Sentences with phrase «for voting hours»

The Crist campaign asked for voting hours to be extended in the southeastern county, but was denied the request by the circuit court and the Broward County Supervisor of Elections.

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So yesterday afternoon, a few hours before the caucuses were due to start, I wrote to ask for reports of their experience, and how and why they voted.

A vote on the measure was delayed for hours after Democrats revolted against provisions to roll back part of the Dodd - Frank financial reform law and allow more big money political donations, while conservative Republicans objected because the measure did not block funds for Obama's immigration order.

The official vote tally was announced before a packed room of 300 in a Tampa, Florida, office park, after an often - contentious two hour meeting that was no frills this year with no food or drink was provided for shareholders.

The Senate has been voting for the last three hours on the bill.

Just hours before Scots vote on Thursday, a poll by Survation showed support for staying in the United Kingdom is at 53 percent.

Despite the postponement of the shareholder vote, David Eaton, Vice President of Proxy Research at Glass Lewis, says 11th - hour backing from some large investors shows there is more support for Michael Dell's buyout plan than -LSB-...]

** Dell Inc founder Michael Dell raised his $ 24.4 billion bid by less than 1 percent just hours before it was to be put to a vote, tacking on a controversial demand to change voting rules to make it easier for him to buy and take the No. 3 personal computer maker private.

Second, shareholders voting by proxy will be given the relatively unusual opportunity to vote on director candidates individually thanks to an early request for cumulative voting submitted well before the deadline of 48 hours prior to the meeting.

After three hours of rapidfire skiing and pitching the investors convened in the lodge to vote for their top pitches.

But if it's true that our government did all that in an hour then I am definitely voting for Obama when he runs for reelection because I'm pretty sure he's a freaking sorcerer.

Mr Balls was speaking hours before a crucial vote on a Bill that would introduce sex and relationships education for children as young as five and forbid parents from removing their children from sex education classes once they turned 15.

This was just hours after the cabinet voted for tapping cellphones and putting electronic tracking bracelets on migrants who they felt could propose a threat.

One suggestion is a 24 - hour voting day; another would be to close the polls throughout the nation at, for example, 10 p.m. Eastern (7 p.m. Pacific time).

Father Bazi was in Washington to bear witness for his people in the U.S. House of Representatives, which, a few hours after we spoke, voted unanimously to declare that what ISIS is doing to Christians in Iraq is «genocide.»

This comes, of course, just one week after Senator Chris Murphy led a 15 - hour filibuster for a vote on gun control.

My father loved my mother and didn't want to offend her family, so he suffered through almost three hours of a tirade that equated Kennedy with Satan, Democrats with Satan worshipers, and voting for any Democrat with voting for Satan himself.

Now these guys are hoping for the masses to believe in this nonsense at the last hour so the vote can be cast...

As for the drinks, no single beverage received a majority vote as a happy hour preference.

Happy or not with the outcome, I feel so proud to live in a country where people are willing to stand in line for 9 hours in order to exercise their right to vote.

Your local radio broadcaster, who sees 162 games a year and studies the media notes for an hour before the game so he'll know what he's talking about — he can't vote.

Assuming Davis leaves the vote up for 24 hours, we should know tomorrow.

With just over two hours left to vote the 47 year old German heads the ClaretandHugh poll in which fans were asked to vote for their replacement to Sam Allardyce.

The Park District also voted to double the rental fees for the Barrington Swim Club from $ 15 per hour to $ 30.

The village's Board of Trustees on Monday voted 4 - 3 on a three - year contract with FirstEnergy for the rate of 7.5 cents per kilowatt hour for its municipal electric aggregation program.

Barring any unforeseen eleventh - hour postponement; the splinter Nkrumahist political group, All People's Congress (ACP) will tomorrow, Thursday October 6, 2016, launch its manifesto to convince the Ghanaian voter population to vote for the APC come December 7, presidential and parliamentary polls.

«Prior to the shortening of hours and the shortening of the week, you had MPs sitting around a long time, just waiting for votes, often late at night.

Before Tony Blair introduced the new family - friendly sitting hours for Commons votes, MPs would fi ll the time before a late night vote reclining in one of the Palace's many bars.

Hours after legislative leaders refused to commit to approving $ 485 million in additional funding for Buffalo's SolarCity project, Cuomo administration officials said a key funding vote by a state oversight panel scheduled for today has been postponed.

Britain's vote to exit the European Union prompted the biggest surge for the metal since the 2008 financial crisis, with the price up almost 20 % in the hours the followed.

There's now 34 - ish hours to go until voting time in the Commons — and it's going to be a fraught time for those MPs who haven't yet made up their mind.

Lawmakers in the Senate began voting on budget bills Thursday evening, concluding work at around 9:30 this morning, making for a 17 - hour session.

Her comments will come just hours after the semi-autonomous Scottish Parliament backed First Minister Nicola Sturgeon's call for a fresh independence vote in protest at Brexit.

I've rarely known a conference when hours outside the hall are not as much filled with real policy debate and lobbying to win the votes on the floor, and fringe meetings for or against certain proposed policies, as exchanging campaign experiences, or party gossip.

«I remember going into Tamale 2014 to elect National Officers, Chairman Wontumi called us in the early hours to not vote for Kwabena Agyepong and Paul Afoko as they're not in the good books of then candidate Nana Akufo - Addo.

A once - quiet effort by governors to block the full repeal of the Affordable Care Act reached its climax in Washington yesterday, as state executives from both parties — who have conspired privately for months — mounted an all - out attack on the Senate's embattled health care legislation hours before Republicans postponed a vote.

The Assembly and Senate both voted into the early hours of the morning, passing several noncontroversial budget bills — for example, a transportation funding measure that did not include anything for the MTA, which is an area that has caused considerable consternation this session.

Carlucci and Diane Savino voted against the bill in the Senate Rules Committee, then voted for it on the floor a half hour later.

Angered at the huge spending increases at the center of the deal, Paul delayed passage for hours with a demand to vote on an amendment that would keep in place strict caps on spending that the deal would raise.

Thousands of people waited for more than an hour today to visit the grave site of Susan B. Anthony, the suffragist who was arrested for voting in 1872.

«In an attempt to take credit for the emerging recovery, Clegg has decided to stage what Cable and some on the left regard as an artificial showdown over economic policy during a set - piece two - hour debate and vote on Monday.

Lawmakers took their final votes in the hours after midnight Saturday morning and met the deadline for getting the budget completed on time.

In a statement after the two - hour meeting, a spokesman for the leader said: «Shadow Cabinet agreed to back Jeremy Corbyn's recommendation of a free vote on the Government's proposal to authorise UK bombing in Syria.»

After a passionate debate, the state Senate voted early Tuesday morning to reject a bill that would have required employers to pay workers for some hours that they did not work.

Yet Cuomo stumbled out of the gate, saying at a press conference that he had voted for Bloomberg in the past, only to have aides course - correct within an hour with a statement saying Cuomo had misspoken.

As for giving out VID literature the best is to do it for an hour before or after you vote at your pollng place.

It's the final few hours of voting as today's primary elections will winnow the field for November.

I book a photographer for half an hour before I know there's a three - line whip vote, so that they're all there.

Cuomo's proposal will allocate $ 7 million to the Fiscal Year 2019 Executive Budget, an incentive for counties in New York to offer early voting 12 days before Election Day, giving voters eight hours on weekdays and five hours on weekends to cast their ballots.

The marathon 20 hours of wheeling and dealing behind closed doors produced votes to approve a last - minute ethics bill, a mandate to test school drinking water supplies for lead, money for SUNY and CUNY, more money and operating flexibility for charter schools, $ 570 million for «supportive housing» for the homeless, and continued state control of the New York Racing Association until October 2017.