Sentences with phrase «voters across the country at»

Ghitelman added that HeadCount volunteers registered 4,800 voters across the country at the various March for Our Lives affiliated events.

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Yes, progressive bloggers were vital for getting Lamont attention across the country and no doubt helped bring national news coverage and out - of - state donations, but the campaign itself stayed local: «focused on building a file of likely voters, organizing a turnout effort and circulating Lamont at events, including small gatherings in living rooms.»

Swing Left is targeting 64 House seats and has activated local, self - organized teams across the country to begin canvassing their respective swing districts — including knocking on doors to survey constituents» concerns, registering new voters at farmers markets and recruiting locals to build up volunteer capacity inside the targeted districts.

A total number of 15, 712, 499 registered voters will be expected to cast their ballots when polls open at 7 am across the country.

To help take the load off those folks, Reform Party members from across the country sprang into action, working with state members to obtain the documentation required to ensure the members and voters of Louisiana would still have a Reform choice for President at the ballot box.

Voters sprinkled across the vast Adirondacks and environs «are demanding working class representation from someone who has survived a few North Country winters and knows the problems we face every day,» she said, an evident dig at Stefanik's Albany area roots.

Sunday May 8 is the last day of the Electoral Commissions» Voter registration exercise which is aimed at registering first time voters across the country.

There are 12 million registered voters and 22,000 polling stations across the country, which will open at 0700GMT.

«With New York state having one of the lowest voter turnouts across the country, we must address these reform and make them a reality,» said Onondaga County Elections Commissioner Dustin Czarny at Wednesday's session.

At a news conference in Accra, EC Chairperson, Charlotte Osei says per the criteria, presidential candidates are expected to get 432 registered voters to endorse their nomination forms, and this must include two voters from every administrative district across the country.

It also presented a chance to double down on his credentials and position himself as a progressive leader for New York — and perhaps the nation — as he faces a primary challenge from the left and a crescendo of voters across the country, at least within his own party, who seem to have little appetite or patience for moderates.

When Nick Clegg stood on the stage at Sheffield Hallam on Friday morning and heard the declaration that he had lost his seat by 2,125 votes, he was a long way from the moment of political euphoria that produced «Cleggmania» and caused David Cameron, Gordon Brown and voters across the country to declare: «I agree with Nick».

The meeting was necessitated because hundreds of special voters who queued at polling stations across the country today [Thursday] could not cast their ballots during the special voting exercise.

This is a small improvement on our current system of first past the post, since it allows voters to rank candidates and reduces the need to vote tactically, but it does not address the crucial unfairness at the heart of our democracy which is that a party's share of seats in parliament does reflect the number of votes it receives across the country - a situation which leads to millions of wasted votes and a shameful system of «safe seats» where a donkey could be elected so long as they were wearing the right coloured rosette.

The reason for the spending orgy is easy to understand: education reform — at long last — has become an important issue with voters across the country.

So our counsel would be — to Republicans, to Democrats, to chairmen to ranking members to governors to state legislators — let's come together as Americans across the country at all levels of government and say how do we continue the American energy renaissance, creating those well - paying jobs, protecting our environment while we do it, but making it good for the American public, the American consumer and the American voter.»

Its divided political landscape — plus its sheer size — make Florida a good microcosm of voters» views on climate issues across the country, according to Barry Rabe, an expert on the politics of climate change at the University of Michigan and a fellow at the Brookings Institution.

The American political landscape is increasingly polarized, with almost every issue falling on one side or the other of the partisan divide.1 There is, however, at least one issue that unites voters across the country: early childhood education.