Sentences with phrase «which registered voters»

Primary: A primary election is an election in which registered voters select a candidate that they believe should be a political party's candidate for elected office to run in the general election.

A primary election is an election in which registered voters select a candidate that they believe should be a political party's candidate for elected office to run in the general election.

Primary: Texas has an open primary system, in which any registered voter can choose which party's primary to vote in, without having to be a member of that party.

Primary: Wisconsin has an open primary system, in which any registered voter can choose which party's primary to vote in, without having to be a member of that party.

Agoro maintained that his government will rigorously pursue Rural Development Agenda (RUADA) under which each registered voter in Nigeria will be given the sum of N1 million to invest in rural communities.

Not exact matches

A referendum, which would be held a year from now and requires the support of 50 % of registered voters to enact a law, would be unlikely to overturn the HST.

The study that Trump was mentioning, which he repeatedly referred to late during the campaign, said 24 million voter registrations were no longer valid or were significantly inaccurate, more than 1.8 million dead people were listed as voters, and about 2.8 million people were registered in more than one state.

Less than half the state's eligible voters bother to register, but Mormons almost always do, which gives them about a quarter of the likely turnout.»

The group, which boasts as many as 30 members, gathered 140 petition signatures from registered voters living on the east side of Lake in the Hills.

I think you can avoid this with (i) a primary election day for all parties where voters have to choose which party to vote for OR (ii) a Labour - only primary election day where people who want to vote have to register first.

The opposition, which has accused the government of trying to rig the poll, listed some problems, from agents being denied entry to polling stations, to names missing from the register and electronic voter identification devices failing.

She ended the session with a much less irritating attack on changes to the electoral register which will almost certainly see thousands of disadvantaged and ethnic minority voters fall off the list.

Dr Bawumia, last year, produced a document which he said was a copy of the Togolese register and claimed that having used the biometric facial recognition technology, it was realised that there were some 76,000 persons who existed on Ghana's register of voters as well as that of Togo.

Given the potentials the card reader has for disinfecting the process with the scrutiny of authentication of the voter register, all those who stand for genuine electoral reform have no choice but to improve the enabling policy ambiance for supporting the card reader by ensuring judicial clarity which supports its use.

The Supreme Court demanded the list following a return to court by plaintiffs Abu Ramadan and Evans Nimako, to seek clarity on the same court's May 5 ruling, in which it ordered the EC to delete from the register of voters, names of the dead, minors and those, who were registered onto the poll roll through their NHIS cards.

Putting that in context — Rwanda spent 5.5 billion Rwandan francs ($ 6.5 million) to conduct its August 4 third multiparty election which had 6.8 million registered voters thus less than a dollar per voter.

Soubry also issued a rallying call to young voters to register to vote in the referendum and to back Remain, with a dig at Leave campaigners — which she subsequently defended on Twitter.

The voter register is the most important tool for making election outcomes credible, it is like a credible and reliable scientific research which relies on the «sample frame»; it is the touchstone that gives assurance to the fact that the ballot, as expressed in an election, arose from the physical presence of eligible voters at the polling unit who delegated part of their sovereignty temporarily to elected officials.

Ghana currently has no electoral laws to handle the situation, and the government communique addressing the voter register admits that «Ghana should emulate the example of Kenya by codifying a set of electoral laws which adequately deter electoral fraud.»

Election is about voters electing those they want to lead them, and a credible voter register helps to ensure that those who vote are the true eligible voters, the card reader, which authenticates the voter identity, helps to make the voter register more robust and resistant to moon - light and landslide bogus figures.

The opposition New Patriotic Party [NPP] which is championing the course for a new register claiming over 76,000 foreign nationals are registered on Ghana's voters register which makes the electoral roll not credible joined other parties at the debate.

The debate which came off Tuesday morning in Accra, was attended by NPP's Prof. Mike Ocquaye who used the platform to call on Interpol to audit Ghana's voter's register.

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.

The new Siena poll, which surveyed 805 registered voters by telephone from Jan. 8 to 12, has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus four percentage points.

The Electoral Commission has started registering first time voters in a limited registration exercise which is expected to end on May 8, 2016.

It follows a petition submitted to the Electoral Commission (EC) by the NPP in which it claimed the current and existing voters register was not only bloated but filled with the names of foreign nationals.

At this age and time, the NDP insists «our voters register is not only compromised but also outmoded when there has been a global switch from this anachronism to electronic voting machines (EVMs) with the only requirement of a single definitive voter identity», citing India which has since 1998 been switching to electronic voters machine and perfected it in its 2014 general elections with what they described as «highly unprecedented efficiency.»

«A proof of even a single scanned staple pin - marked still photo is enough to compromise the integrity of the register and the blame placed squarely at the door of the EC», it said, to which end it said «a single and definitive voter identification is a necessary step to modernizing our elections.»

The method in which their new Chief Executive has been appointed is a poignant example of this problem and a source of a great deal of the ire of the protestors: elected by 689 votes from a 1,200 - seat committee of business elites, the three and a half million registered voters of Hong Kong had no say over who should lead them for the next five years.

The impression a dispassionate observer would have from the failure of security and law enforcement during the Bayelsa election (which was conducted in Nigeria's smallest state with the lowest number of registered voters) would be that the federal government permitted or condoned the strong - arm tactics of the ruling party's candidate in his ultimately vain effort to secure that state's rulership by force.

Ten million voters could be knocked off the electoral register under government plans which have left MPs «genuinely shocked».

Select an election district committee membership (in some cases a ward — election district) in a municipality in the NYS Assembly District in which the voter is registered.

While only 39 % of New Yorkers think race relations in the state are excellent (4 %) or good (35 %)-- compared to 58 % who say they are fair (43 %) or poor (15 %)-- that is up from the 2015 Siena Poll, which had 31 % positive and 66 % negative, including 28 % poor, according to a new Siena College poll of New York State registered voters released Monday morning.

Furthermore, provisional ballots, which are usually given to voters who mistakenly think they're registered or accidentally vote from outside of the district, are unlikely to significantly affect the vote, but every little bit matters at this point.

According to him, the position of the Electoral Commission on the preparation of a credible voters register for the elections, which is just six months away, appears unsatisfactory in view of what it calls the lackadaisical posture by the Commission towards the electoral process.

12.42: At Ofejikpi 1, Anyigba, Dekina LGA, which has 1,395 registered voters, a certain voter threatened to be violent with INEC officers at the polling unit, but the police intervened, removing him from the scene.

Calls for the EC to abandon the current voters» register and compile a new one has intensified in recent days, led by the Let My Vote Count Alliance, which, two weeks ago, embarked on a demonstration which led to bloody clashes with police after some of the demonstrators veered off the approved route in apparent attempt to head to the office of the EC.

The rank and file of the party feels aggrieved to learn that Zanetor could not vote in the very elections she contested because she is not a registered voter on the Electoral Commission's National voters» register — the very register on which compilation of the NDC biometric register was based.»

Mr. Osei Kyei Mensah Bonsu noted that it is easier for the Commission to validate the bloated voter register than to allow for limited voter registration, which he said can not guarantee the credibility of the register.

The petition had to be signed by only 5 percent of the party's registered members, which amounts to about 10 signatures in the case of the Reform Party which has a total of 187 registered voters.

Abdullahi added, «During the first phase of the voter registration, over 35,000 voters registered in Bauchi State, out of which 15,000 are yet to collect their cards.»

The Supreme Court will today [Thursday], June 30 2016, hear the suit in which former People's National Convention (PNC) Youth Organizer, Abu Ramadan, is asking it to compel the Electoral Commission, to delete names of voters on the register, who got onto the electoral roll through the use of the National Health Insurance Scheme card as a proof of Ghanaian...

The Independence Party, which is the third largest political party in the county, makes up about 4 percent of the total number of registered voters in Westchester with 21,555.

The impact of missing voters will carry forward to future boundary changes, which depend on the numbers registered, not the numbers living in the area.

On May 26, the Constitution Party of Kansas filed a notice of appeal in its lawsuit which seeks the ability to have voters in Kansas register as members of the Constitution Party (currently Kansas won't let voters register as members of unqualified parties).

New York State caps individual donations to candidates running for local office using a formula based on the number of registered voters in a given district, which varies slightly from year to year — but leaves the single donor ceiling around $ 16,000 in a Republican primary for Nassau County executive, and $ 48,000 for the general election.

Though there are only eleven registered members of the Reform party in Ulster County, those who are enrolled voters but not registered to any party may participate in this primary, in which no names will appear on the ballot.

Spitzer's lead was a bit more defined in a Wall Street Journal / NBC Marist poll, in which he led 49 percent to 32 percent among registered Democrats and 48 to 36 percent among likely voters.

There are, according to Ulster County's Board of Elections, just under 110,000 registered voters in the county, of which 38,031 are Democrats, 28,289 are Republicans and 33,930 are not enrolled in any political party.

He said that even if Rice outraises him, he hopes his platform will resonate with voters of the district, which covers most of central - southern Nassau and has a roughly 30,000 more registered Democrats than Republicans.