Sentences with phrase «new election district lines»

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Queens Democratic leader Joe Crowley, who will pick the party's nominee for the Sept. 13 special election, is anxious to carve up Weiner's former territory when state lawmakers redraw district lines in 2012 to reduce New York's congressional delegation by two.

«Senators truly committed to reform should support both an independent redistricting process and new district lines,» he said, adding that the non-competitive elections created by partisan line - drawing are «the main source of Albany's dysfunction.»

The day is expected to be further complicated by brand new Assembly and Senate district lines, which have changed many voters» districts and polling places, as well as lingering doubts over the competency of the Board of Elections, which bungled the ballot count in June's Congressional race between Rep. Charlie Rangel and State Sen. Adriano Espaillat so badly that it took weeks to learn the final results.

But between the new district lines and the Democratic enrollment edge in a presidential election year, the Republicans are probably going to need every penny to assist members in tough general election battles, and perhaps in trying to help non-incumbents like Bob Cohen, who's making his second attempt at winning retiring Democratic Sen. Suzi Oppenheimer's seat.

His successor, Democratic New York State Assembly member Rubén Díaz, Jr., who won a special election on April 21, 2009 by a vote of 86.3 % (29,420) on the «Bronx Unity» line to 13.3 % (4,646) for the Republican district leader Anthony Ribustello on the «People First» line, [115][116] became Borough President on May 1.

Under the new lines of the district, drawn by a federal judge, voters would have gone about by a pretty similar margin for Obama in the 2008 election.

This process will take time since not only are new legislative districts being drawn, but also new election districts must be drawn to reflect these new legislative lines.

(AP) The lengthy process to redraw election district lines in New York that will guide politics for the next decade is expected to get longer.

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.

She does not need to this election cycle due the drawing of the new district lines.

State Senator Tom Libous» campaign submitted thousands of signatures from voters across the 52nd Senate District on three party lines to the New York State Board of Elections office in Albany this week.

The six votes needed to appoint a new executive director of the Board of Elections appear to finally be lined up — but the departure of Staten Island Democratic commissioner Michael Ryan to run for Staten Island District Attorney has thrown another wrench in the works.

A three - judge panel of a federal court ordered the North Carolina legislature to redraw their district lines and hold a new election next year.