Sentences with phrase «own election district»

Fortune will go on a limb to predict he will cast the deciding vote in a 5 - 4 ruling in Gill v. Whitford that will declare the redrawing of election districts for political purposes to be unconstitutional.
The election districts are a creation of SCODS, the intention being to create an instrument which would enable every area in the denomination to elect members to the General Board, 150 in all.
The election district from the point of view of ABC nationally is the first building block beyond the local church.
The problem is that the election districts have gained authority before they have any power, and the associations have lost their power before they have lost their authority.
People at the national level look to the election districts with fervent hopes, but there are problems.
Your suggestion that the associations take on new life is a good one, if they were also identical with election districts; and if election districts and associations could be constituted as functionally as well as geographically similar, this might help.
I recall that among the anomalies were uninhabited election districts and a traffic island that wasn't in any district.
Incumbent Sen. Michael Venditto regained a narrow advantage in the 8th district ballot counting process on Tuesday as Democrats accused Republicans of «walking away» from counting the final 300 or so ballots in Democratic friendly election districts.
Mrozek, who's listed as an election district director on the New York State United Teachers website, detailed several ways members could support Small in her race against Republican candidate Chris Jacobs, including distributing literature at the homecoming football game, displaying lawn signs and volunteering for phone bank shifts.
Apparently, it's possible that the Legislature could decide to delay county committee and district leader races this year if the redistricting lines aren't finalized in time for the state Board of Elections to draw up the Election Districts.
The Oneida County Board of Elections is responsible for voter registration and conducting elections throughout Oneida County, including 192 Election Districts in 48 Cities, Towns and Villages.
To get on the ballot you simply need to collect signatures: five percent of the active registered Democrats in that particular election district, or anywhere from 15 to 50 signatures.
The value of a county committee seat is determined by a formula based on how well the Democratic candidate for Governor performed in that particular election district.
When we don't have an objective formula for drawing election district lines, we just keep on letting the «ins» make themselves more «in» with every redistricting.
Vanessa J. Herman, Zacarese's director of communications, noted that Shelter Island has only four election districts and 1,048 ballots remain to be counted.
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.
For a designating petition, signatures of at least 5 % of the enrolled Democrats in the election district must be obtained during the period from early June to early July of Odd numbered years.
Though several Central Brooklyn election districts reported modest turnout, some voters in Borough Park reported turnout was high for Tuesday's midterm elections.
Select an election district committee membership (in some cases a ward — election district) in a municipality in the NYS Assembly District in which the voter is registered.
There 2,104 committee members — two for each election district in the county.
Committee members» convention votes are weighted based on the number of votes the party received in each election district in the last gubernatorial election.
Select an election district committee membership (in some cases a ward — election district) in a municipality in the
Obtain the signatures of at least 5 % of the enrolled Democrats in the election district on the petition during the specified petitioning period.
There are two representatives on the Dutchess County Democratic Committee for each election district.
If there are three or more valid designating petitions for an election district, there is an election at the September Primary to select the two members.
Also, like - minded individuals tend to cluster, so that the class membership in any given election district will vary from p.
«The whole bunch of them got wiped out,» said former Borough President Guy Molinari, a Grimm supporter, who said that Grimm won the balloting in the home election districts of Fossella, Lanza and Brooklyn state Sen. Martin Golden, another Allegretti ally.
Here's a rundown of the results for each race with about 97 percent of election districts reporting.
So for every election district in Manhattan, there are two county committee members elected by registered Democrats every two years.
About 180 County Committee members allocated several thousand votes within Lower Manhattan's election districts.
Masterpole led Republican Steve Kimatian 57 percent to 43 percent, holding onto more than a 2,012 vote lead in unofficial results, with 99 percent of the election districts reporting.
(In Seward and East River, each of the buildings is its own election district!)
In our neighborhood we have 11 election districts, each of which is just a block or two in size.
Of all the 62 Election Districts on the 66th, Part A (our turf), only six will be open for voting on Primary day, Sept. 13.
When you see some election districts that had 92 percent or 86 percent for Alessi, you figure you'll gain some votes there.
«It's not like there are only 10 election districts that wildly shifted.»
County Committee 87th Election district [vote for 2] Irene Kaufman — 40 Perry Street, NY, NY 10014.
Vote for 2 [County Committee] 83th Election District The VID endorsed Joseph DiMattia.
«So then we'll begin the process of finding the results from all election districts in the county.»
If you want election districts to be drawn independently to more accurately group voters rather than to guarantee that a particular political party wins on Election Day, vote yes.
Ellis, a Wehrheim supporter, also controls the proxy votes of several of the roughly 160 general committee members from the town's 92 election districts.
Under the old system, election workers were required to print out receipts from electronic scanning machines after the polls closed and then cut them by hand, by election district.
Just one election district had not reported as of 10:40 p.m.
Only the residents of election District 10 will continue to vote at the school, while others will now have to go to either the middle school or the community center, which will serve as a polling site for the first time.
«You will never know how much I appreciate this and I will do the best job I can,» Mr. Dinizo said to his supporters following the announcement of the results from all 19 Southold Town election districts.
While Republicans may have fared better in some election districts, the Democrats had the lead from the moment the Suffolk County Board of Elections began to post the first results, and they held on to it throughout the night, also winning an apparent 7 - to - 2 majority on the East Hampton Town Trustees.
«The election districts that we changed were based on a request from the school district,» said Republican commissioner Tom Turco.
The list was of every registered Democrat in a specific election district, the two blocks or so of neighbors that is the smallest political unit in the state.
The County Committee shall be constituted by the election biennially in each Election District in the County of New York, at the Primary Election held in each odd - numbered year, of two members of the County Committee plus an additional member if 300 or more votes and less than 451 votes were cast in such Election District for governor under the Party emblem at the last preceding gubernatorial election, and an additional member if 451 or more votes were cast in such Election District at said time.
ALBANY — New Yorkers have overwhelmingly defeated a ballot question asking whether the state should hold a constitutional convention, with only 19 percent voting yes, based on results from nearly half the state's election districts.
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