Sentences with phrase «of the absentee voters»

He has also escalated the mass disenfranchisement of Ohio voters, trashing the ballots of some 10 percent of absentee voters.

Unfortunately, no breakdown of the absentee voters» party affiliation is available.

According to the lawsuit, many of the absentee voters claimed they would be out of town, or wouldn't be able to vote due to work, on the Sept. 12 primary election.

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The main goal of the Democratic party's field organizing is to get their supporters off their butts and to the polls, either on Election Day or (even better) beforehand — absentee ballots are field - organizing gold, since every early ballot in the bank represents a voter who WO N'T need to be hassled in person or over the phone before November 4th.

There are 3,283 absentee ballots that have bee mailed to voters, according to the Board of Elections.

For example, in California, when you apply for an absentee ballot, your name is removed from the list of voters at the polling place.

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.

Two weeks later, I read this piece in Salon about the race to succeed Duke Cunningham in California: seeing a deficit in absentee voters, «Republican activists «poured» into the district and searched a Republican Party database that could tell them everything about voters from their personal hobbies and professional interests to the brand of toothpaste they're likely to use.

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

«Absentee ballots are already in the hands of voters, therefore, the law can not be implemented for the April 7 election,» Schimel said in a statement issued shortly after the Supreme Court's announcement.

«Given the outcome of the absentee ballot count, I am honored and gratified the Republican voters have supported and selected me to serve as their candidate,» Saland said in a statement.

Saland's campaign and Senate Republicans also touted their absentee ballot program and targeting of specific voters in the lawmaker's first serious party primary.

Of the the absentees, 6,168 were cast by Republicans, 5,330 from Democrats, while 1,072 came from voters of the Conservative and Independence parties, which endorsed TouloOf the the absentees, 6,168 were cast by Republicans, 5,330 from Democrats, while 1,072 came from voters of the Conservative and Independence parties, which endorsed Touloof the Conservative and Independence parties, which endorsed Toulon.

The state's Supreme Court hadn't resolved a partisan scuffle over who gets to be listed first on the ballot this year before overseas absentee ballots were dropped in the mail, so those voters will have to write in all the candidates» names themselves, according to Deputy Secretary of State James Spallone.

Martins said the congressional race needed to be moved back if the primary was delayed to allow absentee ballots to get to military voters overseas and to allow him to fully campaign against the Democrat in the race, Thomas Suozzi of Glen Cove.

Of the absentees, 556 are from Republicans, 303 from Democrats and 173 from voters not aligned with any party.

However, the Department of Defense granted a waiver to its requirement that military voters get at least 45 days to receive their absentee ballots.

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.

«We have always said this is about protecting the rights of the military voters and other absentee voters who deserve the same protection in a general election as in a primary,» said Martins» spokesman E. O'Brien Murray.

Absentee ballots are a pain — voters have to claim they will be out of town or unable to appear «because of illness or physical disability.»

Deadline for county clerk to receive in - person applications for absentee ballots for the Preferential Primary Election and Nonpartisan Election from the voter, designated bearer, or administrator is no later than the close of regular business hours on the day before the election.

First of all, Faulkner said there were only about 125 absentee voters in the district, meaning Baez would have to take 91 of those, or 72 %, which doesn't seem likely based on the results tonight.

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

«Voting assistance for our absentee military and overseas citizen voters has never been better,» said Pam Mitchell, the acting director of the Federal Voting Assistance Program, which oversees the effort.

«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.

Greg Faulkner, the chair of Community Board 7, who was heavily involved in Cabrera's campaign, told me that they found out all the names and addresses of the voters who requested absentee ballots, which will need to be counted before Cabrera is declared the victor.

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.

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.

While Espaillat declared victory, Wright would not concede the race Tuesday night and called for absentee and affidavit ballots to be counted, renewed allegations of voter suppression by a pro-Espaillat group and called for an investigation by the Department of Justice.

Voters in the city of Albany defeated proposed charter revisions, but the question of spending $ 200 million on a new high school will likely come down to absentee ballots.

She says lawmakers could vote to repeal the portion of the state's constitution that limits absentee ballots to voters who will be away on Election Day, or who are too sick or disabled to appear at the polls.

Of the 200 absentee ballots issued to voters in District 2, only 56 belong to registered Democrats; 26 were filed by voters with no party affiliation.

While some states have made it possible for military or abroad voters to return absentee ballots by e-mail or by fax, Kellner said New York had rejected that idea out of concerns over voter privacy and the risk of vote interception, and was instead focusing on making it easier for absentee voters to receive ballots.

According to the Orange County Registrar of Voters, there are an estimated 4,700 absentee ballots returned at the polls, 1,264 provisional ballots and 141 election day paper ballots left to count.

Of the 12,729 eligible voters in Saugerties, 5,530 cast votes; 510 absentee ballots were issued in Saugerties; so far, 332 have been received by the Ulster County Board of Elections, making definitive results of the Districts 1 and 2 races, along with the status of Schoonmaker's 42 - vote lead on Republican Donald Tucker, unknown until the ballots are counted on November 1Of the 12,729 eligible voters in Saugerties, 5,530 cast votes; 510 absentee ballots were issued in Saugerties; so far, 332 have been received by the Ulster County Board of Elections, making definitive results of the Districts 1 and 2 races, along with the status of Schoonmaker's 42 - vote lead on Republican Donald Tucker, unknown until the ballots are counted on November 1of Elections, making definitive results of the Districts 1 and 2 races, along with the status of Schoonmaker's 42 - vote lead on Republican Donald Tucker, unknown until the ballots are counted on November 1of the Districts 1 and 2 races, along with the status of Schoonmaker's 42 - vote lead on Republican Donald Tucker, unknown until the ballots are counted on November 1of Schoonmaker's 42 - vote lead on Republican Donald Tucker, unknown until the ballots are counted on November 15.

Voters began casting absentee ballots Tuesday to take advantage of a disputed early voting law in the crucial swing state of Ohio.

Twenty - seven states and the District of Columbia have permanent absentee voting, in which voters can vote absentee without offering a reason for doing so, according to the NCSL website.

Republicans mulled court action on the grounds that party lawyers were prevented from observing the counting of some absentee ballots, voting machines erroneously recorded votes from Lamb, and voters were confused by some information from the state election Web site.

One of the signature pieces of the comprehensive set of proposals that Senator Klein will prioritize in 2018 is voting reform, which includes early voting, no - excuse absentee voting, automatic voting registration and expanded voter registration deadlines to create a healthier, well - participated democracy in New York.

New York primary voters who need an absentee ballot have until Monday, April 18 to fill out an application at their local board of elections.

Democrats and good - government groups, however, argued that a June primary gave overseas absentee voters more of a fair shot at getting their ballots in to the Board of Elections, based on the federal Move Act.

During a brief hearing on the search warrant application Smith told Herrick that he has established probable cause to support his request and uncovered enough evidence to show that dozens of absentee ballots for the Working Families Party were forged and attributed to voters who had no role in filling them out.

The investigation centers on allegations that dozens of absentee ballots were forged or contained false information attributed to voters when the documents were submitted to the Rensselaer County Board of Elections during last September's Working Families Party primary elections in Troy.

A Ramirez campaign spokesman said that Pichardo's badge - wielding «investigators» appeared at the homes of the elderly absentee voters.

The Department of Justice had originally sued New York for failing to comply with the federal MOVE Act, which required military and overseas ballots in absentee voters» hands no later than Aug. 18.

Among them: automatic registration of voters on turning 18 so that casting a ballot is their default right; early voting; and a constitutional amendment to allow no - excuse absentee ballots.

For $ 109,000, the company produced absentee - ballot application forms sent to voters, which included materials critical of New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, an ally of the Senate Democrats, the filing states.

The judge ruled that the traditional primary date of the second Tuesday in September violates the rights of some New York voters, because does not leave enough time to process absentee ballots for overseas military before the general election in November.