Sentences with phrase «get to the polling station»

They're counting on those dire warnings having an effect by the time people get to the polling station, and probably they will, but in the meantime the histrionics just turn people away.

Getting to the polling station keeps many people from voting.

If you are registered to vote but can't get to the polling station, you can still apply for an emergency proxy vote.

Not exact matches

Gone are the times when their church bus could chauffeur them right up to the door of the polling station and get them back home right before their soaps started for the day.

Consider a poll conducted last week by a local TV station, which asked respondents how Buffalo would do in 2002: 60 % said the Bills would at least make the playoffs; 7 % predicted they'd get to the Super Bowl and lose (a franchise speciality), and 14 % said they'd win it all.

A poll, released yesterday, showed a slight slip in her already - strong approval ratings and, even more significantly, her campaign recently attempted to use legal pressure to get television stations to pull a negative ad against her, generating flurry of free press coverage for her opponents.

The Journal News, of Westchester County, reported on its Web site that a polling station in Hartsdale opened about two hours late because election workers couldn't get access to locked - up ballots.

Go to branches and polling stations to get yourself involved in activities there to register for your membership», Deputy General Secretary of the party, Koku Anyidoho has directed.

Whatever their choice, I have one simple message for each and every person in the East End and that is to get down to the polling station and use your vote today.»

«There is only an hour and half left to get involved and have a say about who'll be the next Mayor on London, go to the polling station!».

An exit poll conducted jointly by three network TV stations had put him on course to get 41.4 % of the vote, with his nearest challenger, conservative Hong Joon - Pyo, on 23.3 %.

It stunned observers and even prompted a new approach from Tory strategists, who hoped the thought of Gordon Brown remaining in No 10 for another five years would startle voters enough for them to get down to the polling station.

While I am not aware of any such statistics, the only somewhat reliable way of getting such an estimate would be to compile a list of polling stations which functioned regularly throughout the entire day, voters assigned to those polling stations and the percentage of those people who actually did cast a vote.

Otis Wallace, who has two degrees but works as a security guard for a lack of other options, was first in line at a polling station on Water Street in Monrovia after arriving at 5 am to get a spot.

Earlier, as the polling stations closed an exit poll suggested that the Conservative Party would get 316 MPs to Labour's 239 when all the results have been counted.

Mr. Murtala said his priority now is to improve the party's structures in the region by adopting strategies such as «ADOPT A POLLING STATION», and working at getting resources to run party activities at both constituency and regional level.

One of the claims regularly made by Returning Officers wanting to delay counting until the Friday was that thousands and thousands of postal votes get handed in on polling day at polling stations and that under new regulations it would take hours to verify them, thereby making it impossible to deliver a result on the night.

The White House said the move was needed to get an accurate count of non-citizens and help enforce the Voting Rights Act, which aims to prevent violations at polling stations.

The lawmakers hope to hack through some of the red tape and streamline voting by automatically registering people when they get drivers» licenses or other government - issued identification and by allowing people to register at polling stations on election day.

I feel slightly cheated that my polling station was a community centre, pleasant though it was, when some people get to cast their votes in launderettes, pubs and residential garages:

Supporters also got into an argument — which a cop had to break up — over accusations of electioneering outside of a polling station in Manhattan Plaza on Tuesday.

«Reports that reached us from Oshiomhole's area in Edo North indicated that under - age voters and persons without voter cards were not allowed to get into the premises of the polling station by security men.

Senior executives and members of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) across the country on Wednesday continued the awareness creation exercise to get Ghanaians «adopt» various polling stations on elections day.

Holbein notes that there are barriers to voting: registering, studying the candidates, finding the location of one's polling station, and finding the time to get there on what is typically a work day, for example.