Sentences with phrase «place votes does»

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It doesn't look like Icahn, currently in fifth place among Wall Streeters in the CNBC 25 voting, is going anywhere soon.

'' «You really did a great job of getting the vote out in places like Cleveland and Milwaukee,» in other words, black people,»» Obama allegedly said after the call, paraphrasing Romney.

These folks either didn't know or didn't remember that these companies opted out of the city after a vote last May preventing them from operating with only their own background check systems in place.

Britain vowed it would do «whatever is necessary» to protect its own economic security in light of the vote, with a Downing Street spokesman saying Prime Minister David Cameron would chair a meeting Monday to review contingency plans already in place.

So I'll ascribe my skepticism about Three Billboards not to mood but to math: I don't see it getting a ton of runner - up votes, so it's going to need a huge number of first - place votes to take the prize.

-- «Goodbye, neighborhood polling places — 5 counties switch to mega-vote centers,» by CALmatters» Rhonda Lyons: «This election season five California counties are doing away with hundreds of neighborhood polling places and replacing them with fewer «one - stop vote centers» — an experiment sold by Democrats as a way to save money and boost anemic voter turnout from the last midterm elections.»

But service was not denied that is why she was there in the first place, participation in a scared event was denied, just like she is denied in eldership voting, but that doesn't seem to bother you.

There's a lot of talk in a lot of places about change, it's time for change, we want change, and what we're saying is what we do on Nov. 4 is important, but what's just as important is how we live on Nov. 3 and Nov. 5 and voting is something we do everyday by the way we live.

Sounds like what the Republicans are doing in this country by pruning the voter rolls, making it harder to register to vote, and making it harder for people to find the right voting place.

With that definition in place, Louie Crew proceeds to grade the 113 bishops in the Episcopalian House of Bishops who have since 1979 voted on one or more resolutions having do with ordaining homosexuals.

Actually the MAJORITY DO N'T SUPPORT GAY MARRIAGE that why you had to have the peoples will overturned in court and in every place where gays needed a vote for marriage it was overturned or the heads of gov rammed it down peoples throats and why are sticking up for Tom you aren't US citizen by birth either?

So even though I think abortion is morally wrong in most cases, and support more legal restrictions around it, I often vote for pro-choice candidates when I think their policies will do the most to address the health and economic concerns that drive women to get abortions in the first place.

I vote NO to the mosque... not now, not ever... They already have enough churches in NYC... This is being done for spite, plain and simple... get over it and go somewhere else... I hear the middle of Harlem is in need of a few places to pray

Devotion to «diversity» doesn't mean having a faculty or student body with the ideological diversity of our country, a place where more or less half the population unjustly votes Republican.

By all means, let churches become a place where like - minded individuals can strategize and hear to politicians of their choice stump for votes — just don't do it on my dime.

Here are some details about that November 2004 ballot proposal: 1) there was already in place a Utah law strictly banning same - sex marriage, which I fully supported; 2) all three candidates for the office of attorney general of Utah (the chief law - enforcement officer in the state) opposed the amendment, including the LDS (Mormon) Republican incumbent, Mark Shurtleff, mostly because they considered it a poorly drafted amendment; 3) I refused to endorse the amendment, but I did not urge people to vote «no»; 4) the leadership of the LDS Church, which has a record for being as strongly opposed to same - sex marriage as the Catholic Church, did not issue a statement urging its members to vote one way or the other; 5) inasmuch as two thirds of Utahans belong to the LDS Church, this means that the leadership of at least 80 percent of Utah churchgoers did not urge a «yes» vote on the amendment.

The losers in the 47 % do not vote, most aren't bright enough to find their polling place and of the ones that do they generally screw up the ballot anyway.

I place my vote and I hope others do also, especially if you keep providing these yummy recipes

Kansas State, with 11 first - place votes, also earns more points per ballot than Florida did last week while getting 16, suggesting that there's no one underrating the «Cats, and their vote distribution, with just one vote for lower than No. 4, backs that up.

I do think Subban will get many 2nd place or 3rd place votes, but the competition is strong this year for the Norris.

And, finally, I don't have to write about a first - place vote for Ohio State, because Notre Dame caught up to the Buckeyes» 10 wins over FBS teams, which should logically have ended OBNUG's reign of Buckeye - backing terror... but OBNUG didn't submit a ballot this week.

This next one I have voted the most ridiculous comment I have EVER seen on here, let's see if you agree... «What you all don't know now is that Wenger is not happy with us (fans), it's whispered in high places that he has sworn to deal with us by even missing out on 4th position.

Did you place a wager on the Brexit vote?

The LSU Tigers take back the top spot in the Week 5 BlogPoll, and do so by rolling up the most first - place votes of any team in 2011.

I did nt actually vote, so maybe it is not my place to comment on the results but personally I think Gio, Auro were over valued while Bradley and Vazquez were undervalued.

Brazil would ultimately triumph 3 - 1 while Uruguay had to settle for fourth place but Mazurkiewicz, who was considered to be one of the finest keepers of his generation by his peers, had done enough to be voted goalkeeper of the tournament.

John Aloisi was second with 16 % and, such was the verdict on other coaches, the third place went to those who didn't vote in this category (4 %).

Craft fairs are also great places to test new products because you can get direct feedback from your buyers — or if you're scared to ask them face to face, why not set up a mini voting booth or chalkboard poll, like Folksy seller Ruth Robinson did at one of her markets stalls.

I really stand by my thinking that anyone who doesn't get this as satire was not terribly likely to have voted for Obama in the first place.

If you do not have your ballot, or you are at polling place other than the one you are registered for, you can vote provisionally: your vote is put aside, they check whether they have received any other votes from you, and if that's your only vote, then it's counted.

The voting places do not sort the ballots by voter party, they all go into a common lockbox and when the box is opened all the ballots in that box are counted together at the same time.

This places the vote on the Senate Calendar but that doesn't mean it will come up for vote as the Senate Majority Leader is ultimately responsible for scheduling the debates and votes and may simply not schedule them.

The voting in these areas did not take place Thursday because of delays and other logistical challenges.

There'll be plenty of Get - Out - The - Vote messages to send, plus last - minute candidate videos and fundraising appeals to promote, but by now the real work should be done — if the systems aren't in place and the databases largely complete by now, somebody'd better be sweating.

Labour registered a double - digit boost in their vote share but still couldn't do enough to come in first place.

Once you do that your name will not appear in the list at your local voting place.

b) to be issued voters Identity Cards «to enable» them «to vote in public elections and referenda» while resident abroad and being outside the jurisdiction of the Republic of Ghana at the time of such elections, and doing so from / at their places of residence abroad or designated centres close to their places of residence abroad or from / at the Ghana Mission / Embassy within their jurisdiction abroad;

While Biaggi voted in the general election's of 2016, 2014 and 2012, she did not vote in any of the Democratic primaries, often the where the real race takes place in New York since voter registration in the city is so overwhelmingly Democratic.

The questioner doesn't go on to explore questions such as when and how the vote would take place, what should be on the ballot paper, and whether abandoning Brexit altogether should be an option.

We do not require ID's in most places to vote.

He did, however, confirm the «passionate» exchange that took place behind closed doors between Sen. Tom Libous and Bloomberg during a GOP conference before the vote.

c) «to vote in public elections and referenda» particularly Presidential and Parliamentary elections while resident abroad and being outside the jurisdiction of the Republic of Ghana at the time of such elections, and doing so from / at their places of residence abroad or designated centres close to their places of residence abroad or from / at the Ghana Mission / Embassy within their jurisdiction abroad;

«Demented fury» is not the kind of language I would use but if Wales and Scotland does vote «Yes» by a large enough margin to overwhelm an English «no» it would certainly vindicate those MPs who said that the referendum should not take place on the same day as the elections to Holyrood and the Cardiff Assembly.

As Anthony Wells points out, it is somewhat inevitable that Labour should be doing worse where they started stronger because there are some places where they didn't have 15 points to lose, but it might also be partly because Ashcroft only polled in Labour seats where the Yes vote was relatively strong in the independence referendum.

It's also possible that members occasionally vote in favor for bills without supporting them or fully knowing their contents, whether out of a desire to maintain cordial relations with their colleagues or because they don't have time to process the thousands of pieces of legislation that are placed on their desks each year.

«There are a lot of other restrictions out there, enough already, that you do have to show identification the first time you vote, you can't just come to a polling place, never have voted before and not show ID.

When asked about the senator's attendance this year, his campaign spokesman, Richie Fife, had a three - point response: Perkins attendance record before this year is laudable; the votes so far this year have taken place outside the budget negotiations, when a bulk of the chambers» real action occurs; and frankly, legislators in the minority don't have much power, thanks to the way the Republican - IDC coalition runs the chamber.

The Conservatives tend to pile up large majorities in safe seats and because the planned redistribution of seats did not take place after the 2010 election, Labour has a number of seats with below average electorates, making the vote - to - seat ratio work all the more in its favour.

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