Sentences with phrase «at polling places because»

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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.

By that time, the local lists seem to have been printed, because my uncle's name was still at the polling place (I checked) the first time he voted by mail.

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.

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.»

Several voters at the same polling place said they cast their ballots for de Blasio because they felt he was more in touch with the public and would steer the city in a better direction.

KINGSTON, N.Y. >> Voting got off to a late start Tuesday in the Kingston school district because ballots were not delivered to polling places at district elementary schools in advance of the scheduled 7 a.

Critics said the emergency paper ballots could take longer to tally after polling places close at 9 p.m. Tuesday, because they have to be hand - counted.

«I know of at lease a dozen older people, personally including my two in - laws, who left the polling places because they said they were waiting on line» and did not want to stay any longer.

@Brythan In The Netherlands, we are allowed to vote at polling places other than our own, but we can't vote multiple times, because we have only one voting card.

Election Day is here at last and polling places across upstate New York are prepared to be busy, because presidential election years tend to boost turnout.

Nov. 2004: Three people at the polls in Westchester County, NY, were given provisional ballots (in New York, «affidavit ballots») in the general election because someone had allegedly signed the poll books in their place.

Most of those polled at the Mattituck High School voting place said they were voting for Mr. Krupski because of his history of service and his stance on conservation and open space.

It's simple and effective in practice but politically difficult to put in place because there are approximately 100,000,000 freeloaders and a significant fraction of them can vote if there's no one at the polling place checking ID cards against outstanding arrest warrants or felony convictions.