Sentences with phrase «voters information about»

Springfield League of Women Voters members Gillian Hinkson (left) and Denise Hurst offer voters information about upcoming elections at a.

When you give voters information about what's going on, they certainly have an opinion about it, but with the lack of information most voters say «I just don't know enough about it, I don't really have a strong feeling, I just don't know what's going on.»

Not exact matches

Schwerin went on to say that adviser Minyon Moore had raised tough questions about the wisdom of making the speech because it could «unintentionally end up elevating questions that aren't yet being widely asked and introduce new damaging information, especially super predator, to a lot more voters.»

Politics today is more about crunching data — voter demographic information, tracking what individual voters care about, and campaign donation histories — and then acting on it.

Its report about Facebook covering the period from 2015 to 2017 — a time during which Cambridge Analytica may have tapped Facebook data to create «psychographic» profiles of voters — found that Facebook's privacy controls «were operating with sufficient effectiveness,» according to copies of its reviews obtained through open - records requests by the Electronic Privacy Information Center, or EPIC, a watchdog group.

A voter - profiling company was able to harvest data of 50 million Facebook profiles even though only about 270,000 users agreed to hand over their information.

Which does rather underline CA's priorities in this project: Obtain, as fast as possible, lots of personal data on US voters, but don't worry much about keeping that personal information safe.

«That is an explicit acknowledgment that this payment was about the election and was about hiding information from voters immediately before the presidential election,» said Paul S. Ryan, vice president of policy and litigation at watchdog group Common Cause, which filed a legal claim over the payment.

Kogan's app also provided access to «more limited information about friends who had their privacy settings set to allow it,» Grewal wrote — aka friends of friends — which allowed Cambridge to build profiles for millions of potential voters.

Facebook has faced a global outcry and sharp questions about its privacy safeguards after reports revealed that an independent researcher passed information covering some 50m users to the consulting firm Cambridge Analytica, which were then used by Donald Trump's campaign team to target swing voters in the 2016 presidential election.

Dahl then zeroed in on television coverage: «Voters are asked to make judgments about the character of the candidates — without real discussion, with advertising and sound bites that trivialize their differences and give limited and prejudicial information.

We're just proud as hell to be one of the first to provide this information in a way that actually allows the average voter to sort of «meet» their candidates and hear them give their take on actual questions about issues relevant to them — especially since these days, people get more and more of their information online.

The more candidates a voter has to consider, the less likely a voter is to make an informed decision about any of those candidates and the harder it is for the media to communicate information about the people who represent the voter to the voter so that the voter may make referendum style decisions to vote out a bum who is underperforming or acting contrary to the voter's wishes.

At a news conference on Wednesday, NDC's General Secretary, Johnson Asiedu Nketia, demanded the arrest of Dr. Bawumia for allegedly falsifying information to buttress a claim of the NPP that there were about 76,000 Togolese in Ghana's voters» register.

Another consideration: just about any campaign can also benefit from having a body of clear, topical and targeted content on published on the web in a variety of outlets, since voters, bloggers and journalists alike will be turning to Google and other search engines for basic information about races and candidates.

Imagine having to go to a voter face - to - face, get an e-signature from that person allowing you to hold information about him or her and then having to follow up that contact with an email confirmation from them that they agreed to this.

When Zephyr Teachout looked at the Republican candidates» sites from the point of view of an undecided voter a few weeks ago, she pointed out how few made it easy to find basic information about why someone SHOULD support the candidate.

Voters are most concerned about the issues (i.e., they're more often searching for information about issues rather than directly for information about a given candidate)

Or perhaps the Russians obtained information about voters (e.g. by hacking the state election system) that the campaign then used.

More likely, however, the campaign might offer exclusive information about the campaign or promise the voter that they will be the first to know about important developments in the race [Ed.

At one of this year's many data - focused Netroots Nation panels, former Obama data guru Ethan Roeder noted something about the effective use of voter - targeting technologies: that's it's less about the data itself, and more about creating a culture of letting the information in...

Imagine a scenario in which you needed to have a confirmed, double opt - in from a voter to hold any information about that person.

It is right that Scottish voters are given as much information as possible about the likely outcome of a «yes» vote.

Regardless of their size, though, just about any campaign can also benefit from having a body of clear, topical and targeted content on the web in a variety of outlets, since voters, bloggers and journalists alike will be turning to Mr. Google for basic information about local races.

Some of this data would have been recognizable to party operatives at the turn of the 19th century, such as voter files that contain information about the party registration and issue interests of citizens.

The «Mobile Pollwatcher» integrates with the VAN voter database so that ALL Democratic campaigns can share information about which voters need a little nudge to get them to the polls.

As a member of the PartyBuilder rapid response group, we'll send you important information about the 2008 Republican presidential candidates — when they mislead voters, completely change positions on the issues, or pander to special interests.

If past is prologue, campaigns have very little concrete history to work with when it comes to individual voters — which is one reason that canvassing and phone - banking are so important, since each one has the potential to yield significantly more information about a voter's beliefs and intentions than a campaign will otherwise have access to.

Campaigns have also used search ads as a electoral turnout tool, connecting voters with information about their polling places or last - minute volunteer opportunities.

Then, the established state senator can create a subscription share that actually sends some, all, or limited information about those voters directly to the other campaign.

The introduction of YouGov polling will give the Cameron leadership a new source of information about issues that voters are discussing, how they perceive the party and the most streetwise language that the party should be using.

Voters can connect with candidates and learn about their positions, find their poll site, and access a full range of voting information.

Vote splitting most easily occurs in plurality voting because the ballots don't gather any information about the secondary preferences of the voters.

«By requiring nonprofits to disclose the extent and nature of their electioneering activities, we are protecting prospective donors from misleading solicitations, and giving voters more information about who is behind many of the ads they will see in this year's elections,» Schneiderman stated.

Do you have a contact you could ask about what the registrar of voters does with the information you collect?

I was intending to talk about using computers to handle voter information, not about computers to record votes, which isn't really relevant.

A new PPP poll finds only 45 percent of Trump voters believe Donald Trump Jr. had a meeting with Russians about information that might be harmful to Hillary Clinton... even though Trump Jr. admitted it.

The Deliberation Day event aims to cut through the spin and biased information coming from the campaigning groups by encouraging all voters to spend a day learning and deliberating about the issue.

How can an election have «integrity» if voters haven't accessed reliable information about the candidates and issues that public office would enable them to address?

We can imagine the kind of queries that these candidates might have purchased, for instance «voter guides,» «election,» «voting» and of course the candidates» own names and those of their opponents (the folks at Google could no doubt help, since they could dig up information about what search terms people tend to use when they're researching candidates).

This profoundly granular information about individual voters and their preferences helped the campaign focus persuasion work on the persuadable and GOTV on the voters likely to vote for their guy.

The takeaway: Down - ballot campaigners are really using data, and they want advanced options for tracking and using information about voters, supporters and donors.

It's a great tool for down - ballot campaigns, since targeted search ads can catch voters, journalists, bloggers and other influentials when they're actively looking for information about the race.

Summer's site is trying to put out good and clear information about elections around the country, while also providing candidates a platform to reach voters in addition to their own websites and other online channels.

«The Electoral Commission recommended that the government should arrange for a booklet to be sent to voters with information about all police and crime commissioner candidates in their area,» chief executive Peter Wardle said.

The information request is «what % of voters say they voted tactically in 2010», which is a question about voting behaviour under the current system.

The board's much - maligned Primary Day performance is also being audited by the office of Scott Stringer, the NYC comptroller, who released an online form for voters to submit information about their experiences.

You can also argue that it implies a unfair balance of powers between voters who have a good information about the other voters» ballots and those who don't (among other problems).

It is notable that voters complained about the lack of hard information even at a late stage in the campaign.

The first was detailed information about every potential Conservative voter in each of the marginal seats.