Sentences with phrase «voter turnout during»

Skoufis says the problem is that some of the issues that resonate with young voters are not campaign issues on the local level, which makes increasing young voter turnout during off - election years even more challenging.

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He cited low voter turnout in general and among younger voters in particular for control of Congress switching from Democratic to Republican during his presidency.

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 %.

During these midterm elections it was expected that voter turnout would be lower than in presidential election years, according to data since the 1840s.

And as for the results — while the numbers on turnout of voters are generally tallied three times during the day, the figures on who voters cast their ballots for don't get looked at until the polls close.

The episode began during the 2009 elections, after the Working Families Party, backed by labor unions and armed with a formidable voter turnout operation, won a series of surprise victories for liberal candidates.

Before 2016, New York state has ranked in the bottom half of states for voter turnout in all but one election during the last two decades, according to the census figures.

New York had the eighth worst voter turnout in the United States during the November 2016 elections, according to Politifact.

«From a policy perspective you have to succeed in getting those key issues on the agenda and give these voters a reason to go out, particularly during low - turnout primary season,» she said.

Yevoli attributed his defeat to Drucker's «lies and mudslinging» during the campaign along with low voter turnout.

Among the key reasons cited by the Assembly and the ECA for adopting a June primary date are that, in their view: an August primary would result in reduced turnout because many voters vacation during that month; identifying and training sufficient poll workers would be very difficult during a prime vacation period; schools, which are often used as poll sites, are frequently closed and unstaffed during the summer; and that, given the myriad tasks that must be completed to prepare and transmit ballots, as well as the inevitable delays caused by administrative challenges, machine malfunctions and counting of paper ballots, setting a June date would ensure better compliance with UOCAVA's 45 - day ballot transmission requirement.

He ran fundraising, voter registration, and voter turnout operations in more than a half dozen states during the primary election and served as assistant to Chief Strategist David Axelrod during the general election.