Sentences with phrase «on polling days for»

«Establish a statutory holiday on polling days for provincial and municipal elections to encourage voter participation.»

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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.

Only about a third of Republicans said they have a great deal or quite a bit of confidence that votes on Election Day will be counted fairly, according to recent poll from the Associated Press - NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.

When polls closed on Election Day, Florida led the pack, voting to legalize marijuana for medical purposes.

Trump seems to regularly — and quite openly — poll Mar - a-Lago members for their thoughts on the issues of the day.

I'm curious as to how AHA escapes their own assertion of bias since they have a specific opinion on religions as well and on what topics they feel an evangelical research firm should poll, but those are different blog posts for another day.

Children could also be held partially responsible for disrupting family - time as the poll revealed 72 % of students spent between three and ten hours on - line on an average day during weekends and holidays.

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.

Actually, on election day, instead of voting, I am going to invoke the power of prayer and spend the day praying as I know that this will get more people out to the polls to vote for Mitt Romney.

The Tasmanian poll is on the same day as the South Australia election, where Labor's Jay Weatherill will also try to hang on to power — in part by blaming the Abbott government for Holden's announced shutdown of car manufacturing in 2017.

It will take a day or two for them to recover and get to work on the differences between the polls and the actual results.

When I asked James Cleverly — the Tory MP for Braintree — about it for the Guardian's Politics Weekly podcast, he described bumping into a woman coming out of a polling station on election day, looking sheepish as she admitted she had not voted for him.

«Better days are ahead, keep the faith and stand with the NDC as we go to the polls on Dec 7, I urge you all to vote massively for President Mahama and the parliamentary candidates for accelerated socio economic development», he said.

With one day to go, we interview the former politician and academic David Howarth — who won a surprise victory to become the Liberal Democrat MP for Cambridge in 2005 — for his insight on the twists and turns of Polling Day, and the daily pressures of life in Westminstday to go, we interview the former politician and academic David Howarth — who won a surprise victory to become the Liberal Democrat MP for Cambridge in 2005 — for his insight on the twists and turns of Polling Day, and the daily pressures of life in WestminstDay, and the daily pressures of life in Westminster.

Asked if it doesn't concern him that Haggerty has never been able to account for the full $ 750,000 contributed by Mayor Bloomberg to the state Independence Party and subsequently handed over to him to (ostensibly) pay for poll watcher on Election Day, Paladino replied: More >

Much of the nervousness is a hangover from last year when both the polls and bookies also predicted a Labour government, only for their hopes to be crushed on polling day.

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

Fidler is favored to win this contest, and despite their considerable financial edge over the Democrats, the Republicans are likely to keep their powder dry on this race unless internal polls show the odds improving for Storobin as election day nears.

Today's Marist poll brings some good news for former Gov. Eliot Spitzer, who has ramped his rehabilitation bid into overdrive in recent weeks, finding New Yorkers are thawing on the idea that he might one day re-enter the political arena.

If a parliamentary general election is to take place as provided for by subsection (1) or (3), the polling day for the election is to be the day appointed by Her Majesty by proclamation on the recommendation of the Prime Minister (and, accordingly, the appointed day replaces the day which would otherwise have been the polling day for the next election determined under section 1).

So he's calling for parliament to be summoned to meet on Saturday May 9th, just two days after polling day.

For days, Sky News had a «Labour woes» strap on the screen as the party's opinion poll lead shrank and its grandees kept on twisting the knife.

My research in 2014 has included a weekly national telephone poll, surveys in over 100 marginal seats, two rounds of my Project Blueprint research on the quest for a Conservative majority, a detailed study of voters» attitudes to Europe, polling - day surveys of voters in the European elections, five by - election polls, and regular updates on the state of the parties.

The $ 1.1 million was given by Bloomberg to the state Independence Party, which was to pay Haggerty for a ballot security operation that entailed hiring poll watchers on Election Day.

It has been shown to boost voter turnout and provide a crucial alternative for voters who can't afford a long wait or can't make it to the polls on Election Day.

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.

In addition, the Mayor called for legislation to permit «no - excuse» absentee voting and the use of electronic poll books, and to consolidate federal and state primaries on the same day; Kavanagh co-sponsors each of these bills.

The Electoral Commission must keep, for the purposes of the next election to be held in the district to which the dormant roll relates, a copy of the dormant roll as it exists on the day before polling day.

For signing up to the Conservative's austerity agenda and reneging on its pledge to scrap university tuition fees, the party saw its poll ratings plummet, routinely struggling to hit 10 % — this after the halcyon days of the 2010 campaign, during which some polls even had them in the lead.

While upstate New York waits for the Gaming Commission to approve up to four casinos, anti-casino group Save East Greenbush has released the results of an Election Day exit poll that asked voters how they felt about a gaming hall going up on Thompson Hill Road.

Still, as polling day approached, Lord Falconer, the Labour peer charged by Miliband with preparing the party for the transition to government, was working on three possible electoral outcomes — all three involving a hung parliament.

On a recent evening in the small basement office of the Alexandria Democratic Committee, Bob Mack and his team of McAuliffe volunteers crafted a plan for the nine weeks remaining until Election Day: focus on known Democratic voters — and get them to the pollOn a recent evening in the small basement office of the Alexandria Democratic Committee, Bob Mack and his team of McAuliffe volunteers crafted a plan for the nine weeks remaining until Election Day: focus on known Democratic voters — and get them to the pollon known Democratic voters — and get them to the 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.

the period beginning on 9 November 2008 and ending with the close of the day before polling day for the next general election after that date; and

In fact, on the very day he decided not to run, New York Unity PAC released a poll indicating a path to victory for the senator on Nov. 6.

Among the issues Kavanagh raised are BOE staffing and poll worker training, long shifts for poll workers on election days, and simply «bad, outdated» election laws.

The final wording said that Labour would pilot secure systems for electronic voting and electoral registration on polling day, and consider piloting elections on days other than Thursday.

On enhancing democracy «The final wording said that Labour would pilot secure systems for electronic voting and electoral registration on polling day, and consider piloting elections on days other than Thursday»On enhancing democracy «The final wording said that Labour would pilot secure systems for electronic voting and electoral registration on polling day, and consider piloting elections on days other than Thursday»on polling day, and consider piloting elections on days other than Thursday»on days other than Thursday».

With a 52 % vote share in the week before polling day, Seema Malhotra seems to be on course for what looks like a convincing victory.

[91] Opinion polling for the council elections conducted in early 2017 suggested that the SNP looked set to repeat this level of success, with 47 % of the public claiming they will be voting for SNP candidates on election day.

For a variety of reasons (including the impact of high levels of undecided voters in a specific poll), the actual result of an election contest may vary from the figures suggested by an opinion poll, even if the poll is carried out relatively close to election day, or on election day itself as in the case of exit polls, but the likelihood of such variation is not something that can be factored into this model.

Weah, a retired international footballer and standard bearer of the Coalition for Democratic Change (CDC) was declared winner on Friday after the Boxing Day run - off polls by Liberia's national electoral commission.

This year's local elections in England, which conclude with Polling Day on Thursday 3 May, are an important electoral test for the Jeremy Corbyn led Labour Party.

One day after a Q poll found that most New Yorkers would like to hear more specifics from AG Andrew Cuomo about how he'd solve the state's fiscal woes, the Democratic candidate for governor weighed in on some of the more pressing budget issues during a stop in Buffalo this morning.

Maggie Throup, who is standing for the Conservatives against Liberal Democrat Lorely Burt in the super-marginal Solihull seat, believes the only real test will come on polling day.

Fieldwork for this poll was conducted a day earlier, starting on Sunday, half of which was included in yesterday's ComRes poll.

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.

Fieldwork for this telephone poll was, however, conducted on Sunday and Monday, half of the fieldwork for which was included in yesterday's ComRes poll, while the other three polls published today were conducted a day later.

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!)