Sentences with phrase «early voting period»

Many individuals and groups propose improvements in voting access such as early voting period, same day registration, and even Election Day held on weekend as remedies for the lack of voting participation.

-- 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.»

Polls will be open from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. each day during the early voting period, including Saturdays and Sundays, and ballots cast during the early voting period would be counted at the close of the polls on Election Day and included in the election night tally.

Miner's first proposal was to allow for a 20 - day early voting period.

During the early voting period, polling locations would be required to be open for eight hours on weekdays and five hours on weekends and holidays, and to offer evening hours on at least two days.

His plan calls for a 12 - day early voting period before Election Day.

While the governor's proposal calls for 12 days of early voting, bills introduced by two state lawmakers, Assemblyman Charles Lavine and state Sen. Brian Kavanaugh, would require an eight - day early voting period.

New York is one of 13 states that lacks any sort of early voting period.

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Little, who voted against legalizing same - sex marriage, received $ 70,050 in the period between early January and mid-July, according to a recent campaign finance report.

Cuomo's plan would change that be requiring counties to offer at least one early voting polling location for every 50,000 residents during a 12 - day period before Election Day.

During the period I was working on this book, British politics sometimes seemed to be tracking my early 19th century course, as topics like voting and the House of Lords regularly came up for discussion, to say nothing of popular demonstrations; parallels are, however, for the reader to draw.

The 2011 act brought an end to that discretion and now elections are only held at the end of the five year period (unless two - thirds of parliament support early dissolution or there is a vote of no confidence).

Specifically, the Vote Better NY advocates call on lawmakers to adopt the following common - sense reforms: Early voting: (A8582 / S3813B) New Yorkers should have a two - week period including Saturdays and Sundays to ease long lines on Election Day and give voters flexibility as they juggle work and family obligations.

Claudia Borecky, a South Shore civic activist and former legislative aide to Denenberg, asked Venditto during a public comment period why he had been absent when the Finance Committee, controlled by majority Republicans, had voted earlier to approve the fee increases.

This period will allow the general public to vote for individuals - whose names had earlier been submitted - who they think influenced them positively in 2017.

, announced in January, would provide state funds for counties to establish a 12 - day period of early voting before Election Day.

He said, «I chose to wait towards the closing of the accreditation period to vote instead of voting very early.

Leaders close out budget — Legislative leaders reached a deal on a roughly $ 89 billion state budget early Thursday morning, setting in motion the 72 - hour «cooling - off» period before lawmakers can vote on it.

As for voting reform, the Assembly voted to agree with Cuomo's calls for automatic registration and early voting, but recommends a period of early voting commencing eight days before an election rather than the 12 - day window proposed by the governor.

In early March, the members of the Bridgeport Board of Education loyal to Mayor Finch voted 5 - 3 to grant Vallas a three - year contract despite the fact that Vallas had not completed his probationary period or even begun his education leadership program.

During this period the southern states returned to the US fold and, due to the Emancipation Proclamation in early 1863 and the ratification of the 13th amendment in December 1865, slavery was ended and the former slaves became freedmen, and some African Americans in some parts of the South obtained the right to vote and to hold public office.