Sentences with phrase «when voter»

When a voter casts their ballot for only one candidate instead of two, that vote automatically receives a greater percentage of all ballots cast.

A lot of computer security experts do not think any current offering of Internet voting is sufficiently secure — and many do not trust most implementations of electronic voting, even when the voter comes to a polling station to vote.

When the voter signs into the system to cast their vote, their personal data (or outer envelope) is added to the initial encrypted vote.

That was certainly true in 2010, when a voter backlash against Obamacare triggered a wave of Republican victories, especially at the state level, which in turn set the stage for major progress on education reform priorities in 2011 (rightfully dubbed «the year of school choice» by the Wall Street Journal).

When a voter castes a vote for a candidate, legally the voter is not casting a vote for a direct vote for a candidate, but rather for a slate of electors pledged to that candidate.

The Electoral Reform Society has proposed the abolition of proxy voting in the UK except in special circumstances such as when the voter is abroad.

On September 8, the New York State Board of Elections settled the lawsuit that had been brought by the Conservative Party, the Working Families Party, and the Taxpayers Party, on the subject of how to count votes when a voter erroneously casts two votes (one vote under each party label) for a single candidate.

At the same time, Schneiderman wants to implement a system of permanent registration by having the state Board of Elections and local boards update registration when a voter who gives their consent moves.

In 2015, it felt like the rest of the nation was getting to experience a little bit of my job when this voter (at 1:10) on the BBC's Question Time special tore into Ed over Labour spending.

It's hard to believe that the makers of optical scanners (a) didn't anticipate the possibility of double voting and (b) couldn't write a simple software patch (even now before the election) to reject forms with double votes when the voter feeds it into the machine.

In 2008, when voter turnout rates were at or around record highs, fewer than half (44.9 percent) of adults in households making less than $ 30,000 per year voted, according to Census Bureau data.

Sen. Neil Breslin, who, as I mentioned earlier today, is facing an active primary challenger in Luke Martland, has been striving to put some distance between himself and the dysfunction of his Democratic conference at a time when voter disgust with Albany — and incumbents in general — is running very high.

(The same thing happens when a voter makes an unconventional vote, of course — he or she gets mocked and ridiculed for not thinking like the rest of the pack, and his or her legitimacy as a voter is questioned.

California bit off a lot to chew when voters approved passage of Prop 64 in 2016.

In any ostensibly democratic system, it is a good thing when the voters take the time to show up and ask hard questions.

He cast Clinton as a Washington insider, digging up past scandals and reframing her decades in the political arena as a liability in a year when voters voiced increasing frustration with the political status quo.

According to the last seven polls — spanning from July 2014 to November 2015 — conduced by the French public - opinion institute Ifop, Le Pen has led each time when voters are asked, «If the next presidential election was next week, which candidate would have the best chance of getting your vote?»

Even when voters seek redress for high unemployment or inflation, it's based on buying into a short term narrative that is successfully sold by the winning party, not previous experience.

«When voters look into the facts, we believe they'll see this measure is bad for California,» Fairbanks said.

Rathgeber proves to be a reliable political barometer at a time when voters demand transparency.

They think voters are fed up with the chaos in the White House and Trump's behavior, and that will matter more when voters enter the polls than the level of the stock market or how many jobs there are.

Candidates say things that they will not defend (or try to fake their way out of) in the general election, and, in return, populist conservatives get, at most, a momentary rush of solidarity when the voters are not watching.

When voters hear a politician mention compassion, they reach for their pocket books» not to give but to make sure they are still there.

When voters in Florida were approving a lottery, a survey found that the majority believed the lottery was going to pay the major portion of the state budget for education.

### College Education When voters without a college degree, with a four - year degree and with a post-grad degree were asked how many of their five closest friends had a four - year degree, the differences were stark.

It emerges during periods when voters feel vulnerable and need to be reassured that their identities will be supported, not that their interests will be served.

Then when the voters wont pony up for funds he halls ass out of town like he's always wanted to.

First 5 California was established in 1998 when voters passed Proposition 10, which taxes tobacco products to fund services for children ages 0 to 5 and their families.

The latest defeat came in April 1993, when voters turned down a proposal to construct two water theme parks, one on each side of the Northwest Tollway, for a total cost of $ 6.5 million.

Nationwide, districts regularly get punitive when the voters dare to say no to them.

It's the second contract since 2012, when voters approved the program to allow the village to bid for rates by pooling residents and small business customers.

We're confident that when voters are reminded Democrats raised taxes and spending by $ 14 billion, and brought dysfunction and disgrace to the New York State Senate in their two disastrous years in the majority, they'll vote overwhelmingly to keep Republicans in charge.»

Election campaigns are meant to build up to the messy climax of election night, when voters set the country on a decisive course by clearly indicating their will to politicians.

Owens is up 44 - 39 when voters are informed that a third candidate, Doug Hoffman, whom Doheny defeated in the GOP primary on Sept. 14, is no longer in the race on the Conservative Party line.

Carl Paladino argues in an LA Times profile that the personal failings of elected officials should not be considered when voters are trying to decide whether they're qualified to hold elected office, and cites former Gov. Eliot Spitzer as an example of someone forced to resign when he should not have.

A concrete goal has been crucial, both when the proposed referendum to enable re-election was rejected in 2007, or when voters participated in a plebiscite with the explicit goal of asking for the restoration of democracy in July 2017.

This is because when voters are not really voting for a presidential candidate but instead voting to select the representative that will represent their state at the Electoral College.

So how do the two main political parties fare when voters are asked to evaluate their policies towards business?

Peter Kelner has suggested that we might be reaching a turning point in the polls - when voters» nerves shift the polls towards a remain position.

Graham Allen, chair of the political and constitutional reform committee, hasn't been particularly happy with the debate about what exactly happens when the voters return a hung parliament.

Clinton is also a political insider at a time when voters have very little trust in government.

The Survation poll commissioned by Unite union found the Lib Dems are on just 23 % behind Labour on 33 % in the seat, when voters were asked about their constituency vote.

Edwards is currently the Chautauqua County Executive but gained statewide notoriety when voters chose him to run as Carl Paladino's running mate during the last gubernatorial election.

So with Messer out, the «primary vote» will be safe for Senator Stavisky putting S.J in a perpetual uphill climb: registering new voters and pulling them out on election day, which is not as easy as it sounds epecially when voters doubt a challenger's ability to trounce an incumbent of this magnitude.

It's up to Cuomo to decide whether to appoint Singas, or someone else, as district attorney to fill in until November, when voters make a choice.

When voters in four U.S. states — Colorado, Washington, Alaska and Oregon — approved recreational marijuana sales, part of the appeal was the promise of a new revenue source to buoy cash - strapped cities and states.

It's easier to run a local campaign during a by - election, when voters are picking an MP, not a government.

When voters were asked if Governor Cuomo and the legislature should give campaign finance reform the highest priority, a high priority but not the highest, or a lower priority; 31 percent rated it as the highest priority and 37 percent as a high priority.

In the period between now and when the voters, trade unionists and party members start to realise this, Blair will use the good will he starts out with to move as fast as possible — starting at this year's conference — to suppress the mechanisms whereby alternative policies could be expressed within the Labour Party.

He won by over 11,000 two years later, but Democrats are optimistic his seat will be winnable in a presidential year, when their voters usually turn out at higher numbers.