Sentences with phrase «primary day voters»

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Green Bay, Wisconsin (CNN)-- A Green Bay voter confronted Mitt Romney over his religion at a town hall Monday, the day before Wisconsin's primary.

And who knows, perhaps once voters at large understood what primaries were for and how they worked, they could be just as motivated as on election day itself?

Unlike two his fellow same - sex marriage «yes» voters, who struggled — and in one case, failed — to keep the GOP ballot line on primary day, Sen. Mark Grisanti easily defeated his challenger, attorney Kevin Stocker, on Sept. 13 and retained Row B.

I think you can avoid this with (i) a primary election day for all parties where voters have to choose which party to vote for OR (ii) a Labour - only primary election day where people who want to vote have to register first.

Betty Ann Canizio - Aqil, a Board of Elections chief clerk in Brooklyn, is expected to be suspended after a vote by the board's commissioners — the second BOE official to be suspended over New York's primary day snafu that led many voters to be turned away at the polls.

«In campaign terms, 40 days is a lifetime so there's time for Paladino to connect with voters and turn this race around, as his Republican primary performance proves.

@user4012 about 2), the final election day is just the end of a lengthy electoral process; if voters are better educated and use that education all through the process a demagogue should be stopped earlier in the process (so, for a party supporter it would not be end as [My demagogue] vs [candidate from other party], because [My demagogue] would have been voted out in the primaries; in these primaries such a voter would have the option to vote for other candidates more ideologically acceptable).

Ah, sweet spin... you got ta love phrases like «controlled excitement,» particularly the day BEFORE the primary election, when there's still time for a campaign to hope to get late - deciding voters to jump on the bandwagon.

Lazio repeated the «can't govern by insult» shot he has been taking in recent days at his GOP primary opponent, Carl Paladino, and also highlighted the Buffalo businessman's Democratic campaign contributions, saying that displays an «inconsistency» that Republican voters aren't going to support.

This race will get a big jolt of extra voters from the NY Democratic Primary being held the same day.

The only holiday we're talking about is the day of the actual election, but counting primaries and run - offs there could be more days throughout the year that require voter participation.

Today's Siena poll finds GOP gubernatorial primary opponents Rick Lazio and Carl Paladino locked in a statistical dead heat (43 - 42), while Sen. Eric Schniederman and Nassau County DA Kathleen Rice are battling it out (25 - 23) in the five - way Democratic AG primary, with 29 percent of voters still undecided just three days before heading to the polls.

Well, it's two days before the primary, one in which voter turnout is expected to be very, very low.

It is only practical to hold the state primary on the same day as the federal primary, allowing for a stronger and more cohesive voter participation.»

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So with Messer out, the «primary vote» will be safe for Senator Stavisky putting S.J in a perpetual uphill climb: registering new voters and pulling them out on election day, which is not as easy as it sounds epecially when voters doubt a challenger's ability to trounce an incumbent of this magnitude.

In legal terms, that deadline was 25 days before the general election prior to the next primary a voter wishes to vote in.

The day began with Heaney calling on Faso, a former Assembly minority leader who likely enjoys higher name recognition with voters in the district given that he was once an elected official, to hold six debates ahead of the primary.

The mayor called on the state Legislature to pass broad voting and election reforms, including same - day voter registration, early voting, «no excuse» absentee voting, electronic poll books, consolidation of primary elections, reformatting ballots to make them more user - friendly, and pre-registration of 16 - and 17 - year - olds.

He said the closed primary system prevents interference from voters that strategically «jump into the opposite primary just for the day and then jump back out.»

«The military voters and all other voters in New York's 3rd Congressional deserve the same consideration, 50 days or more in the general election, as the judge provided for the primary voters,» Murray said.

A de Blasio supporter was quick to attribute the shift to a recent slate of bad press, but, of course, it's still a long - way until Election Day and in a multi-candidate primary, voters» choices tend to be relatively volatile.

On average, candidates were given about 84 days between the filing deadline and primary election to get their message to voters.

Deadline for county clerk to receive in - person applications for absentee ballots for the Preferential Primary Election and Nonpartisan Election from the voter, designated bearer, or administrator is no later than the close of regular business hours on the day before the election.

The board's much - maligned Primary Day performance is also being audited by the office of Scott Stringer, the NYC comptroller, who released an online form for voters to submit information about their experiences.

His staff would employ a combination of both new and proven online technologies to organize volunteers, to find new supporters and put them to work, to turn out voters on election day and (of course) to raise unprecedented amounts of money — all contributing to a crucial edge in the primary and general elections.

HB 141 would have prevented members of one party from switching their party registration on primary day so as to vote in another party's primary, although it would have retained the ability of independent voters to switch to any party on primary day for the purpose of voting in that party's primary.

Cuomo also suggested allowing new voters to register up to 10 days ahead of a primary or election, as opposed to the current 25 days.

The poll was conducted over a three - day period between September 5 - 7, and surveyed 500 likely Democrat voters in the Albany Democratic primary.

The primary results came after a day marred by problems with the old lever voting machines and other issues including last - minute changes to polling sites and voters» names not appearing on official rolls.

While the gubernatorial struggle between Andrew Cuomo and Zephyr Teachout has been the most high profile, there are many Primary Day battles that could spark big voter turnouts today.

Saying that the effort will help ensure equal access to the ballot box on election day, Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has announced an Election Day hotline designed to help ensure that minority - language voters, people with disabilities and all eligible voters are able to cast «an effective ballot» during the September 10th primary electiday, Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has announced an Election Day hotline designed to help ensure that minority - language voters, people with disabilities and all eligible voters are able to cast «an effective ballot» during the September 10th primary electiDay hotline designed to help ensure that minority - language voters, people with disabilities and all eligible voters are able to cast «an effective ballot» during the September 10th primary election.

The stand - alone nature of this primary brings an added challenge to motivating more casual voters as the typical reminders of an approaching election day, such as TV ads, a mailbox stuffed with campaign literature and campaign signs in the street, are absent.

Voter registration: To vote in the primary, voters could register by either August 30, 2014, if registering with a town clerk, or on election day.

Voters have just nine days remaining until the Tuesday, Sept. 14, state primaries — and the Times Union can help.

«With 55 days to go until the primary — our progressive platform is resonating with voters on the West Side.»

And according to a poll released the day before the Paris attacks, 53 percent of Democratic primary voters were «very confident» in Clinton's ability to «handle an international crisis,» compared to just 16 percent for Sanders.

The proposal would allow «non-aligned» voters registered on or before Aug. 19 to vote in the Sept. 13 Democratic primary — or up to 25 days before the primary, the same deadline for newly registered voters.

(Bloomberg's report notes 20 out of 25 states that require party affiliation to vote in primaries allow for changes within 30 days of Election Day; only New York requires voters to wait more than a year to vote in a party primary after changing party affiliations).

Capital NY noted this morning that the Republicans are on the offensive and dredging up old convictions not just in this race, but also in the 60th SD (Grisanti's seat), where they are reminding voters that the Democrat who emerged from Tuesday's primary, Marc Panepinto, had his law license suspended for 30 days in 2001 after pleading guilty to falsely saying he witnessed voters sign nominating petitions.

The contribution came Saturday, just days before voters in the Senate district will decide between Panepinto, incumbent Sen. Mark Grisanti who lost his primary to Kevin Stocker, and Conservative Party candidate Timothy Gallagher.

With 18 days to go the public & reporters are left in the dark about what Democ» RAT» ic primary voters are thinking and who they will support.

Gov. David Paterson's former campaign manager Richard Fife OpEds in favor of moving up primary day and allowing early voting to boost voter participation.

In the hopes that it's not over for Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, his local volunteers are watching Erie County election workers this week review the affidavit ballots that were filled out on primary day by voters whose status to vote was unclear.

«Just three days ago, my opponent and the Albany bosses gave up their lawsuit to disenfranchise our Republican voters,» said Murphy's Republican primary opponent, former Assemblyman Bob Castelli.

Likely primary voters expect the worst is yet to come: Although many voters likely to vote in New Hampshire's Democratic or Republican Primaries still think the candidates are discussing the issues, most voters think the campaigns will get more negative as primary day approaches.

In Ohio, voters select their preferred party primary ballots at their polling places on Election Day.

However, 70 % of likely Democratic primary voters and 66 % of likely Republican primary voters think the tone of the campaign will get worse as primary day gets closer.

Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts makes phone calls to voters, asking them to vote for him and for fellow Republican candidates, on primary election day, Tuesday, May 15, 2018, in Omaha, Neb..

And, like (almost) all primary day, when voters vote we give Fixistas from around the country their chance to sound off too.