Sentences with phrase «voters participation rates»
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.»
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«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.
Horner said, «New York is really notorious in terms of having difficult obstacles for voters to surmount in order to vote,» and that the rules contribute to New York having one of the «lowest voter participation rates in the country.»
Senate Democratic Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins said it confirms what she already knew: New York's voter participation rate is abysmal.
Senate Democratic Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins says it confirms what she already knew - New York's voter participation rate is abysmal.