rose Grimaldi said «As Commissioners it is not only our responsibility to conduct fair and impartial elections but to reach out into the community to promote and encourage voter registration and participation.

As I mentioned in my last post, Turnbull's narrow win has left us with a government standing for nothing but delaying various inevitable outcomes, including * equal marriage; * participation in global action on climate change; and, most notably * Turnbull's removal from office, whether by voters or, more likely, by his own colleagues.

He added the convenience of being able to vote almost anywhere, as long as the registered voter has his or her smartphone, could dramatically increase voter participation.

In 2004, she founded and served as president of America Votes, a coalition of 42 national grassroots organizations working to maximize voter registration, education, and participation.