Sentences with phrase «because election workers»

The Journal News, of Westchester County, reported on its Web site that a polling station in Hartsdale opened about two hours late because election workers couldn't get access to locked - up ballots.

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The image of a woman who is battered for 20 years by her clergyman husband and who would forgive him, «because the Bible tells her to,» the image of a young mother and father who can not understand why their three - year - old daughter was sexually abused in the day care center to which they had entrusted her each morning; the image of a woman who was sacked from the women's program of her church because she refused to comply to the request of the president of the church that she and the other women vote for him in his election campaign; the image of a 14 - year - old migrant domestic worker who faces the death sentence on trumped up charges, because she would not give in to the sexual demands of her employer; the image of a male priest of a church saying that every time he beats his wife she should thank him, because she is one step closer to salvation; or the priest who would make sexual advances on a woman who out of vulnerability turns to the church for pastoral comfort... these are but a glimpse of the many such images that are gathered during the course of this Decade.

President Mahama on Wednesday urged the striking workers of CLOGSAG to end their two weeks strike because government can not succumb to their demand since it has resolved not to overspend in an election year.

Ohio Democratic Party Chairman Chris Redfern said Blackwell should step aside because his office is responsible for the rules that govern county election boards that had scattered problems last Tuesday, including poll workers who did not know how to turn on new electronic voting machines.

The elections job is a particularly plum patronage post because the board's 10 commissioners oversee the appointment of more than 100 workers and help determine who gets on the ballot in primaries.

Voters arriving at Public School 86 on W. 78th St. were delayed because the building was short eight election workers, she added.

The upcoming election is of great importance to injured workers as we ask that we be treated with justice and dignity instead of being pushed into poverty and marginalized simply because we were injured at work.