Sentences with phrase «election ballots did»

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But that wasn't all that depressed Clinton's vote: Hansen said a far lower number of provisional ballots than typical for a presidential election played a role, as did a recent strict voter - ID law that was in effect for its first presidential election in the state.

Sabet doesn't think marijuana ballots will sway the election and he doesn't think that many voters are motivated by legalization.

I don't know what church you've been going to, but my minister goes to great pains before an election to not mention ANY candidate or particular ballot issue, but instead call on the congregation to read their scriptures (suggesting some references) and pray, pray, pray for God's guidance, as they get ready to cast their vote.

Gather your votes insecrecy before the next election comes and when it does stuff the hell outta the ballot box!

California did try voting machines, and they are still an option (every precinct has a voting machine, and you can request to use it, but paper ballots are the default), and it works somewhat similarly, in that the election officers give voters a card that activates the voting machine, and the type of ballot is recorded on that card.

«When you have an off - year election, and it's an off - year election where you don't have the County Executive's race on the ballot in Erie County, turnout is always a challenge,» said Republican Analyst Vic Martucci.

This year, Niccoli in a statement said her daughter will do so again and faulted Amedore for not going far enough in scaling back the standards, despite having run in 2014 on the ballot line Stop Common Core (former by Republican gubernatorial nominee Rob Astorino, the line was renamed the «Reform Party» after the election).

A computerized system that casts ballots automatically will expedite the election process, as the current system does not officially elect a president until over a month after the election.

Sources said Nassau County GOP Chairman Joe Mondello likes the idea of an independent line because he thinks it might help his hometown US Senate candidate, Bruce Blakeman, in the general election against the Conservatives» nominee, former Rep. Joe DioGuardi (assuming DioGuardi doesn't succeeed in his petitioning effort to get onto the primary ballot and defeat both Blakeman and David Malpass in September).

«When you do see election fraud, it invariably involves election officials taking steps to change election results or it involves absentee ballots which voter ID laws can't prevent,» he said.

«State agents uncovered hundreds of fraudulent examples: people who didn't live in the city voting in the election; phony signatures on absentee ballots; and campaign vote brokers acting as witnesses for most of these ballots.

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In Tea Party activists and in angry voters electing or putting on the ballot, excuse me, in primaries, people like Christine O'Donnell in Delaware — does that create a situation where the Republican Party in a general election is so out of the mainstream, is so filled with candidates who are so crazy that the party actually ends up blowing an incredible opportunity that's been handed to them on a silver platter and fails to capitalize in a significant way on the intense voter dissatisfaction?

Also, he he might have bought himself some goodwill with fellow Democrats with these endorsements, what everyone is really curious about is what Cuomo will do in the general elections — particularly now that two Republican senators who voted «yes» on same - sex marriage might lose their respective spots on the GOP ballot line in November.

FWIW, in decades of active political party involvement in Ohio, Michigan, New York and Colorado I've never seen a political party provide any support to a non-partisan candidate (not counting candidates nominated in partisan judicial race primaries whose affiliation doesn't appear on general election ballots which Ohio once did and may still do).

The leader of the House is also completing a process of democratising the Commons that has slowly taken place throughout this parliament: the Speaker's election is now the only one which doesn't take place by secret ballot.

«In a sworn affidavit that is part of the paperwork, Assistant District Attorney Eric Seidel states that in an interview on March 12, Haggerty acknowledged that «he did not disclose to Mayor Bloomberg, his agents, and campaign employees that he was going to keep the money that was budgeted for election day ballot security operation for himself, because if he did, he would not have received the money.»»

(Remember, of course, that the Conservatives have backed Long, and so if she doesn't win on June 26, there's the possibility of a split general election ballot on the right).

There are also Republican and Democratic candidates who plan to, at least in part, self - fund their campaigns, meaning even if they don't qualify for the primary they could use their own money to hire petitioners to force their way onto a primary or general election ballot.

And even if it does not feature in the British election debate, the idea of replacing means - tested cash benefits with an unconditional, universal weekly payment to every adult citizen as a right of citizenship will soon be tested at the Swiss ballot box, with a referendum on basic income in Switzerland due sometime this year.

In the last general election, the Republican candidate for Public Advocate received about 14 % of the vote, and in the two prior elections Republicans did not even have a candidate on the ballot.

The Board of Elections initially kicked Martinez off the ballot, and claimed he didn't have the required 500 valid signatures on his nominating petitions.

In my state asking for absentee ballots when you don't meet the requirements to submit an absentee ballot is election fraud.

John Scandalios, a resident of Flushing and former comic book store owner (whom didn't make it on the ballot last election due to a technicality) said he immediately pulled out his cell phone to post on his Facebook and let everyone know that he was okay.

Voter fraud in New York is not considered common or widespread, and New York officials at the state Board of Elections say those concerns don't take into consideration the machines voters use to cast their ballot.

Though the UN does not explicitly mention why secret ballots are used in election, it's likely that they want voting to be confidential since they are secretive in nature, similar to individuals voting.

In fact, the lower - profile the race, the more likely were social channels to matter, since down - ballot candidates can (and do) use Facebook and Twitter in creative and cost - effective ways to reach voters and influencers in elections ignored by most news media.

In so doing, Davis avoids the possibility the case would not finally resolved in time for ballots to be printed for the November general election.

«By resorting to corrupt party politics to try to block debate in this election, he is sending a clear message to the scores of volunteers — not paid people — who collected more than five times the number of signatures I needed to qualify for the ballot: that your passion for change and healthy politics does not count or matter.»

The long wait for the result at Ryedale civic centre in Malton, where the last ballot boxes did not arrive until after midnight, was enlivened by one other election count.

Luthmann was kicked off the ballot in July after the Board of Elections ruled he did not have enough signatures on his petition to run.

Though the Green Party does not have state affiliates in all 50 states, the group achieved ballot access in 45 states and write - in status in three states for the 2016 election cycle as of October 2016.

Cathey filed to run but did not appear on the special election ballot.

In 2013, Luthmann was kicked off the ballot for Borough President by the Board of Elections after it said he didn't have enough signatures on his petition.

Under New York election law, candidates who run unopposed in a primary win the nomination automatically, and their names do not appear on the ballot.

The Board of Elections voted on Tuesday that Luthmann did not have enough signatures for the ballot.

Vermont state law provides for open primary elections, meaning that a voter does not have to be registered with a ballot - qualified party in advance in order to participate in its primary.

But the key passage of the resolution is this: «Be it resolved that any elected official or potential candidate who does not support marriage as defined between one man and one woman, shall not have their name appear on Row C, the New York State Conservative Party position on election ballots, in any election.»

Of those who did not select Malliotakis, more than 11,000 were left blank for her race, likely attributable to voters who showed up for the presidential election but chose not to vote down ballot.

The U.S. District Court Judge decision missed the main point of the lawsuit, that the unfavorable Georgia ballot access precedents do not relate to presidential elections.

If Brown's narrow margin of victory holds, and absentee ballots do not overturn election night results in other wards, she will be a minority of one on the council.

In response to Bronx Chronicle inquiries, the Liberal Party of New York acknowledges that it «does not have a permanent ballot line at this time» and that all of our candidates are petitioning onto the line for the November general election.

Hunter, a conservative Republican who does not have the party committee's support, filed 680 signatures with the Onondaga County Board of Elections Thursday to put his name on the November ballot.

«I do promise you that being on the ballot twice makes this race a hell of a lot more winnable in the general election,» Wilson told The Sun.

A judge has ruled Buffalo School Board President James Sampson does not have enough valid petition signatures to be on the ballot for the upcoming board election.

The Liberal Party did not have a ballot line in the 2009 New York City general election.

The state board of elections has approved the language for a ballot amendment that would change the way redistricting is done in New York.

Making the call at a news conference in Osogbo, the state Chairman of APC, Prince Gboyega Famodun, said the video clip was fabricated by some unscrupulous individuals to discredit the election, adding that the video clip, which was brandished by the spokesperson of Jonathan Campaign Organization, Mr Femi Fani - Kayode, had nothing to do with the last August election in Osun State as the ballot papers shown in the video were different from the actual ballot papers used for Osun governorship election.

Oh boy, lets hold an election where we don't let the majority of the candidates on the ballot.

Lancman and Avella noted in the primary election that officials often did not provide a «privacy sleeve,» or a folder, in which to carry the ballot, though they more frequently did during last week's election.