Sentences with phrase «of poll workers»

The big story in this primary race today was not the vote counting, but the fact that Rangel allies (led by Keith Wright) met with BOE officials on June 23rd to discuss the location and placement of poll workers prior to the election.

The bipartisan Election Commissioners Association have also backed a June primary, raising concerns in a letter to Sharpe that an August date would hindered the availability of poll workers.

He even had Bart Haggerty, whose brother embezzeled millions from Mayor Bloomberg, now a BOE employee as a lead trainer in charge of instructing the very people that will be training all of the poll workers.

The BOE needs to change the attitude of its poll workers so when voters ask to use the Ballot Marking Device (BMD) they are not confronted with a response «you don't really want to use that, do you?»

Not exact matches

According to a recent Gallup poll, 37 percent of U.S. workers say they have telecommuted.

There's no surprise here since a Gallup poll identifies that 70 % of U.S. workers are not engaged at work, and some 30 % have no idea of what is expected of them.

A 2014 Gallup poll states that 70 % of US workers are not engaged at work.

In a recent poll, 38 percent of workers said when their bosses ignore their suggestions, it leads to decreased initiative and poor morale.

In a random sampling of public opinion taken by the Forum Poll ™ among 1087 Canadians 18 years of age and older, the average amount of vacation time given to employed workers is about 4 weeks (3.7), while the self - employed take a similar amount of time off (4.0 weeks, on average).

The majority of employers (52 percent) typically offer candidates salaries below what they're willing to ultimately pay so there's room to negotiate, according to CareerBuilder's latest survey, which polled more than 4,600 full - time employers and 3,450 U.S. workers between May and September.

A recent Compas Inc. poll of business leaders found that 49 % thought it was wrong to suspend the programs because companies should be allowed to employ the most skilled workers regardless of citizenship.

One in five workers across the globe telecommute from outside the workplace, many of them from the comfort of their homes, according to a recent Ipsos poll for Reuters.

But since it doesn't poll actual workers, you can't use it to figure out what percentage of the workforce is unemployed.

In a random sampling of public opinion taken by the Forum Poll among 1,385 Canadians 18 years of age and older, the majority (51 %) do not agree Canadian employers should be able to hire temporary foreign workers (a federal program which has just been curtailed), while fewer than this agree (45 %).

But as of last month, 31 percent of the small business owners and CEOs polled said they had jobs they couldn't fill because they couldn't find qualified workers.

The answer is... work: A March survey on sleep and the U.S. workplace from CareerBuilder (conducted by Harris Poll) reported that 58 percent of 32,000 workers surveyed said they weren't getting enough sleep, and 61 percent said that sleep deprivation affected their work.

The real estate mogul has cannily understood that despite polling that indicates most Americans see free trade as more of an opportunity than a threat, a large and motivated minority of voters have been yearning for a politician to call into question whether the trade deals we have on the books are good for American workers.

by a California company found that nearly half of all workers polled work from bed in some form.

This survey was conducted online within the U.S. by Harris Poll on behalf of CareerBuilder among 3,022 workers ages 18 and over (employed full - time, not self - employed, non-government) between February 10 and March 4, 2014 (percentages for some questions are based on a subset, based on their responses to certain questions).

This survey was conducted online within the U.S. by Harris Poll on behalf of CareerBuilder among 2,138 hiring managers and human resource professionals and 3,022 workers (employed full - time, not self - employed, non-government) ages 18 and over between February 10 and March 4, 2014 (percentages for some questions are based on a subset, based on their responses to certain questions).

The Elon Poll / The Business Journals survey gauged public opinion in these metro areas — many of the country's largest — about landing the project, which promises to be home to 50,000 workers and an investment of $ 5 billion.

Reuters.com — Fewer U.S. companies planning to hire; Europe looms — poll American companies are scaling back plans to hire workers and a rising share of firms feel the European debt crisis is taking a bite out of their sales, a survey showed on Monday.

Alongside the parents» poll, 98 % of a sample of 750 female childcare workers said they would value having male workers as part of their nursery team.

A recent Gallup Poll found that 86 % of US workers are overweight, obese or suffering from a chronic health condition.

Homemade bombs are sometimes planted by workers from rival political parties to intimidate voters ahead of polling day.

A majority of voters polled, by a margin of 62 percent to 34 percent, oppose raising the minimum wage for fast - food workers to $ 15.

Bob Master, the political director for the Communications Workers of America District One, said the union polled its members after the election and found that 60 percent had backed Clinton and 40 percent had backed Trump.

At an oversight hearing of the City Council's governmental operations committee in February 2014, new DOI Commissioner Mark Peters testified that his office found issues of gross nepotism, pressure on staff to engage in political activities, deficient voter rolls, poorly trained poll workers, and inadequate, inefficient, and outdated procedures.

Sometime after 5 p.m., Business Insider reporter Colin Campbell tweeted, «It's at the end of the day and the poll worker in my precinct was still telling voters they have to choose 1 party for the whole ballot.»

The mechanical flaw, which a poll worker said an engineer would resolve «soon,» let voters to flick the levers next to the names of multiple candidates and lock them into place when they voted, allowing a Democrat to vote for multiple candidates simultaneously.

When a poll worker couldn't find Democratic mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner's signature alongside his name in the book of eligible voters, they tried to give him an affidavit ballot, his campaign said.

But poll workers at PS 41 said 80 voters had shown up at the school during that same amount of time.

A lack of candidate advertising - at least until the very last minute - may be one reason why the expected voter turnout is low, poll workers say.

Despite that fact, most of the poll respondents are against layoffs, especially for teachers, as well as reducing pensions for workers.

The Journal News, of Westchester County, reported on its Web site that a polling station in Hartsdale opened about two hours late because election workers couldn't get access to locked - up ballots.

The same was true at poll sites in the Village and Pelham Parkway, where poll workers reported hundreds of voters throughout the day.

Voters can find their designated polling places at the city Board of Elections website, and report any problems to poll workers there or by calling their borough offices.

But on these constituency - estimate figures outlined in these analyses Labour Party candidates would find themselves polling below candidates from Sinn Fein, the Socialist Party, the Workers and Unemployed Action Group or the People Before Profit Alliance, or left - leaning independents, in a number of constituencies.

Others reported how inspired they'd been by the hundreds of thousands of electoral commission workers in the 33,000 polling stations who spent a long, hard day making sure everyone could vote.

Stringer also announced Tuesday that he plans to audit the agency following confusion over poll locations, poor staffing and workers unsure of what to do on primary day.

The Labour leader needs to remind himself of this fact and also bear in mind that he can't afford to lose his bloc of ex-Lib Dem voters, who have ensured his party has had a poll lead since 2010 and who won't be keen on an opposition that brings back the nasty «British jobs for British workers» rhetoric of the New Labour days.

At 14 percent of sites, the auditors said, affidavit ballots were mishandled by poll workers — potentially leading to votes not getting counted.

The overall objective of the class is that, at the end of the training, Electoral Officers should be able to effectively manage and supervise trainings for poll workers on polling and counting procedures.

BISHOP ATTACKS RIGHTS OF 52 POLL WORKERS Disenfranchises Residents While Backing the Liberal Elite Altschuler Campaign — We Won't Let Bishop Steal this Election

The Communications Workers of America has transferred $ 269,000 to an independent expenditure committee which in turn has started spending on ads, mailers and polling in key Senate races.

Today's Q poll offers some solace for state workers who are being targeted by Gov. David Paterson and Governor - elect Andrew Cuomo in the face of a looming $ 10 billion budget deficit.

In this case, the poll questions claim the resort's placement in Tyre will lead to higher property taxes, government - subsidized housing for «out of town» workers building the casino and other nuisances.

The bad news: Voter polled overwhelmingly support (72 - 23) the idea of freezing state worker wages, which Cuomo proposed in his «New New York Agenda» during the gubernatorial campaign.

The INEC official said that a total of 7,670 ad - hoc workers would conduct the election in 1,548 polling units.

The bill (S1836) permits local Boards of Elections to hire election inspectors for half - day shifts, preventing fatigue and flexibility for workers whose shifts often start before the polls open at 6 AM and end after they close at 9 PM.