Sentences with phrase «counted on election night»

Tuesday, November 5, 2013 — When all the votes were counted on election night 2012, politicians, pundits and ordinary folks were very surprised to...

When all the ballots were counted on Election Night, Do had bounced back to take a 2 - vote lead.

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New York City Elections Commissioner J.C. Polanco thinks September will be «a public - relations nightmare» unless changes are made to the vote counting procedure on election night.

Indeed, Jerry Goldfeder, an election law guru, went on Inside City Hall night as well, explaining the lack of anything in state law compelling the board to count votes by hand on Electelection law guru, went on Inside City Hall night as well, explaining the lack of anything in state law compelling the board to count votes by hand on ElectionElection Day.

According to unofficial election night totals from the New York City Board of Elections, Vance received more than 90 percent of votes, with just under 10 percent of votes going to candidates on write - in ballots, which are still being counted.

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On election night, unofficial results showed the former Queens NYC councilman leading the Republican lawmaker by some 3,000 votes — 25,864 to 22,781 votes — with 100 percent of the precincts counted.

Toulon and Zacarese vied to replace Sheriff Vincent DeMarco in the Nov. 7 election that was too close to call on election night and required counting of more than 14,000 absentee ballots.

Sadly this invaluable book can not tell us in advance if this is going to happen but it does provide the information to help guide even the most statistically illiterate person as to what will be going on during the election and will come into its own during the long night of counting after the polls have closed, if returning offi cers up and down the country do not have their way and pull the plug on counting in a majority of the seats immediately after the polls have closed.

A number of counting errors have made the race much close than reported on election night.

Past midnight on Election Night, Majestic had 1,002 votes on the Republican and Conservative Party lines; challenger Lisa Lindsley was breathing down her neck with 981 votes on the Democratic, Working Families and Women's Equality Party lines; and 124 absentee ballots plus an undetermined number of affidavits still remained to be counted.

I was somewhat concerned that the Government's amendment gave too much wriggle room to returning officers - but the measure was passed into law last week, and it clearly focused minds as over 100 more returning officers have informed the Electoral Commission in the last week that they will indeed be counting on General Election Night.

After nearly screwing up the contentious primary between Rep. Charlie Rangel and State Sen. Adriano Espaillat, the troubled board voted unanimously Tuesday to immediately update the way it counts ballots on election night.

Behind by nearly a thousand votes on the night of the election, Smyth said she was going to wait for the absentee ballots to be counted.

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Storobin emerged with a 120 - vote lead on election night, but his margin of victory shrank to just three votes after the Board of Elections counted half of the more than 700 absentee ballots and affidavits.

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On Election Night Tuesday, Espaillat was down by about 1,800 votes — but said the race was «too close to call» and vowed he'd wait until every paper ballot was counted before making a move.

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Labate did not concede on election night, noting there were still more than 580 absentee ballots to be counted throughout the district.

The count for Brotton ward was suspended on election night after 2 recounts and completed the following day.

The vote count at Board of Elections headquarters on Wall Street was the final act in a drama that began as polls closed on primary night, Sept. 13, with Clement holding a 648 - 642 lead over Gallo.

The first count and three subsequent recounts on the night of the election had given Davidson a narrow majority, but after the ballot boxes were locked away overnight, two more recounts gave victory to the Conservative.