Sentences with phrase «holding election day»

For starters, turnout was low and the question must be asked, did holding Election Day on a Thursday impact the vote?

«Holding Election Day one day during the work week is an outdated requirement that was established over a century ago,» she said.

Then there's the idea of holding Election Day on a weekend, something government officials determined is a costly alternative, according to a study from the United States Government Accountability Office (GAO) assessing the cost of a two - day voting weekend.

Earlier in the day CNN reported that GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney will hold Election Day events.

Not exact matches

The Cambridge Analytica issue was the reason Zuckerberg was on Capitol Hill, answering questions for the second time in two days about how the group - which has counted U.S. President Donald Trump's election campaign among its clients - got hold of data on many millions of Facebook users.

On Election Day, more than 69.4 million Americans voted for Obama to become the 44th president of the US — and the first African - American to hold the position.

Pavlopoulos will then mandate an election to be held within 30 days of the government's resignation.

Polls across a wide range of battleground states showed Clinton holding a narrow but consistent lead in the days before the election.

«But it's also pulled back nicely, offering an inexpensive entry point, which increases risk and reward for the investor... With that all said, assuming DOC can hold on through Election Day, I think this could be a good position to own — especially through the end of the year.»

If the writ is dropped tomorrow, April 7, then the provincial election will be held 28 days later on Tuesday, May 5, 2015.

In 2012, more than 189,000 Senate election ballots were rejected, spoiled and declined, compared to only 7,822 in the provincial general election held the same day.

Voter turnout ranged from a low of 20.4 % in the 2000 Red Deer - North by - election, held to replace PC MLA Stockwell Day who resigned to run for the leadership of the Canadian Alliance, to 45.5 % in the 1996 Redwater by - election, held to replace Liberal MLA Nick Taylor who had been appointed to the Canadian Senate.

Presidential elections must be held within 60 days, with acting president Hwang Kyo - ahn heading the government in the interim.

Only days before the November 2 elections, Union Theological Seminary in New York held a two - day conference on analogies between the Roman Empire and the American one.

(Ibid., pp, 35, 36) The election was to be held on February 20th, 1977, two days before Romero was to become the Archbishop of San Salvador.

Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo continues to hold a double - digit lead over his Republican opponent, Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino, with less than two weeks to go before Election Day, according to a Siena College poll released this morning.

The federal MOVE Act requires states hold primaries no later than 44 days prior to the general election.

The campaign is expected to report having raised $ 213,162 in the past 21 days for the closely watched special election to be held on April 19.

People can register to vote up to 11 days before an election, meaning if the general election is to be held on Thursday 6 May, the deadline to register will be Tuesday 20 April.

The special election to fill the Senate seat vacated by Republican ex-Majority Leader Dean Skelos will be held April 19, the same day as the state's presidential primary.

Their aim has been to prepare the ground for a backbench debate on Thursday in which MPs will hold a symbolic vote on returning to the old days when Prime Ministers had full discretion to call elections as they saw fit.

I wouldn't want to jeopardise the, albeit slim, chance that the government will see sense and hold a referendum on voting reform on general election day.

The Senate race is one of 11 special elections held that day, but the race is a key one in Westchester County with control of the chamber potentially up for grabs.

Silver's seat is in lower Manhattan, so the NYC Board would be in charge of holding the election for the Silver seat that day.

Another option for the Legislature would be to hold a special session after Election Day and formally appoint the new attorney general - elect to fill the remainder of Schneiderman's term.

Earlier this month, it came to our attention that the New York City Board of Election might have some difficulty holding a special election for the three open Assembly seats in the city on the same day as the Republican and Democratic Presidential primaries, which is AElection might have some difficulty holding a special election for the three open Assembly seats in the city on the same day as the Republican and Democratic Presidential primaries, which is Aelection for the three open Assembly seats in the city on the same day as the Republican and Democratic Presidential primaries, which is April 19.

If a special election is declared by the governor, the election would have to be held within 70 to 80 days after the governor's proclamation.

In 2009 UKIP came second in the European elections held on the same day as in local elections, but they only fielded candidates in a quarter of seats where the three main parties also stood.

UKIP, under the rumbustious Nigel Farage, have fallen back from the glory days of the May local elections but are still in double figures, while Labour holds a narrowing but still decisive lead over the Tories.

Beales had first proposed the idea in an internal memo two years earlier, but Miliband decided to hold it back until 8 April, a month before election day — despite his team's terror that Osborne might outflank Labour by unveiling the same policy in his final budget in April.

The Electoral Commission must keep, for the purposes of the next election to be held in the district to which the dormant roll relates, a copy of the dormant roll as it exists on the day before polling day.

The day after the referendum, Cameron raised the issue of «English votes for English laws», with Miliband criticising the move as a simplistic solution to a complex problem, eventually coming out in favour for a constitutional convention to be held after the general election.

My poll on the Clacton by - election, to be held on 9 October, the day David Cameron turns forty - eight, has found UKIP on 56 per cent, 32 points ahead of the Conservatives on 24 per cent.

The Nassau County Charter stipulates that if a legislative vacancy occurs after May 1, a special election must be held to fill the seat on the day of the November general election.

Ghana's first Presidential and Parliamentary elections in 1992 were held on separate days in November and December respectively.

Following a boycott of the December 1992 Parliamentary elections by the main opposition party, the New Patriotic Party, under allegations of malpractices in the presidential, there was a decision to hold both elections on the same day so as to be able to prevent a similar boycott in the future.

A group of Labour candidates has written a letter to Gordon Brown calling for a referendum on electoral reform to be held on the day of the general election.

But there also hasn't been a speaker from upstate in years — other than James Tallon, of Broome County, who held the post in an acting capacity for three days in 1991 in between Mel Miller's felony conviction and Weprin's election.

As usual, the models exclude local elections on the same day as a general election and also 1992 when the local elections were held just a month after.

The court has ordered that a new election should be held within 60 days.

That's nearly double the lead she held after Election Day, with more ballots slated to be added to the tally Monday.

The absentee ballots have been tallied and Schoharie Republican Christopher Tague's election - day lead has held.

Gov. David Paterson called a special election Friday to fill disgraced former Assemblyman Anthony Seminerio's (D - Richmond Hill) for Sept. 15, the same day the city will be holding primary elections.

(A governor has limited scheduling ability however, as state law requires that such a special election be held between 70 and 80 days from the date of a formal proclamation by the governor.)

«A strong WFP vote also builds the kind of independent, progressive political power we need to hold those same politicians to their promises after Election Day.»

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This was held on the same day at the 2004 Local and European elections.

Elections would be held the first weekend in November — as long as that weekend does not fall on the first two days of the month.

The by - election was held on the same day as the Manchester Central and Corby by - elections, and the inaugural Police and Crime Commissioner elections.

The council election was held on the same day as the national General Election, when the Labour Party government lost power and the Watford parliamentary constituency was won by the Conservativelection was held on the same day as the national General Election, when the Labour Party government lost power and the Watford parliamentary constituency was won by the ConservativElection, when the Labour Party government lost power and the Watford parliamentary constituency was won by the Conservative Party.