Sentences with phrase «opening of absentee»

ELIZABETHTOWN — The Conservative Party primary for Essex County Judge continues to be unresolved following the opening of absentee ballots on Friday.

With the results still uncertain in Rep. Charlie Rangel's most difficult primary battle so far, attention has turned to the opening of absentee and affidavit ballots by the city Board of Election.

The scene was set for Wednesday morning's dramatic recanvassing and opening of absentee ballots by too - close - to - call unofficial results in last Tuesday's primaries.

Also running, with some slim hopes for the opening of absentee ballots next week, was Democrat Drew Boggess — just eleven behind, with 604 votes.

Not exact matches

A recount took place today, as standard procedure, and now absentee ballots will come into play to determine the true winners of the three open seats.

The Saratoga County Board of Elections will begin opening absentee ballots on Tuesday morning.

The opening of 519 absentee ballots flipped the outcome to a 10 - vote spread against a new charter that would have dissolved the commission form of government in favor of one run by a city manager.

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).

A date to open absentee ballots in each county will be established after the close of receipt, sometime the first week in May.

Watch closely the absentee ballot count, where, as of November 8, there are 99 to be opened.

But with races in three of the city's nine wards well within the margin of being flipped after absentee ballots are opened, the actual makeup of next year's council will remain in doubt until next week when the final votes are counted.

Richman said Thursday's counting of the absentee and affidavit ballots would include «two bipartisan members from each borough, a watcher and a note taker at the table to make objections to open or not open specific ballots.»

That possibility remains for former county Democratic Party chair and incumbent county legislator John Parete of Boiceville, who holds a slim 20 vote lead over Democratic challenger Kathy Nolan in the 22nd district, which includes Shandaken, Olive, Denning and Hardenburgh, with 217 absentee ballots on hand at the county board of elections and a possibility of more arriving before they can be opened beginning Wednesday, November 15.

With the absentee ballots from the Democratic areas of the Senate District not giving the Dem the lead, the Republican lead should open up and a 31 - 31 tie assured.

Incumbent Democrat Tim Bishop opened up a 235 - vote lead over the GOP's Randy Altschuler as the counting of absentee and affidavit ballots in New York's 1st Congressional District race wound down Tuesday.

At last report, Amedore led by 110 votes, but Tkaczyk took 60 percent of the 2,800 absentee ballots previously opened in Ulster.

On Tuesday, Brown sat in a drab, stuffy room near a loading dock at the Board of Elections in Mineola as board employees opened absentee ballots and Democratic Party attorney Keith Corbett and Republican Party attorney Stephen Martir examined each one - by - one.

Barrett led by a single vote following the primary election on Sept. 10, while the opening of six absentee ballots a week later reversed the status and put Meyer ahead by one.

ELIZABETHTOWN — A winner of the Conservative Party primary for county judge remains elusive following a court decision on Wednesday that allowed one absentee ballot to be opened and another to be set aside.

The BOE is required to first sample three percent of the voting machines for accuracy before opening the absentee ballots, officials said.

ELIZABETHTOWN — The opening of six absentee ballots on Friday has given Judge Richard Meyer a single - vote lead over Brian Barrett.

What many now believe is that the GOP was trying to determine who voted absentee for Murphy, so that in the subsequent key counting of the absentee ballots, the Tedisco campaign would be able to challenge the absentee ballots of those Murphy voters before the envelopes were even opened - a real no - no and against the law.

The Cortland County Board of Elections will open additional hours to help people get absentee ballots.

In the 2013 election his Democratic opponent won a primary election for the minority Working Families Party only to find that Ballard's patronage employee, Frank Sparaco, then employed as Ballards's «Constituent Services Representative, working in conjunction with numerous favored highway employees had rounded up a bunch of absentee ballots over 90 % of which when opened contained votes for Ballard and reversed the result of the vote at the ballot on election day.

On a Facebook page authored by the then «Legislator Frank Sparaco» he appeared to have pre-knowledge of the contents of the absentee ballots which were not due to be opened until Tuesday, Sept 17, 2013 stating: I want to thank all of you that supported our team in this years primary election.

The Rensselaer County Board of Elections is set to open and count the 117 absentee ballots at 10 a.m. Wednesday in the Troy Democratic mayoral primary.

Interestingly, Sparaco boasted on social media that he knew the result of the absentee ballot count before the ballots were opened by the Board of elections.

Guests will bid on the 31 lots the night of the event, when absentee bids from those unable to attend will also be opened.