Sentences with phrase «last vote counting»

You can change your vote as many times as you like online — you can even vote again in person — but only the last vote counts, diminishing the possibility that somebody forced your selection.

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Moore, whose campaign filed a last - minute «election fraud» complaint on Thursday just before the results were certified just after 2 p.m. EST, claimed that widespread voter fraud had contributed to his more than 20,000 vote loss to Jones, a number that was not significantly altered by the inclusion of military and provisional ballots that were later counted.

As always in Britain, you can count on the bookies for the last word: both Ladbrokes and William Hill bookmakers now offer 5 - to - 1 odds on a Yes vote — the longest since betting began.

Democrats, stung by their razor thin defeat last time, say every B.C. vote counts.

However, his Republican challenger didn't concede last night, saying that there were still Moore votes that needed to be counted.

However, don't count out Popovich, who quietly finished third last year in Coach of the Year voting.

As was the case last year, fans account for 50 percent of the voting, while media and players each count 25 percent.

For example, the Borda count is a rank - order voting system that satisfies all of Arrow's conditions except IIA, but is almost hilariously vulnerable to strategic voting — you always want to rank your candidate's strongest opponent last, even if you actually like them second best.

This was halved at the first election following the introduction of above the line voting, and at the last election only 3.75 % votes were counted as informal.

Democrats on Thursday afternoon said the legal challenge to the count in the last outstanding Senate race gave John Brooks a 257 - vote lead in the race over Venditto.

Voter participation in the council run - off election last weekend, counting everybody who mailed in a ballot or voted early, was 4.21 percent of the people who were registered to vote.

But by the time the last votes had been counted - well, not a lot had changed.

The Tories didn't increase their count of councillors here last week, but they've made up huge ground on vote share, turning a 12.5 % gap into a 1.5 % gap by hoovering up Ukip votes, despite Labour's vote share also rising.

A top official in the Staten Island GOP blasted out a fund - raising email last week that accused Mr. Recchia, a former Brooklyn councilman, of counting on minority - heavy votes in Brooklyn «housing projects» to win in the fall.

Despite winning both special elections last night and now holding a numeric majority in the Senate, Brooklyn Democrat Simcha Felder played spoiler even before the votes were counted, declaring in the afternoon that he's staying put and casting his lot with the GOP.

There were about 7,400 votes before absentee ballots were counted, versus 9,500 in the last mayoral election four years ago.

With the last batch of absentee ballots counted, Lamb, a 33 - year - old former prosecutor and first - time candidate, saw his edge shrink slightly, to 627 votes Wednesday out of more than 224,000 cast, according to unofficial results.

NY1's vote tally has been fairly stagnant, with the last count showing 20 senators in favor, 28 against, and 14 who are undecided or won't say.

Mack won the race after absentee ballots, which were counted last, swung the race by more than 40,000 votes.

On April 6, Pro-NPP pressure group, Let My Vote Count Alliance (LMVCA) embarked on a demonstration in what it described as the last resort to push the Electoral Commission (EC) to clean the voter's register ahead of the parliamentary and presidential polls in November.

In separate interviews given over the last few weeks, Representatives Tammy Baldwin, the only openly lesbian member of Congress, and Barney Frank — who was heckled with anti-gay slurs during the health care reform rallies — have both signaled that the time is now right to move forward with the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (HR 3017), saying that, having counted the votes, they believe that there is enough support from both Republican and Democratic legislators to pass the House version of the bill.

Tedisco, who has served in the state assembly for the last 33 years, beat out challenger Christian Klueg of Northville by a 71 percent to 27 percent margin with about two - thirds of the vote counted, according to the state Board of Elections at 11:15 p.m. Klueg conceded the race.

The election was witnessed by among others, the Delta State Governor, Ifeanyi Okowa and Jimi Agbaje, PDP governorship candidate of Lagos State in the last general election, who counted the votes at the Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium in Benin City, the venue of the election.

And a final caveat — this is purely a prediction of how the votes would have fallen out if the votes at the last election were counted on the new boundaries.

Why do you think Obama lost a primary on the very last night of primary voting by 15 %, to somebody who had already been counted out?

Despite waiting for all the votes to be counted and making a request for a recount, Nunes officially conceded the race last week.

I should add a caveat to this though — these projections are purely an attempt to work out what the result would be if the votes cast at the last election had been counted on these new boundaries.

But primary elections have notoriously low turnouts so every vote counts and the job won't be done till the last voting moment at 9PM Tuesday night!

This is the exact same total as the Board of Elections had last night, and the remaining machines counted today all contained zero votes.

Voters can vote for the candidate they prefer, rather than for the candidate they think is most likely to keep out the one they least prefer, in the knowledge that second preference votes will count if his or her preferred candidate is eliminated before the last round of counting.

Maloney declared victory last night after the initial count showed him leading Hayworth by 2,790 votes, but the former congressmanwoman initially refused to concede.

On April 6, a pro-NPP pressure group, Let My Vote Count Alliance (LMVCA) demonstrated in Kumasi in what it described as the last attempt to put pressure on the EC to implement the Committee recommendations.

Local elections officials counted about 2,500 of the 3,300 absentees last night, but those votes were NOT included in the unofficial total.

Hoffman — whose insurgent campaign helped drive Republican Dede Scozzafava from the race — had rescinded his concession last week amid new vote counts that showed a narrowing vote gap between himself and Owens, and allegations that software problems in some voting machines and other vote counting issues could have affected the outcome of the race.

Oyster Bay Town's Republican Supervisor John Venditto led his Democratic rival by 96 votes after the last absentee ballot was counted Wednesday, officials said.

After the votes were counted last night, Democrat Scott Murphy held an advantage of roughly five dozen votes over Tedisco, with thousands of absentee ballots had yet to be counted.

Tkaczyk, who led by about 135 votes when machine votes were counted, but then fell behind as absentee and affidavit ballots were counted, eventually won the battle of those ballots by taking about 80 percent of the last 91 ballots those judges allowed to be included.

I am confident that, when we finally count every last vote cast one week ago, I will continue to serve as your Congressman.

But Donovan's camp said that with 90 percent of the vote counted last night, Donovan had 16,889 votes, or 69 percent, to Ryan's 7,712 votes, or 31 percent.

Meanwhile, Democrat Sean Eldridge is counting on a last - minute barrage of negative ads highlighting Gibson's positions on abortion, fracking and other hot - button issues and an intensive get - out - the - vote effort to gain traction that has largely eluded him thus far.

The Democratic Governor won the last election on the 3rd vote count.

Mr. Espada acknowledged last night that he had lost in the voting machine count.

«Wait until you see when every last vote is counted.»

Jill Stein won the Green Party of California Primary vote with 48 % of the total, surviving a strong push by Roseanne Barr over the last two weeks to gain ground in the Delegate count.

In the tight race for the last of six City Council seats, Democrat Marsha Silverman gained three votes over Republican Matthew Connolly and, according to the new count, beat him 2,426 votes to 2,403.

Last Friday, absentee and affidavit ballots in the race were counted in Lockport and showed Dyster with a 65 - vote lead over Choolokian.

Votes were cast via phones, tablets and computers from April 28 through May 9 and tabulated using the instant running voting model — in which voters chose their top 3 favorites and designs that finish last during each round of counting get eliminated.

at the present rate, I will not be able to vote conservative at the next election (i live in croydon central - where we won by 80 votes at the last election - so I am one of the lucky few that has a vote that counts).

At last Thursday's Business Questions, on the back of recent support for Thursday night counts from John Bercow and Nick Brown, Sir George asked Ms Harman again and now she is indicating support for the campaign's principle aim of counting the votes as soon as polling stations close:

In a plurality system where only first preferences count, the outcome is simple: milk wins with 40 per cent of the vote, followed by beer, with wine trailing in last.