But Democratic sources in the Ohio Board of Elections have confirmed to the Free Press that about 10
percent of the absentee ballots cast so far are being rejected because of a technicality involving obscure driver's license numbers demanded on the ballot.
Former Southampton Town Supervisor Anna Throne - Holst's primary night lead of 29 votes has increased to 188 after 46
percent of absentee ballots were counted Thursday at the Suffolk County Board of Elections.
Not exact matches
With 100
percent of machine votes counted, Anna Throne - Holst, the former Southampton Town supervisor, maintained a razor - thin lead over David Calone in Tuesday's Democratic primary election to represent New York's First Congressional District, and the race will come down to
absentee ballots.
Brown had 51
percent of the vote before
absentee ballots were counted, while city Comptroller Mark J.F. Schroeder had 36
percent, and Erie County Legislator Betty Jean Grant 13
percent.
Altschuler spokesman Rob Ryan said Bishop's team should wait for the Board
of Elections to complete its 3
percent audit
of voting machines and count
absentee ballots before calling for a hand recount.
The turnout on Tuesday is expected to be high: Wisconsin's Government Accountability Board predicts that between 60 and 65
percent of the voting age population (2.6 to 2.8 million people) will cast regular and
absentee ballots on Tuesday.
Given the former SNL comedian's current lead, Coleman needs to capture nearly 80
percent of the 400
absentee ballots to erase his vote deficit.
He has also escalated the mass disenfranchisement
of Ohio voters, trashing the
ballots of some 10
percent of absentee voters.
Tkaczyk, who led by about 135 votes when machine votes were counted, but then fell behind as
absentee and affidavit
ballots were counted, eventually won the battle
of those
ballots by taking about 80
percent of the last 91
ballots those judges allowed to be included.
In the interview with Beck, Hoffman acknowledged he would have to win more than 65
percent of the uncounted
absentees to make up the difference - a hurdle that is unlikely to be cleared given most
of those
ballots were cast before the Republican in the race, Dede Scozzafava, withdrew.
Mr. Espaillat declared victory with a lead
of more than 1,000 votes with 97
percent of the scanners reported, but State Assemblyman Keith L.T. Wright, who was running second, refused to concede and demanded that
absentee and affidavit
ballots be counted.
Dillon had 48
percent of the votes and Latimer, 52 %, with
absentee ballots yet to be counted.
At last report, Amedore led by 110 votes, but Tkaczyk took 60
percent of the 2,800
absentee ballots previously opened in Ulster.
The BOE is required to first sample three
percent of the voting machines for accuracy before opening the
absentee ballots, officials said.
Of the 27,372
absentee ballots that have been returned, 45
percent have been from Republicans, an 8 percentage - point advantage over Democrats, according to Political Data's
ballot tracker.
Approximately 32
percent of Kentuckians voted in the 2010 midterm primary.As
of Monday, nearly 25,000 voters had voted in person on machines in county clerks» offices and approximately 12,000 mail - in
absentee ballots were sent to voters who had requested them.According to current statistics, Grimes projects turnout for May 22 will be about par with the midterm elections
of 2014 and 2010, when 26.8
percent and 32.2
percent of Kentuckians voted, respectively.
The counting
of absentee ballots left the Fresno Unified School District's bond referendum with 63.8
percent of the vote, shy
of the two - thirds majority required.