Sentences with phrase «on polling day at»

(3) Every employee who is qualified to vote shall, while the polls are open on polling day at an election, have three consecutive hours for the purpose of voting and, if the hours of his or her employment do not allow for three consecutive hours, the employee may request that his or her employer allow such additional time for voting as may be necessary to provide those three consecutive hours and the employer shall grant the request.

One of the claims regularly made by Returning Officers wanting to delay counting until the Friday was that thousands and thousands of postal votes get handed in on polling day at polling stations and that under new regulations it would take hours to verify them, thereby making it impossible to deliver a result on the night.

Not exact matches

Determined for the club to remain neutral, Bartomeu allowed a scheduled match to go ahead on the referendum day, at the very moment when Spanish police were storming polling stations and beating voters with truncheons.

One commenter on one of the Houzz polls described how she'd set up a really nice home office that she described as her «hub,» and made a point to work there for at least part of each day.

«The hackers accessed software designed to be used by poll workers on Election Day, and in at least one state accessed a campaign finance database.»

Among the many reasons Democrats are giving for why so many lost faith in them at the polls on Tuesday, some are blaming the party for losing faith itself - for neglecting religious outreach and messaging in the run up to Election Day.

* Arming you with the information you and your employees need to make an informed decision at the polls on Election Day through Get Out The Vote efforts.

His shaky strategic vision remains uncertain and may not show up before polling day at all, hitting voters» confidence in him but also the effectiveness of Labour supporters on the doorstep.

For a start, it got dark at half - past four; that doesn't usually happen on polling days.

However, at the end of the day, in order to work the new structures that will emerge from the Deals (including elected City Region mayors) will have to take root in the local communities, and have the people behind them — at the polls in local and city region elections; but also on a daily basis.

At the end of last month, one survey put the party on 7 %; the following day another poll from a different company had them at 19 At the end of last month, one survey put the party on 7 %; the following day another poll from a different company had them at 19 at 19 %.

[99] On the same day, Labour polled ahead of all other parties at the local elections, winning 31 % of the vote and taking control of six additional councils.

Washington (CNN)-- A day after divided Senate Democrats had to delay a pre-election vote on renewing tax cuts due to expire at the end of the year, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Friday still didn't rule out a House vote on extending tax breaks for middle - income Americans before voters go to the polls.

Israel prime minister releases a video on election day urging supporters to vote as Joint List party prompts high Israeli Arab turnout at polls

If a writ has been issued requiring the conduct of an election in a district, then, subject to subsections (2) and (3), the Electoral Commission may not, at any time in the period beginning on polling day and ending with the day of the return of the writ, register any application for registration as an elector that the Electoral Commission receives on or after polling day.

This week, the Telegraph's James Kirkup produced an informative graph that showed with only one exception, in every election since 1992 Labour has ended up with worst support on polling day than at the 100 day from the election mark.

On Election Day in November, dozens of activists from the group #CLOSErikers protested outside of the mayor's polling site at the Park Slope library.

Special commemorative «I Voted» stickers will be distributed at polling locations across the state tomorrow on Election Day.

«The stimulus that Election Day provides by giving people information, imposing social pressure to encourage them to vote, giving them social rewards from seeing neighbors and friends at a polling place — all the things that happen on a traditional Election Day — tend to be diluted,» said Barry Burden, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, who worked on the AJPS study.

«If he [Mr Brown] wants to defend that [42 days] he should put someone up against me and on the basis of the opinion polls he should at least be able to dent my majority if not defeat me,» Mr Davis argued.

The Dean of the New York Congressional Delegation then rambled a bit about how black voters were supporting gays long before Baptist ministers were something or other (I couldn't quite follow what he said), then Rangel got back on message, adding that no matter what the polls say, at the end of the day Spitzer will not have the votes in the African American community that current polling suggests.

President Mahama, who was speaking at that same durbar, remained confident of his prospects in the polls, as he has likened his expected victory to Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt's exceptional track and field exploits, on the first day of his Ashanti Regional Campaign tour.

During the early voting period, polling locations would be required to be open for eight hours on weekdays and five hours on weekends and holidays, and to offer evening hours on at least two days.

I'm about to head up to Birmingham, so won't necessarily be around much for the next few days (not least, when Lord Ashcroft releases his latest marginal poll at 2 pm today I'll be on a train!)

And as for the results — while the numbers on turnout of voters are generally tallied three times during the day, the figures on who voters cast their ballots for don't get looked at until the polls close.

That means a lot of celebrations and things like special stickers you can get at your polling place on election day.

But NY1 found out that on many Election Days in years past, Massey was a stranger at the polls.

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.

In Simsbury, many homeowners still did not have power throughout the day on Tuesday, and polling places were consolidated to a single site at the Henry James Memorial School near the center of town.

Vote - by - mail ballots that are personally delivered must be delivered no later than the close of polls at 8:00 p.m. on Election Day.

On Election Day, Tuesday November 6, 2012, the Political and Electoral Reform of Occupy Wall Street conducted an alternative voting experiment at polling places in Manhattan's 69th State Assembly District.

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Participants took part in a real - time electronic poll which explored their views on a series of issues relating to their profession: Among the results were: over three quarters of BME teachers considered themselves to be ambitious, yet stated they are being held back by racial discrimination, and the attitude of senior colleagues; nearly two - thirds (62 %) of BME teachers felt their school or college was not seriously committed to addressing their professional development needs and aspirations; 63 % of BME teachers said their employers were not committed to ensuring their mental and physical wellbeing at work, with workload cited as the single most negative factor impacting on their wellbeing; the vast majority of BME teachers felt the Government does not respect and value teachers and does not understand the day to day realities of teaching (99 %); three quarters of BME teachers said they were not confident that their headteacher will make professional and fair decisions regarding their future pay.

Thousands of university students may wake up on polling day intending to go to the ballot box without realising they're back at home for the summer.

The two women, one of them was an EC official on Election Day, moved away from her post at the polling station near the Asafo Palace to a drinking spot and handed over her EC jacket to the other woman.

Harriet Harman has admitted that the shock exit poll published at 10 pm on election day was «a body blow none of us will ever forget».

I hold the view that in Ghana's present circumstances the plurality of political parties fielding candidates at the presidential elections is the only guarantee to effectively policing the process by the presence, and alertness of their supporters, polling assistants and others at the polling stations on the day of elections.

In Ohio, voters select their preferred party primary ballots at their polling places on Election Day.

Returning officers issue and despatch postal ballot packs at 5 p.m. on the eleventh working day before polling day at the earliest.

Whether it's physically leaving the city to shop our stores, responding favorably in polls or just voicing their opinion on Facebook and at neighborhood rallies, city residents show their support for Walmart every day.

On Election Day, police were called to at least two polling sites in St. Lawrence County following «overzealous electioneering» by supporters of Hoffman.

Professor of Political Science at Cardiff University, Roger Scully, said people treat European elections to a large extent as «opinion polls on the national government of the day, or as an opportunity for an anti-EU protest vote».

Despite this, each party leader made at least one visit to nearby constituencies on these days (Gordon Brown made nine visits to London constituencies on the Sunday prior to polling day).

And Michael Podhorzer, the political director of the A.F.L. - C.I.O., said that progressive groups were deeply concerned about the possibility of disruptions at the polls on Election Day.

Five days later I published a poll of the Clacton constituency that put his support in the resulting by - election at 56 %, with the Tories on 25 %, Labour on 16 %, and the Lib Dems and Others on 2 % each: a 32 - point Carswell lead.

We also plan on handing out literature at the polls on Primary Day.

A stakeholder's meeting at both the senatorial and local government headquarters will hold on 10th October, while 12th October is the last day for the submission of names of polling agents by the member sought to be recalled and the representatives of the petitioners.

We are going to be working with about almost 146,000 staff on election day; and at the 29,000 polling stations and coalition centers, all candidates and parties have agents there.»

Pataki, who appeared at the No Labels convention in New Hampshire on Columbus Day that was co-sponsored by former U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut, had scored low in the poll ratings for months before departing the race.

«In New Jersey, if you take a look at the third party candidate in that race, that candidate had polling numbers going into the election week, that had they met on election day, would have assured a re-election of the incumbent liberal Democrat,» he said.