Sentences with phrase «voters vote their interests»

Black voters like any other voters vote their interests.

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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.»

South Dakota voters approved a ballot initiative in 2016 by a 75 percent vote to cap rates for payday, car title and installment loans at 36 percent annual interest.

But it's not exactly rocket science that religion can be used to manipulate more ignorant voters into voting against their economic interests.

In order to get a large number of people whom they regard as undereducated, easily led sheep to vote against their own best interests, they push emotional buttons, invoking images of Jesus and helpless babies, to make voters think this is what they stand for and want to protect.

It would be interesting to know what percentage of eligible voters vote in North Dakota as compared with the states in which registration is required.

So Labour need to get to the disaffected voters who maybe voted Labour in the past and not anymore; they also need to get to those who are not even interested in politics.

More broadly, it means the possibility always exists that it's in a voter's interest to vote in a way that doesn't reflect their true preferences; in other words, tactical voting is always a factor in elections.

The parties also have a long - term interest in engaging the voters who are entering the electorate: we may live in an ageing society, but many of the voters who are eligible for the first time in 2015 will be around to vote in the next twelve or fifteen general elections.

(Albany, NY)-- One day after being appointed Ranking Democratic Member of the New York State Senate Elections Committee, Senator Brian Kavanagh today joined with fellow legislators and advocates — including the Brennan Center for Justice, Citizen Action of New York, Citizens Union, Common Cause / NY, the League of Women Voters of New York State, the New York Public Interest Research Group (NYPIRG), Planned Parenthood, and Transportation Workers United Local 100 and colleagues in the Senate to urge Governor Andrew Cuomo to fully fund early voting in the Fiscal 2018 - 2019 Executive Budget.

[1] More generally, the key voters are Labour supporters who are voting in the local / devolved parliament elections and who aren't interested in electoral reform.

He emphasized that elected officials should look beyond their own self - interest and vote for election and voting reform, and that voters need to speak up.

James Freedland, a spokesman for attorney general candidate state Sen. Eric T. Schneiderman (D - Manhattan), who voted in 20 of 24 years since registering said: «It's up to Ms. Rice to explain to New York's Democratic primary voters why they should choose a longtime Republican who never participated in the civic process until it served her own political self - interest.»

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Asked how he could possibly ask Labour voters to vote for him when he spent most of the last week encouraging a Labour candidate to stand against him, Mr Davis replied: «I'm asking everybody and we've had support from Tories, of course, Liberal activists, people who say «I've voted Labour all my life» and - most interestingly of all - people who said I've never taken an interest in politics all my life but this has galvanised my interest.»

«Many undecided voters are telling us that they will definitely cast their vote, and how the campaigns address their interests is likely to have a big influence on the final outcome.»

Indeed, pollsters often complain that voters claim that this or that issue will determine which party they vote for, but their behaviour shows that they're more interested in backing whoever is best for their wallet.

but lacks strength on the East side of town.finding the additional Voters who will Vote... will be a interesting Quest....

It is interesting to note that these disenfranchised voters weren't poor people who couldn't vote, they were working class people who hadn't bothered to vote... until sufficient motivation was presented.

«New York ranks consistently as one of the nation's worst in terms of voter participation, driven by state laws that create obstacles to voting,» said Megan Ahearn, program director for the New York Public Interest Research Group, «Much of the rest of the nation has developed practices that improve voter turnout.

To make a point about reigning in special interests, the League of Women Voters» legislative director Barbara Bartoletti likes to point out that legislators are more likely to die or be indicted than to be voted out of office.

Fourthly, Lib Dem and swing voters especially will not forgive Lib Dems for precipitating the demise of the Coalition government, probably two years before it is due to end, not on a point of principle, such as on tuition fees, tax policy, social policy like gay marriage, Trident, the European treaty veto or the health or welfare bills but on... an issue of narrow partisan electoral self interest, i.e. unhappiness at boundary changes (which they had already voted for in February 2011).

It will fall to the campaigns and outside interests to bring out these potential voters, which is where an enthusiasm gap, Mayer's name recognition and a handful of other variables — as trivial as the weather to as unlikely as the issues — will determine who actually comes out to vote.

Warning that current Prime Minister Theresa May could be using the vote to attempt to win herself a «mandate for Brexit Means Brexit aka Brexit At Any Cost», he urged voters consider whether their chosen candidates would be «prepared to hold the Government properly to account in the interests of the country».

Rural voters may or may not vote based on their economic interest, but economics in cities have generally deteriorated under Democrat policies, but it hasn't had a noticeable affect on voting preferences.

In other words, I'm interested in the elections where the main / only reason one can assume for the low turnout is voter apathy / bad set of choices to vote for / general - low - election - participation culture.

But a last - minute ad campaign by labor unions and other interest groups ultimately dissuaded voters for voting «yes» on the ballot question.

If anything can convince like minded voters that it is in their interests to vote Conservative rather than UKIP, it is the sight of the likes of Daniel Hannan telling Brown a few home truths!

Hopefully the voters of the 79th AD will read it because they may find themselves voting in the most interesting Bronx race in the 2014 NYS primaries.

The DNC's system, known as the Voter Activation Network is a mammoth, ongoing database that has been tracking the interests, voting histories, family circumstances and much more on more than 150 million voters since 2006.

«The party has lost its way because of lazy leaders who have ignored the sensible voters who make up the base of the party and have instead given too much influence to outside interest groups who bought their loyalty with the promise of easy votes.»

One of the more - interested observers of last Tuesday's election results was Zephyr Teachout, who helped crystallize the voter discontent with Governor Cuomo during her Democratic primary run that contributed to Green Party candidate Howie Hawkins — who got even less exposure to the electorate than she did — capturing 5 percent of the ballots for Governor, tripling his vote total from four years earlier.

The spokeswoman for Election Justice U.S.A., a voting rights advocacy group that put together a lawsuit against the state's Board of Elections for voter registration issues, said she is «concerned» about a possible conflict of interest with Stringer.

Since last year's final polls David Cameron has been targetting the Lib Dems, appealling for defections — it will be interesting to see if next year the Lib Dem vote is squeezed by a resurgent Conservative party (or, if Tony Blair does step down, by anti-war Labour protest voters returning to the fold) or whether they manage to hold onto and consolidate their support.

While Labour voters have always voted for the party because they believe Labour will look after them better than the Tories, it's self - interest, they have few if any socialist convictions, as we saw with the recent drift to UKIP.

And New York State voters should accept the truth that the Legislature itself will never seriously vote against its members» self - interest to make progress on ethics or electoral reform.

Nick Sparrow's response to the 2001 survey is worth quoting at length «According to this research voter apathy is the least important reason for not voting; only 10 % of the Electoral Commission sample of non-voters replied that the reason they hadn't voted was because they were «not interested».

The first real shot was fired recently from the Fabian Society in an interesting article by their relatively new General Secretary Andrew Harrop, in which he introduced the concept of Ed's Converts — 2010 Lib Dem voters who were now overwhelmingly voting Labour, and who were — on the whole — more left than right - wing on a range of issues.

«Whether it is breaking a promise to voters by voting to defund Planned Parenthood four times or the majority of special interest money bankrolling his campaign, it's clear that Katko answers to Washington, not central New York,» Lesswing said.

Moreover, such an outcome is in the national interest too: these voters are disadvantaged if one party believes they could be taken for granted, and the others that they are out - of - reach, so the convergence of majority and minority voting patterns over time should be seen as a positive indicator of integration.

«As the public gets more turned off you can see it in the voter turnout numbers, interest groups wield more clout, which further alienates the voting public.»

He's voted against the interests of New Jersey voters — against affordable health care, against a woman's right to choose, against gun safety.

In the future, United Russia has sometimes resorted to an «open» model of primaries, which allows voting to all interested voters.

It's interesting how the precursor leaders haven't been able to capitalize on their early support which is just another example to the vocal community during the first week of December, that nothing matters until the Oscar voters get to voting.

Campbell notes that the dominant interpretation in the political science literature of why people vote doesn't explain this voter: Hodgson was not protecting or advancing her interests, since she was new to the area and didn't know where various candidates stood on the issues that might affect her.

He is critical of «school boards that are elected with a fraction of the vote in voter turnout» and «special - interest groups» that lack a «unifying vision» to reform the system.

Voters, including union members, deserve the right to vote for a candidate who will look out for their interests, not just the option of choosing one failed politician over the other.

A coalition of «education reformers» and corporate executives in Fairfield Country are spending a record amount of money to convince Bridgeport voters that it is in their interest to VOTE YES on Question 1, although they go out of their way to make sure that voters don't understand that a YES vote on Question # 1 actually means the people give up their right to select who should oversee Bridgeport's schoVOTE YES on Question 1, although they go out of their way to make sure that voters don't understand that a YES vote on Question # 1 actually means the people give up their right to select who should oversee Bridgeport's schovote on Question # 1 actually means the people give up their right to select who should oversee Bridgeport's schools.

Never in history has there been so many democracies in the world, yet voters give very little thought to how they vote, and most of the thought they do give is selfish and short - sighted, consequently many countries are effectively run by moneyed interests rather than by «the will of the people».

Legal Issues Related to the Elections If you're more interested in election law than how the candidates would apply the law, check out these two posts: Discussion of how the outcome of voter registration lawsuits, now ongoing, may change the outcome of the election, from The Indiana Law Blog, and an analysis of laws addressing campaign activity within the vicinity of voting booths, from Timothy Zwick at Concurring Opinions.