Sentences with phrase «ballots come election»

Prolonged power outages could cause some changes in the way that people cast their ballots come Election Day.
Perhaps the most value the WFP offers is an actual line on the ballot come election time: In New York and seven other states, candidates can run with the endorsement of multiple parties, and Democrats who also run on the WFP line get the help of the party's ground troops and the coveted imprimatur of being a progressive candidate.

Not exact matches

Small - business owners around the country are casting their ballots as the race to the 2014 Midterm Election finish line comes to an end — and how Main Street votes could determine not just who will go to Washington, but also the outcome of key initiatives that affect all of our bottom lines.
«Needless to say, when the next elections came around, the ballot box was once again waiting for the monks on the table of the monastery refectory.»
Gather your votes insecrecy before the next election comes and when it does stuff the hell outta the ballot box!
I think it's just safe to assume that both Bonds and Clemens will remain on the ballot for many years, but will struggle to clear even 50 percent in the coming elections.
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.
Sure, the elections have gotten most of the attention this year, but if nothing else could, the current crisis in the finance system has cut through the clutter to remind us that the REAL business of politics often comes after the ballots are cast.
As Nixon tries to harness progressives in her left - flank challenge to Cuomo, an early test of her staying power will come with the Working Families Party, which could give her a general - election ballot line even if the governor wins the Democratic nomination.
ALBANY — As Cynthia Nixon tries to harness progressives in her left - flank challenge to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, an early test of her staying power will come with the Working Families Party, which could give her a general - election ballot line even if Cuomo wins the Democratic nomination.
With 100 percent of machine votes counted, Anna Throne - Holst, the former Southampton Town supervisor, maintained a razor - thin lead over David Calone in Tuesday's Democratic primary election to represent New York's First Congressional District, and the race will come down to absentee ballots.
The decision came in the early morning hours on the East Coast, after election workers counted about 20,000 absentee ballots.
In the case of parliamentary elections the Storting is itself the appellate body when it comes to appeals concerning the franchise and the right to cast a ballot.
The 180 validated signature that the Democrats are contesting come out of 9 strategic districts that, if rejected in, would disqualify them from the general election ballot in the fall.
The push also comes as Cuomo raises women's issues this election cycle through the Women's Equality Party, a ballot line designed to promote the WEA.
In the opinion of CADA, election threats come in different forms and may include intimidation, registering minors and foreigners, multiple registration, etc. during voter registration exercise or targeting of election officials, intimidation or harassment of journalists, incitement to violence in the media or public, protecting, expanding, or delineating turf or «no - go areas», attacks on election rallies or candidates, intimidation of voters to compel them to vote or stay away, physical attacks on election materials such as snatching and destruction of ballot boxes, armed clashes among political parties, violent clashes among groups of rival supporters, vandalism and physical attacks on property of opponents, targeted attacks against specific candidates or political parties, attacks on rivals who have either won in elections or were defeated, violent street protests and efforts by armed police to maintain or restore order, tear gas, firing on protestors, attacks by protestors on property or the police, escalation and perpetuation of ethnic or sectarian violence.
As for general elections, BOE results showed the most votes for the 25th Assembly District came Nov. 4, 2008, when 14,916 ballots were recorded in the race in which Lancman retained his seat.
Many Party members will take the same line as LabourList and want to convince themselves that elections in our Party are fair and above board.Sadly this is not the case.Last year after the CAC Election a number of delegates, from several different Regions, came forward and said full time officials encouraged them to vote against Katy and myself.This is totally against the Code of Conduct and, to me, is little different to ballot rigging.An investigation is underway.We have a good idea who was behind it.LeftFutures will keep you updated.
To those who suggest the current option of the absentee ballot: that choice offers an early vote only to those swearing they will be out of the county or who are physically unable to come to the polls, not to those who anticipate a personal or work - related barrier on election day.
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.
And this year, Democrats will likely enjoy a down - ballot bump that comes in elections that overlap with presidential races.
Syracuse Republicans are just a few dozen votes shy of winning back a city office as a race for Common Council will come down to absentee ballots, but the rest of city hall remained solidly Democratic after Tuesday's election.
Come general election time, the Green Party's Howie Hawkins and Brian Jones got more votes than Cuomo did on the Working Families Party line, pushing the WFP down a spot on the ballot.
We're tracking the individual counties as they come in from that state, particularly those where there is a decent amount of Election Day votes reported, rather than just absentee ballots.
According to him, «the soldiers should come to give evidence and explain where and how they were instructed to rig the election, whether they were instructed to thumb print ballot papers or they were instructed to snatch ballot boxes; how many of such ballot papers they thumb - printed and the number of boxes they snatched.»
Noting that Democratic Party nominees had swept the town board elections, Democratic Committee vice-chair Barbara Sides, who had witnessed the ballot count on Friday, added, «The fact that the supervisor race came down to 20 votes is indicative of the opposition to the incumbent's attitude that all land development is good for Gardiner and that the same entrenched interests should be appointed and reappointed to our boards and commissions.»
While election night counting in Alaska can have its own complications, a close race would mean waiting for mailed absentee ballots to come in.
Several thousand absentee ballots had been submitted, and any others postmarked by Monday that arrive at county boards of elections in coming days would be valid.
That came after the state received a waiver in 2010 that allowed it to keep the federal primary in September despite the 2009 passage of the federal MOVE Act requiring states to provide absentee ballots to military and overseas voters no later than 45 days before a federal general election.
With 99 absentee ballots sitting in the hopper on the day after the 2017 election, and more potentially to come in before they get opened beginning Wednesday, November 15, only two votes separated Hurley town supervisor candidates Republican / Conservative / Independence party choice John Perry (1104) and Democrat / Green / Working Families hopeful Tracy Kellogg (1102).
Hawkins easily helped the third party achieve ballot access for this coming election by surpassing the 50,000 - vote threshold....
Green Party activist Howie Hawkins is set to make a gubernatorial run after his 2010 campaign netted him 59,906 votes, enough to keep the party on the ballot for the coming election.
Final totals of Tuesday's special election won't come until April 3, when the board of elections counts more than 51 absentee and affidavit ballots.
While he said he liked Mr. de Blasio as a person and «looooves» Mr. de Blasio's son, Dante, Mr. Auerback said that — despite being a life - long Democrat — he would consider casting his general election ballot for Republican nominee Joe Lhota come November.
There's also the possibility, he noted, that Cuomo will lose votes in the general to third party candidates — Nixon won the endorsement of the Working Families Party, which would allow her to be on the general election ballot even if she loses the Democratic primary; and Howie Hawkins is running for governor for a third time on the Green Party line, on which he came in third with more than 180,000 votes in 2014.
However, neither the county nor the State Board of Elections will talk about how such a faulty ballot came to be printed.
County GOP Elections Commissioner Tom Dadey is getting signatures to hold the ballot open if a Republican candidate comes forward.
Through the results of the presidential election, which comes down to one native New Yorker and one New York transplant, and with the congressional elections on the ballot, there's a great deal at stake for New York City.
During the 2012 open seat election, Hoylman came through the Democratic primary, then won an uncontested general election in which 93,469 registered voters cast a ballot for him.
For all the rhetoric, the election may come down to each campaign's ability to reach voters and motivate them to cast their ballots on Electelection may come down to each campaign's ability to reach voters and motivate them to cast their ballots on ElectionElection Day.
The Board of Elections, a quasi-state agency funded by the city, is set to roll out a new website in the coming months which will provide New Yorkers with an «electronically assisted way» to fill out a voter registration form and an absentee ballot application, according to BOE Executive Director Michael Ryan, who testified at a budget hearing of the City Council's Committee on Governmental Operations on Monday.
Mr. Sambevski's name came up last year in an operation run by Frank Sparaco and Superintendent Ballard to collect absentee ballots for the minority party lines to place Ballard's name on those lines in the 2013 election for Highway Superintendent between him and Democrat Dennis Malone.
Caird came to the witness stand in the trial of County Democratic Elections Commissioner Edward McDonough and former City Councilman Michael LoPorto for ballot fraud to provide the jury with an inside look at what was happening as the case began to develop.
The latest concerns in the 11th Ward come amid the county Board of Elections denying Keefe's request for copies of the most recent absentee ballot applications — which were provided to the public before the Sept. 12 primary.
North Carolina Democratic Rep. Alma Adams is one of the 27 women who come away from Tuesday's primaries with a spot on the general election ballot.
Media Contact: Justin Pauly, Director of Communications, 770-962-6848, [email protected] November 9, 2016 — The 2016 elections have come to a close and among the many items that were on the ballot Georgia overwhelmingly defeated Amendment 1 / Opportunity School District with 60 % of the vote.
With all of the races and ballot measures on the ballot, and the high turnout that traditionally comes with presidential elections, it is more critical than ever that our supporters register to vote and make their voices heard.
The best climate and clean energy news to come out of yesterday's election is that California voters roundly rejected Proposition 23, a ballot initiative sponsored by out - of - state oil companies that would have overturned the state's 2006 climate law.
It is still well over a year until the 2014 election season but the ballot is already starting to come into focus and we can expect it to be a big year for items affecting the courts.
If you are one of the few members of TREB who are not aware of Maureen, I am pleased, as her friend and unabashed fan, to ask that you exercise your right to vote in the coming election and cast your ballot for Maureen O'Neill as president.
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