Sentences with phrase «of ballots»

«We just think we're going to have the same kind of results we had with the absentees that we had with all the rest of the ballots,» Murphy said at Poopie's Diner in Glens Falls, New York on Wednesday.

BASC's council has been joined by three new representatives after the results of ballots were announced at the association's AGM

The explanation for the change was described as a «wild miscount of the ballots.»

(CNN)- Democratic Rep. Bob Etheridge has conceded to Republican Renee Ellmers in the race for the 2nd District seat of North Carolina after a recount of ballots showed Ellmers ahead.

He said the Board of Elections would need to create multiple sets of ballots since all county Democrats and Republicans can vote in their respective primaries although only residents of Skelos» 9th District could vote for that seat.

ALBANY, NY (06/07/2016)(readMedia)-- The American Arbitration Association in Manhattan today counted thousands of ballots from New York State Public Employees Federation (PEF) members who overwhelmingly voted in favor of a tentative one - year agreement with the state.

Due To a Postal Service Processing Error, A Small Number Of Ballots Are Inadvertently Being Returned To The Voter, If This Has Happened To You, Block Out The Barcode On The Reverse Side Of The Envelope And Re-Mail Your Ballot.»

Counties used this time to count any absentee ballots or provisional ballots not yet counted, to reconcile the number of signatures on the roster of registered voters with the number of ballots recorded on the ballot statement, to count any valid write - in votes, to reproduce any damaged ballots, if necessary, and to conduct a hand count of the ballots cast in 1 % of the precincts, chosen at random by the elections official.

«For three days you sit or stand 12 to 15 feet away from people doing the validity or invalidity of ballots and you just wait for the

At the BOE's Manhattan borough office today, four «administrative bi-partisan assistants» worked through piles of ballots to verify voter names, poll sites and registration.

In 2010, the gubernatorial election was thrown into chaos when the city of Bridgeport ran out of ballots.

DeFiglio told investigators that voters in low - income areas were often unwittingly targeted for the fraudulent use of their ballots because they were less likely to do anything about it.

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

Incumbent Republican Sen. Norm Coleman and former Air America talk show host Al Franken are caught up in a fiercely fought battle over the recount of ballots from the November 4 election.

With 99 percent of ballots counted, Democrat Elizabeth Crowley was behind Republican Robert Holden by 133 votes of the 20,341 cast.

Only one of the ballots, which must be picked up by the voter or a person specifically authorized in writing to handle their ballot, was returnable to McInerney, according to court records.

The search warrant application includes hundreds of pages of ballots, witness and voter statements, and an affidavit by a State Police investigator.

While Velázquez dominated across the Lower East Side, Queens, and Brownstone Brooklyn, she managed to keep pace with Dilan in the Hasidic sections of Williamsburg, where about 40 percent of ballots were cast in her favor, according to early poll return data.

That vote is being recanvassed and Amedore remains slightly ahead, but Republicans are challenging hundreds of ballots — including those that haven't yet been counted in Ulster County, considered a Tkaczyk stronghold.

Coleman at the onset had asked the trial court to examine more than 4,000 of these ballots.

Councilman Mark Weprin and several sources close to the campaign told the Observer Mr. Liu campaigned fiercely for absentee votes, and estimated as many as 1,000 of the ballots remain to be counted.

IPAC also accepted a working definition for «over-voting» as follows; «Over voting would be deemed to have occurred where the number of ballots in the ballot box exceed the number of verified voters.»

As a historical example, in 1854 it took 9 weeks and over 130 votes before a new Speaker was elected - prompting a change in rules to make winning easier (The winner only has to receive the most votes regardless of the number of ballots cast rather than an absolute majority of > 50 % of the congressional seats).

... run a test batch of ballots through it (voting machine)(Source: step 6.2 of Wisconsin's official vote recount manual, courtesy of Bobson's answer here).

With nearly all of the precincts reporting, 97 percent of the ballots cast were in favor of statehood, a landslide critics said indicated that only statehood supporters had turned out to the polls.

When votes are counted, they don't pull a random of sample of ballots to count; they count all of them.

That this House notes the improved security of ballots in Northern Ireland following implementation of the Electoral Fraud (Northern Ireland) Act 2002 which has also resulted in increased levels of voter registration; further notes the successful prosecutions for electoral fraud in Slough, Peterborough and Birmingham; further notes the 2007 Council of Europe investigation into electoral fraud in the UK and the recent report entitled Purity of Elections in the UK: Causes for Concern, published by the Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust Ltd which highlights how vulnerable the electoral system is to electoral fraud; and calls on the Government to improve electoral security across the rest of the UK.

He noted one of the ballots that was nenver opened belonged to her then - communications director.

The fraction of ballots that is shifted to the winning party is again estimated from the actual election data.

(b)... Any amendment filed after the 76th day before a primary or a general election shall be accepted by the judge of probate or the Secretary of State but shall not be cause for reprinting of the ballots.

Statewide turnout increased from 3.3 million in 2013 to 3.6 million this year, and only 6.6 percent of ballots left the question blank, compared with 16 percent in a referendum on expanding casino gambling four years ago.

«Our county employees do an excellent job with the security of ballots.»

GOP primary voters, however, seemed less fond of him — he took roughly 40 percent of the vote, while former Metropolitan Transportation Authority head Joseph Lhota received more half of ballots cast.

«It is therefore of the utmost importance that an additional, carefully conducted review of the ballots be undertaken to ensure that every vote is counted, as intended.»

According to multiple Republican tipsters, the unofficial tally has Mr. Storobin ahead by 24 votes, and unless something drastic happens that causes the counting of the final 25 % or so of the ballots to shift towards his Democratic rival, Lew Fidler, Mr. Storobin could definitively declare victory before the month is over.

Monitors at the Erie County Board of Elections are resuming their count of ballots in the 63rd State Senate primary race between democrats Tim Kennedy and Betty Jean Grant.

With voters picking two candidates, Costello's name was picked on 38 % of the ballots, Thornton on 30 %, Barbaria on 21 %, and Ellsworth on 11 %.

Almost two weeks after Election Day, three Long Island races remain too close to declare a victor, with the trailing candidates planning this week to ask judges to order full hand recounts of the tens of thousands of ballots cast in their races.

The Electoral Commission in an attempt to ensure integrity and accuracy with regard to the collation of ballots on December 7 will deploy members of the Ghana Bar Association (GBA) and the Institute of Chartered Accountants, Ghana to each collation center.

According to the most recent totals from Alaska Division of Elections Director Gail Fenumiai, about 11,266 absentee ballots have yet to be counted — although not all of those ballots were likely returned by GOP voters.

According to the results certified by the electoral commission, the ruling party won 49 % of the ballots while the former ruling party came second with 48 %.

Nothing else changes: there are no iterative phases, no thresholds, no shuffle about of ballots.

International pressure is growing on Gabon's government to show transparency in the vote results, with French Prime Minister Manuel Valls on Tuesday telling RTL radio that «common sense would command a recount of the ballots.»

«But the counting of the ballots is so far ahead that we got ta plan now as to what if anything we are gonna do.»

Whitney's refusal to rule was holding up the printing of ballots, which needing to be shipped out to military personnel, said McGahay.

Rep. Scott Peters, D - Calif., officially defeated Republican Carl DeMaio Friday, after a new bunch of ballots gave the freshman Democrat an insurmountable lead in California's 52nd District.

His chief strategist, Charlie King, did speak to reporters after Sharpton's address today — and reiterated the calls for a patient tallying of all ballots.

They can easily pull up the 99 % number from thin air instead of going through the shenanigans to actually make sure 99 % of the ballots in the box are for the dictator.

You know, they're doing the canvassing of the ballots in both races.

No 10 said the Tories would consider other ways to make it harder for trade unions to secure agreement for strike action, including «timings of ballots».