On the one hand, they can vote to help the economy and their careers.
Although Oakland is 43% black and only 28% white (with the rest of the population equal parts Latino and Asian), and although it has had a succession of black mayors in recent years, so many popular black candidates are running this time that they may split the vote and hand the election to the Moonbeam candidate.
The committee split four-all on an increase in February and stayed its hand only on the casting vote of the Bank's governor, Eddie George.
Dedicated sports fans, on the other hand, are more likely to vote Republican.
Meanwhile, the Canvassing Board of Palm Beach County, where Al Gore won 64% of the vote, suspended its hand recount in deference to a legal opinion by the secretary of state that the procedure was unlawful under Florida law.
His move followed lengthy talks with Mr Moon, amid concern that splitting the opposition vote between two candidates would hand the ruling party a win.
"For companies where 30% or 40% of the stock is in the hand of retail investors who wouldn't vote if not contacted, you can move the needle by calling, " explains Drake.
And now as we get closer to the vote, there is a lot of hand-wringing going on.
Republicans have resisted efforts to hand political power to a city whose overwhelmingly black residents vote Democratic.
They say I will give you a hand out or include you in a program for your vote.
We had to artificially limit our definition of "tool" to hand-wielded implements, which meant no one could vote for "language"--arguably the most important tool of all.
On Saturday night, as supporters camped outside his headquarters in Lahore's Model Town area, Mr. Sharif sat on a couch in a room packed with close advisers, a remote control in his hand, as he flicked between TV channels broadcasting the vote count.
It would be quite tricky for the Court to reject this approach out of hand, however obvious and likely it is that MPs will vote against prisoner voting again.
The U.S. Supreme Court's stay Saturday of a Florida Supreme Court order to begin the hand count of disputed ballots could push a few electors to vote counter to their states' popular votes, he said.
Understandably, he has asked for a full recount of every vote in that county and that it be conducted by hand under appropriate monitoring.
On a separate note, there is one day left to vote for your favorite social enterprise or nonprofit in the Hand Up for Social Good Award competition!
Following glitches with hi-tech voting and counting systems, the vote-tallying process was started again from scratch, and by hand, on Wednesday.
That if the Chancellor drags his heels, doesn't play ball, despite the clear consensus among all four political parties in Wales that this is the way to go, then he'll hand ammunition to pro-independence campaigners in Scotland, and make a Yes vote in next Autumn's referendum more likely.
On the other hand, Russia's Syria policy seems to be in flux judging by its vote in the United Nations recently.
CISPA, which passed the House last year but never reached a vote in the Senate, has drawn fire for a provision that would allow companies to hand over cybersecurity threat information to government agencies that include the National Security Agency and Department of Defense, even granting them immunity from existing laws and regulations that would prevent the sharing of some sensitive information.
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The hand count in Palm Beach County will include an examination of 10, 311 ballots that registered blank on the vote for president when they were run through a machine.
CNN: Republicans, Democrats clash in Palm Beach county amid recount
Results of the Wednesday vote in South Africa, where there are 23 million registered voters and all votes are counted by hand, are expected by Saturday at the earliest -- although elections officials hope to have a preliminary tally before then.
On the other hand, the Latin Americans insisted that the sanctuary was important to them and they were entitled to call for a vote - which, of course, they were.
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