Sentences with phrase «voters participation»

The latter reform has been shown to have the greatest impact on increasing voter participation, particularly among young voters, new residents, and immigrants.

Lost taxes, more demand for social services, and lower voter participation convey to the community.

Political scientists have studied why people don't vote and some effective ways to improve voter participation.

The only holiday we're talking about is the day of the actual election, but counting primaries and run - offs there could be more days throughout the year that require voter participation.

With that being said, there are certainly a few factors that can either increase or decrease voter participation, especially in the times we find ourselves in now.

But let's say voter participation were greater in school board elections and meetings.

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.

There are three major reasons, in my opinion, that contribute to the lack of voter participation in elections, and they are these; 1) Eligible voters believe that their votes count for nothing, that their votes will not have any effect on the outcome, 2) That many, if not most, politicians are sadly the same (in it for their own personal gain, be it fame, a stepping - stone toward future appointments, or simply to satisfy their uber egos).

We need same - day registration, early voting, and nonpartisan elections to encourage voter participation in New York, which lags behind most states in America.

New York could dramatically boost voter participation by holding elections on weekends, according to a new field survey by state Senate Democrats.

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 could dramatically boost voter participation by holding elections on weekends, according to a new survey.

Augustine believes the group's aggressive efforts to encourage greater voter participation yielded results.

«Right now, our state ranks near the bottom of the country for voter participation,» said Kallos.

And he said laws that have resulted in New York's third - worst voter participation in the nation and fifth - worst voter registration numbers need to be changed.

Staffers for several lawmakers said they were not available to be interviewed about voter participation including Sen. Robert Ortt, R - Niagara County.

«I think we're going to have a bigger turnout than we expected,» he said, despite predictions of dismal voter participation in the rare June primary.

, a nonpartisan group working to increase American voter participation.

Independent Belize is a member of the Commonwealth of Nations and a parliamentary democracy with a proud record of high voter participation and free and fair elections.

Declining voter participation among the young.

«We would hope the Gentile campaign would want to encourage voter participation as much as we do.»

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

«This legislation, aimed to simplify the voting process and improve voter accessibility, will give citizens a better opportunity to participate in the democratic process by increasing voter participation across New York State,» said Cusick, in a statement.

Again, the conclusion of their work was that Facebook's get - out - the - vote message could have driven a substantial chunk of the increase in youth voter participation in the 2012 general election.

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.

For some reason I've become obsessed with NYS Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's recent order ending «English - only» elections in ten upstate counties by applying a federal law enacted to ensure voter participation by American citizens of Puerto Rican heritage that... Continue reading →

D4D thanks advisory committee member, Rachel Comey, who hosted the event, and Christene Barberich, Stacy London & Arden Wohl for their inspiration, hard work and deep generosity in putting their vintage collections to work to promote voter participation for 2017 and 2018.

After a series of phone conversations with company officials that began in August 2015, Flaxman came to Starbucks headquarters in December to talk with chairman and ceo Howard Schultz and other leaders about what he and his team considered a wildly ambitious goal: TurboVote would help lift voter participation to 75 percent, at a date to be determined.

Gateway is aiming for 100 percent voter participation among its 36,000 members this fall.

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.»

Allowing voting during the week preceding an election — including on the weekend — would enable more New Yorkers to vote, and bring New York closer to the goal of full voter participation.

«He's supposed to be guaranteeing maximum voter participation and his statements and his values obviously indicate he's not trying to do that,» de Blasio said.

A lot of research on voter participation mentions...

«Anything that can be done to improve New York's appalling voter participation rate is worth doing,» said Blair Horner, executive director of the New York Public Interest Research Group, a nonprofit that advocates for better election laws.

«If voter participation rates are an indicator of the body politics» health, then we have a grave illness that needs our attention,» Miner said, according to a transcript of her testimony from her press office.

«Indeed, such electronically - facilitated voter registration is, in our opinion, consistent with the express legislative policy of encouraging the broadest possible voter participation in elections,» Sheingold said.

Mayor Bloomberg today unveiled a host of reforms designed to increase voter participation while releasing a report that demonstrates New York has the most restrictive election policies in the country and decades of declining voter turnout.

* I'm thinking of metrics like voter participation, party membership, candidate recruitment, donations, willingness to work in civil service or the legal profession, etc., but I'm not sure what metrics are actually relevant or are used by experts, so I defer to the answers and their references for how to measure this.

On an island where voter participation often hovers around 80 percent, just 23 percent of registered voters cast ballots.

The impact can affect everything from voter participation levels to dissuading some people from entering public service.

Tuesday's turnout continues a sad trend of poor voter participation.

Proponents have argued that the change will boost sliding voter participation — something the commission is «deeply concerned» about, Charter Revision Commission Chair Matthew Goldstein has said.

A report from VOTE, a Boston nonprofit that assists with voter participation efforts, found that New York ranked 41st in the country in voter turnout for the 2016 election.

While early voting will reduce barriers for those who are already registered, Mr. David wonders whether it will build actual voter participation numbers.

Barbara Grosh, director of the League of Women Voters, says the alliance plans to continue its efforts to bring up voter participation through October.

«New York's voter participation lags behind other states not because we are apathetic, but because our process is too restrictive - especially for already marginalized communities.

Smartphone - based voting apps could help raise voter participation, if they can overcome a few hurdles