Sentences with phrase «ballot last election»

A total of 11 Massachusetts cities put the issue of increasing property taxes for this program on the ballot last election season, and seven of them passed it.

John Scandalios, a resident of Flushing and former comic book store owner (whom didn't make it on the ballot last election due to a technicality) said he immediately pulled out his cell phone to post on his Facebook and let everyone know that he was okay.

Our city council put that on the ballot last election but we couldn't get the levy passed.

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Moore, whose campaign filed a last - minute «election fraud» complaint on Thursday just before the results were certified just after 2 p.m. EST, claimed that widespread voter fraud had contributed to his more than 20,000 vote loss to Jones, a number that was not significantly altered by the inclusion of military and provisional ballots that were later counted.

He was accused of trying to keep Corbyn off the ballot when the Labour leader faced a challenge in 2016 and some also held him responsible for Labour failing to make even bigger gains at last year's general election.

Other examples from observers and social media included ballot boxes being stuffed with extra ballots in multiple regions; an election official assaulting an observer; CCTV cameras obscured by flags or nets from watching ballot boxes; discrepancies in ballot numbers; last - minute voter registration changes likely designed to boost turnout; and a huge pro-Putin sign in one polling station.

The Reform Party, a ballot line formed last year by Republican gubernatorial nominee Rob Astorino, filed its first campaign finance report since it was rechristened this election season, showing a single, massive donation from a limited liability company.

Voter participation in the council run - off election last weekend, counting everybody who mailed in a ballot or voted early, was 4.21 percent of the people who were registered to vote.

The county Board of Elections begins mailing out military ballots on Sept. 24, officials said last week.

No constituency candidate who seeks election as an independent candidate shall use the name of any political party that contested the last general election or any by - election held since the last general election but shall have the word «INDEPENDENT», without further qualification or addition, shown on the ballot paper immediately below that candidate's name.

A federal judge ruled last year that New York's traditional date for the primary, the second Tuesday of September, occurs too late for military absentee ballots to be processed before the general election.

Last Thursday's deadline to file petitions to be on the ballot in the June 26 Democratic primary election for New York's First Congressional District has claimed one victim.

Republican David Storobin is currently ahead in the recount of last Tuesday's special election in Brooklyn, and at least some Democrats see a long - term advantage if his lead holds after all of the absentee ballots are counted later this week.

However, remember that DioGuardi got the Conservative Party's nod last week (in this very hotel), and so is assured a spot on Row D in the general election ballot.

Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano lost one of his last shots at a minor party ballot line for re-election when a potential stand - in candidate collected too few signatures to run on the Independence Party line, election officials said.

Gillibrand won her first statewide election last fall, easily beating former Rep. Joe DioGuardi, who defeated Bruce Blakeman and David Malpass in a GOP primary after he petitioned his way onto the ballot.

Nov. 5 Last day to apply in person for general election ballot.

June 26 Last day to deliver Federal primary ballot in person to county board, by close of polls on election day.

Last day the Department of Elections \» Offices must mail absentee ballots for School Board Elections.

In the last general election, the Republican candidate for Public Advocate received about 14 % of the vote, and in the two prior elections Republicans did not even have a candidate on the ballot.

The Connecticut Republican Party challenged (PDF) Secretary of State Denise Merrill's decision to list Democratic candidates first on the ballot this year, arguing that it violated a statute mandating that the party whose candidate for governor got the most votes in the last election gets to be listed first in all ballots.

In Blackburn at the last general election, most of the Muslim vote was conjoined at the ballot box with Jack Straw who was seen as the friend of Muslims, and as someone who understood their religious sensitivities.

Nov. 7 Last day to deliver general election ballot in person to county board, by close of polls on election day.

Nov. 5 Last day to postmark general election ballot.

Fred Havemeyer's name was stricken last week from the September primary ballot in Southampton Town after two Suffolk County Board of Elections commissioners denied petitions that would have allowed him to challenge Supervisor Jay Schneiderman for...

The junior coalition party suffered at the ballot box across England, Scotland and Wales in last week's elections, their first major electoral test since entering power last year.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo established his own ballot line last year, the Women's Equality Party, which will also continue through this current election cycle.

In last year's federal election, the number of spoiled ballots reached 5.36 %.

The long wait for the result at Ryedale civic centre in Malton, where the last ballot boxes did not arrive until after midnight, was enlivened by one other election count.

Tactical voting has been critical in the last elections but with new factors altering the 2010 campaign casting strategic ballots may not be quite so straight forward, writes Gaby Hinsliff.

With that, the Republican committee staff can target a unique mobile ID — reaching an individual smartphone or tablet that is, for example, owned by someone over 65 who has requested an absentee ballot and is a registered Republican who has voted in the last three election cycles.

Both Lamont and Davidson secured big majorities in the union section (65 % and 61 % respectively) whilst even Lamont failed to win a majority amongst individual members by a long way, winning less than 37 % in the first ballot — Davidson won just a quarter of that section, whilst Cathy Jamieson won about 43 % in the last Leadership election in 2008 (admittedly in the second ballot — Lamont may also have achieved that had this gone to another round).

Last month, Luthmann officially bowed out of the borough president race after he was kicked off the ballot by the Board of Elections for not having enough signatures in July.

Last week, Board of Election Commissioners originally took the candidates off the ballot after questioning whether the party had followed its own procedures in choosing the candidates.

Officials were alarmed to discover this week that instead of a four - character Chinese translation that is meant to phonetically spell the incumbent's first and last name, the eight - character translation that currently appears on the Board of Elections» District 7 ballot is the equivalent of a name that sounds nothing like Nydia Velazquez, according to her campaign spokesman George Arzt.

Ballot Access News erred when it reported that the new Florida ballot access law for minor party presidential candidates requires a petition signed by 4 % of the last presidential vote, unless the minor party is recognized by the Federal Election CommiBallot Access News erred when it reported that the new Florida ballot access law for minor party presidential candidates requires a petition signed by 4 % of the last presidential vote, unless the minor party is recognized by the Federal Election Commiballot access law for minor party presidential candidates requires a petition signed by 4 % of the last presidential vote, unless the minor party is recognized by the Federal Election Commission.

The only other minor party that has had a gubernatorial nominee on the Virginia ballot in the last forty years was the Reform Party in the 1997 election.

There were about 7,400 votes before absentee ballots were counted, versus 9,500 in the last mayoral election four years ago.

Halloran, Smith and former Queens Republican Party Vice Chairman Vincent Tabone are accused of trying to get Smith, a Democrat, on the ballot as a Republican for last year's mayoral election by bribing GOP bosses.

A survey of 156 of the city's more than 1,000 poll sites during last year's elections found 90 percent with serious problems — including poorly trained staff who routinely bungled ballots, according to a scathing audit released Friday.

Making the call at a news conference in Osogbo, the state Chairman of APC, Prince Gboyega Famodun, said the video clip was fabricated by some unscrupulous individuals to discredit the election, adding that the video clip, which was brandished by the spokesperson of Jonathan Campaign Organization, Mr Femi Fani - Kayode, had nothing to do with the last August election in Osun State as the ballot papers shown in the video were different from the actual ballot papers used for Osun governorship election.

In the last presidential election the Reform Party was able to place its candidate on the ballot in a single state.

Lancman and Avella noted in the primary election that officials often did not provide a «privacy sleeve,» or a folder, in which to carry the ballot, though they more frequently did during last week's election.

It's a perfect echo of what happened last year in the run - up to the Working Families Party convention, where Cuomo - aligned unions blocked the minor party from endorsing Zephyr Teachout, and spared Cuomo a mainstream, left - flank challenger on the general election ballot.

Rockland County Democratic Board of Elections Commissioner Kristen Stavisky says Village of Suffern Mayor Dagan LaCorte was removed last week from the ballot in the race for Rockland County executive.

Paladino widened his 107 - vote margin from last week's election by picking up 89 absentee ballots while Hutch Tech senior Austin Harig got 64.

California voters, having rejected every measure on the special election ballot last November, are feeling in a more positive frame of mind, it seems.

Idaho: A precinct which contains no more than 125 registered electors at the last general election may be designated by the board of county commissioners a mail ballot precinct no later than April 1 in an even - numbered year (Idaho Code § 34 - 308)

The Cuomo - Hochul ticket received 50,000 votes on the line last year, giving the party ballot status in the current election cycle.

Cuomo last year did campaign with and endorse Democratic candidates, but his coattails were — as usual for any governor who runs in a non-presidential election year — strikingly short for down - ballot candidates.