Sentences with phrase «counts as an observer»

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Cysch said he hopes to potentially attend a caucus tomorrow as an «observer» to make sure that the «votes are counted correctly,» something that he did for the Paul campaign in 2008.

Agora was accredited as an international observer by Sierra Leone's National Electoral Commission (NEC), which provides the official election count.

But while the voting process itself has been described as fair by most international observers, the political campaign and the actual counting of the votes — no doubt the most important part of the democratic election process — has been characterized by the abuse of power, the excessive role of money, extraordinary events such as power cuts in the polling stations, fights between party representatives, accusations of fraud and scandals in denying observers access to polling stations.

A well - known experiment with young people bouncing a ball showed that when an observer focuses on counting the passes, he does not detect if someone crosses the stage disguised as a gorilla.

The Secretary shall notify such member of the time and place fixed for the counting of ballots and shall notify the Inspectors of Election that such member has been qualified as an observer.

Nonetheless, other observers — to which I would count myself — have rather read the decision as the confirmation of the principles laid out by the Court in its previous jurisprudence on the topic (see also the coverage of the case on this blog).

As I've noted in a recent posting [http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/ethicalesq/2007/07/26/presumed-ignorant-scott-turow-on-the-billable-hour/] please count me among the observers who predicts no improvement in lawyer ethics, work balance, or client satisfaction, if the billing system is changed without clearly reducing the amount of fees that each lawyer is expected to generate every year.