Sentences with phrase «of absentee votes»

According to numbers from the Board of Elections, there is a slightly higher percentage of absentee votes from Jefferson County.

Absent Laraway, which is not the case, O'Connor would have to pull about 61 percent of the absentee vote to make up for Tague's lead.

Not exact matches

If you know an establishments serves pork on Saturday and it clearly states so, why go there on Saturday and ask them to change the menu because of you.Same thing happen in Washington DC, even though there is absentee ballot, Jewish people want the District of Columbia to change voting day because it fall on Saturday.Trust me, contrary to your belief, you are not special.

But political scientists ought to be able to track how people voted over most of the month of October between heavy absentee voting and early voting.

Two - three months away from the beginning of early / absentee voting, begin grassroots canvassing operation, facilitated by technology if possible.

Saratoga County Clerk Kathy Marchione was up 106 votes heading into today's counting of absentee ballots in Rensselaer County and Washington County.

The bills include measures aimed at early voting in New York, making it easier to vote through an absentee ballot with «no excuse» voting, pre-registration for 16 - and 17 - year - old future voters, and making it easier to change a party ahead of a primary.

For all of those voters who already cast ballots through absentee or early voting, the new candidate will get all their votes.

The biggest problem in the Miami mayoral race was the abuse of absentee ballots, not the voting of convicted felons.

With 100 percent of machine votes counted, Anna Throne - Holst, the former Southampton Town supervisor, maintained a razor - thin lead over David Calone in Tuesday's Democratic primary election to represent New York's First Congressional District, and the race will come down to absentee ballots.

Similarly in Florida, absentee balloting began only Tuesday, but already more than 2.5 million people — nearly one - third of the total number of votes cast in 2012 — have requested ballots.

The opening of 519 absentee ballots flipped the outcome to a 10 - vote spread against a new charter that would have dissolved the commission form of government in favor of one run by a city manager.

In addition, the Mayor called for legislation to permit «no - excuse» absentee voting and the use of electronic poll books, and to consolidate federal and state primaries on the same day; Kavanagh co-sponsors each of these bills.

«State agents uncovered hundreds of fraudulent examples: people who didn't live in the city voting in the election; phony signatures on absentee ballots; and campaign vote brokers acting as witnesses for most of these ballots.

Brown had 51 percent of the vote before absentee ballots were counted, while city Comptroller Mark J.F. Schroeder had 36 percent, and Erie County Legislator Betty Jean Grant 13 percent.

But now ALL the ballots are paper, and the Democrats (who are the underdogs in most of the cliffhanger Senate races) are starting to question whether all the votes were counted on Election Day — and that's BEFORE we even broach the question of absentees et al..

Schumer — while declining to offer a formal endorsement because he prefers to stay out of primary fights — revealed that he had already voted via absentee ballot and chose de Blasio.

According to unofficial results from the Suffolk County Board of Elections, Ms. McNally finished in 10th place, 206 votes behind Susan McGraw Keber, a first - time Democratic candidate, although absentee ballots had yet to be counted.

The campaigns will both get a hint as to what that absentee total will contain later this afternoon when they receive a list of names and addresses of individuals who voted absentee in the election.

The mayor called on the state Legislature to pass broad voting and election reforms, including same - day voter registration, early voting, «no excuse» absentee voting, electronic poll books, consolidation of primary elections, reformatting ballots to make them more user - friendly, and pre-registration of 16 - and 17 - year - olds.

This proposal would remove all of the conditions precedent for absentee ballots and allow voters to request an absentee ballot as an alternative to in - person voting.

Tammy Sun, a spokeswoman for attorney Sean Coffey, a former prosecutor who lives in Westchester and is also running for the Democratic nomination, did not comment on Rice, but said of Coffey's record - voting 15 out of 26 years - several were military absentee ballots which may have gone uncounted.

New York is one of 13 states that doesn't have some form of early voting and requires and excuse to obtain an absentee ballot.

Under current law, absentee voting is only allowed if an individual expects to be absent on Election Day, or because of physical illness or disability.

During the legal process, each side accused the other of vote fraud, and a significant number of absentee ballots were disputed.

But the votes that decided this primary were the nearly 1,800 absentee ballots the Suffolk County Board of Elections began counting on Thursday.

There's also a too - close - to - call race out on Long Island in Suffolk County's 3rd AD, where Republican Assemblyman Dean Murray holds an unofficial lead of 36 votes over his Democratic challenger, Edward Hennessey, with thousands of affidavit and absentee ballots yet to be counted.

The hearing also saw consideration of two resolutions, sponsored by Kallos, calling on the state Legislature to pass the Voter Empowerment Act (VEA) and a constitutional amendment that would establish no - excuse absentee voting in the state.

Francena Amparo is down by a handful of votes with absentee ballots yet to be counted.»

The election - day vote tally will change as absentee ballots are counted this next week — 58 were sent out, and as of Tuesday, 50 were returned.

So, rest assured, 14th Council District absentee voters in the heart of the Congolese jungle or rural Nepal, your vote will be counted.

Absentee votes, however, generally follow the trend of the election day results.

Of the nine «toss up» states listed on CNN's Electoral Map, all but two — Virginia and New Hampshire — allow for early in - person voting and all allow for absentee ballots prior to Election Day.

«Laws that would allow for automatic voter registration, early voting, no - excuse absentee voting, and consolidation of primary elections will empower voters and give greater access to the ballot,» she said.

You are so out of touch with the voters that you can not even remember our conversation that I initiated with you in October 2011 to inform you that I voted for you via absentee ballot when I worked as an election inspector.

Marty Connor, an election lawyer and the former leader of the State Senate Democrats, pulled Teachout's voting records and spent Friday and Saturday sharing them with journalists, noting that she claimed to be a permanently disabled voter (this lets her vote by absentee ballot), had no record of voting in New York in 2011 or 2013 and questioned whether she met the five - year residency requirement to be governor.

Wednesday's count of paper ballots, including the absentees, confirmed an 11 - vote win for Golby, according to her supporters.

A count on Friday showed Walker with a lead of 4,634 votes over Parnell, with about about 10,000 uncounted absentee ballots still out there.

She and Lenihan also pointed out the increased use of absentee ballots — a method of voting they estimate is seeing increased use this year.

«I didn't actively go out looking for those votes,» said Brown of the absentees.

To those who suggest the current option of the absentee ballot: that choice offers an early vote only to those swearing they will be out of the county or who are physically unable to come to the polls, not to those who anticipate a personal or work - related barrier on election day.

Altschuler spokesman Rob Ryan said Bishop's team should wait for the Board of Elections to complete its 3 percent audit of voting machines and count absentee ballots before calling for a hand recount.

Past midnight on Election Night, Majestic had 1,002 votes on the Republican and Conservative Party lines; challenger Lisa Lindsley was breathing down her neck with 981 votes on the Democratic, Working Families and Women's Equality Party lines; and 124 absentee ballots plus an undetermined number of affidavits still remained to be counted.

About half the states allow absentee voting without an excuse — New York isn't one of them.

But with races in three of the city's nine wards well within the margin of being flipped after absentee ballots are opened, the actual makeup of next year's council will remain in doubt until next week when the final votes are counted.

Nassau Board of Elections Commissioner William Biamonte said on Monday that Haber «won the nomination» after the board tallied the absentee write - in votes from the Sept. 9 primary.

The turnout on Tuesday is expected to be high: Wisconsin's Government Accountability Board predicts that between 60 and 65 percent of the voting age population (2.6 to 2.8 million people) will cast regular and absentee ballots on Tuesday.

Throughout the campaign Vazquez worked with community residents whom would not be able to make it to the polls with a strong absentee ballot drive and many of the absentees informed Vazquez that they voted for her.

If the results hold up after the absentee votes are counted, the GOP won't even need the support of veteran legislator John Parete (1038), who appears to have kept his seat running as an independent candidate representing the northwestern part of the county in a tight three - way race with Democratic nominee Kathy Nolan (1018) and Republican Cliff Faintych (748).

Absentee ballots were mailed out with all of the candidate names, however votes for ineligible candidates will not count.