"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.
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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.
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.
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.
(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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.»
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.
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.
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.
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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