Sentences with phrase «election districts»

"Election districts" refers to geographical areas that are used to divide and organize voters for the purpose of elections. It is done to ensure fair representation and make it easier for people to vote and elect their representatives. Full definition
Here's a rundown of the results for each race with about 97 percent of election districts reporting.
With 50 of 51 election districts reporting, less than 12 percent of active registered voters had their ballots counted.
Under the old system, election workers were required to print out receipts from electronic scanning machines after the polls closed and then cut them by hand, by election district.
This legislation will restrict the election of candidates to the board of education to the particular election district where those candidates and the voters for that district reside.
And the problems ended late, with many election districts not reporting final results until after midnight.
This process will take time since not only are new legislative districts being drawn, but also new election districts must be drawn to reflect these new legislative lines.
Does the Norwegian system divide election districts to give one political party an electoral majority?
While there are dozens of members on the committee, there are usually election districts open for new members.
The committee consists of two voting members per election district in Chenango County.
Of all the 62 Election Districts on the 66th, Part A (our turf), only six will be open for voting on Primary day, Sept. 13.
The remaining ballots are from Election Districts located in the Town of Brookhaven.
(AP) The lengthy process to redraw election district lines in New York that will guide politics for the next decade is expected to get longer.
to divide (a territorial unit) into election districts to give one political party an electoral majority in a large number of districts while concentrating the voting strength of the opposition in as few districts as possible
«You will never know how much I appreciate this and I will do the best job I can,» Mr. Dinizo said to his supporters following the announcement of the results from all 19 Southold Town election districts.
That's like two votes per election district,» said second - place finisher Austin Shafran.
But as the returns rolled in from Syracuse — and its heavily Democratic election districts — Hunter easily pulled ahead.
To get on the ballot you simply need to collect signatures: five percent of the active registered Democrats in that particular election district, or anywhere from 15 to 50 signatures.
«The whole bunch of them got wiped out,» said former Borough President Guy Molinari, a Grimm supporter, who said that Grimm won the balloting in the home election districts of Fossella, Lanza and Brooklyn state Sen. Martin Golden, another Allegretti ally.
Based on preliminary numbers I won a majority of election districts across the 10 towns that comprise the 99th Assembly District.
* Returns for 38 % of election districts changed between Election night and Friday - yes, 38 %!
Neither I, nor any member of Library Board of Trustees, or Library Administration, as representatives of the Library, had any involvement in election district redistricting.
The court rulings to protect voting rights have incensed state legislators, who harshly criticized the federal courts and dragged their feet in redrawing gerrymandered election districts.
Despite this fact the Clarkstown Republican Committee secured fifty - two persons from the seventy - six Clarkstown election districts, who filed the required initial «general objection'to many of the Sparaco gathered petitions.
I recall that among the anomalies were uninhabited election districts and a traffic island that wasn't in any district.
Incumbent Sen. Michael Venditto regained a narrow advantage in the 8th district ballot counting process on Tuesday as Democrats accused Republicans of «walking away» from counting the final 300 or so ballots in Democratic friendly election districts.
Her voting machine, for the 10th election district / 52nd Assembly district, registered 268 votes at that time.
Though several Central Brooklyn election districts reported modest turnout, some voters in Borough Park reported turnout was high for Tuesday's midterm elections.
Also, like - minded individuals tend to cluster, so that the class membership in any given election district will vary from p.
(In Seward and East River, each of the buildings is its own election district!)
As the polls closed at 9 p.m., the Democratic candidates and a small group of party faithful headed from East Hampton's Rowdy Hall, where a buffet of snacks was set up for supporters, to the nearby law office of Christopher Kelley, chairman of the Democrats» campaign committee, where they expected phone calls from poll watchers with the vote tallies from different election districts.
County Committee 87th Election district [vote for 2] Irene Kaufman — 40 Perry Street, NY, NY 10014.
Vote for 2 [County Committee] 83th Election District The VID endorsed Joseph DiMattia.
If you want election districts to be drawn independently to more accurately group voters rather than to guarantee that a particular political party wins on Election Day, vote yes.
The list was of every registered Democrat in a specific election district, the two blocks or so of neighbors that is the smallest political unit in the state.
Storobin's campaign accused Fidler of engaging in «ethnic exclusion» by «objecting to almost all of the absentee ballots from the Russian election districts and with Russian last names.»
With about 85 percent of election districts counted, the Greens had 157,014 votes compared to 196,504 for Conservatives.
Magnarelli would lose a few election districts in the Valley and Near West Side neighborhoods that Roberts would pick up, Magnarelli said.
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP)-- The New York Senate's Republican majority proposed a legislative redistricting plan Thursday that contorted what are supposed to be compact election districts into some odd shapes to connect dwindling Republican pockets in the blue state.
The Buffalo Democrat appeared to be in some trouble late last night until the remaining election districts broke his way.
With five election districts still to report, Mr. Zeldin had eclipsed his predecessor Tim Bishop's best turnout, earning more than 174,000 votes.
Cuomo had approved the Senate election districts drawn by Republicans for the next 10 years in a process that traditionally protects the majority party.
Majorities have traditionally redrawn election district lines to protect their incumbents.
School districts, villages and other special election districts can continue to use lever - style voting machines through 2014, under a law signed today by Cuomo.
Each county committee member is elected to represent Democrats in their local election district.
When asked by Post City Hall bureau chief David Seifman whether he considered Rangel's win «honest,» Espaillat said he expected other groups to continue looking into «things [that] happened on the 26th, you know, from the changing of election district numbers, to some change in poll sites to perhaps a lack of proper notification to voters and a bunch of other things.»

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