Sentences with phrase «with voter participation»

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After a series of phone conversations with company officials that began in August 2015, Flaxman came to Starbucks headquarters in December to talk with chairman and ceo Howard Schultz and other leaders about what he and his team considered a wildly ambitious goal: TurboVote would help lift voter participation to 75 percent, at a date to be determined.

«As a pro-life voter, I never intended my participation to imply unequivocal endorsement, and the DNC knew that and were fine with that.

A nonpartisan group called the Voter Participation Center is reaching over 300,000 black voters here with direct mail and text messages.

The League of Conservation Voters Education Fund (LCVEF) works with our state LCVEF partners, educates the public, media and elected officials about key environmental issues, works to increase voter participation in the democratic process and mobilizes a diverse network of activists to advocate for sound environmental policies.

With ever decreasing voter numbers, it is surely imperative that the parties appeal to a younger generation by encouraging youth activism and participation, thereby ensuring their future success.

Wednesday night at the New York Tech Meet - Up, the New York City Campaign Finance Board unveiled its own initiative to make participation in the voting process easier: a mobile web application with voter registration and candidate information.

Citizens Union, a good - government group, has argued that nonpartisan elections will boost voter participation by opening the process to the 1.4 million people who aren't registered with parties.

With the secretary of state office becoming an open seat, Iowa needs a proven leader who will promote participation in the election process while ensuring safeguards to prevent voter fraud and serve the business community without political motives.

In a brief pre-walk Q&A with reporters Perkins dismissed allegations by Assembly Member Keith Wright that Espaillat and his supporters are trying to suppress African American voter participation in the Tuesday election.

With that being said, there are certainly a few factors that can either increase or decrease voter participation, especially in the times we find ourselves in now.

That's about average for off - year local elections, way short of predictions from advocates of single - member districts, who had argued that replacing multi-member districts with one - on - one contests voters would result in better - known candidates and greater voter participation.

For some reason I've become obsessed with NYS Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's recent order ending «English - only» elections in ten upstate counties by applying a federal law enacted to ensure voter participation by American citizens of Puerto Rican heritage that are illiterate in English.

To encourage civic participation, the Center developed a useful curriculum for students in grades 4 - 12 designed to «demystify the voting process,» with lessons that help students understand voter registration, how voting works, and the steps it takes to become an informed voter.

She's also a tireless advocate with a proven track record of fighting for and working - on a broad cross section of human and civil rights ranging from race, women's rights, immigration, voter participation and labor.

Were the election to draw an electorate more traditionally aligned to the Democratic Party — with higher participation from the African American and Latino community and more support from younger voters and single mothers — the results may have been different but not assured.

Independent Belize is a member of the Commonwealth of Nations and a parliamentary democracy with a proud record of high voter participation and free and fair elections.

I also worked collaboratively with other local artists, primarily on Black Cutural installation pieces also for voter participation.

I see democratic government, but with more direct voter participation in specific decision making, and a strong rule of law especially environmental law.

As I mentioned in my last post, Turnbull's narrow win has left us with a government standing for nothing but delaying various inevitable outcomes, including * equal marriage; * participation in global action on climate change; and, most notably * Turnbull's removal from office, whether by voters or, more likely, by his own colleagues.

This presidential election will likely see the highest level of Latino voter participation in history, with some estimates projecting millions more Latinos voting in 2016 compared to 2012.