Sentences with phrase «early voting numbers»

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The power behind Fink's threat to enforce his views hinges, in part, on the standard of one share, one vote — that shareholders» voting power is based on the number of shares they own in a given company rather than the votes of entrenched founders or early investors.

There was the decline in the number of African - American early votes.

The left - wing prime minister won a vote in parliament early Monday that will heap more taxes on a dwindling number of Greeks able to pay them.

Amazingly, some extraordinarily courageous individuals (initially Arnold himself, journalists David Quinn and Breda O'Brien, the Iona Institute; later on, John Waters, retired Regius Professor of Laws at Trinity College Dublin, William Binchy and the distinguished historian Prof. John A. Murphy; the gay campaigners for a «No» vote, Paddy Manning and Keith Mills, deserve special mention) did succeed in making a difference to the eventual numbers, although not the outcome: in the early Spring, polls indicated that 17 percent of the electorate would vote against the amendment, but by the time the actual referendum came around, 38 percent were indicating a «No» vote, and that was the eventual outcome.

With voting only lasting a couple more days, you should vote the maximum number of times to make up for being such a fool earlier.

Cuomo pointed to a number of measures he sought this year in the budget, including early voting, the Child Victims Act and others that he said were blocked by Republicans in the Senate.

A number of non-fiscal measure are a range of good government reforms including same - day registration, early voting, closing the LLC loophole and oversight of economic development contracts.

It is too early to write him off, and at the very least he will continue to siphon off a considerable number of votes, undermining Santorum's challenge to Romney.

The trajectory of turnout for earlier elections suggested that increasing numbers of Georgians were not bothering to vote, because they saw no point.

And a number of sought - after items, including cash bail, early voting, changes to statutes regarding child molestation, New York's DREAM Act, and ethics reform fell out of the final bill, unable to pass a divided legislature.

Those who took part in the Siena survey were also asked about a number of state initiatives, including early voting, and the Child Victims Act.

(CNN)- With early voting in Florida already well underway, a sizeable number of votes may have already been cast for Florida Democratic Senate candidate, Rep. Kendrick Meek — but they would not have been certified if he were to drop his bid, according to the Florida Department of State.

He had earlier toured a number of communities in the Assin North, Assin Central and Assin South constituencies, where he interacted with the people, to help them to appreciate why they should trust the NPP with their votes.

Rodriguez numbered among the council members who voted in favor of MIH, but he was ultimately swayed by community opposition to the Inwood proposal, which would have rezoned a lot at the corner of Broadway and Sherman Avenue that Acadia had purchased in early 2009 for $ 19 million.

It is just one of a number of local bills that are intended to empower Montgomery County voters, including a bill that would expand the number of early voting sites, and another that would enable the County to adopt ranked choice voting for County Executive and County Council special elections.

Admittedly there are commuters currently wending their way home who will be voting, but based on progress from the morning into early evening, the number of London Labour voters that the GOTV operation will be able to deliver to the polls is running substantially below target.»

-- Creation of an early voting period: 35 states offer some form of early voting, generally 1 - 2 weeks before Election Day at a selected number of «super poll sites.»

Early unofficial numbers indicated incumbent Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren held more than 60 percent of the vote in last night's Democratic primary.

Democrats hoped that if Felder decided to go back to their party that might mean that a number of progressive measures could be approved in New York this session, including, early voting, the child victims act to allow survivors of childhood sexual abuse their day in court, and campaign finance reform.

«An arms length relationship between the Tory leadership and the No campaign that meant Cameron was unable to stop the targeting of the politically toxic Nick Clegg and his broken promises Main AV could only be defeated if a large number of Labour supported voted to keep First Past The Post and from the earliest days of the campaign huge efforts were made to ensure the No campaign was genuinely cross-party»

It did not go to the floor for a vote despite its high number of sponsors — and despite promises that rules reform would make the council more democratic under Mark - Viverito than it was for the months former Speaker Christine Quinn stalled votes on earlier police reform bills.

A number of the proposals the governor presented echoed mayor's ideas, including his $ 650 million life sciences initiative, voting reforms such as early voting and same - day registration, adopting salary history blind hiring practices and requiring state contracts to disclose data on gender, race and ethnicity of employees.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo put a number of progressive issues into his state budget proposal, including early voting measures, reforming the criminal justice system to end cash bail and the Dream Act to give college aid to the children of undocumented immigrants.

Senator Reverend Ruben Diaz to Senator Tom Duane: Release the Names or Shut Up [Senator Ruben Diaz] Survey Of State Senators Shows Gay Marriage Bill In Jeopardy [NY1] Earlier: State Senator Tom Duane: We Have the Votes to Pass Marriage Equality Related: Gay Math: Running the Marriage Numbers in Albany [NYM]

(WBEN) Early voting could be coming to New York State under any number of plans that moved forward in the state legislature last week.

Right now, 37 states offer early voting, a reform that greatly eases the voting process, and a growing number offer same - day and automatic voter registration.

Democrats had hoped that if Felder decided to go back to their party that might mean that a number of progressive measures could be approved in New York this session, including, early voting, the child victims act to allow survivors of childhood sexual abuse their day in court, and campaign finance reform.

Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo put a number of progressive issues into his state budget proposal, including the Dream Act, to give college aid to the children of undocumented immigrants, early voting measures and reforming the criminal justice system to end cash bail.

Earlier this year, this vote, long - expected, was mooted to mark substantial number of Conservative MPs voting against the Government.

After a typical Albany late night / early morning where a number of major pieces of legislation were rushed to the floor for a quick vote with little or no debate Gov. Andrew Cuomo does not seem to be in a rush to get in front of a gaggle of reporters.

The first real concerns on counting night came in the early hours, when the number of spoiled papers in the Airdrie and Shotts seat was confirmed at 1,536 - just 90 votes away from Labour's majority.

The votes are in, and Republicans now control both the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate, but as ScienceInsider reported earlier, there were also a number of science - related items on state ballots yesterday.

Though the film is expected to miss a number of early voting deadlines, it will no doubt receive a hero's welcome for the sheer righteous audacity of it all.

Which means Franco could already have banked a number of early votes but lost late ones; the nominations will be announced on Jan. 23.

If the controversy around Franco had hit earlier, I think a good number of Academy voters would have swung in favor of the safer vote (Hanks).

I haven't personally had any bad experiences with the community in these matches, but I have read a number of posts on Reddit and Steam where new players have been kicked by popular vote very early on, simply because they hadn't had the chance to get to grips with the game yet.

A good gamer is well - rounded, using a number of systems, which is why we asked you to vote for your Top Five Console Games of 2008 earlier in December.

As of early last week, voting on Nick had already surpassed that number and is now up to 140 million votes tallied.

My main interest in this venture, as I explained early on, was to guage every - day Realtor interest in their own communal politics / political structures; the vote result was entirely incidental (I figured on a 50/50 split, no matter the raw voter numbers), but it did give rise to some very spirited debate, which I heartily enjoyed, as did others, you included, I must assume.