Sentences with phrase «from opening the ballots»

The Reform Party has stood proudly against the establishment since 1996, and will not move away from opening the ballots, ending gerrymandering and limiting the influence of lobbyists on legislators.

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Proposition 14 was a proposed constitutional amendment placed on tlie ballot by real - estate leaders, designed to repeal an existing open - housing law and to prevent any future Legislature from passing such a law.

The Cook County Electoral Board tossed 18 - year - old Jona Augustyn from the Arlington Heights Park District ballot, making it an uncontested race for the three open seats on the district's board of commissioners.

At that point, the challenges are resolved, and the ID info removed from the envelopes or the envelopes opened and ballots extracted in a way such that no one can read the ballot inside until the ballots are put into stacks that anonymize them.

There is one other duty the Vice President has, he opens / presents the ballots from the states for presidential elections.

On Tuesday, February 19th from 6am - 9 pm the polls will be open and we're asking you to please make time to cast a ballot.

Polls will be open from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. each day during the early voting period, including Saturdays and Sundays, and ballots cast during the early voting period would be counted at the close of the polls on Election Day and included in the election night tally.

At the last minute, however, Republican candidate Nicole Malliotakis and independent candidate Bo Dietl attempted to snatch the Reform nomination from Albanese through an «opportunity to ballot,» which had effectively opened up the Reform line to write - in

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.

At the last minute, however, Republican candidate Nicole Malliotakis and independent candidate Bo Dietl attempted to snatch the Reform nomination from Albanese through an «opportunity to ballot,» which had effectively opened up the Reform line to write - in candidates.

Richman said Thursday's counting of the absentee and affidavit ballots would include «two bipartisan members from each borough, a watcher and a note taker at the table to make objections to open or not open specific ballots.»

(She would have to be nominated to a different electoral office, which would open up a new «declination» window, during which she could withdraw from the WFP ballot.)

Polls will be open for voters to cast their ballots from 6:00 AM to 9:00 PM.

Of the 99 ballots that were ordered opened in Kingston, of those ballots 90 were from Ulster County (including 53 from poll workers who had submitted them prior to the two - week window before the general election.)

With the absentee ballots from the Democratic areas of the Senate District not giving the Dem the lead, the Republican lead should open up and a 31 - 31 tie assured.

Polls are open from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. for a very local year, with no federal or statewide offices on the ballot.

Steinberg also said Matthews had unfairly prevented him and other Democrats and independent voters from casting ballots in an open primary.

When we received a call from a voter about 45 minutes into the voting day that the location was not handing out ballots, we had an employee on the road that was there in about 5 minutes and then opened up the polling booth,» said Mohr.

The motion made reference to a 2011 report from the Procedure Committee, which had suggested that the Commons should be consulted on whether election of the Speaker at the start of the new parliament should be conducted by secret ballot or by open vote.

The Reform Party wants to open the ballot, remove special interest money from politics, and ban gerrymandering.

The Republicans» candidate for the open state Assembly seat in Corona, Humberto Suarezmotta, has been booted from the ballot for failing to file his signatures with a cover sheet, a decision he says he may dispute in federal court.

Ballots open on 18 May, with one vote per member using the single transferrable vote method familiar from Scottish council elections.

It closed from a legislative perspective a couple of years ago but it is still open because of this year's ballot in November.

That leaves the field wide open for as many as four additional nominees, though if there's enough widespread support for Argo or Zero Dark Thirty the ballot could be restricted to only six or seven films (there can be anywhere from five to ten nominees, based on the number of films that achieve at least five percent of the votes.)

2 — Annie Award online voting opens 2 — Palm Springs International Film Festival Awards Gala 3 — Deadline for receipt of final Golden Globe ballots from HFPA members 3 — Voting ends for Art Directors Guild nominations 3 — Cinema Audio Society nomination ballot voting ends 3 — NYFCC awards dinner 4 — WGA theatrical and documentary screenplays announced 4 — Art Directors Guild nominations announced 4 — PGA nominations polls close for motion pictures and animated motion pictures 5 — AFI Awards luncheon 5 — PGA Awards nominations announced 5 — PGA nominations for TV, animated, motion pictures and digital announced 5 — Academy Award nominations voting opens at 8AM PST 7 — Golden Globe Awards 8 — Final ballots go out to BFCA members 8 — Final ballots go out to BTJA members 9 — Deadline for BFCA returning final ballots 9 — Deadline for BTJA returning final ballots 9 — National Board of Review gala 9 — BAFTA nominations announced 10 — Cinema Audio Society nominees announced 10 — DGA TV, Commercial and Documentary nominees announced 11 — Critics» Choice Awards 11 — DGA feature film and first - time feature nominations announced 12 — Academy Award nominations voting closes at 5PM PST 15 — NAACP Image Awards 19 — PGA final voting closes 20 — PGA Awards 19 — SAG final voting closes 21 — SAG Awards 23 - Annie Award final voting closes 23 — Academy Award nominations announced 26 — ACE Eddie Awards Gala 27 — Art Directors Guild Awards

The ballot envelopes from eligible voters shall be removed from their return envelopes, mixed, and then opened and votes tallied.

Located within the exhibition area, the ballots were open from September 23rd to November 5th.

SEATTLE, October 10, 2016 — More than fifty climate scientists from the University of Washington signed an open letter advocating their support for Initiative 732 (www.carbonwa.org), a revenue neutral carbon tax swap that will be on the ballot in Washington State this November.