Sentences with phrase «of elections count»

In a Board of Elections count of absentee ballots that concluded Friday, Ms. Throne - Holst garnered 1,003 votes to opponent Dave Calone's 743 absentee votes.
In close races, such as in the 14th City Council district, the official Board of Elections count could possibly result in a different winner than in the original poll count.
All campaigns are welcome to observe the official Board of Elections counting process.
Storobin emerged with a 120 - vote lead on election night, but his margin of victory shrank to just three votes after the Board of Elections counted half of the more than 700 absentee ballots and affidavits.
Final totals of Tuesday's special election won't come until April 3, when the board of elections counts more than 51 absentee and affidavit ballots.
The Onondaga County Board of Elections counted 8,064 ballots in the election.
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.

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But the Israeli government remains defiant about maintaining its freedom of action to make war on Iran, and it is counting on the influence of right - wing extremist views in U.S. politics to bring pressure to bear on Obama to fall into line with a possible Israeli attack during the election campaign this fall....
Paper ballots are counted after the end of voting in the Italian general elections on March 4, 2018 in Naples, Italy.
Since there are no exit polls for the referendum, unlike the general election, this is our best gauge of voter sentiment until results start trickling in from local counting areas around 1 a.m. BST.
Only about a third of Republicans said they have a great deal or quite a bit of confidence that votes on Election Day will be counted fairly, according to recent poll from the Associated Press - NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.
The Southern Poverty Law Center has counted more than 200 complaints of hate crimes since Election Day, according to USA Today.
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.
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.
The USIC and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) assess that it would be extremely difficult for someone, including a nation - state actor, to alter actual ballot counts or election results by cyber attack or intrusion.
If you hold your shares in street name, it is critical that you cast your vote if you want it to count in the election of directors, the vote to approve the amendment to our Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation, the vote to approve the amendment and restatement of our 2013 Equity Incentive Plan, the advisory vote to approve named executive officer compensation, and the stockholder proposals requesting: (i) the elimination of supermajority voting requirements, (ii) the adoption of a policy to consider employee pay ranges when setting CEO compensation, and (iii) a report on Salesforce's criteria for investing in, operating in and withdrawing from high - risk regions (Proposals 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7 and 8 in this Proxy Statement).
The full results of the local elections won't be known until Friday evening, as some councils don't start the count until the day after polling...
If the $ 130,000 payment was meant to help Trump win the election (something Cohen denies), it could count as a campaign contribution that was well in excess of federal limits.
The vote - counting methodology used by the Company does not inherently favor proposals submitted by the Board over proposals submitted by shareholders, as the vote - counting standard for approving any proposal other than for the election of directors is identical.
Giuliani also suggested that Trump's reimbursement of Cohen means the lawyer's payment to Daniels ahead of the 2016 election did not count as a campaign contribution.
On the political level, we won a general election, only the eighth time in 40 elections that a governing party has increased both its seat count and its share of the popular vote.
By my count, the parties have now nominated the following number of candidates out of 87 constituencies in the next election: Alberta Party 11/87, Liberal 20/87, New Democratic Party 49/87, Progressive Conservative 39/87, Wildrose 53/87.
As expected, Don Iveson was re-elected Mayor of Edmonton in a huge landslide with 141,182 votes — 72 percent of the total votes cast in that race — increasing his total vote count from the 2013 election.
The votes have been counted for three of the local elections in the North East.
The April 19 - 23 survey suggests that Republicans» message about the benefits of the tax cuts, which they are counting on to buoy their election fortunes in November, hasn't broken through.
By the time of the General Election in June, Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron, who happens to be Christian had lost count of the times he'd been asked by journalists whether gay sex was a sin.
Imagine, then, their great surprise when defenders of the status quo, who included some of the leading political scientists in the nation, instructed them in no uncertain terms that devices like competitive elections, labeled «procedural democracy,» counted as next to nothing in comparison to «substantive democracy.»
Cowen and Company called shares of Constellation Brands «volatile» heading into Election Day with concerns of a Donald Trump presidency hurting brands such as Modelo, which counts 60 percent of its beers drinkers as Hispanic as well as a third of Corona drinkers.
Rwanda counts votes as Kagame eyes third - term + + + Kenyans in the city flee for rural safety ahead of Tuesday's elections + + + Businesses in Burundi count losses as electricity crisis continues
In the 41st Senate District, though the final vote count from the state Board of Elections isn't available yet, the WFP says it's likely its voters also provided a critical margin of victory for Democratic Senator - elect Terry Gipson over GOP Sen. Steve Saland.
In the case of Florida, state law spells it out clearly: «The ballot of an elector who casts an absentee ballot shall be counted even if the elector dies on or before Election Day.»
But most states do count the votes of the recently deceased, according to the bi-partisan National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL), an NGO that tracks US state election laws.
She discussed the importance of building up a core of year - round activists, people who can be counted on to work on issues more than just at election time.
What happens if that if one of the candidates successfully argues in court that mistakes in the count (or any other irregularity or technical issue) had an effect big enough to change the result of the election, a new one is held.
The unofficial tally, according to the NYC Board of Elections: 10,756, Storobin; 10,636, Fidler, with 757 paper ballots to be counted.
At the end of the day, it is the vote that counts whether inside the party, or when finally a general election comes.
Twitter said that during the election campaign, it removed tweets «that were attempting to suppress or otherwise interfere with the exercise of voting rights, including the right to have a vote counted, by circulating intentionally misleading information.»
The Let My Vote Count Alliance, Movement for Change and Alliance for Accountable Governance (AFAG) joined forces to draw a massive crowd in the streets to back calls for a new voters register ahead of the 2016 election, insisting the current album is flawed with lots of anomalies.
The only holiday we're talking about is the day of the actual election, but counting primaries and run - offs there could be more days throughout the year that require voter participation.
More than 2,000 leaders, executives and supporters of the main opposition New Patriotic Party have been suspended as of the last count, the governing National Democratic Congress» Director of Elections, Samuel Ofosu - Ampofo has said.
Representatives from across the political spectrum have spoken out against plans which could delay the counting of general election votes until the following morning - rather than the dramatic all - night count.
Since the Supreme Court has now prevented itself from acknowledging the question of whether Barack H. Obama is or is not an Article II «natural born citizen» based on the Kenyan / British citizenship of Barack Obama's father at the time of his birth (irrespective of whether Barack Obama is deemed a «citizen» born in Hawaii or otherwise) as a prerequisite to qualifying to serve as President of the United States under the Constitution — the Court having done so at least three times and counting, first before the Nov 4 general election and twice before the Dec 15 vote of the College of Electors — it would seem appropriate, if not necessary, for all Executive Branch departments and agencies to secure advance formal advice from the United States Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel as to how to respond to expected inquiries from federal employees who are pledged to «support and defend the Constitution of the United States» as to whether they are governed by laws, regulations, orders and directives issued under Mr. Obama during such periods that said employees, by the weight of existing legal authority and prior to a decision by the Supreme Court, believe in good faith that Mr. Obama is not an Article II «natural born citizen».
However, I realise that the «democracity» of elections doesn't depend just on the correct count of the votes but on the citizen's fear of the aftermath of their voting or pressure from the family.
Another point which could be counted in Iran's favour is Venezuela's election as the next NAM chair in 2015; of course, only if Chavez succeeds in winning the coming elections and his health conditions do not worsen.
Incumbent Sen. Michael Venditto regained a narrow advantage in the 8th district ballot counting process on Tuesday as Democrats accused Republicans of «walking away» from counting the final 300 or so ballots in Democratic friendly election districts.
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.
The arbitrary thresholds your refer to are a problem, because they will have a distorting effect on the election result, especially if a large number of voters support minor parties, and therefore have their votes discarded when the final count is done.
You might now look at recent US election results and reason that even if the US would use the European counting model, the number of votes for other parties than Republicans and Democrats are usually so few that it wouldn't be enough for noteworthy representation in Congress.
The groups; Let My Vote Count, Account for Accountable governance and the Youth wing of the biggest opposition party, New Patriotic Party (NPP), wrote to the Police, seeking permission to march through some principal streets of Accra and end up at the Electoral Commission (EC) and Parliament House to present a petition on the need to have a new voters register for the 2016 elections.
But while the voting process itself has been described as fair by most international observers, the political campaign and the actual counting of the votes — no doubt the most important part of the democratic election process — has been characterized by the abuse of power, the excessive role of money, extraordinary events such as power cuts in the polling stations, fights between party representatives, accusations of fraud and scandals in denying observers access to polling stations.
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