Sentences with phrase «voters in each state drawn»

McDonald, instead, uses the total population of eligible voters in each state drawn from administrative records.

Not exact matches

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.»

Indeed, Mr. Skelos and his Republican colleagues drew a new State Senate district in southern Brooklyn this year and packed it with as many Orthodox Jewish voters as possible.

Harris involves state legislative maps drawn by Arizona's Independent Redistricting Commission, a voter - approved commission intended to limit partisanship in the map - drawing process.

Tenney, a state assemblywoman, had the support of 35 percent of likely voters in the Time Warner Cable News / Siena College poll, ahead of Democrat Kim Myers, the daughter of the founder of Dick's Sporting Goods, who drew 30 percent.

The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously endorsed election maps that bolster the growing political influence of America's Latinos, ruling that states can count everyone, not just eligible voters, in drawing voting districts.

The judges in the redistricting case, Reena Raggi and Gerard E. Lynch of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and Dora L. Irizarry of Federal District Court in Brooklyn, noted that the magistrate judge they assigned to draw the new map managed to do in just two weeks what lawmakers «have been unable, or unwilling, to provide New York State voters in more than a year.»

On the other, New Hampshire has demonstrated a strong affinity for McCain in 2000 and 2008 and, unlike many other states around the country, the Arizona senator could well fight Obama to a draw among the state's crucial independent voters.

Democrats blasted the move, and the timing of the announcement, saying Walker was trying to gin up conservative voters and draw attention away from an upset Democratic victory in a special state Senate election on Tuesday.

In August, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced a new initiative designed to lift the state's dismal voter registration numbers, and as the Oct. 12 deadline to register for next month's general election draws near, critics in Queens said there is no good reason those numbers should be so loIn August, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced a new initiative designed to lift the state's dismal voter registration numbers, and as the Oct. 12 deadline to register for next month's general election draws near, critics in Queens said there is no good reason those numbers should be so loin Queens said there is no good reason those numbers should be so low.

The former NYPD captain and state senator has stressed in Brooklyn political circles that as an African - American, he could pull minority votes from de Blasio while his police background would draw white voters.

On November 4, voters in New York will decide whether they want to amend the state's constitution to change the way Senate and Assembly lines are drawn.

Citizens Union and the League of Women Voters unveiled a new website Tuesday which presents their case in favor of a new commission to draw the state's legislative districts.

This partisan pact, which would amend the state constitution to create a lawmaker - appointed 10 - person panel to draw district lines, keeps in place the hyper - political process of allowing politicians to draw their own districts, choose their own voters and serve their own self - interests,» read Kellner's statement.

All 50 states use total population as their basis for drawing district lines, but the challengers said the rural state Senate districts in which they lived had vastly more eligible voters than urban districts, making their votes count for less, in violation of the Constitution.

The drawn - out primary cycle, scheduled to begin in February 2016 and lasting until June, affords a great deal of influence to a small number of voters in early primary states, such as Iowa and New Hampshire.

Subsequent protests labeled the «Blackout 505 Movement» led by Anwar Ibrahim drew hundreds of thousands of disgruntled voters to the streets, however the Malaysian government responded by persecuting and jailing numerous opposition activists, underscoring the tenuous state of political rights and civil liberties in the country.

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