Sentences with phrase «votes during election»

He also makes the good point, paraphrasing from Tom Daschle, that it's not even true that politicians inherently shy away from controversial votes during election years — some of the most divisive legislation (welfare reform, Clean Air amendments, etc) passed during election years.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani casts his vote during elections for the parliament and Assembly of Experts, which has the power to appoint and dismiss the supreme leader, in Tehran February Continue Reading

If each person believes that his / her single vote will have no impact in the general outcome and decides not to vote during election days, will there be a single vote in the ballot box to declare someone a winner of any elections?

There are others who have no interest in getting themselves involved in the political decisions of their country which directly and indirectly involves voting during elections and most importantly making the world know their point of view during any key decision of government for the larger populace.

Getting yourself involved in the governance of your country is an individual right that must be well expressed and voting during an election must be well exercised with moral and civic responsibility as a citizen of a State.

Do you know the number of people who have traveled outside the country and would be coming home to cast their vote during the elections?»

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However, the vote is likely to happen in the early part of 2016, during an election year.

Last year hackers infiltrated many state and local election databases in the U.S. during the lead - up to last year's vote.

During a surreal exchange, anchor David Muir grilled Trump over his continued spreading of the falsehood that millions of illegal ballots were cast in the 2016 election, which Trump had previously said was the reason for Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton beating him in the popular vote by 3 million ballots.

While Florida remains the only swing state that's still too close to call, Obama bested his Republican challenger Mitt Romney regardless, as he raked in at least 303 electoral votes during yesterday's election.

Corporate voting season is already well underway behind the scenes, and, actions you take during these contests could be just as important as the mid-term election votes cast in November.

The data leak is just the most recent example of abuse on the site, following reports of Russian meddling during the 2016 U.S. presidential election and controversial Brexit vote in the UK.

How Apps Are Shaping The 2012 Election (EngineYard via Mashable) Here's how the U.S. has used mobile apps, in both sending and consuming information, during the 2012 election season so far: 70 % of the most active iPhone states (New York, California, Illinois) tend to vote Democrat, while 70 % of the most active Android states (Colorado, Arizona, Georgia) tend to vote RepElection (EngineYard via Mashable) Here's how the U.S. has used mobile apps, in both sending and consuming information, during the 2012 election season so far: 70 % of the most active iPhone states (New York, California, Illinois) tend to vote Democrat, while 70 % of the most active Android states (Colorado, Arizona, Georgia) tend to vote Repelection season so far: 70 % of the most active iPhone states (New York, California, Illinois) tend to vote Democrat, while 70 % of the most active Android states (Colorado, Arizona, Georgia) tend to vote Republican.

When asked whether he would vote for Trump again during the 2020 elections, Niemeyer pauses — and then clarifies that while he voted for Trump, he was not 100 % behind the candidate — but thought him better than the alternatives.

Cambridge Analytica is accused of collecting the personal information of 50 million users of the Facebook social network without their consent and would have used it to develop software to predict and influence voter voting during the campaign American election according to the New York Times and the Guardian.

If a strike is made during election day that prohibits voting or redirects the focus off the democratic process through fear and spectacle though, leaked documents are likely the least of the culprit's worries.

While I understand that the NDP must feel intense pressure to capture votes — including from people who have never taken a course from John Smithin — I often wish that the NDP would show a bit more policy leadership on the issue of the deficit and debt. I was particularly disappointed during the 2008 federal election campaign when Mr. Layton stated, unequivocally, that the NDP would not run a deficit in the following year if elected (even though it was clear that Canada was entering a recession).

As a result, the Opposition parties will likely vote against the bill and the Harper Government will again use this against them during the upcoming election campaign.

[53] Recent examples illustrate how advertising tools on social media have been exploited to spread disinformation during the 2016 U.S. presidential elections and the Brexit referendum: «Russian Twitter Trolls Meddled in the Brexit Vote.

Schaffner says that before Obama's election, political scientists believed that «when candidates used language during a campaign, or during a debate, that was explicitly racist, voters would indicate that they liked that candidate less and were less likely to vote for them.

Isikoff then dived into the controversy about Russia's role in the election and the role specifically of Cambridge Analytica, a London - based company that uses data mining and data analysis to create so - called psychographic profiles of voters to predict their vote — and which Parscale had hired during the campaign.

The hashtag #DeleteFacebook is trending since the news broke out that data of 50 million users were harvested by the data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica during 2016 US presidential elections in a bid to manipulate votes.

The vote was taken in the Bundestag in Berlin during the last session of the German parliament before federal elections in September.

Bush won by 537 votes - while a get - out - the - vote phone bank contacted 23,000 Muslims in one day during elections in 2008 and 2010, the report says.

Although many outside the US are drawing conclusions about Americans based on our presidential candidates, they might be surprised to learn that only 14 per cent of eligible voters chose either Clinton or Trump during the primary elections, (where both parties vote to nominate a candidate to represent them in the general election) and less than 30 per cent of eligible Americans voted at all.

Everything I ever needed to know about voting and evangelicals came from watching exit polls during the presidential election of 2004.

During my year in Italy when the blood failed to liquefy, the priest announced that this sign indicated God's displeasure over the large communist vote the public opinion polls were predicting for the upcoming national parliamentary elections.

@ Bill Deacon, Sorry Bill, but during the last last Bush election, the catholic church ordered their membership to vote against the democratic candidate in violation of their 501c3 status, not support a candidate but an order.

During elections, the demand of high principle all of a sudden finds itself situated in the midst of the most base and baseless tactics of electioneering, fund raising, and vote grabbing.

The image of a woman who is battered for 20 years by her clergyman husband and who would forgive him, «because the Bible tells her to,» the image of a young mother and father who can not understand why their three - year - old daughter was sexually abused in the day care center to which they had entrusted her each morning; the image of a woman who was sacked from the women's program of her church because she refused to comply to the request of the president of the church that she and the other women vote for him in his election campaign; the image of a 14 - year - old migrant domestic worker who faces the death sentence on trumped up charges, because she would not give in to the sexual demands of her employer; the image of a male priest of a church saying that every time he beats his wife she should thank him, because she is one step closer to salvation; or the priest who would make sexual advances on a woman who out of vulnerability turns to the church for pastoral comfort... these are but a glimpse of the many such images that are gathered during the course of this Decade.

During the Obama election years, as many as a quarter of evangelicals voted Democrat; with Clinton, it was nearly 10 percentage points less than that.

and after listening to my local priest proclaim that he was a Republican during his homilies and after getting a last minute «YOU know who your pastoral conscience suggests you vote for» at the last mass before the election, and after reading all the pronouncements by the us conference of bishops as they were published throughout the election year, I know that THE BISHOPS WERE WAY TOO PARTISAN AND AS A CATHOLIC IT OFFENDS ME THAT THE BISHOPS THINK SO POORLY OF THE POLITICAL JUDGEMENT OF CATHOLICS THAT THEY HAVE TO BE TOLD WHO TO VOTE vote for» at the last mass before the election, and after reading all the pronouncements by the us conference of bishops as they were published throughout the election year, I know that THE BISHOPS WERE WAY TOO PARTISAN AND AS A CATHOLIC IT OFFENDS ME THAT THE BISHOPS THINK SO POORLY OF THE POLITICAL JUDGEMENT OF CATHOLICS THAT THEY HAVE TO BE TOLD WHO TO VOTE VOTE FOR.

During the week, however, they engage in political campaigns, vote in elections, decry the emergence of hereditary dynasties and resist the centralization of power.

The Sun Herald reported on December 20 that the Australian Beverages Council had threatened to run attack advertising against the Baird Government during the March election if cabinet voted in favour of a container deposit policy.

From the dinner table to carpool lines to the voting booth, children engaged with their parents about the candidates and the campaign more than they might have during previous presidential elections.

When a referendum is held during a general election as it was here, the judge said «the referendum vote count must be related to the total votes cast in the general election.

For instance, during the 2005 election campaign we found between 58 % and 62 % of voters said they were certain to vote, and actual turnout was 61 %.

Consisting of 25 images, one for each day of the election campaign plus one taken during the height of the coalition talks, Roberts focused on the relationship between canvassing politicians and the voting public.

As for what «we're going to have a problem» might mean, Durant told me «yes» votes on raising taxes will «definitely going to take into consideration moving forward,» which could be particularly bad for the Senate Republicans, who got a big boost from the business community — Unshackle Upstate, NFIB and the Business Council — during the 2010 elections.

Our inability to coexist in my views may not be the only hurdle against 2019 general election as the age - long underage registration / voting challenge mooted above raised its ugly head in a recent but still trending video captured during a registration exercise and a local council poll in some states.

During the Congressional primary election in June, roughly 300 Republicans in the village of Ballston Spa in Saratoga County should have had a chance to vote in the primary race between Matt Doheny and Kellie Greene.

Twitter said that during the election campaign, it removed tweets «that were attempting to suppress or otherwise interfere with the exercise of voting rights, including the right to have a vote counted, by circulating intentionally misleading information.»

Furthermore, many governors disappointed in their role as «locomotives» during the December 2011 election, failing to meet their United Russia vote quotas while being indiscreet in their attempts at electoral manipulation.

Gregg Phillips, whom Trump has promoted as an authority on voter fraud, was registered to vote in multiple states during the 2016 presidential election, according to the AP.

Recent stark examples of the absurdity in a «winner - takes - all» system occurred in Florida and New Mexico during the 2000 presidential election when candidate George W. Bush won both states by a fraction of a percentage point, but gained the total number of each state's electoral votes.

And the Labour Party, which had opposed the referendum during the election campaign, has now come out in support of the vote.

He does not like Igbo people, he feels they did not vote for him and if you check the local government area the market is located, you will find out that All Progressives Congress, APC, lost there during the governorship and presidential elections, so the demolition did not come as a surprise to us.»

This group of voters became dissatisfied with the Westminster government during the Thatcher era, felt forgotten by New Labour, and voted Scottish Nationalist Party (SNP) en - masse in the 2011 Scottish Parliament election.

Subsequently, votes would be distributed to candidates on a proportional basis: candidates would receive a fraction of the electoral votes of each state, equivalent to the percentage of the popular vote they garnered during the election.

Since the Supreme Court has now prevented itself from acknowledging the question of whether Barack H. Obama is or is not an Article II «natural born citizen» based on the Kenyan / British citizenship of Barack Obama's father at the time of his birth (irrespective of whether Barack Obama is deemed a «citizen» born in Hawaii or otherwise) as a prerequisite to qualifying to serve as President of the United States under the Constitution — the Court having done so at least three times and counting, first before the Nov 4 general election and twice before the Dec 15 vote of the College of Electors — it would seem appropriate, if not necessary, for all Executive Branch departments and agencies to secure advance formal advice from the United States Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel as to how to respond to expected inquiries from federal employees who are pledged to «support and defend the Constitution of the United States» as to whether they are governed by laws, regulations, orders and directives issued under Mr. Obama during such periods that said employees, by the weight of existing legal authority and prior to a decision by the Supreme Court, believe in good faith that Mr. Obama is not an Article II «natural born citizen».