Sentences with phrase «worst voter turnout»

The 2014 election had the worst voter turnout in 72 years, with less than one - third of the eligible voting population going to the polls.

«Unfortunately, New York consistently ranks as one of the worst voter turnout states in the nation,» Stewart - Cousins said.

Congressional races draw a significantly smaller percentage of eligible voters to the polls (and New York already ranks among the 10 states with the worst voter turnout), but the consequences of ignoring them can have a ripple effect.

New York had the eighth worst voter turnout in the United States during the November 2016 elections, according to Politifact.

The simple fact is we've let New York's election laws atrophy, and we now have one of the worst voter turnout rates in the country,» said State Senator Brian Kavanagh, Ranking Member of the Senate Elections Committee and sponsor of early voting legislation.

This year I'm a little more resigned — still amazed at the even worse voter turnout — but resigned that a rant will not get you to vote.

Not exact matches

It has been noted that low voter turnout is not necessarily a bad thing.

New York's voting laws are among the worst in the nation: we rank 41st in voter turnout.

«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.

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.

The turnout in the NYC mayoral primary hovered just above the worst in modern history, which came in 2009 when just 11 percent of voters bothered to show up in the primary that Bill Thompson won.

In the 2016 presidential election, New York ranked 45th among states in voter turnout; in 2014, it was fifth - worst, with a turnout of only 29.5 percent.

The turnout hovered just above the worst in modern history, which came in 2009 when just 11 % of voters bothered to show up in the primary that Bill Thompson won..

I believe this is a change for the worse, and the complaint that «they're all the same» - that we're governed by an identikit political class - has much to do with the decline of the Conservative Party and the rise of UKIP, not to mention the fall in voter turnout.

«You overlay that with the lousy system of running elections in general — which is, voter registration laws are cumbersome, we have a closed primary system, getting on the ballot is difficult — and as a result New York has anemic voter turnout, one of the worst in the country.»

More likely, the polling points to a disinterested electorate — and the potential for a historically low voter turnout, even worse than the lowest - ever 24 % of registered voters who came to the polls to elect de Blasio in 2013, experts say.

New York's abysmal voter turnout was second - worst among states in the 2014 general election.

Compulsory voting (not a bad idea when you look at declining voter turnouts in other Western democracies such as Canada.)