Sentences with phrase «senate election ballots»

In 2012, more than 189,000 Senate election ballots were rejected, spoiled and declined, compared to only 7,822 in the provincial general election held the same day.

Not exact matches

On the morning of November 3, 2010, for example, the day after Election Dight, Facebook announced that 74 percent of House of candidates with the greatest number of Facebook fans on their ballots won their contests, while in the Senate 81 percent of candidates with the most Facebook fans won seats.

A high - level of rejected, declined and spoiled ballots in the Senate elections suggests that many Albertans are unengaged in this process.

Yepsen lost out on the chance to run in the 2008 Senate election when she came up 32 signatures short of the required 1,000 to make it on the primary ballot.

The Reform Party ballot line on Wednesday endorsed Republican Julie Killian in the special election for the 37th Senate district.

Both candidates in the 40th state Senate district race — GOP Sen. Greg Ball and Democrat Justin Wagner — are hoping to win the Green Party line through an opportunity to ballot in Thursday's primary elections.

Sources said Nassau County GOP Chairman Joe Mondello likes the idea of an independent line because he thinks it might help his hometown US Senate candidate, Bruce Blakeman, in the general election against the Conservatives» nominee, former Rep. Joe DioGuardi (assuming DioGuardi doesn't succeeed in his petitioning effort to get onto the primary ballot and defeat both Blakeman and David Malpass in September).

The Senate is once again a key flashpoint in this year's down - ballot elections as Democrats seek to gain a majority eight years after losing control following a tumultuous, two - year term.

Utah 2018 elections: U.S. Senate • U.S. House • State executive offices • State Senate • State House • Supreme court • Appellate courts • Local judges • State ballot measures • School boards • Candidate ballot access

In a laborious and at times heated hearing Friday afternoon, Indiana's Election Commission voted not to uphold combined challenges to Rep. Todd Young's appearing on the GOP Senate primary ballot.

In more than a dozen states, House and Senate primary elections will happen on the same ballot with the presidential race — timing that could pose a challenge for incumbent candidates in intra-party battles.

But now ALL the ballots are paper, and the Democrats (who are the underdogs in most of the cliffhanger Senate races) are starting to question whether all the votes were counted on Election Day — and that's BEFORE we even broach the question of absentees et al..

It's not a wholly surprising development, given that Saland was leading in the absentee ballot count after this month's primary election, but it is an important one for Senate Republicans, given the concern that Di Carlo's gaining of Row B would give Democratic candidate Terry Gipson an edge in winning this November.

North Dakota 2018 elections: U.S. Senate • U.S. House • Attorney General • Secretary of State • State executive offices • State Senate • State House • Supreme court • Local judges • School boards • Recalls • Candidate ballot access

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After Election Day, the Democrats had 31 seats in the Senate, compared with 30 for the Republicans, but two races remain too close to call and depend on absentee ballots.

In 2014, Malcolm Smith, D - Queens, the former Senate majority leader, was found guilty of scheming to bribe his way onto the ballot in the 2013 New York City mayoral election.

During the 2006 and 2008 elections, for example, Democrats held generic ballot leads in the high teens — a sign of the sweeping Senate and House gains they scored in each of those elections.

Marty Connor, an election lawyer and the former leader of the State Senate Democrats, pulled Teachout's voting records and spent Friday and Saturday sharing them with journalists, noting that she claimed to be a permanently disabled voter (this lets her vote by absentee ballot), had no record of voting in New York in 2011 or 2013 and questioned whether she met the five - year residency requirement to be governor.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo has indicated he'll call special elections for several vacant Assembly seats on April 19, the day of New York's presidential primary, and the assumption is he will put the Long Island Senate race on the ballot at the same time.

Democratic State Senate candidate Adam Haber won a write - in ballot effort to appear under the Green Party line come Nov. 4th, according to Nassau election officials, but party members are vowing to appeal the results in court.

On March 4, the South Dakota Senate passed HB 1018, the omnibus election law bill that includes a provision that a ballot - qualified party may remove itself from the ballot.

The day is expected to be further complicated by brand new Assembly and Senate district lines, which have changed many voters» districts and polling places, as well as lingering doubts over the competency of the Board of Elections, which bungled the ballot count in June's Congressional race between Rep. Charlie Rangel and State Sen. Adriano Espaillat so badly that it took weeks to learn the final results.

Monitors at the Erie County Board of Elections are resuming their count of ballots in the 63rd State Senate primary race between democrats Tim Kennedy and Betty Jean Grant.

(CNN)- Alaska election officials will begin counting write - in ballots Wednesday despite a federal court challenge by the campaign of Republican U.S. Senate candidate Joe Miller, state director Gail Fenumiai said.

More than 26,000 voters in Miami - Dade County cast ballots in the Senate District 40 and House District 116 elections.

The Republican gubernatorial hopeful, citing six recent state Board of Elections decisions tossing Democratic Senate candidates off the WEP ballot line because of unlawful nominating petitions, said that both the US Attorney's Office and district attorneys where the Senate races are being held should seek to hold those responsible criminally liable.

Still, it's unclear what, if any, impact Trump's problems and unsubstantiated claims of a «rigged» election could have on down - ballot races, especially in the closely divided state Senate.

California Republican senate candidate Carly Fiorina (c.) looks to her husband Frank (l.) after casting her ballot in the California primary election at a polling station in Los Altos Hills, Calif., on Tuesday.

The message is the latest sign Democrats running in key Senate races this year, especially in Nassau County, are seizing on the anti-Trump sentiment among general election voters with the hope of down - ballot races like theirs will be rewarded by a strong showing by Clinton in November.

At the same time, Democrats running in tightly contested down - ballot races like the 60th Senate district are counting on Hillary Clinton to perform well in the general election.

As Buffalo Sen. Mark Grisanti plans to move forward in the general election on the Independence Party ballot line this November, Senate Republicans are not yet committing to backing him this fall.

NY1's Bobby Cuza is at the Bronx Board of Elections with Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr., who announced he has collected some 10,000 signatures — far in excess of the 1,500 requirement, which more or less guarantees he'll be on the September primary ballot in spite of Democratic leaders efforts to bounce him from the party.

Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos has called the DREAM Act a nonstarter in his house, and with good reason — politically speaking — considering the fact that a number of his new members actively campaigned against the measure during the 2014 elections and were successful at the ballot box as a result of their opposition.

The Hudson Valley Senate district has long been eyed by Democrats as a possible pickup opportunity, especially given the presidential election year in which down - ballot Democratic candidates tend to do better.

The means the Senate campaigns will have to figure out a way to tell their voters to remember to cast a ballot in the special election.

There is just one mechanical hitch in the hope of a primary turnout fueling votes in the Senate special election: The presidential primary and state Senate special election will be on different ballots.

High school students in the Syracuse City School District participated in a mock election for president, Senate and House of Representatives using official ballots and voting machines from the Onondaga County Board of Elections.

MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota (CNN)- Minnesota's Supreme Court Thursday barred officials from including rejected absentee ballots in the recount of the state's hotly contested U.S. Senate race unless both of the candidates and elections officials agree the ballot was improperly rejected.

That political fact of life, which has set in among the smart strategist set in Washington over the last 10 days or so, is due longstanding in - state rivalries — much of Hawaii Democratic establishment including its two U.S. Senators don't like former Rep. Ed Case (D)-- as well as a special election quirk that puts Case, state Senate President Colleen Hanabusa (D) and Honolulu City Councilman Charles Djou (R) all on the same ballot.

On April 10, the Missouri Senate Elections Committee unanimously passed HB 1236, the bill that improves ballot access for newly - qualifying parties.

(CNN)-- All four Democrats vying for a spot on the ballot in New Jersey's special U.S. Senate election debated for the first time Monday, revealing similar stances on foreign policy but disputing Newark Mayor Cory Booker's record on education.

However, a Georgia Libertarian candidate will be on the ballot for State Senate, 30th district, in the special election set for January 8, 2013.

If November's general election for U.S. Senate in New York were held today, 67 % of registered voters statewide would support Schumer while 25 % would cast their ballot for the Republican challenger, Kudlow.

The election is the result of a citizen's referendum passed nearly two years ago, and a whole lot of wrangling and maneuvering in between, and will even include a ballot question that, in effect, will decide whether the system is used in November's U.S. Senate and House races as well.

«To do that, I need the good Democrats in the Assembly and the Senate like we have right here in Buffalo, so let's make sure we win all those state elections up and down the ballot.»

The union has indicated it would support Republicans in their bid to keep control of the state Senate, an outcome that is in question given their narrow majority and that a presidential election cycle brings more Democrats out to the polls, aiding down - ballot races.

North Carolina 2018 elections: U.S. House • State Senate • State House • Supreme court • Appellate courts • Local judges • School boards • Municipal • Candidate ballot access

On April 17, the New Hampshire Senate Election Law and Veterans Affairs Committee passed HB 521, a bill to «study all current New Hampshire election laws and procedures and review all options to increase participation and access to the ballotElection Law and Veterans Affairs Committee passed HB 521, a bill to «study all current New Hampshire election laws and procedures and review all options to increase participation and access to the ballotelection laws and procedures and review all options to increase participation and access to the ballot.»

In the first election after redistricting, every seat in the senate will appear on the ballot.