Sentences with phrase «at polling»

«In all fairness the people at my polling booth were as friendly as could be,» he added.

It's a busy day at polling places across Erie County where turnout is estimated to be high, and also at the office that oversees the process.

That means a lot of celebrations and things like special stickers you can get at your polling place on election day.

She became above the law and should be treated at the polling place appropriately.

In Tower Hamlets, the High Court suspended the Mayor, Lutfur Rahman, after he was found guilty of falsifying postal votes and putting undue pressure on voters at polling stations during the 2014 local and European elections.

principled enough that he took one look at his polling numbers and saw the writing on the wall.

No major incident has been recorded at the time when Citi News» Jonas Nyabor filed this report however pockets of agitation and misunderstanding erupted at some polling stations visited within the Achimota electoral area.

She said not more than 850 registered voters will be at a polling station contrary to previous elections.

Barnet Council said: «We are aware of problems with our electoral registration lists this morning at polling stations in Barnet which have meant that a number of people who had not brought their polling card with them were unable to vote.

In Islington, north London, an upbeat Mr Corbyn insisted he was feeling «very happy» and gave a thumbs - up as he went to put his cross in the box at a polling station.

Further assuring the people of the state of security, Habila warned that the police would not permit the use of security personnel as guards by very important personalities at polling units during the governorship election.

Problems included a lack of ramps and wheelchair - accessible doorways at polling sites and a dearth of accessible ballot marking devices (BMDs), which offer an alternative way to mark a paper ballot to then scan into the new optical scanning voting machines.

But Tuesday's elections saw a large number of down ballot candidates buying Google mobile ads with the goal of capturing the attention of people waiting on line at the polling stations.

When you arrive at the polling station, there will be people sitting at a desk with a copy of the electoral register.

If you look at the polling figures it appears that Labour's recovery dates from conference — but I think that's merely a result of how granular voting intention data is.

«People that can not vote at the ward levels, at the polling unit levels and they are now recognized in Abuja.

Meanwhile, the Kenyan Human Rights Commission said it had discovered some discrepancies in an initial comparison between provisional results announced by the election commission and paper forms signed at polling stations by party agents.

Citizenship requires a modicum of responsibility, which includes showing up at a polling place (school) to vote!!

12.42: At Ofejikpi 1, Anyigba, Dekina LGA, which has 1,395 registered voters, a certain voter threatened to be violent with INEC officers at the polling unit, but the police intervened, removing him from the scene.

In a press briefing in Accra a while ago, Co-Chair of CODEO, Prof. V.C.R.A.C Crabbe said the electoral process has so far been impressive, though there have been cases of «missing names» and mix - ups at some polling stations.

«The stimulus that Election Day provides by giving people information, imposing social pressure to encourage them to vote, giving them social rewards from seeing neighbors and friends at a polling place — all the things that happen on a traditional Election Day — tend to be diluted,» said Barry Burden, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, who worked on the AJPS study.

Special commemorative «I Voted» stickers will be distributed at polling locations across the state tomorrow on Election Day.

The statement signed by the police spokesman, ASP William Aya, said that Janga warned political thugs as well as those who do not have business at the polling units to stay away.

«If you look at the polling data, he's overwhelmingly popular amongst Democrats and liberal Democrats and female Democrats in particular,» Gyory said.

Polls are judged first and foremost on whether they correctly indicate which party will form the next government and, as the chart below shows, were the Conservatives not to win an overall majority on June 8, we would be looking at a polling miss of unprecedented magnitude.

Residents vote at the polling sites they use for the general elections.

Voters at a polling place on West 58th Street said they cast their ballot for Quinn because they liked her «record of being a pragmatist.»

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.

The governor also cited Russian attempts to hack other states» voting systems in 2016 as a reason to strengthen cyber security at polling places.

What we are actually talking about, and it would be helpful if this was made clear, is compulsory attendance at polling places.

Mr Segun Oladitan, the Chairman of Osun Independent Electoral Commission (OSIEC) on Saturday said the low turnout at some polling units at the ongoing...

Then they go and cast their ballot at this polling station.

John Boadu further indicated, «the party has no plans to expand the Electoral College at the polling station level»

Mayor Bloomberg, who is a veteran critic of the city Board of Elections (whose politically - connected leaders routinely accuse him of trying to starve them out of existence), was not shy about sharing his less - than - charitable thoughts about reports of widespread problems at polling sites throughout the five boroughs.

For instance, it was considered highly unusual to conduct an election in which voters» identification is never checked, not during the registration process nor at polling stations.

Voters were hounded and embarrassed at the polling and within the communities.

Tony Hoffmann and Laurie discussed VID palm cards to be distributed at every polling place in the district letting voters know ofour opposition to the Constitutional Convention.

State Sen. Toby Stavisky greets potential voters before voting during last week's primary at a polling station in northern Queens.

Baird was rejected by the ethics board because she worked on board member John Frolish's campaign and served as an election commissioner at polling places for the candidate.

Others allow unaffiliated voters to pick a primary to participate in at the polling place.

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.

Electoral fraud, however, isn't really a problem at polling stations.

This meant looking at polling data on voting intentions in key marginal seats, votes in the most recent local elections and the resources each party is likely to have to spend on campaigning in the area.

In last week's election, even some candidates that I spoke to opted to mix and match at the polling booth.

As voters stand in line at polling places, tapping away on their touchscreens, use mobile ads to make the final case for your candidate before they step into the voting booth.

One complication was that the authorities changed voting laws so that every voter could cast their vote at any polling station (i.e. not necessarily where they are registered) with the inevitable consequence that many polling stations ran out of ballot papers.

Liberals often claim that while there may be other forms of voter fraud in the United States, like voter registration fraud, the only kind of voter fraud that a voter ID law can possibly prevent is in - person voter fraud (where someone shows up at a polling station and votes when they're not legally permitted), and that there have been almost no documented cases of someone committing intentional in - person voter fraud in the United States.

A reporting system for distributed events («someone just stole the ballot box at my polling place!»)?

No ID of any form is requested or accepted at the polling location, nor is any other form of verification.

Some voters in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens reported waiting hours to cast their ballots, with officials reporting broken scanner machines, confusion at some polling sites and early reports of high turnout.