Sentences with phrase «by election workers»

Each campaign will have staffers, accompanied by election workers, sit at computers in the Onondaga County Civic Center and check to make sure the signature on file for each absentee voter matches the signature on each submitted application.

Mr. Espaillat described last Tuesday's vote as a «murky process,» and he rattled off a series of perceived problems with the process, including a lack of Spanish translators at the polling stations and reports from his constituents that they had been turned away by election workers.

Not exact matches

Regardless, the data, which was earlier reported on by Apple - tracking site 9to5Mac, provides some insight into the feelings tech company workers might have about this year's election.

Opened by International Harvester in 1974 to remanufacture diesel engines and engine components for its truck and agricultural and construction equipment dealers, the plant had lost $ 2 million in the most recent fiscal year, and the big question was whether the employees, previously nonunion, would vote to join the Teamsters or the United Auto Workers in an election scheduled for March.

But CEO Mark Zuckerberg said on a conference call that the company is investing «heavily» on safety and security, including workers with language skills for detecting hate speech, and tools for verifying government IDs ahead of elections in the U.S. and abroad by the end of the year.

«The hackers accessed software designed to be used by poll workers on Election Day, and in at least one state accessed a campaign finance database.»

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.

Election campaigns and access to the electoral process continue to be affected by traditional barriers, security concerns, absence of female voters and female observer groups.Past elections reflect significant obstacles women have faced as candidates, voters as well as election Election campaigns and access to the electoral process continue to be affected by traditional barriers, security concerns, absence of female voters and female observer groups.Past elections reflect significant obstacles women have faced as candidates, voters as well as election election workers.

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court found that New Yorkers Together, which is funded by the Communications Workers of America, and a UFT organization called Teachers for Todd, were operating in violation of independent expenditure rules spelled out in the state election law.

In recent elections, there were instances when newly registered voters were told by poll workers they «accidentally» showed up at the wrong poll site and were redirected (sometimes across town).

An August 1997 meeting of the Transport Workers» Confederation of the Mercosur Common Market area resulted in Moyano's election as their Secretary General; this was followed by a November 1998 election as Vice President of the Transport Workers» Section for the Latin America Committee of the ITF, in London.

In the July Budget, Osborne also planned to cut tax credits, which top up pay for low - income workers, prompting claims that this represented a breach of promises made by colleagues before the general election in May.

The recall election spurred by anger over changes Walker pushed through the Legislature last year to effectively end collective bargaining rights for most public workers is the most prominent campaign in the nation after the presidential race.

Vanderhoef will also be seeking to layoff 150 county workers, save $ 1.8 million by not reimbursing out - of - county students at the community college, cut the intelligence task force from the police budget, kick $ 1.4 million in local election costs back to towns, reduce funding to contract agencies by $ 300,000 this year and over $ 500,000 next year, and install a new charge on your motor vehicle registration.

Under the old system, election workers were required to print out receipts from electronic scanning machines after the polls closed and then cut them by hand, by election district.

Voters can find their designated polling places at the city Board of Elections website, and report any problems to poll workers there or by calling their borough offices.

The 1985 Local Elections saw a Labour Party — which was part of a coalition government with Fine Gael — fare poorly, with its national share of the vote dropping to just over seven percent and with its position as the leading left wing party being usurped by a major contender for this position, namely the Workers Party.

But he was really hurt in this past election by public workers, teachers, and anti-frackers.

Reacting to the report today, the Communication Workers Union (CWU) accused the government of initiating a privatisation agenda when it spoecifically promised not to do so in its election manifesto - a point made also by the Conservatives.

«In addition to this election - related violence, the country has been ravaged by widespread insecurity for years, with a recent increase in attacks targeting humanitarian workers, including the deadliest incident in Congolese history, in which five aid workers were killed in October in South Kivu,» the NGOs said.

Last week, Ukip unveiled election posters depicting an out of work construction worker with the slogan: «EU policy at work: British workers are hit hard by unlimited cheap labour.»

In the hopes that it's not over for Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, his local volunteers are watching Erie County election workers this week review the affidavit ballots that were filled out on primary day by voters whose status to vote was unclear.

This bill allows these workers, many of whom are seniors or physically disabled, to enthusiastically participate on election days without putting a strain on their well - being by having to endure a twelve - hour workday.

During the presidential election, Facebook employees assisting Donald Trump's digital operation worked in the same office as Cambridge Analytica workers, according to a video by the BBC.

Teachout believes she can connect workers, small businesses, and small farmers (who have experienced a collapse in this part of New York) to build a coalition that fights for more decentralized power by reviving antitrust policy, restricting high - risk trading by deposit - taking banks, and enacting public financing of elections.

An email sent by Deputy Commissioner of Social Services Philippe Gille urged government workers to use paid personal time or annual leave to help in the last days leading up to Tuesday's election.

The suit cited «voter suppression» and irregularities in the discarding more than 2,000 ballots by city Board of Elections workers.

The approximate party strength at this election, as expressed by the vote for Governor, was: Democrats 2,086,000; Republicans 866,000; Conservatives 828,000; Right to Life 138,000; Liberals 71,000; New Alliance 31,000; Libertarians 25,000; and Socialist Workers 13,000.

The note lists what appears to be a breakdown of political donations by seven Democratic county elections workers in late 2006 and early 2007.

His percentage,.56 %, is not as high as the percentage received by the Socialist Workers nominee in the 2009 Mayoral election.

The big story in this primary race today was not the vote counting, but the fact that Rangel allies (led by Keith Wright) met with BOE officials on June 23rd to discuss the location and placement of poll workers prior to the election.

Denham also discloses in his speech that he sent a note to the Labour election strategist Lord Mandelson after the first week of the election warning him that a group of workers felt they had been excluded by Labour's welfare state.

Building workers union 32BJ SEIU announced today its endorsement of Rebecca Lynch, a former member of Mayor Bill de Blasio's Community Affairs Unit, in the election for the Queens City Council seat recently vacated by Mark Weprin.

In an election - year gift, the de Blasio administration is issuing up to 50,000 more car placards to city education workers — rolling back reforms made by Mayor Mike Bloomberg and opening the floodgates for abuse.

The Communications Workers of America donated $ 109,600 to the Nassau Democratic Committee to help Todd Kaminsky win the Long Island state Senate seat vacated by convicted crook Dean Skelos — just days before the April 19 special election, Board of Elections records show.

In an election last Monday UCLA's TAs, readers, and tutors chose union representation by SAGE which is affiliated with the United Auto Workers Union (UAW).

«1 in 4 U.S. employees negatively affected by political talk at work this election season, finds new survey: Younger workers in particular experiencing diminished productivity, more stress.»

In contrast, members of the opposition and numerous independent media sources highlighted among other things the poor quality of indelible ink — the first time it was used in a Malaysian election — which could be washed off almost immediately, early voting for servicemen and civil servants, state domination of media and repression of independent journalists, and perhaps most troubling of all, the mobilization by Barisan Nasional of foreign guest workers to vote in key constituencies.

If that happens, many Democrats fear Mr. Pelto will be a potential «spoiler,» that he could throw the gubernatorial election to the Republicans in a close race by siphoning off votes from disenchanted schoolteachers and state workers that otherwise might grudgingly go to Mr. Malloy.

Kevin Rudd had two distinctive policies going into the November 2007 election — the decision to get serious about climate change and the decision to create unemployment by restricting worker abilities to contract in labour markets.

It is time that the rights of our temporary workers are spelled out clearly and not swallowed up by political sound bites and forgotten once an election is over.

UK Prime Minister Theresa May has promised, in the run up to the snap general election next month, that by a conservative government workers» rights would see a huge expansion, including a statutory right to leave for a relative's care, and to leave for a parent whose child had passed.

An election was held in April 2014 and the ballots cast by the workers were «impounded» and not counted while the NLRB grappled with the joint employer issue — an issue that quickly became a lightning rod in academic, political and legal circles about access to unionization, generally, and meaningful collective bargaining, specifically.

Now, if you are wondering what ultimately happened with BFI, the ballots that were impounded after April 2104 election were counted in early September 2015 and workers voted 73 - 17 in favour of unionization by the Teamsters.

In the course of just a few short weeks, the law by its terms would require: that more than 100,000 South Carolina voters be informed of and educated about the law's new requirements; that several thousand poll workers and poll managers be educated and trained about the intricacies and nuances of the law... and that county election boards become knowledgable of the law....»

The United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit recently ruled that the Ohio board of elections must count provisional ballots with errors caused by poll workers.

Download the questionnaire prepared by the Ontario Network of Injured Workers» Groups (ONIWG) and send it to your local election candidates.

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During the presidential election, Facebook employees assisting Donald Trump's digital operation worked in the same office as Cambridge Analytica workers, according to a video by the BBC.

On Monday, UK Information Commissioner Elizabeth Denham said she was seeking a warrant to search the consultancy's premises after Channel 4 News secretly recorded the firm's executives boasting about their abilities to sway elections by using tactics such as sending Ukrainian sex workers to an opponent's residence.