Sentences with phrase «from getting to the polls»

Unlike citizens in 34 other states across America, residents here can only vote ahead of time — by absentee ballot — if they can say their profession, business, studies, travel, illness or disability will prevent them from getting to the polls on Election Day.

Not exact matches

A third of respondents to polls by various American and Canadian health organizations report getting a good night's rest at best a few times per month; more than one in 10 — some studies say almost 50 % — suffer from insomnia.

States permit poll watchers so long as they are registered, trained, and abide by state rules designed to make sure voters aren't impeded or intimidated while getting to and from the polls.

According to a new poll from the AP - NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, 56 percent of Americans largely fear the country's relationship with Russia and China will get worse.

According to the last seven polls — spanning from July 2014 to November 2015 — conduced by the French public - opinion institute Ifop, Le Pen has led each time when voters are asked, «If the next presidential election was next week, which candidate would have the best chance of getting your vote?»

Rick is already polling pretty well nationwide, but I doubt very much he'll be able to beat Bachmann in Iowa — although he could always getting the bump that comes from doing better than expected.

Getting statistics from a group with a christian bias is equivalent to me citing statistics from an atheist poll.

That was an ignominious end to the dream run for State going from unranked to # 1 quicker than anyone in AP poll history and being the first team ever ranked # 1 in a College Football Playoff official ranking to later getting blown out in a bowl game by Georgia Tech.

Craft fairs are also great places to test new products because you can get direct feedback from your buyers — or if you're scared to ask them face to face, why not set up a mini voting booth or chalkboard poll, like Folksy seller Ruth Robinson did at one of her markets stalls.

12:16 - A fair amount of laughter greets a question from SNP MP Angus MacNeil, who points to a poll showing 68 % of Scots want oil revenues devolved to Scotland, Cameron replies: «If you ask a stupid question you get a stupid answer.»

Over on Team Turner, campaign spokeswoman Jessica Proud took the opportunity to highlight the congressman's big get from last week — a nod from former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani — saying the poll results continue the «momentum - building» sparked by that endorsement, showing Turner as the favorite among Republican voters.

Even in London where there were no other elections apart from the AV referendum, over a third of voters managed to get out of bed and make it to the polling booths.

Based on a 10,000 - sample poll and focus groups around the country, the project asks what voters hope and expect to get from the Brexit deal, how they balance immigration control and access to the single market, the status of EU nationals already in Britain, people's confidence that the Prime Minister will secure a good deal, and how the Brexit negotiations compare in importance to other priorities.

And after getting just 6 percent in the latest Quinnipiac University poll, it seems that Dietl may have to accept his fate, blocked from City Hall entirely.

A special local government Siena Research Institute poll finds a majority of voters say local governments beat the state on everything from understanding citizens» needs to «getting things done.»

Eric Dinallo gets props from Nick Confessore for beating out «some more experienced campaigners» to win the DRC straw poll.

We've worked for one side or the other on all of these issues, and have learned the unfortunate truth that, irrespective of neutrality, once you've polled for one side you're unlikely to get a commission from the other lot.

«Learning from the Obama presidential campaigns, the Democrats are rolling out a sophisticated national ground game they hope will get «souls to the polls.»»

Getting to the polling station keeps many people from voting.

«If we can not get relief in the process, we will go to the courts, and we will go to the final, final round, to ensure every vote... is counted, so that tomorrow, when the senior citizen or the young voter goes to the polls, they can be reassured that this democratic process works for them and not that it is rigged, or perhaps that there are backroom strategists put in place to prevent them from voting or to skew the results.»

We have been approaching this very scientifically; we have been doing our own scientific polling and even some of the polling being done by independent people, the numbers are looking great and so I am confident that from what is being done scientifically, plus or minus any margin of error, we will make 50 % plus... «We are looking at issues of concern to people in different regions and so the campaign message is tailored to address the concerns we find in any particular region and the response we have got is very enthusiastic.

If you identify as a an «atheist» (and to many religious people, there's very little inclination to make fine nuanced distinction between «nones», «non-affiliated», «agnostic», «atheist» - they all get conceptually lumped together as «unbelieving atheist heathen» (tm) from the point of view of someone highly devout in a monotheistic Abrahamic tradition), there's plenty of strongly religious people who - according to polls - would refuse to vote for you.

The poll did not ask about Teachout, who has not yet gotten onto the ballot and must circulate petitions, collecting at least 15,000 valid signatures from enrolled Democrats across the state, to do so.

The poll found that Perini was getting support from 53 percent of Republicans, compared to Sini, who's getting 79 percent from Democrats, in the race to replace District Attorney Thomas Spota, who announced earlier this year that he would not seek a fifth term.

Griffin will seek to learn from the mistakes of the earlier National Front (NF), which in the general election of 1979 got ahead of itself by standing over 300 candidates (polling a meagre 1.3 per cent).

In a presidential or similar elections, it's a habit, if one is a candidate, to get to the polling place, and vote, usually in the storm of camera flashes, from propaganda reasons, so self - voting is expected.

He expects the candidate to get a major boost in the polls from the convention.

According to figures from INEC, PDP polled 105,748 votes while the APC got 72,594.

It stunned observers and even prompted a new approach from Tory strategists, who hoped the thought of Gordon Brown remaining in No 10 for another five years would startle voters enough for them to get down to the polling station.

Not long after polls opened, Aadahl said he began to get word that poll workers at one New Paltz voting site were denying affidavit ballots to those who requested them on orders from elections board officials.

In response WFP officials pointed to a recent Siena Poll that showed the smaller party would get enough votes from a candidate, other than Cuomo, to keep its line in future elections.

Alex Hilton and Jag Singh of LabourHome are getting it in the neck from many Labour bloggers, eg Luke Akehurst, for conducting the poll: «The only utility of which can be to damage individual ministers and the the Party the day before the start of a crucial party conference.»

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Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone, who faces Republican challenger James O'Connor at the polls tomorrow, got late infusions totaling $ 65,000 from two well - known donors to Republicans — former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and local hedge fund magnate Robert Mercer, who usually funds conservative candidates and causes.

Lazio's campaign has been faltering for some time, and failed to receive a bounce — either in the polls or in fundraising — after he successfully blocked Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy from getting on the ballot at the state convention in June.

The former CPP chair's ambition to lead the party her father founded, as flagbearer for the 2016 polls, was crushed as Mr Greenstreet got the nod from delegates after polling 1,288 votes — 64.2 %, ahead of her total of 579, representing about 28.9 %.

Spitzer said in his interviews that he was motivated to run not by recent political comebacks — such as Weiner's rise in the polls for New York City mayor or Sanford's successful congressional campaign — but by personal pleas from New Yorkers themselves, who've asked him to get back into public service, he says.

But his polling numbers are strikingly good for a candidate who gets little press, is not from a major party, and has little money to run on.

Twitter played a large role in getting out the vote along with information about poll sites as users in Inwood and Washington Heights posted everything from problems at the polls to food - themed celebrations for voting.

If you can't get to the polls you can request an absentee ballot from the Ulster County Board of Elections at 334-5470 or www.co.ulster.ny.us/elections.

Elections officials have worked to get the word out that the polls in our region are open from Noon to 9 pm (unlike areas near New York City, and Erie County where they opened at 6:00 am)

About 50 people who went to vote in Onondaga County said they were turned away from the polls because of paperwork getting lost, according to a Syracuse.com article.

With Ukip falling to a record low of 1 %, it was plausible that this was the start of a shift away from the deadlocked polls we've got used to since the last election.

Once again the world looks on to get another democratic inspiration from Ghana, the beacon of stable governance in Africa, as she heads to the presidential and parliamentary polls on 7th December 2016.

With polls suggesting Labour will struggle to get a majority at next year's election, and with Miliband making a series of gaffes and struggling in the polls, there have been murmurs of discontent from within the party.

His campaign raised issues, including saying that ballots were not available at a polling place at Carroll Hill Elementary School; that people were discouraged from voting; that voters were asked for ID at polling places at the Rensselaer County Office Building, in which the board offices are located; that the School 12 polling place was locked with no instructions on how to get inside; and that Wiltshire poll watchers were harassed by board employees about encouraging people to cast affidavit ballots.

«Reports that reached us from Oshiomhole's area in Edo North indicated that under - age voters and persons without voter cards were not allowed to get into the premises of the polling station by security men.

Fifty - nine percent of parents whose child did not receive the flu vaccine this season say it is less important than other childhood vaccines — compared to only 14 percent of parents whose child got a flu shot, according to today's report from the C.S. Mott Children's Hospital National Poll on Children's Health.

Thinking that I wasn't the only one who had these questions from time to time, I polled the mbg office to get their take.

I also got a bit of help from you guys with an Instagram story poll for the rug -LCB- thanks to everyone who voted! -RCB-.