Sentences with phrase «early voting opens»

Early voting opens the franchise to the many who work several jobs just to make ends meet.

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No one knows when or if cannabis will be made legal federally, but Rea highlighted two upcoming milestones to rally the Canopy crowd in the meantime: California is expected to vote on legalization on election day 2016 or earlier, potentially opening sales to adults in an economy larger than Russia's.

They're going to regret 1) opening the voting so early, and 2) not including any F1 stuff when Marcus Ericsson wins the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix following a wheel - banging battle with Lewis Hamilton on the final lap.

By unanimous vote the district board earlier this month approved plans to go ahead with the park, joining a handful of other south suburbs that have opened dog parks in recent years.

The name with the most votes will be unveiled in early March and be used for the new dog park opening this summer inside Melas Park, 1500 W. Central Road in Mount Prospect.

We could just as easily leave the polls open for a week and people can filter in when they want, which is I think what the no - excuse early voting is trying to accomplish.

«If those people negotiating the budget wanted this to be more timely, they should have concluded the negotiations earlier or done it in a more open way so people voting on it have more knowledge of what's in it,» Gianaris said.

Republican Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan indicated he was open to a conversation about making it easier to vote in New York, but questioned the cost of early voting days in advance of Election Day.

Still, polling day was polling day, and I manfully struggled out of bed at 6:30 am for the early morning leaflet drop: with polls opening at 7 am, we were hoping to encourage people to vote before they went to work.

While DeFrancisco and Seward are opposed to early voting, they did propose opening up absentee voting for more voters who would like to cast their votes before Election Day.

In Broward and Palm Beach counties, early voting sites had been scheduled to open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on weekdays.

During the early voting period, polling locations would be required to be open for eight hours on weekdays and five hours on weekends and holidays, and to offer evening hours on at least two days.

The governor also proposed an early voting system that would require counties to open one polling place for every 50,000 residents for the 12 days preceding elections.

The party doesn't have a Senate candidate to drive turnout (Democrats finished 1 - 2 in the June open primary), and depending on whether the presidential race is called early on the East Coast, California Republicans may have even less of an incentive to show up to vote.

Polls will be open from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. each day during the early voting period, including Saturdays and Sundays, and ballots cast during the early voting period would be counted at the close of the polls on Election Day and included in the election night tally.

While most of the political world was still focused on Hillary's e-mails and the FBI last Friday night, an extraordinary story was unfolding in Las Vegas, where the polling place at Cardenas Market had to stay open for three extra hours to allow everyone in line during the last night of early voting to cast ballots.

The votes are opened but not sorted into piles and counted but it is believed this early stage has not yet occurred in Bristol east.

The first bill, co-sponsored by Staten Island Assemblyman Mike Cusick, a Democrat who chairs the Election Law Committee, would require each county to have at least five sites for early voting and open them each of the 14 days leading up to the November election.

Polls are open statewide 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. Early voting turnout broke the previous record set in 2012, and overall turnout was predicted to be near 70 percent.

On Monday, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo proposed adding money to the state budget to provide for a statewide early voting system, in which some polling stations would be open during the 12 days before an election.

Of course I voted, but I dragged myself out of the house early and was at the polls when they opened at 6 am.

The three open seats on the regional board went to: John Clearwater, an independent, who had 801 votes; Richard Godfrey, who had been appointed to the board earlier in order to fill a vacancy and won 428 votes; and David Robbins, a member — but not a formal candidate — of a newly formed parent group in the community that is calling for revisions in the school system's mathematics curriculum.

Early in the Spring quarter in the first year of residency graduate students are reviewed by the full faculty through open studio visits, a group exhibition, and presentations (which are augmented by written statements), and a vote is taken regarding advancement to the second year of study.

We need to be sure that your message will be delivered before the voting window opens on November 8th in case your building officials decide to vote early in the process.

The vote, which opened after the deal was announced earlier this month, is set to close by the end of November.

Since beginning its exploration of blockchain over a year ago, the NSD has published the results of an early test for a proxy voting solution using the NXT blockchain and - as revealed on stage - has sold a $ 10 million bond by Russian telecom MegaFon using the open - source Hyperledger Fabric platform.

In this issue's President's Message, Heather Peshak George thanks APBS volunteers, reminds members that voting for the new members of the APBS board runs from October 7th through December 7th, and reminds members that registration for the 13th annual APBS conference opens in early September.