Sentences with phrase «affidavit ballots»

He said the «profound and widespread» issues include disappearing polling places and poorly trained poll workers who turned away voters seeking affidavit ballots.

«The only thing out of the ordinary was the extraordinary need for affidavit ballots in Brooklyn and Manhattan,» he said, adding that the BOE was proud to have a «sufficient amount of affidavits» to provide for all voters.

JAMESTOWN - After counting absentee and affidavit ballots for a city council election, the official outcome of the race has yet to be declared.

The Clinton County Board of Elections is set to count over 51 absentees and affidavit ballots on April 3, after this edition went to print.

In some cases, the posts referenced the lawsuit and urged non-enrolled voters to cast affidavit ballots just in case the court ordered the primary opened.

Election officials prepare to count absentee and affidavit ballots from last month's special election to fill the Area 3 seat on the county legislature.

But while inferences are easier to make based on actual data, what's more difficult to discern is what happened for numerous voters who were turned away or forced to file affidavit ballots because they weren't enrolled in a party or at least weren't enrolled in time for the primary they wanted to vote in.

Absentee and affidavit ballot counting from last Thursday's primary race in the 63rd State Senate District will now be overseen by a State Supreme Court judge.

(There may be a few affidavit ballots left to count as well.)

The board could not say how many paper affidavit ballots were filled out Tuesday.

«A ballooned number of affidavit ballots and hundreds of calls of people that said they were turned away because they said they couldn't find them in the books?»

At some polling sites, local elected officials reported that all of the old - school levered voting machines — which were revived this year because of concerns with new electronic scanning machines — were down, forcing voters to cast affidavit ballots instead.

Mr. Rangel is now ahead of Mr. Espaillat by only 802 votes, or about 2 percentage points, and more than 2,000 absentee and affidavit ballots remain to be counted.

Poll workers must offer affidavit ballots to voters who believe they are registered, even if they do not appear in poll books,» said Schneiderman.

With the results still uncertain in Rep. Charlie Rangel's most difficult primary battle so far, attention has turned to the opening of absentee and affidavit ballots by the city Board of Election.

Mr. Espaillat cited a number of what he described as «irregularities» on Election Day, including an unusual lack of bilingual inspectors, the absence mailed notifications alerting voters to the new Election Day date this year, and Spanish language speakers being handed affidavit ballots instead of regular ones.

A State Supreme Court will hear an injunction request from Mr. Espaillat today and the Board of Elections will start counting more than 2,000 affidavit ballots Thursday morning.

The Board is counting absentee and affidavit ballots today.

Again, this race could be too close to call without the absentee and affidavit ballots yet to be counted.

The Erie County Board of Elections has spent the week counting absentee and affidavit ballots after a machine count showed Kennedy with a lead of less than 100 votes.

As the count of absentee and affidavit ballots continues in the New York's hotly contested 1st Congressional District race, the campaign of Randy Altschuler, the Republican / Conservative candidate, today released information on the nature of the challenges made to ballots through close of business on Friday.

Schneiderman is advising boards of election around the state to provide affidavit ballots at next Tuesday's congressional primary to voters whose names may not appear in poll books.

ALBANY, NY — State Senator and Deputy Majority Leader Jeff Klein announced Wednesday that the Senate passed legislation to expand the democratic process by making it easier for New Yorkers whose affidavit ballots are ruled invalid to become properly registered for future elections.

Not long after polls opened, Aadahl said he began to get word that poll workers at one New Paltz voting site were denying affidavit ballots to those who requested them on orders from elections board officials.

Mr. Ryan also noted that anyone who found their name missing from the book could also vote via affidavit ballot.

The Chautauqua County Board of Elections will canvass absentee and affidavit ballots Tuesday, starting at 1 p.m. Members of the Board of Election... [Read more...]

It would also expand access to the ballot for candidates by reducing the number of signatures required, and would ease rules for validating affidavit ballots.

With the likelihood of paper and affidavit ballots producing the roughly 2,000 votes Mr. Espailat needs to match Mr. Rangel quite low, the Observer decided to identify a few winners and losers beyond the four Democrats who ran in the 13th Congressional District race.

Mr. Espaillat, according to unofficial tallies, trails by about 2,000 votes and absentee and affidavit ballots still need to be counted.

The new 46th senate district is nearly deadlocked with Republican Assemblyman George Amedore trailing Democratic School Board member Cecilia Tkaczyk by 139 votes with 7500 absentee and affidavit ballots due to be counted in the coming weeks.

Poll workers directed them to fill affidavit ballots, and insisted there was nothing else they could do.

«We attempted to resolve these issues directly with voters and encouraged them to file affidavit ballots, and we also plan to follow up with BOE on these complaints,» the spokesperson said.

Absentee, affidavit ballot count gives mayor a 13 - vote edge, but results won't be finalized until after Thanksgiving.

To rebound, Zacarese would have to win more than 80 percent of about 4,600 absentee and affidavit ballots left, which all sides agreed was unlikely in what had been a tight race.

«This campaign ain't over,» Wright said to applause, noting that the 2012 contest between Rangel and Espaillat came down to paper affidavit ballots.

Incumbent Democrat Tim Bishop opened up a 235 - vote lead over the GOP's Randy Altschuler as the counting of absentee and affidavit ballots in New York's 1st Congressional District race wound down Tuesday.

Incumbent Reginald Spinello holds a 21 - vote lead over challenger Timothy Tenke, but 310 absentee and affidavit ballots remain to be counted.

The Chautauqua County Board of Elections will be hand counting absentees and affidavit ballots for... [Read more...]

Mr. Espaillat said he never received a notice from the Board of Elections that the primary date had been changed to June from September, and he said he had family members who were told at polling stations that their names were not listed in the rolls of registered voters, a possible cause for the high number of affidavit ballots.

After a final tally of absentee and affidavit ballots, long - time Congresswoman Louise Slaughter will spend another term representing New York's 25th District in Congress.

The law wouldn't turn away voters who show up without ID, but would have them fill out an affidavit ballot to be reviewed by the Board of Elections.

As voters, our only defense is to be armed with knowledge and insist on an Affidavit ballot to protect our vote and mitigate any political factors that may have come into play at the polling site.

If you are, you can request an affidavit ballot to vote.

According to two County Board of Elections commissioners, there were still around 2,000 affidavit ballots and 1,300 absentee ballots left to be counted, leaving a slim possibility that Assini could have caught up.

[4] With all precincts reporting, but before all absentee and affidavit ballots were counted, Slaughter had 93,053 votes to Assini's 92,471.

Suffolk elections officials on Friday began the lengthy process of counting the 16,690 absentee and affidavit ballots in the tightly contested countywide sheriff's race, starting with the county's smallest town, Shelter Island.

Election officials will also review another 1,599 in affidavit ballots, from those who could not use machines.

There are 1,119 absentee and affidavit ballots.

With 40 percent of absentee and affidavit ballots counted, Toulon, a Democrat, leads Republican Larry Zacarese by 1,312 votes.