Already involved in community groups like the Scouting in New York and the League of Women Voters, Slaughter became increasingly concerned with local political and community issues.

In a 1984 presidential debate sponsored by the League of Women Voters, he explained his administration's support of Marcos by stating, " I know there are things there in the Philippines that do not look good to us from the standpoint right now of democratic rights, but what is the alternative?

To solidify support for conscription in the 1917 election, Borden extended the vote through Military Voters Act to overseas soldiers, who were in favour of conscription to replace their depleted forces ( women serving as nurses were also given the right to vote ).

The League of Women Voters is an American political organization founded on February 14, 1920, in Chicago, Illinois < ref ></ ref </ ref > by Carrie Chapman Catt during the last meeting of the National American Woman Suffrage Association approximately six months before the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution gave women the right to vote.

On March 3, 1913, Alice Paul and led the National American Woman Suffrage Association ( a women's rights organization and precursor to the League of Women Voters ) in a parade up Pennsylvania Avenue in which they demanded the right to vote.

Voters rejected the Kenya African National Union's ( KANU ) presidential candidate, Uhuru Kenyatta, the handpicked candidate of outgoing president Moi.

Voters rank candidates in order of preference: if their most preferred candidate receives insufficient votes, the vote is transferred to the second choice and so on.

Voters elected Dallas Mayor of Philadelphia as the candidate of the Family party, after the party had gained control of the city councils.

Voters cast their ballot for one candidate from each precinct.

Voters rank each candidate in order of preference ( 1, 2, 3 etc .).

Voters usually have two votes, one for the party and the second for the candidate in a constituency, even if sometimes these votes are combined.

Voters are unable to specify a differing level of support for a more preferred candidate, giving them less flexibility although making it tactically easier to support a slate of candidates.

Voters had to choose one candidate from a long list of 135 candidates.

Voters who voted against recalling Gray Davis could still vote for a candidate to replace him in case the recall vote succeeded.

Voters would still be allowed to vote for any candidate as before.

Voters punch holes in the cards ( with a supplied punch device ) opposite their candidate or ballot issue choice.

* Voters are required to place the number " 1 " against the candidate of their choice, known as their " first preference ".

Voters are presented blank sheets of paper with no candidate names on them.

Voters cast their ballots by making a hole in the ballot paper with a nail, above the photo of their preferred candidate.

Voters were given free rein to decide for themselves in which group a candidate belonged, with neither group knowing the outcome of the other election ; some candidates had their vote split between the elections as a result-Cy Young, the pitcher with most wins in Major League history, finished 8th in the BBWAA vote and 4th in the Veterans vote.

Voters were instructed to cast votes for 10 candidates ; any candidate receiving votes on at least 75 % of the ballots would be honored with induction to the Hall.

Research indicates that voters are open to candidates attacking each other as long as it ’ s on issues that they deem to be “ appropriate .” For example, survey of Virginia Voters, 80. 7 % of voters feel it is fair for a candidate to criticize an opponent for “ talking one way and voting another ” but only 7. 7 % feel it is fair for a candidate to attack an opponent for the “ behavior of his / her family members .”

Voters often look to negative information to find reasons for supporting one candidate over another.

Voters were instructed to cast votes for 10 candidates ; any candidate receiving votes on at least 75 % of the ballots would be honored with induction to the Hall.

Voters were instructed to cast votes for 10 candidates ; any candidate receiving votes on at least 75 % of the ballots would be honored with induction to the Hall.

Voters were instructed to cast votes for 10 candidates ; any candidate receiving votes on at least 75 % of the ballots would be honored with induction to the Hall.

Voters selecting switches ( levers ), pushing plastic chips through holes, or pushing mechanical buttons which increment a mechanical counter ( sometimes called the odometer ) for the appropriate candidate.

* Tactical voting — Voters in countries such as Germany may cast two votes and they need not be for the same party.

Voters — in a conservative mood after the turmoil of World War I — expressed their approval of his cautious fiscal policy and his disdain for socialism by re-electing him twice.

* 8 — Voters in Oregon approve Measure 8, repealing Governor Neil Goldschmidt's 1987 executive order banning sexual orientation discrimination in state employment.

* 9 — Voters in the U. S. city of Wichita, Kansas, repeal a gay rights ordinance by a nearly 5-to-1 margin ; 47, 276 for repeal, 10, 500 against.

* 23 — Voters in the U. S. city of Eugene, Oregon, repeal an ordinance banning discrimination against gays and lesbians by a 2-to-1 margin.

* 7 — Voters repeal gay rights ordinances in the U. S. cities of Athens, Ohio, Tacoma, Washington, and Irvine and Concord, California.

* 3 — Voters in San Jose and Santa Clara County, California vote to repeal the city and county gay rights ordiinances.

In 2006, the nonpartisan environmental group League of Conservation Voters included Boren in its “ Dirty Dozen ” list of anti-environment federal officeholders, citing his “ dismal voting record on issues of environmental importance .” This record included support for the Energy Policy Act of 2005 — a bill criticized for the billions of dollars in subsidies it provided the oil and nuclear industries — as well as opposition to policies designed to increase fuel efficiency and to increase accountability for producers of the pollutant and fuel additive MTBE.

In nonpartisan contexts, " Get out the vote " is a slogan used by organizations, such as the League of Women Voters, Rock the Vote, and Long Distance Voter, motivated by the belief that failure of any eligible voter to vote in any election entails a loss to society.

Voters in South Carolina reportedly were asked " Would you be more likely or less likely to vote for John McCain for president if you knew he had fathered an illegitimate black child?

Voters in South Carolina were reportedly asked, " Would you be more likely or less likely to vote for John McCain if you knew that he fathered an illegitimate black child ?".

In 1967, he was ranked by the Independent Voters of Illinois ( IVI ) as the fourth-most independent legislator in the house and named Best Legislator of the Year.

A critical issue for him was appearing in the fall presidential debates and he won an important victory when the League of Women Voters created a qualification threshold of 15 % for him to appear.

Voters elected Lewis Towers over current Village Board Trustee Derrick Burgess, who was also an African-American, by 62 % to 37 % respectively.

Emshwiller's footage of Bob Dylan singing " Only a Pawn in Their Game " on July 6, 1963 at a Voters ' Registration Rally in Greenwood, Mississippi, was shot for his 1963 documentary The Streets of Greenwood and appears in D. A. Pennebaker's Dylan documentary, Dont Look Back ( 1967 ).

* Emily Newell Blair, was an American writer, suffragist, national Democratic Party political leader, a founder of the League of Women Voters and feminist.

A brief resurgence in Tammany power in the 1950s was met with Democratic Party opposition led by Eleanor Roosevelt, Herbert Lehman, and the New York Committee for Democratic Voters.

Mrs. McClanahan was an educator active in the League of Women Voters.

The role was filled by the nonpartisan League of Women Voters ( LWV ) civic organization in 1976, 1980 and 1984.

The suffrage organization NAWSA became the League of Women Voters and Alice Paul's National Woman's Party began lobbying for full equality and the Equal Rights Amendment which would pass Congress during the second wave of the women's movement in 1972 ( but it was not ratified and never took effect ).

Voters were polarized on religious grounds, but Kennedy's election was a transforming event for Catholics, who finally realized they were accepted in America, and it marked the virtual end of anti-Catholicism as a political force.

Independent Voters Association member Ragnvald A. Nestos was elected in his place.

Voters regarded the Progressive Conservative government as unnecessarily confrontational and divisive, and some of the Liberal Party's strength was based in a promise to change the combative tone of government.

Nestos was a member of the Independent Voters Association, running on the Republican ticket.

It was a time of bitter political discontent and bickering between the NPL ( Nonpartisan League, which supported state-owned industry ) and the IVA ( Independent Voters Association, which opposed state ownership of Industries ).

The presidential debates were initially moderated in 1976, 1980, 1984 by the League of Women Voters, but The Commission on Presidential Debates ( CPD ) was established in 1987 by the Republican and Democratic parties.

David Ross Brower ( July 1, 1912 – November 5, 2000 ) was a prominent environmentalist and the founder of many environmental organizations, including the Sierra Club Foundation, the John Muir Institute for Environmental Studies, Friends of the Earth ( 1969 ), the League of Conservation Voters, Earth Island Institute ( 1982 ), North Cascades Conservation Council, and Fate of the Earth Conferences.

Voters passed the proposed law as a referendum in November 1994 ; it was the first time that a state had passed legislation related to immigration, customarily an issue for federal policies and programs.

In 2006, Crapo was given the lowest possible score ( 0 %) by the League of Conservation Voters for his voting record in the Senate.

In the place of the four parliamentary seats, a partially elected body was set up to advise the government in an amendment to the Separate Representation of Voters Act.

After success in 1920, the NAWSA was reformed as the League of Women Voters, which continues the legacy.

Percy Maxim Lee was president of the League of Women Voters from 1950 – 1958, and testified in the U. S. Senate against Senator Joseph McCarthy in 1955.

His daughter, Percy Maxim Lee ( 1906 – 2002 ) became President of the League of Women Voters of the United States and was appointed by President Kennedy to the Consumer Advisory Council, which she later chaired.

In Ogden Dunes, Inidana, Naomi Svhila was a long-time member of the League of Women Voters who worked to preserve the Indiana Dunes.

Swift Boat Veterans for Truth was fined $ 299, 500 ; the League of Conservation Voters was fined $ 180, 000 ; MoveOn. org was fined $ 150, 000.