Sentences with phrase «election officials started»

Election officials started the count of 1,780 absentee ballots and about 200 affidavits at 2 p.m. Nassau County Board of Elections commissioner David J. Gugerty spoke with Newsday about the process.

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Among places where primaries are held, what are typical rules to select a new candidate after a primary has been held but before the official election process starts?

Cuomo has now released six ads since the Sept. 14 primary signaled the official start of the general election.

Along with vigilant enforcement of the law, disclosure of contributions, and lower contribution limits, public financing of elections can «end the mad chase for campaign cash that starts some elected officials down the road to corruption and... make candidates dependent on ordinary voters rather than special interests.»

Suffolk elections officials on Friday began the lengthy process of counting the 16,690 absentee and affidavit ballots in the tightly contested countywide sheriff's race, starting with the county's smallest town, Shelter Island.

From a lead in the polling of about 10 % at the start of the official campaign in June, Yes closed the gap to low single figures by the election day in September.

Winning 232 seats in the 2015 general election, the Labour Party took its place as the official opposition at the start of the new parliament last year.

The Democatic official, meanwhile, said that he thinks Republicans will start spending money as Election Day gets closer.

And he repeated his previous call for them to take place ahead of the official election period which starts at the end of March.

The start - up grant was given to the party by the Electoral Commission in 2001 and 2002 in order to help officials understand regulations imposed after the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act (PPERA) was passed in 2000.

Election officials have started a 3 percent recount of a random vote sample as required by law in close races, said Altschuler spokesman Rob Ryan.

He also praised the AG for releasing campaign commercials prior to the official start of the general election — particularly one that called for a property tax cap, on which Paterson insisted he and Cuomo are on the same page, even though his plan calls for a four percent cap, while the AG wants a more stringent 2 percent.

09.56: Accreditation exercise earlier scheduled for 8 am may kick - start anytime soon in all polling units around Egbe Idimu LCDA, as election officials are seen just arriving their designated points.

He added his spending would only do something to redress the spending imbalance saying that many Lib Dem and Labour candidates had told him that the Tories have «spent over # 100,000 campaigning against them, even before the official election campaign — and spending limits — started in December».

The moving encounter in the ballroom of the Hilton Rye Town in Rye Brook marked the official start of the popular attorney general's long march to the November election, in which he's overwhelmingly favored over a bitterly divided Republican field.

«With two of the most prolific fundraisers and nationally prominent Democratic leaders rallying to support the state Senate Democrats, we're off to a good start to a successful election cycle,» the DSCC official told me.

Speaking on a visit to Cannock, Mr Cameron said he had «unblocked the log - jam» over what format a televised election debate should take and that he was sticking to his proposal that any debate must take place before the official general election campaign starts.

On Wednesday, Mr Cameron said his «final offer» was to attend one 90 - minute contest which would take place before 30 March, when the official general election campaign started.

The electoral body said in a tweet, «It has come to the attention of the Independent National Electoral Commission that some persons, especially on social media have started publishing result of the Edo governorship election, such result should be disregarded as only INEC or its designated officials can do so.»

Explaining, the NPP's Director of Elections, Mr Martin Agyei Mensah Korsah said it started with the Statement of Poll and Declaration of Results Sheet [Pink Sheets] which contained the official records of the eElections, Mr Martin Agyei Mensah Korsah said it started with the Statement of Poll and Declaration of Results Sheet [Pink Sheets] which contained the official records of the electionselections.

Brennan, the Working Families Party, and a variety of Democratic officials and organizations have endorsed Carroll, an election lawyer and president of the Central Brooklyn Independent Democrats, a political group his grandfather helped start in the late 1960s.

He said he was taking the break to enable party officials to channel energies into monitoring the registration exercise, since the entire election process starts with voter registration.

Today is the official start of primary election season in the U.S..

Sources told the Guardian that the plans would be a key part of Osborne's budget on Wednesday in order to start the process before officials are forced to shut down work because of the purdah before the May elections and EU referendum.

Let's start with the most important point first: A campaign finance violation is not a ground to remove an elected official from office, no matter how egregious, on its own, even if one could prove that the campaign finance violation probably caused the outcome of an election to change.