Sentences with phrase «day poll workers»

ALBANY — State Senator and Deputy Majority Leader Jeff Klein (D - Bronx / Westchester) announced on Monday that the Senate passed legislation to shorten work shifts for election - day poll workers.

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The distractions that crop up in a worker's day might be slightly different in the home (chores, television, pets, errands and children were all listed as time sucks by the telecommuters who were polled), but interruptions at work are just as common.

«The hackers accessed software designed to be used by poll workers on Election Day, and in at least one state accessed a campaign finance database.»

Homemade bombs are sometimes planted by workers from rival political parties to intimidate voters ahead of polling day.

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Among the issues Kavanagh raised are BOE staffing and poll worker training, long shifts for poll workers on election days, and simply «bad, outdated» election laws.

That would include making «systemic changes» based on recommendations from an outside consultant and publicly posting all job vacancies, improving poll worker staffing with better pay and better training, and communicating more clearly with voters about poll sites, election days and registration statuses.

Sometime after 5 p.m., Business Insider reporter Colin Campbell tweeted, «It's at the end of the day and the poll worker in my precinct was still telling voters they have to choose 1 party for the whole ballot.»

The same was true at poll sites in the Village and Pelham Parkway, where poll workers reported hundreds of voters throughout the day.

Others reported how inspired they'd been by the hundreds of thousands of electoral commission workers in the 33,000 polling stations who spent a long, hard day making sure everyone could vote.

Stringer also announced Tuesday that he plans to audit the agency following confusion over poll locations, poor staffing and workers unsure of what to do on primary day.

The Labour leader needs to remind himself of this fact and also bear in mind that he can't afford to lose his bloc of ex-Lib Dem voters, who have ensured his party has had a poll lead since 2010 and who won't be keen on an opposition that brings back the nasty «British jobs for British workers» rhetoric of the New Labour days.

The bill (S1836) permits local Boards of Elections to hire election inspectors for half - day shifts, preventing fatigue and flexibility for workers whose shifts often start before the polls open at 6 AM and end after they close at 9 PM.

Other polling sites had long lines, too few workers and other issues that made the day a nightmare for voters.

Attorney General Eric Schneiderman in 2016 proposed a package of electoral reforms that would include the automatic voter registration for anyone who deals with a state agency, same - day registration, early voting, and unified statewide training standards for poll workers.

In addition, workers will be posted outside the old polling sites on Primary Day to inform voters of the correct locations, the BOE said.

Mail - in absentee ballots are only available upon request for active members of the military, those with an illness, physical disability or travel plans that prevent them from voting in person on Election Day, and election workers who are working at a polling place other than their own.

Well, the city Board of Elections has 26,000 to 32,000 poll workers on Election Day whose paychecks are drawn on some of those big banks.

Among the key reasons cited by the Assembly and the ECA for adopting a June primary date are that, in their view: an August primary would result in reduced turnout because many voters vacation during that month; identifying and training sufficient poll workers would be very difficult during a prime vacation period; schools, which are often used as poll sites, are frequently closed and unstaffed during the summer; and that, given the myriad tasks that must be completed to prepare and transmit ballots, as well as the inevitable delays caused by administrative challenges, machine malfunctions and counting of paper ballots, setting a June date would ensure better compliance with UOCAVA's 45 - day ballot transmission requirement.

Incompetent poll workers added to the day - long distress, with voters told they were at the wrong polling place or incorrectly instructed not to vote for delegates.

They end their day with a better understanding of the importance of voting and the vital role poll workers play in making our elections run smoothly.