Sentences with phrase «election machine in»
We need the best possible election machine in place as soon as possible.
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«And that was without any pummeling by the Republican attack machine that would have savaged him in a general election.»
Like the voting machine companies, Internet voting services — mostly purveying their software in private or corporate elections — largely resist subjecting their work to public trial.
In Edmonton - Centre the real contest to watch is not to defeat door - knocking / hand - shaking / baby - kissing election - machine Conservative MP Laurie Hawn.
What's next: Facebook, already dealing with a backlash over fake news stories and Russian meddling in the election, has another PR crisis on its hands centered on its advertising machine, which brought in $ 39.9 billion in revenue in 2017.
«I struggle to make an activist party, a party that is involved in building a movement, and not just an election machine.
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.
The 2008 local elections and the 2009 European elections followed in due course; by 2010 the machine was well - oiled enough that in the final week before polling day it was a case of getting rid of surplus leaflets rather than rushing to target specific areas.
«Finally, the INEC Chairman, Prof. Mamoud is hereby commended for achieving a significant improvement in the overall conduct of the election especially as it affects the effective use of the Card - Reader machine,» the report reads.»
Attracting the largest army of supporters ever seen in a modern American election is one thing, but even more impressive is that the Obama campaign managed to put them to work — as online recruiters, as cash machines, but also as organizers, block - walkers and pro-Obama voices in their own communities.
@JeffLambert We still use (at least in many jurisdictions) actually people watching the boxes / machines as part of the security procedures for elections, so having the polls open for several days would exacerbate the problem of finding enough people to staff the security measures.
The election guru is hammering out the kinks in the Tory machine, but his involvement comes at a price.
As news coverage switched to the turnout battle in the last weeks of the elections, many stories discussed the Republicans» voter - mobilization machine and the Democrats» efforts to match it.
Part Four of a six - part series Attracting the largest army of supporters ever seen in a modern American election is one thing, but even more impressive is that the Obama campaign managed to put them to work — as online recruiters, as cash machines, but also as organizers, block - walkers and...
Firstly, encourage the creation of a very serious review into what went wrong for the party at the last election so that mistakes in the message and machine can be dealt with; secondly, encourage the party to create a policy platform ruthlessly focused on generating popularity across the country to raise the party's standing in the polls; and thirdly, secure enough political support that they can ideally walk into Downing Street uncontested.
«Due to serious concerns over the rollout of new electronic voting machines in several counties within the district, the local financial burden of holding a special election so close to the regular election cycle, as well as the possible disenfranchisement of overseas military voters who would not be able to participate, I will call for a Special Election to be held on November 2, 2010election so close to the regular election cycle, as well as the possible disenfranchisement of overseas military voters who would not be able to participate, I will call for a Special Election to be held on November 2, 2010election cycle, as well as the possible disenfranchisement of overseas military voters who would not be able to participate, I will call for a Special Election to be held on November 2, 2010Election to be held on November 2, 2010.»
With 100 percent of machine votes counted, Anna Throne - Holst, the former Southampton Town supervisor, maintained a razor - thin lead over David Calone in Tuesday's Democratic primary election to represent New York's First Congressional District, and the race will come down to absentee ballots.
In 2013, NPR's Allan Greenblatt listed a few: It's effectively a one - party state, with the Democrats so dominant that there is no political competition and machine politics set the agenda; the elections are expensive, making candidates reliant on donors; many key decisions, such as the shape of the state budget, are made in backroom deals between a few power players; the local media is so focused on national events that it ignores what's happening in the state (especially upstate); and there's no anti-corruption movement to challenge the existing culturIn 2013, NPR's Allan Greenblatt listed a few: It's effectively a one - party state, with the Democrats so dominant that there is no political competition and machine politics set the agenda; the elections are expensive, making candidates reliant on donors; many key decisions, such as the shape of the state budget, are made in backroom deals between a few power players; the local media is so focused on national events that it ignores what's happening in the state (especially upstate); and there's no anti-corruption movement to challenge the existing culturin backroom deals between a few power players; the local media is so focused on national events that it ignores what's happening in the state (especially upstate); and there's no anti-corruption movement to challenge the existing culturin the state (especially upstate); and there's no anti-corruption movement to challenge the existing culture.
A win by Gonzalez would help re-establish the WFP in Albany and also solidify its standing in NYC as a vehicle for reform against the well - established so - called Democratic «machines» in the outer boroughs — particularly Brooklyn and, in the case of the 2009 NYC Council elections, in which the WFP teamed up with HTC and 1199 against party - backed candidates, Queens.
The Ukip election machine was today found wanting when former leader Nigel Farage spoke live from the campaign trail in Sleaford and North Hykeham — and party operatives managed to misspell the name of the constituency.
At this age and time, the NDP insists «our voters register is not only compromised but also outmoded when there has been a global switch from this anachronism to electronic voting machines (EVMs) with the only requirement of a single definitive voter identity», citing India which has since 1998 been switching to electronic voters machine and perfected it in its 2014 general elections with what they described as «highly unprecedented efficiency.»
The US classifies RT as «Russia's state - run propaganda machine» and says that it interfered in the presidential election.
«Over the past five years, the city has provided the Board of Elections with more than $ 77 million to make the transition to the new machines, and that doesn't include the $ 85 million in federal funds used to purchase the new machines.»
Progressivism, a populist reform movement in the early twentieth century, espoused by Presidents like Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, and grounded in Protestant moralism, which sought to make government both more responsive to the plight of the people, for instance using Constitutional amendments to deal with social problems like alcoholism and using government force to quash monopolies, and at the same time more representative of the will of the electorate, for instance instituting more democracy like the direct election of Senators and ending the corruption of Machine politics in the cities.
U.S. intelligence agencies said in a report in January that the television station, which broadcasts on cable in the United States, is «Russia's state - run propaganda machine» and that it contributed to the Kremlin's campaign to interfere with last year's presidential election in favor of Republican Party candidate Donald Trump.
NEW YORK CITY — New Yorkers headed to the polls for a chance to select Mayor Michael Bloomberg's successor and cast ballots in a host of other elections — even as broken voting machines across the city stalled their efforts.
Although revisiting the voting machine memory sticks resulted in a slight expansion of Mr. Storobin's 120 - vote lead on Election Night last Tuesday to 143, reconciling the differing reports this afternoon gave Mr. Fidler an additional 25 votes on his margin.
Character does matter in this race... but it is not my character that is at issue in this election; it is Mr. Fidler's record of highly questionable, unethical behavior as a career politician, a City Councilman and a power broker whose the product of the corrupt Brooklyn Democrat political machine.
State Sen. Frank Padavan (R - Bellerose) filed a motion in Queens Civil Courthouse Wednesday to impound voting machines and ballots in his district after his Democratic challenger Tony Avella ended his 38 - year reign in Albany by a margin of about 3,000 votes, according to city Board of Elections results.
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.
«The bias against smaller parties is one concern arising from this study of our election system in 2011 another is the power handed to party machines in deciding who goes where on the list and so in many cases who gets a seat.
And once the general election result was declared void (November 5th), the by - election machine which ensured victory in Crewe & Nantwich and Norwich North should have been cranked into action.
Election officials decided to resort to the older lever voting machines during Tuesday's primaries because the newer electronic machines used in 2012 confused voters, sparked long lines and caused problems during the tallying process.
Niou's victory in the seat formerly held by Silver and briefly occupied by Cancel, who defeated Niou in a relatively close April special election, is a boost to the Working Families Party, who backed Niou, and a blow to Silver's old downtown machine.
The party succeeded in creating a fantastic by - election winning machine for those famous victories in Crewe in 2008 and Norwich in 2009.
He called the company a central point in the right's «propaganda machine», a line I quoted in reference to its work for the Trump election campaign and the referendum Leave campaign.
From now on, the electronic memory sticks from inside of voting machines will be used to calculate preliminary, election - night totals, just like every other county in the state.
With this powerful story and the Labour Party political machine behind her, she is Galloway's only credible opponent in the election.
A Faso spokesman says that according to the state Board of Elections, voters in Columbia County were instructed to place their ballots into a separate slot on the scanning machine for provisional ballots and that replacement ballots were to be at all polling places no later than 4 p.m.
Truth is that Hevesi was handed the Democratic nomination by Queens machine in a Special Election against a token Republican candidate.
At the Democratic County Committee State Senate nomination convention on March 10, 2017, his opponents accused him and his supporter Keith Wright of using «voter suppression» tactics to ensure his victory as the nominated candidate (re: New York Observer, March 10, 2017, «Harlem Candidates Accuse Democratic Machine of Rigging Contest for State Senate Seat»), which would in theory ensure his victory in the May 23rd 2017 NYS Senate election in Central Harlem's heavily Democratic voting district.
Voters in the 62nd Assembly District who are also voting in either of the presidential primaries must fill out two separate ballots and submit them to separate scanning machines, a process the Board of Elections is confident it can undertake.
The Chairman of SIECOM, Dr. Saratu Binta Dikko Audu, who disclosed this at an interactive session with stakeholders, newsmen, security agencies and political parties at the commission's headquarters in Kaduna Friday, also said Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) would be used in the conduct of the election.
High school students in the Syracuse City School District participated in a mock election for president, Senate and House of Representatives using official ballots and voting machines from the Onondaga County Board of Elections.
«We shall be using Electronic Voting machines and smart Card readers in the conduct of these elections.
On Election Day, the voting machine at the Otisco Fire Department even spit out his ballot twice before he put it in a lock box to be counted later.
Robert Harris, writing not long before the election was called in the New Statesman, «can't quite understand how the members of the Parliamentary Labour Party can sit there day after day, month after month, year after year, knowing that they're simply heading towards a kind of mincing machine at the next election.»
The last election in New Rochelle with lever voting machines was the June 22nd special election for County Legislator District 10 (Varian v. Marcotte).
This necessitates that members sign their names to their ballots in the convention — and several anti-Wright sources worried to the Observer that this could influence their vote, as a number either hold jobs at the city Board of Elections that the county machine has influence over, or have relatives who do.
But in a seat of this sort in 2013, the greatest election - winning machine in all of 20th - century Europe was beaten into third place by Ukip.