Sentences with phrase «official election count»

Agora was accredited as an international observer by Sierra Leone's National Electoral Commission (NEC), which provides the official election count.

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People in hi - vis jackets shuffle paper Facebook Twitter Pinterest Election officials from the EU and African Union gather to follow counting by members of the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission in Nairobi.

Officials from the Board of Elections have said we can expect a final vote count by the end of the week.

LaLota said the count will be suspended Thursday and Friday for Thanksgiving and will resume Monday with officials counting ballots cast in the final 28 election districts in Brookhaven.

LaLota said the process could slow as election officials begin an absentee ballot count in the 8th Legislative District, where Legis.

Suffolk elections officials on Friday began the lengthy process of counting the 16,690 absentee and affidavit ballots in the tightly contested countywide sheriff's race, starting with the county's smallest town, Shelter Island.

The U.S. Court of Appeals, D.C. circuit, has set a briefing schedule in Libertarian Party v D.C. Board of Elections, the case over whether election officials must count the votes cast for a declared write - in candidate for President.

Elections officials also will count any emergency ballots — cast when a machine breaks down — and affidavit ballots, which generally are cast when there are questions about a voter's registration or address.

Nassau County Board of Elections officials said 2,791 absentee ballots have been submitted but not yet counted.

All campaigns are welcome to observe the official Board of Elections counting process.

According to Valerie Vasquez - Rivera, a spokesperson for the Board of Elections, the Board of Elections will follow normal recanvasing procedures where a bipartisan team opens up polling machines to get an official ballot count and then counts and validates all paper ballots (such as absentee ballots).

As of Monday afternoon, elections officials said there are 19 ballots that have been returned and could be counted towards the race.

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.

Bishop's attorney, Thomas Garry, is planning to file legal paperwork asking a Suffolk judge to order a hand recount of the 185,000 ballots cast, and elections officials are preparing to begin the count of absentee ballots, perhaps as soon as Tuesday, elections officials said.

On August 9, the U.S. Court of Appeals, D.C. Circuit, denied the Libertarian Party's request to rehear the case over whether election officials must count write - ins for declared presidential write - in candidates.

(CNN)- Alaska election officials will begin counting write - in ballots Wednesday despite a federal court challenge by the campaign of Republican U.S. Senate candidate Joe Miller, state director Gail Fenumiai said.

The final numbers won't be official until this week when election officials count write - in numbers.

Counting in the European election will resume in Northern Ireland later today with officials facing heavy criticism over the length of time the process has taken.

@janh I think the idea is that the second ballet wouldn't actually have a vote on it, but the election officials would record receiving it, so the person who cast it could have some indication whether their real ballot (which was part of the same batch) was actually counted.

Election officials at the polling place count the votes and send the vote totals, or «returns,» to a county canvassing board.

The county canvassing board proceeds to count and verify, or «canvass,» the various precinct votes and make determinations on the election of county and local officials.

The court ruled earlier this month that both campaigns and local election officials must agree on the ballots that were improperly rejected before the canvassing board can open and count them.

Recent elections, including the Congressional contest between Rep. Charles Rangel and State Sen. Adriano Espaillat, have seen election night totals come in drastically different from the eventual official count.

CANONSBURG, Pa. — The Pennsylvania congressional race between Democrat Conor Lamb and Republican Rick Saccone remains too close to call, with local elections officials still counting absentee ballots late Tuesday.

County election officials said a final count on the absentee and provisional ballots could take until Nov. 17 or so.

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.

According to the vote - counting schedule recently finalized by Alaska elections officials, absentee ballots postmarked from within the United States must be received by Nov. 14 and counted by Nov. 19 — concluding 15 days after the election.

The US Justice Department, which sued New York in 2010 to force election officials to take extra steps to count military service members» absentee ballots in the general election, is again sounding the alarm on this issue, which could require moving the annual primary date from September to June.

Local elections officials counted about 2,500 of the 3,300 absentees last night, but those votes were NOT included in the unofficial total.

Election officials started the count of 1,780 absentee ballots and about 200 affidavits at 2 p.m. Nassau County Board of Elections commissioner David J. Gugerty spoke with Newsday about the process.

But he is urging election officials to count the absentee ballots before declaring a winner.

Orange County election officials counted the remaining 765 ballots, and again, Correa gained ground with late absentee and provisional ballots.

JAMESTOWN - After counting absentee and affidavit ballots for a city council election, the official outcome of the race has yet to be declared.

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.

Nassau County elections officials on Friday are to begin counting absentee and affidavit ballots for the Glen Cove mayoral race, in which incumbent Independence Party candidate Reginald Spinello holds a 21 - vote lead over Democratic challenger Timothy Tenke.

There were 276 absentee ballots remaining to be counted as of Wednesday morning, an elections board official said.

Elections officials in Onondaga County aren't counting on a busy day tomorrow, as they're predicting record low turnout rates.

Two days after county Democratic officials held a nearly six - hour - long convention on Wednesday, May 10, to nominate its slate of candidates for the November election, party leaders reconvened on Friday, May 12 at county Board of Elections headquarters in White Plains to count the votes between Latimer and county Legislator Ken Jenkins, of Yonkers.

Election officials also expect more absentee ballots, which take longer to count, cast by voters distrustful of the new machines.

The Erie County Board of Elections conducted an absentee ballot count declaring Carl Paladino the official winner in his school board race.

On Nov. 18, Saratoga County Supreme Court Justice Robert Chauvin lifted the court order that had delayed vote tabulation for nine days — and county elections officials began counting outstanding paper ballots.

(CNN)- Election officials counting previously untallied ballots in a New York congressional Democratic primary say incumbent U.S. Rep. Charles Rangel is expanding his lead over his top challenger, who went to court last week to ensure counting would continue.

The beauty of Scantegrity II is that anyone — not just an election official — can see from any online computer whether the posted votes correspond to actual ballots and whether the number of votes counted is identical to the number of votes cast.

So far 175,683 ballots have been counted in the city election, but another roughly 40,000 need to be processed, an official at the city clerk's office said.

«State election officials have a duty to make sure voters have the information they need to cast a ballot and have it counted.