| In exit polls in about 1 in 5 voters ranked moral values as the most important issue in the election. |
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| The results exposed deepening sectarian polarisation between nationalist and unionist voters. |
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| Instead, the majority of voters seem to rely on authority figures telling them how they should vote. |
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| Bucking the national trend, 82 per cent of voters turned out, giving the lie to all the talk of voter apathy. |
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| Appallingly low turnout for the June elections showed that voters are apathetic. |
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| Such a move will help voters to gauge which ones to believe and which ones to simply listen to. |
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| In each of them the voters will cast a ballot for the party they prefer and will list the four candidates they have chosen. |
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| The reason is an unshakeable confidence that it will go down well with large numbers of voters. |
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| I find it hard to believe that Academy voters would care about pirating their copies. |
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| Redistricting exists for the purpose of reapportioning voters among political districts to account for population shifts. |
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| Vote-by-mail voters more closely mirror the electorate as a whole in all respects except age. |
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| We will need a fresh and radical approach capable of reaching millions, not thousands, of voters. |
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| State financing of political parties was resoundingly repealed by the voters in a referendum held in April. |
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| Dean also has run television ads in key states more than four months before voters go to the polls. |
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| The pamphlet concluded with an appeal for voters to place the Liberals last in the election. |
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| We'll be back in power within a few years, stronger, refreshed, with loads of disillusioned lib voters. |
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| Frankly, most voters think most politicians, and their staffs, are a bunch of crooks already. |
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| Finally, the Clerk involves voters in facilitating not only recounts and redundant checks but revotes as well. |
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| And I think the message that he's delivering is resonating at least among some voters and certainly in Wisconsin independent voters. |
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| To jolly things up Blighty made the joke about it being a shame more of the voters weren't undead, then Howard might have a chance. |
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| He aimed his campaign at suburban and centrist voters, particularly through his conservative positions on crime and welfare. |
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| Right now we are in a very close contest as the voters lift the hood and kick the tyres and make an assessment. |
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| He has been light on policy while exhorting voters to abandon the stale battle between right and left. |
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| Just as voters tend to revolt at by-elections, those polled may use the opportunity to register their resentment over government policy. |
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| Albuquerque also provided a window into how Iraq is playing with ordinary voters. |
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| The politicians came to mix it with the ordinary voters, and they got a kicking. |
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| Millions of Italian voters will go to the ballot boxes today and tomorrow to decide who leads the next Italian government. |
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| However unhappy the voters are with Labour, they are unlikely to replace it with Labour wannabes. |
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| I think it's clear the voters recoil at the idea of the government trying to play politics with this national tragedy. |
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| John Downing asks if Fianna Fail have been sent a wake-up message by voters. |
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| Isn't there a danger of voters perceiving such belligerence as the antics of a loser? |
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| How can UK politics be reconfigured to give the voters more choice and more power? |
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| In all, more than 1,400 El Segundo voters applied for an absentee ballot, and almost 1,300 of those ballots were actually voted. |
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| Australian voters are naturally very risk-averse, and will not rush headlong into a change of government. |
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| No longer able to rely on Marxism to excite voters, the left turned to nationalism as a new form of collectivism. |
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| This means that half of all the lawmakers may represent only a quarter of the voters. |
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| The state's brand of retail politics brings its most powerful leaders into frequent contact with voters. |
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| It is a laudable impulse to try to increase your understanding of voters in other parts of the country. |
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| Of the some 700,000 eligible Latino voters in the state, only half are registered. |
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| He repeated a request to voters to continue preferences to Labour and the Green Party, likely members of an alternative rainbow coalition. |
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| The presidential election is just more than five weeks away, and a key voting block is expected to be Latino voters. |
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| If, as the adage goes, education is wasted on the young, it is tempting to wonder whether democracy is not wasted on voters. |
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| Tuning out completely is not an option for most voters, unless their television sets can zap out commercials. |
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| It seems that the redbreast, while most popular with younger voters, has lost much of its traditional heartland support. |
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| Will this be the beginning of his effort to close the sale with voters, or a last hurrah before his most loyal supporters? |
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| This year, Democratic primary voters shut down the nominating process earlier than ever, and rallied behind Kerry. |
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| The political parties are also jostling with each other for favour with the voters by adopting hard-line positions. |
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| So, what are Clark's strengths and weaknesses, and how can she win back voters? |
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| She said that if the voters do not dine with the candidate, how could they be acquainted with him? |
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| The actress made her first political appearance, smiling endlessly and used her star appeal to woo the voters. |
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| No matter what side you're on, there are enough voters who either agree with you or acquiesce to you to win the election. |
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| Postal votes have been available in the town before, but voters had to apply in advance. |
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| He admits that voters were growing weary of it all and that it hurt his party. |
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| Democracy might be a flawed process but it was better than handing over control to faceless big business who are not answerable to the voters. |
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| Doubtless, the PM's strategy also depends on an increasing weariness over the subject among voters. |
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| But can he connect one-on-one with voters in New Hampshire kaffeeklatsches? |
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| A reader of this blog sent me an account of his experience of the campaign, and of its effect on voters. |
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| A direct initiative is where registered voters vote on the proposal put forward. |
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| The Best Position is where an equal number of voters are to the left and to the right. |
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| For now, Yaroslavsky is holding firm and does not favor putting the question to voters. |
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| Perhaps this explains why Chan was rejected by Richmond voters at the last election. |
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| The implication is that, if the voters don't re-elect her, they will be financially punished. |
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| It turns off voters, new voters, or people who have always wanted to vote and have wondered whether it's worth their while. |
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| One person was killed as riot police battled voters in this third and final round of legislative elections. |
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| Blinkered voters get the parochial leaders they want rather than the worldly leaders they presumably need. |
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| It might grab the attention of some young voters, but it is not a serious campaign that will re-engage young Americans in the political process. |
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| The bombings may simply have brought thousands more socialist voters to the polls. |
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| A special survey of Welsh voters shows next week's devolution referendum in the principality is too close to call. |
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| In close ridings, voters are often forced to act against their real preferences. |
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| The rush by Republicans and Democrats to corral Latino voters has touched off nervous jitters among some black politicians and leaders. |
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| Higher fuel prices can cause unwelcome rises in inflation, restrict economic growth and are unpopular with voters. |
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| Even though his name wasn't on the ballot, he was written in by nearly half of the voters. |
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| More than 80 percent of the voters in the constituency are landless peasants or poor farmers. |
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| Many of these voters had voted an absentee ballot and wanted to know what would happen to their ballot. |
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| He still did not do well among African-American voters, just a marginal improvement. |
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| Twenty thousand libertarian activists should be able to persuade the remaining necessary voters to vote for a libertarian candidate. |
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| Why oh why oh why are voters always appeased by learning that their government is supposedly tackling a problem by throwing more money at it? |
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| The far left was also hit by the Socialist Party's appeal for left wing voters to unite behind it, as well as by its own disunity. |
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| The political power of these four groups resulted from their particular ability to influence voters. |
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| This is not how voters perceive political alignments, at least not in modern times. |
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| Mysterious extra voters appeared on the voting rolls in some constituencies. |
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| As things stand, the voters seem to regard the concept as outmoded, a bit wussy, and definitely non-core. |
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| These are voters ready to turn anger into action, to work for a regime change here at home. |
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| Amendments must be approved by two-thirds of both houses of parliament and a majority of voters in a national referendum. |
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| If a regional assembly for Yorkshire were to succeed, it would have to generate interest and support among local voters. |
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| He appealed to the young voters to come out to vote and to make sure their names are on the register of electors. |
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| Sometimes voters turned up where they had registered to vote to find their names not on the voters' list. |
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| His petition drive to outlaw such a job action gave voice to voters who were unhappy at having their transit system held hostage. |
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| So, all in all, I would still say the economy is a major issue for American voters at this point. |
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| The Echo deeply regrets the error and sincerely apologises to voters and candidates. |
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| Still, I wouldn't like to see it sweep through the Oscars just because Academy voters are blinded by its razzle-dazzle. |
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| His success with voters has been attributed to his gift for reaching out and touching ordinary people. |
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| They were accused of a whitewash, and the voters expressed their contempt at the ballot box. |
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| We voters must not feel singled out by the Prime Minister's refusal to lay the full facts before us. |
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| It's also a pity that some voters don't discern the Texas-size gap between these two Yalies. |
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| For states so vast and populations so large, the old-fashioned art of retail politics, meeting voters individually, has diminished in importance. |
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| Tomorrow night, our Paula Zahn will try to get a read on the undecided voters in that state. |
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| In a few states, such voters can get an absentee ballot, but that takes foresight and planning that most of us lack. |
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| News of cutbacks, such as the shortfall in medical card allocations, does not enthuse voters. |
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| Any volunteers who help gather signatures must be registered voters and must apply to volunteer. |
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| The media and academics love to portray these voters as the typical independent when they represent less than half of them. |
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| You have to accrue power, use it in ethical ways, and hope that voters reward you for doing this. |
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| The second is a much smaller matter regarding an acrimonious election involving a few hundred voters. |
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| Southerland has lots of company among Republicans when it comes to adapting past positions in order to appeal to women voters. |
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| Faced with the loss of middle class voters, the administration seems determined to double down on its current coalition. |
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| He even remembered to thank the voters and admonish cellphone companies for fleecing his fans. |
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| The advancement Project says these laws could potentially disenfranchise tens of thousands of minority voters. |
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| The affordable Care Act was always a short-term political loser with respect to middle-class voters. |
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| The CNN focus group found that the intense awkward interjections alienated swing voters and women in particular. |
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| Most recent polls show a tie at the national level, but Romney holds a double-digit lead among independent voters. |
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| Asian-Americans are a group of persuadable swing voters, growing faster than any other group in America today. |
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| Even before the polling stations opened, the voters were standing in line. |
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| Yet financialism can leave voters feeling queasy, and candidates grasping for answers. |
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| I doubt Wills feels it is disgusting for pro-life activists to register voters at anti-abortion protests. |
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| During a midterm election with a larger share of anxious, older, whiter voters, that was enough. |
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| In my 16 years with CNN and CBS, apa voters rarely got a blip of consideration as worthy of news coverage. |
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| The publicly provided good, while valued by the voters, neither stimulates nor retards economic growth throughout the course of the current legislative period. |
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| The crowd of political newcomers, and former Labour and Conservative voters roared their assent. |
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| Record numbers of Scottish voters shot down an audacious bid to break their 300-year union with the United Kingdom. |
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| Against this backdrop, Paul breaking bread with Sharpton may be too much for Republican primary voters to watch or stomach. |
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| Traditional working class left voters joined with middle-class lifestyler lefties to elect the Green in Cunningham, and the independent Liberal candidate pitched in. |
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| In November, Maine voters will vote on whether to ban using dogs, traps, and bait to hunt black bears in the Pine Tree State. |
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| There may be a backlash for this bait-and-switch among some independent voters, but probably not from most Tea Party activists. |
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| A debate is under way among ministers, kicking around the alternative vote system, which allows voters to name their second as well as first choice. |
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| That November, many of us were stunned as voters in four states supported marriage equality at the ballot box. |
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| Karl Rove and other big money men are banding together to try and stop Todd Akin types from scaring off voters. |
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| Independent voters increasingly see both parties as captives of corrupt, self-serving and self-perpetuating political machinery. |
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| If the pollsters are overestimating Labour's support once more, the consequences of their blunders could leave a lot of leftish voters looking very silly. |
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| Kudos to the voters for nominating Allison Janney and beau Bridges for the blistering guest turns, too. |
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| In the head to head, surveying only Republican primary voters, McConnell bests Bevin 55 percent to 29 percent. |
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| Yet race politics has limited appeal to whites, and ultimately may not guarantee keeping many minority voters in check. |
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| Indeed, when voters turned against the Democratic Party in 2010, conservative blue dog Democrats were the first to go. |
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| The 2014 election was a wipeout, progressives say, because Democrats lacked a bold economic message to inspire voters. |
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| More to the point, Huckabee has a natural appeal to a party that has come to represent the bulk of working class white voters. |
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| As a cost-saving measure, voters have elected to have the two towns administered jointly. |
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| In each contest, the Republican candidate outperformed the GOP result from 2012 among women voters. |
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| That counts for bupkis with conservative voters but could help with independents. |
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| Thousands of union workers are canvassing door-to-door, calling voters and campaigning against the candidate online. |
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| And voters would learn quickly that the former Florida governor is no carbon copy of his father and brother. |
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| As it stands, Gallup and others have already been charting the growth in unaffiliated voters for decades. |
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| But the effectiveness of this strategy depends, in part, upon whether a campaign can effectively predict who will cast an absentee ballot and which voters will do so early on. |
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| In California, where vote-by-mail has been in place for two decades, 38 percent of the voters who voted by mail in 2000 had not cast an absentee ballot in the last four years. |
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| You have to remember that we have an official who sent these voters their absentee ballot forms, they filled them out, they voted them properly, they were counted properly. |
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| His positions are based on political calculation of what voters want to hear. |
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| Denmark, for instance, voted against the Maastricht Treaty in June 1992, and later only a marginal majority of French voters confirmed the accession to the Treaty. |
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| And they were quick to defend the noble white rose yesterday, especially after it was revealed voters had chosen to leave rival Lancastrians with their red rose. |
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| At least 10 states are putting the question to a referendum and opinion polls in Britain, Denmark, Poland and the Czech Republic show majorities of voters opposed. |
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| Webb comes across with a clarity of expression that is rare for a politician and that the voters might find a welcome tonic. |
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| Trailing only the economy, education and classroom issues dominated thinking among voters nationwide. |
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| There will be two opposing approaches and voters in 2016 will have a clearer choice. |
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| In 1980, a majority of voters in three out of five income quintiles reported choosing the Democratic candidate, and the fourth quintile was nearly tied. |
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| It would be difficult to find an issue with less resonance with the vast majority of voters than climate change. |
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| Watching the Republicans get clobbered among Hispanic voters apparently hastened the process. |
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| But lost in this discussion is the fact that the majority of these voters had surely voted for Cochran in prior elections. |
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| Better yet, bring some treats to share with your fellow voters. |
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| Most voters will react badly to this jobs for the boys approach. |
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| Nearly a third of general-election voters in Florida are over 65, says coker. |
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| George P., whose mother Columba is from Mexico, is charged with wooing those voters back. |
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| Now I spent the day in a town of 120,000, about 100 miles from Moscow called Clean, and I have never seen such well-mannered, such well-behaved and such ardent voters. |
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| Reasons for the high figures include misunderstanding of the forms and voters being unhappy about putting their signatures on to a secret ballot paper. |
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| Republicans definitely have work to do at ensuring they can compete with female voters. |
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| He quotes an unnamed cardinal saying that the conclave voters knew the charges were false. |
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| Sabahi hoped to inspire young voters, but they are conspicuously absent at the polls. |
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| Garden State voters from all walks of life are contacting their elected representatives in overwhelming numbers. |
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| The President and his party are making their contempt all too clear to white working-class voters. |
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| The responsibility lies with the voters, not with the advertisers. |
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| But what most rankles male voters is the accusation by gender feminists that male officials do not act on behalf of the interests of their female constituents. |
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| However, late-night ranters on cable don't usually attract swing voters. |
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| Tri-state area voters would elect the cookie monster if he brought the Knicks another championship. |
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| So if he runs again, aged 88, the voters know they would be insane to toss that away just because some young whippersnapper agreed with them about mere politics. |
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| If a candidate can't connect with the voters, can't give them an affirmative reason to support him, as opposed to the other candidates, that's his problem. |
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| There is the fact that in many of these states Democratic legislatures are entrenched, and voters are looking for a counterweight. |
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| We walked and talked to voters till we both were ready to drop. |
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| And the cost to keypunch paper lists in an electorate of 3 million voters was clearly too much, given our lack of experience in targeted political direct mail. |
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| Former President Nicolas Sarkozy used it to cultivate right-wing anti-immigrant voters. |
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| The entrant which gets the highest number of text votes will walk away with the trophy, while one of the voters will be picked at random to win a prize. |
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| Democrats hold an advantage today with female voters that, if maintained, will dampen any potential for a GOP wave in November. |
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| They excite people, and primaries tend to be dominated by voters who are the most excited. |
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| Fortunately for libertarian-minded voters, Palin and Cruz are hardly the only fishes in the sea. |
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| But he argued that the issue does motivate otherwise unlikely voters and could be a deciding factor in a close race. |
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| Regardless of how it occurred, this gap was not decisive in a state where Braley lost by nearly 100,000 voters. |
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| Amazingly enough, the voters had cast their ballots in alphabetical order. |
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| That defeat was driven largely by Romney losing women voters by an insurmountable 11 points. |
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| Considering that there are often over 50 people on the ballot, voters to tend just defer to their party. |
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| The Romney campaign wooed those voters by deferring to some of their emotions. |
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| But talk of millions and billions is deflating to voters who gave small amounts to their favorite candidates. |
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| This is simply a red herring to try and distract angry voters in Hobson. |
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| I suppose you can if you were dumb and delusional enough to think that the Emmy voters might liven things up a little bit. |
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| The voters rehabilitated a politician who has become a clown, an orange pancake-faced caricature of a demagogue. |
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| One Lib Dem peer was pounding the pavements all day, knocking up voters. |
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| There is a myth, dating back to George Washington, that voters are entranced by the reluctant presidential candidate. |
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| Only when the message that Labour isn't all that clever, after all, is dinned into the voters can National risk changing the subject to its own intentions. |
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| The Democratic Party we thought we knew has left us, abandoning voters on jobs, education, and entitlements. |
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| If you cut Mourdock loose, Governor, values voters are going to be demoralized. |
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| The Democrats lost it, by being afraid to have a strong message and motivate their voters. |
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| Given that many voters wouldn't have known his face until last week, he may have a tough time selling himself as Premier in time for the state election next year. |
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| Not surprisingly, many middle and working class voters, particularly whites, have deserted the Democrats in increasing numbers. |
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| Ministers said they were levelling with voters on this issue. |
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| The result is that it will be harder for voters to make to the polls in the areas most likely to have diehard Santorum support. |
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| Bush, Carney said, could expand the pool of primary voters beyond the die-hard conservatives. |
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| All that will remain is for the voters to register their opinions with a cross on a ballot, the tallying of opinions and the announcement of results. |
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| You may disbelieve the promise, but I'm afraid you can't simply instruct the voters to agree with you. |
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| Both insisted Goldwater was scaring away the swing voters Republicans needed with his unyielding conservatism. |
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| Sutton Foster abandoned her usual perky personna to play scared and scarred in Violet, and voters may reward her effort. |
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| He implied that the opponents who are calling for him to drop out of the race are seeking to disenfranchise the voters. |
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| By a margin of 50-45 percent, voters said they were displeased with the decision. |
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| The comments by the fiat COO had received attention and been mentioned often by voters on the campaign trail. |
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| The period up to 1970, then, can be described as one in which the Liberals were heavily dependent upon francophone voters and the Conservatives upon anglophones. |
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| Somehow, this did not endear Lonegan to voters, and Booker officially entered the Senate on Oct. 31st. |
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| Will voters shower Breaking Bad with farewell trophies, or is the enthusiasm for True Detective impossible to beat? |
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| These suggest that voters in core Europe may finally be willing to accept rollbacks in the cherished welfare state to get the region's stagnant economy rolling again. |
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| Polls show that voters are growing less and less content with the current administration. |
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| He seized on her complaints that voters are getting irritated by nasty campaign tactics like the robocalls that have been coming from her own campaign. |
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| Instead there was the emergence of a Tea Party movement that brought many traditionally low-propensity voters to the polls. |
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| Keough insisted that Rossi's single-mindedness in pursuing a gubernatorial revote has not harmed his future political career in the eyes of the state's voters. |
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| But until voters demand it, politicians will continue to ignore an embarrassing system. |
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| These Republicans still frighten voters with visions of an old age in poverty and frailty. |
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| Compare that to 1980, when an NBC exit poll found 25 percent of voters self-identifying as independents. |
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| In the election of 1860 in which Lincoln won the presidency, 80 percent of eligible voters went to the polls. |
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| Now compare this to 37 percent Democratic vote for white voters in general in House races, according to a CNN exit poll. |
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| Pew estimates the number of swing voters at about 25 percent, a quarter of the electorate. |
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| The filled out pledge cards are then mailed back to voters shortly before Election Day as a way to remind them to vote. |
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| Wilson fervently supported Prop 187, which was approved by voters the same day he was approved for another term as governor. |
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| All but ed Gillespie in Virginia won, and even Gillespie made significant gains among female voters compared to now-Gov. |
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| About two dozen artists are taking to the road in key electoral battleground states in hopes that their music can sway undecided voters to join their cause. |
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| Though the corrupt city councilors may get away from the penalty of the law in granting the amnesty, they cannot escape the punishment of the voters in the future. |
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| On June 28, Steve Deace, a right-wing activist and media personality in Iowa, held a focus group of undecided conservative voters. |
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| The New York Times reports this morning on Mitt Romney's difficulty closing the social gap between him and downscale voters. |
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| It should be said that the most fervent opponents of the Affordable Care Act are Republican base voters. |
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| Pressured by voters on both sides of the issue, the congressmen temporized. |
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| This is particularly true for younger voters, who now constitute the most dovish segment of the population. |
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| These days, evangelical voters are a majority in GOP presidential primaries. |
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| The AARP estimates that no less than 60 percent of Republican primary voters are retirees. |
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| His white voters are aging, and the statewide concern about illegal immigration has abated now that rates are at a historic low. |
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| For its part, the RNC has been aggressively courting black voters back to the party of abraham lincoln. |
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| Pollsters have been predicting disillusioned leftist voters are particularly likely to abstain. |
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| They resent this as the latest fad in political correctness, a liberal mission to troll for support from woolly-minded female voters. |
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| Both candidates are working hard to convince voters to switch allegiances. |
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| There has been oscillation between optimism and pessimism among voters. |
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| Voting for the referendum commenced on 27 August 2014, with the receipt of ballots by postal voters. |
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| Perot was witty and comfortable in his own skin, which I thought would reassure his supporters and perhaps sway some of the undecided voters. |
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| It's voters who seem to want Republicans and Democrats in the next Congress to cross the aisle and try something different in Iraq. |
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| The final vote between Hollande and Sarkozy now depends on a delicate balance of how France's total of rightwing and leftwing voters line up. |
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| In the past, candidates depended mostly on personal ties with voters at diwaniyas, traditional evening social gatherings. |
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| We can estimate the numbers of donkey voters because the ALP Senate candidate Healy headed the Senate list at the same election. |
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| A majority of voters believed the election was fixed in favor of the incumbent. |
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| The outcome of the forthcoming election is still unclear due to the large number of floating voters. |
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| Some communities gold-plate their subdivision ordinances because they know that developers, rather than the local voters, are paying. |
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| Norway had negotiated to join at the same time, but Norwegian voters rejected membership in a referendum. |
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| The result was that control over the state fell, not onto the shoulders of voters, but to the new plebeian nobility. |
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| In national elections in September 2013, voters ended eight years of Labor rule. |
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| In some jurisdictions, other restrictions existed, such as requiring voters to practice a given religion. |
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| This proved effective at dominating the agenda of the campaign and at motivating voters to support them. |
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| It aggressively sought women voters in the 1920s, often relying on patriotic themes. |
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| These divisions gave off an impression of a divided party, which had lost touch with the voters. |
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| They highlighted that polls repeatedly demonstrated that UKIP drew more votes from Conservative voters than Labour ones. |
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| On economic issues, there was a divide between UKIP voters and the party itself. |
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| By 1900, two years after the new constitution, only 5,320 black voters were registered in the state. |
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| It is the legislative and executive government of the parish, and is elected by the voters. |
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| Most of its voters are representatives of businesses and other bodies that occupy premises in the City. |
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| In 2009, the business vote was about 24,000, greatly exceeding residential voters. |
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| Though workers count as part of a workforce regardless of nationality, only certain individuals may be appointed as voters. |
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| In the run up to the 2017 General Election, Dawkins once again endorsed the Liberal Democrats and urged voters to join the party. |
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| Association of this proposal with California Republicans, especially incumbent governor Pete Wilson, drove many Hispanic voters to the Democrats. |
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| These were rejected by voters in the Wales referendum, 1979, with 956,330 votes against, compared with 243,048 for. |
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| The course of the Assembly saw a marked shift in party allegiance among voters. |
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| In January 1978 Thatcher launched an attack on immigration with the goal of attracting voters away from the NF and back to the Conservatives. |
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| Kawczynski also pointed out that the average number of voters in a parliamentary constituency is larger in England than in Scotland. |
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| In June 2012, Alistair Darling said voters in the rest of the UK could choose not to be in a currency union with Scotland. |
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| The Scottish team won a record number of gold medals, which Alan Bisset said would help give voters more belief and confidence. |
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| Each polling station was specified to have no more than 2,500 registered voters. |
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| The minimum age for voters in the referendum was set to 18 years, in line with the Representation of the People Act, as amended. |
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| After questioning a woman who had been offering to lend her pen to voters, the police decided that no offence was being committed. |
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| Although the recession reached its trough in June 2009, voters remained frustrated with the slow pace of the economic recovery. |
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| Finally the presence of the vigorous new Labour Party on the left gave a new home to voters disenchanted with the Liberal performance. |
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| Statutes passed in 1430 and 1432, during the reign of Henry VI, standardised property qualifications for county voters. |
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| Most patrons were noblemen or landed gentry who could use their local influence, prestige, and wealth to sway the voters. |
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| Disraeli's enthusiastic propagation of the British Empire has also been seen as appealing to working class voters. |
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| Many voters decided the NSDAP was capable of restoring order, quelling civil unrest, and improving Germany's international reputation. |
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| Significantly, many of the letters come from voters who identified as Conservatives. |
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| She also alienated many Conservative voters with a demand for a local poll tax. |
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| In the 1979 general election, the Conservatives attracted voters from the National Front, whose support almost collapsed. |
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| She believed that it was winning over large numbers of Conservative voters with warnings against floods of immigrants. |
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| Thatcher's rhetoric was followed by the return of Conservative voters from the National Front. |
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| This makes plurality voting among the simplest of all electoral systems for voters and vote counting officials. |
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| Historically, there has been a tendency for Independentista voters to elect Popular candidates and policies. |
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| This phenomenon is responsible for some Popular victories, even though the Estadistas have the most voters on the island. |
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| O will win these seats, but a large number of its voters will waste their votes. |
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| Plurality voting elects the candidate who is preferred first by the largest number of voters, although this need not be an absolute majority. |
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| There are 1,500 voters, and the voters each select a maximum of three candidates. |
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| In jurisdictions such as the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, voters may rank as many or as few candidates as they wish. |
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| Consequently, voters sometimes, for example, rank only the candidates of a single party, or of their most preferred parties. |
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| For the denominator, it is often assumed that the number of eligible voters was well defined, but again, this is not the case. |
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| However, out of the 1,518 ballots cast, only three voters were against keeping the islands' current status. |
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| Members of the DUP were lambasted by the press and voters, after MPs' expenses reports were leaked to the media. |
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| Apparently Tony Award voters were of a similar mind, since they favored the former over the latter. |
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| The voters use a secure online website to vote, and the voting is scrutinized by Electoral Reform Services. |
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| It is also a direct democracy, where voters can propose and enact constitutional amendments and legislation independent of the legislature. |
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| They have a governor and a unicameral legislative body elected directly by their voters. |
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| The property qualification for voters was for freeholders who held land from the crown of the value of 40s of auld extent. |
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