Sentences with phrase «lost ballot the voting»

In the event of a lost ballot the voting anomaly is reversed, and a ballot is absent due to the percentages rounding down, as shown in Table 3.

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When the measure, known as Proposition 42, was approved on a second ballot (after having been voted down only a day earlier), it touched off a fire storm of criticism, mostly from coaches who stand to lose the services of youngsters whose academic prowess has not kept pace with their athletic skills.

While ballots are still being counted, Trump's on pace to become the fifth president to win the election, while losing the popular vote.

Last March, when the same issue was on the ballot, it lost by only 62 votes out of 6,628 cast.

The solution is tantamount to a ghost ballot, as the lost ballot would be awarded to the candidate receiving the largest percentage of the state's popular vote.

Also, he he might have bought himself some goodwill with fellow Democrats with these endorsements, what everyone is really curious about is what Cuomo will do in the general elections — particularly now that two Republican senators who voted «yes» on same - sex marriage might lose their respective spots on the GOP ballot line in November.

But with Cuomo's focus on getting 50,000 votes for the new ballot line — thus giving the party automatic ballot status for the next election cycle through 2016 — concerns are being stoked the WFP could lose influence and its own ballot position, currently Row D.

The room was receptive to a proposal that the WFP run someone else for governor on Row D — a gamble, given the fact that the party risks losing its hard - won ballot placement if its candidate doesn't perform well, and could lose its ballot status altogether if the candidate fails to win at least 50,000 votes.

John The nam e was tax cut now and it did get 50,000 votes became a party and in 1998 it did not run anybody State - Wide lost it spot on the ballot.

Saujani also indicated «it's not over» if she loses, suggesting she'll run again next time, and added, «I might not vote (in the general election)» if Maloney is on the ballot instead of her.

It has been rare for sitting MPs to lose such a vote; but doing so leads to a ballot of all local party members.

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Saland ended up losing the election, thanks to the presence on the ballot of a Conservative candidate, Neil DiCarlo, with whom the now - former senator split the vote on the right.

Grisanti, who voted for the SAFE Act in 2013, lost his Republican primary last month to Kevin Stocker, but retains the Independence Party ballot line next month.

Grisanti, who lost the Conservative ballot line due to his gay marriage vote, also lost the GOP primary to attorney Kevin Stocker.

Party officials deny their concerns over the Reform Party stem from competing for votes and potentially losing space on the statewide ballot.

After the chairman's preferred gubernatorial candidate, former Rep. Rick Lazio, lost to Carl Paladino in last September's GOP primary, the Conservatives got behind the Buffalo businessman, who went on to win enough votes on their line to boost them to Row C on the ballot.

They won't pass laws making it easier for people to vote, change political parties or file an absentee ballot without an excuse, because to do so might raise voter turnout — and the risk that they might lose.

With the party beaten down by the aforementioned legal challenges, the added risk of losing the ballot line due to insufficient votes for its gubernatorial candidate was not deemed worthwhile.

He lost a vote of no confidence by 172 MPs to just 40 - which would not be enough to get on the ballot if he were not incumbent leader

Maybe people do not realize this, but the Working Families Party has a line on the General Election Ballot, and Lynn Schulman, who lost to Karen by only a little over 200 votes in the primary, will be on the WFP's ballotBallot, and Lynn Schulman, who lost to Karen by only a little over 200 votes in the primary, will be on the WFP's ballotballot line.

In the end, Andrew Russo lost to Valesky by just 4,618 votes, less than 6 percent of ballots cast.

WFP leaders now fear Cuomo's new party line could siphon enough votes from their party that it loses its ballot position.

So, if she lost the Democratic nomination, she could still appear on the general election ballot, splitting the progressive vote.

Powerful Tory backbencher Graham Brady has hit out at Theresa May's vote - losing campaign, blaming dementia tax for the ballot box savaging.

Despite allegedly using fake absentee ballots Ramirez still lost the election to Assemblyman Victor Pichardo by two votes.

Many observers believe longtime incumbent Republican Steve Saland of Poughkeepsie lost the seat in the 2012 election because the Conservative Party, angry about Saland's vote in favor of same - sex marriage in New York, gave its ballot line to Neil DiCarlo of Putnam County.

However, despite winning a majority of the votes cast on election day, Bradley narrowly lost the overall race once absentee ballots were included.

If the WFP fails to attract 50,000 votes on its line, it will lose its ballot status — not to mention the clout it has built up over the past several years.

If Paladino does remain in the general election on that line even if he loses the GOP primary he could block Rick Lazio from getting the 50,000 votes on the Conservative line to protect the party's ballot status.

Whatever happens, the Working Families Party is also being guided by the political reality that whoever wins its line for governor has to deliver at least 50,000 votes or the party would lose its guaranteed spot on the ballot for the next four years.

The meeting had started badly for the Corbynites, with the left losing a vote 17 - 15 by a show of hands on whether the final vote should be by a secret ballot.

There's also the possibility, he noted, that Cuomo will lose votes in the general to third party candidates — Nixon won the endorsement of the Working Families Party, which would allow her to be on the general election ballot even if she loses the Democratic primary; and Howie Hawkins is running for governor for a third time on the Green Party line, on which he came in third with more than 180,000 votes in 2014.

If a party's standard - bearer doesn't get 50,000 votes it loses its automatic ballot status, a change that's seen by many as a deadly blow.

Despite gaining 13 % of the vote at the general election, with nearly four million people casting a ballot for the party, they only managed to return one MP, Douglas Carswell, with Mark Reckless losing his seat.

In addition to the Senator who lot the primary and the Councilwoman who was knock off the ballot going into the primary, supporters of the incumbent mayor Ernest D. Davis are determined to see Davis back for a fifth term and have waged an extensive Write - In campaign, going as far to educate voters how to vote for Davis despite the fact he too lost the primary and has publicly vowed to support the party nominee, Richard Thomas.

After both Dickinson and Muratori had lost the G.O.P. designation in the Primary vote, Dickinson was initially undecided about whether he'd continue his re-election quest, as he had no independent ballot line secured as a backup.

The Working Families Party was essentially forced to back the governor in 2010, when it faced legal troubles, and risked losing its ballot placement if its candidate failed to net 50,000 votes.

«If you look at 310 ballots and I lost eight votes — I think I'm in pretty good shape,» said Spinello, adding he is confident he will prevail.

Lazio, a former JPMorgan executive best known for his losing U.S. Senate bid against Hillary Clinton in 2000, snared a hefty 59.6 % of the convention vote - more than double the 28.4 % Levy picked up on the first ballot.

If fewer than 50,000 people had voted on the Working Families line for governor that year, it would have lost its ballot line until at least the next gubernatorial election, when it would have had to file petitions to get back on the ticket.

The story also says, at the bottom, that a group called «Operation Lost Vote» will help these candidates to collect signatures to get on the ballot as independents.

Holden, a registered Democrat who ran on the Republican and Conservative lines after losing to Crowley in the Democratic primary, had a 137 - vote lead over Crowley after the city's Board of Elections counted all of the paper ballots on Wednesday for the district, which includes Glendale, Maspeth, Middle Village, Ridgewood, Woodhaven and Woodside, according to the New York Daily News.

The New York City businessman especially wants to dominate the delegate count in his home state, after losing dozens of delegates elsewhere in recent weeks who promised to vote for Cruz — rather than Trump — if given the chance on a second ballot at the convention.

, but a stolen, lost, or stuffed ballot box risks mere hundreds of votes while a hidden computer glitch risks millions.

That year Democratic nominee Christine Jennings, who lost the election by 369 votes to Republican Vern Buchanan, claimed that 18,000 ballots went uncounted in the district.

Still, other scientists say the implications are clear: «There's very little doubt Gore lost approximately 2000 votes due to the nature of the ballot,» says Norman Schwartz, a psychologist currently on sabbatical from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Massachusetts may have voted down Ballot Question 2, which, had it passed, would have raised the cap on the number of charter schools permitted in the state, but all is not lost.

On the calendar for Jan. 20 is the inauguration of Donald J. Trump, a divisive figure who lost the popular vote by more than 2.8 million ballots.

Many say California Republicans» anti-immigration ballot initiatives in the 1990s lost them the Latino vote and set the party on the road to ruin.