Sentences with phrase «elections voted on»

The Board of Elections voted on Tuesday that Luthmann did not have enough signatures for the ballot.

But even if that happens, unions might not be so inclined to support the WFP going forward, being slightly less generous in their contributions to its coffers and less enthusiastic in encouraging their members to cast general election votes on the WFP line.

Not exact matches

«At the elections, we saw that half the country did not vote... I've reached the point where I don't want to blame government anymore, and I don't want to rely on them.

Another of the great uncertainties in these elections is what effect the collapse of the UKIP vote will have on the two major parties.

The 2008 election showed just how powerful social media could be in driving votes, and President Barak Obama's 2008 campaign was, and is, widely viewed as the first general - election campaign to focus on social media as its primary mode of marketing (Howard Dean's bid for the 2004 Democratic nomination also used social media heavily.)

In 2017, that was 22 states, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, including at least 10 that voted for President Trump in the 2016 election.

A general election on March 4 resulted in a hung parliament in which no one party or coalition of parties won enough of the vote to govern alone.

Does a man who received almost 3 million fewer votes than his opponent in the election really have the political capital to carry on like this?

«Wait and see what happens on election day because many people who weren't for independence will now go and vote against the police's response.

A Monmouth University survey released on Wednesday — conducted by telephone, and with a plus - or - minus 3.5 % margin of error — found that 51 % of registered voters said they would vote for or lean toward a Democratic candidate if the 2018 elections were held today, compared to just 36 % who said they would vote or lean Republican.

Catalans vote Sunday in regional parliamentary elections that the breakaway camp hopes will give them a mandate to put their region on a path toward independence — a goal the Madrid central government says would be illegal.

Paper ballots are counted after the end of voting in the Italian general elections on March 4, 2018 in Naples, Italy.

We didn't translate that to being down double — we knew we were going to have a big Election Day, knew Republicans were going to turn out, because we had a state poll that showed 62 % of Republicans were going to vote on Election Day.

West's comments were captured in video that Twitter users uploaded online, showing the rapper drawing boos from the crowd after he explained that, while he did not vote on Election Day, he would have voted for Trump.

The measure fell just short of the 60 votes needed for passage, despite frantic last - minute lobbying by supporters, especially Democratic Senator Mary Landrieu of Louisiana, who faces a runoff election on Dec. 6.

Trump said on Wednesday that he is terminating the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity, created in May to investigate voting fraud allegations.

Stories on the U.S. election tend to focus on national polls, ignoring the fact that the president is chosen through the electoral college, not a popular vote.

Now local legislatures can make such changes without explanation, and it's up to voters to try to challenge them in lawsuits, and to do so often on an tight timetable, since courts won't want to change voting rules close to an election.

Nabors» board is not legally compelled to abide by the majority vote against Sheinfeld's election, and it has decided to keep him on the board.

Only about a third of Republicans said they have a great deal or quite a bit of confidence that votes on Election Day will be counted fairly, according to recent poll from the Associated Press - NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.

When polls closed on Election Day, Florida led the pack, voting to legalize marijuana for medical purposes.

Importantly, nearly a quarter of respondents (24 %) still don't know how they plan to vote on election day — meaning there is still a significant and potentially - decisive chunk of the vote to play for.

Zuckerberg said Thursday that «voters make decisions based on their lived experience,» continuing, «Part of what I think is going on here is people are trying to understand results of the election, but I do think that there is a certain profound lack of empathy in asserting that the only reason that some of them are voting the way they did is because they saw some fake news.

A key reason for holding the vote was to fulfil a 2011 promise made by all municipal election candidates in Kitimat to poll citizens on the pipeline project.

Whitman said on Tuesday that she will not vote for Trump and that she urges every Republican to reject him for the upcoming November presidential election.

They shared content on Telegram «channels» and urged followers to vote ahead of Iran's parliamentary elections in February 2016.

In Sierra Leone, this was accomplished by each vote being stored on a joint, private blockchain network accessible only by Agora staff, who then posted the tally on their election results site.

On the eve of the election, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump refused to give up on Pennsylvania and its 20 electoral voteOn the eve of the election, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump refused to give up on Pennsylvania and its 20 electoral voteon Pennsylvania and its 20 electoral votes.

And unlike the election, investors won't get to vote directly on the passage of Trumpcare.

Reasons have since been offered for the high - profile provincial misses — in the case of Alberta, a last - minute swing in voting intentions from Wildrose to the PCs; in B.C., the failure of those who said they'd vote NDP to show up on election day.

On Election Day, more than 69.4 million Americans voted for Obama to become the 44th president of the US — and the first African - American to hold the position.

Not only are they almost twice as likely to vote in federal elections as younger people, it is also bad for your image to be viewed as beating up on the Golden Girls.

LONDON, Nov 5 - The euro fell to a near two - month low against a broadly firmer dollar on Monday on uncertainty over a Greek vote on austerity and before this week's U.S. presidential election.

More broadly, concerns about trade and its impact on workers figured large in the 2016 U.S. presidential election and in Britain's referendum vote to leave the European Union, a free - trade bloc.

The cyber-nightmare on election night that Graff says is possible probably won't involve a massive attack that prevents each voter from voting.

The report also gave details about a two - year - old warning from the Presidential Commission on Election Administration, a bipartisan organization, that described the state of America's aging voting system as an «impending crisis.»

At a meeting with lawmakers on Monday, Trump falsely claimed that he lost the popular vote because 3 to 5 million undocumented immigrants had voted in the election.

White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer doubled down Tuesday on Donald Trump's false claim that he only lost the popular vote in the 2016 presidential election because 3 to 5 million people voted illegally.

Canadians across the country are voting in a federal election on May 2, 2011.

About 2.2 million Catalonians, or 43 % of its electorate, voted overwhelmingly to leave Spain on October 1, in an election that Madrid maintains is unconstitutional.

The charges were announced less than an hour after The Intercept published a top - secret document from the U.S. National Security Agency that described Russian efforts to launch cyber attacks on at least one U.S. voting software supplier and send «spear - phising» emails, or targeted emails that try to trick a recipient into clicking on a malicious link to steal data, to more than 100 local election officials days before the presidential election last November.

Republicans in South Carolina also were voting on Saturday in the state - by - state contest to pick nominees for the Nov. 8 election, with opinion polls showing front - runner Donald Trump trying to solidify his spot at the top of the pack and rivals Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio fighting for a second - place finish.

WASHINGTON, Dec 14 - The U.S. Federal Communications Commission vote on Thursday to roll back net neutrality rules could galvanize young voters, a move Democrats hope will send millennials to the polls in greater numbers and bolster their chances in next year's elections.

The data leak is just the most recent example of abuse on the site, following reports of Russian meddling during the 2016 U.S. presidential election and controversial Brexit vote in the UK.

These states and those that voted on Election Day offer opportunities for investors and entrepreneurs.

Duterte, who won just under 40 % of the vote in a five - way presidential election last May, remains popular in the Philippines, despite his at - times bellicose behavior and his bloody crackdown on drugs, which has claimed thousands of lives.

On Wednesday he filed a complaint in the Circuit Court of Montgomery, Ala., calling for a delay in certifying the results of the Dec. 12 Senate election which saw Democrat Doug Jones prevail over Moore by more than 20,000 votes.

Indeed, those stocks had been on a tear earlier this year, with Facebook shares up as much as 25 % a couple of weeks before the election — but then the FANG stocks suddenly «rolled over,» Gundlach said, falling 10 % as a group as the vote approached and the presidential race got narrower.

«They realized they could get access to the voting registration systems, which can have an impact on state elections and primaries.

The comments from Warner, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, came one day after The Intercept reported on a top - secret National Security Agency document that said hackers associated with Russia's military intelligence agency targeted a company with information on US voting software days before the election.