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Through legislation or direct voter initiatives, approximately eight million workers have already won minimum-wage increases in recent years, and an additional $5 billion has made it into workers’ pockets since 2017.
American voter tend to prefer a system that balances the President and Congress.
Here, prospects for Congressional approval look more promising, owing to strong voter support, with surveys showing that large majorities of Democratic, independent, and Republican voters support an increase.
Across Europe, parties opposed to the European Union, mostly on the far right, were swept into the European Parliament by a wave of voter discontent.
The high voter turnout, coupled with the relatively peaceful manner in which the election took place, is a testament to the Nepali people’s desire to cement the peace process and contribute in determining the political future of the country.
On one level, social democrats’ immigration shift is a necessary response to voter demand.
Strides have already been made in a number of areas, from electronic voter registration to electronic payments for civil servants.
At the same time, the new model that emerges will still have to account for major forces that sustained the old model, especially the forces of globalization and technological innovation that voter resistance will not stop.
Regardless of how Brexit or the US election plays out, it is very likely that governments in Western democracies will respond to voter angst and take measures that imply a return to some degree of protectionism.
For the first time since the 1930s, Chile's right emerged as a serious political option with voter appeal.
But the Republican Party’s reliance on voter suppression, gerrymandering, and similar efforts at electoral manipulation have also contributed to ensuring that the will of the majority is thwarted.
At a minimum, referenda should be required to achieve a supermajority with a high percentage of voter turnout.
It is apparent in huge citizen marches, and in coordinated civil-society initiatives advocating for a national popular vote, congressional redistricting, automatic voter registration, and a higher minimum wage.
He has implicitly conceded that he lost the popular vote by nearly three million votes, but maintained, despite all evidence to the contrary, that massive voter fraud occurred.
Moreover, the US is notorious for its low voter turnout during midterm elections, which tends to hurt Democratic candidates’ prospects.
There was no voter list, and so it was nearly impossible to prevent ballot-stuffing.
Might a reawakening of voter anger be the ticket to rekindling interest in a carbon tax?
During the last general election, in 2013, female voter turnout was less than 10% at 800 polling stations across the country, and in 17 districts, fewer than 5% of eligible female voters cast a ballot.
For one thing, based on the current pace of NIC processing, it will take another 18 years to close the current gap in voter registration.
Political parties could also help by conducting voter registration drives targeting women, and officially sanctioned messaging campaigns could encourage women to register and families to assist them.
So, as with other complex issues, politicians need to balance voter aspirations with expert views.
Sarko v Sego At LastThe surprise in the first round of the French presidential election was that there was no surprise, except for the huge level of voter turnout.
Rouhani, it should be remembered, won a surprising victory in an election with roughly 75% voter turnout, despite expectations of widespread apathy.
But there is only one real option to secure a large voter turnout: the anti-corruption campaigner and vocal Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny.
Between issuing scurrilous charges of non-existent voter fraud, openly encouraging his fellow Republicans to engage in voter suppression, and inviting foreign powers to launch cyber attacks against his opponents, Trump has undermined the credibility of US elections.
Voter turnout, indeed, was the biggest since the 1979 revolution against the Shah.
(There is even one polling booth for a single voter, who lives too far from civilization to travel to another polling station.)
Nor is any Indian election complete without the media publishing at least one picture of a female voter whose enthusiasm for the suffrage is undimmed by the fact that she is old, blind, crippled, toothless, purdah-clad, or any combination of the above.
Likewise, some distinguished voter invariably claims that his name is missing from the rolls, or that someone has already cast his vote (but usually not both).
The electoral rolls carry photographs of every individual voter, as does each voter’s identity card.
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