Sentences with phrase «polling booths»

The downside of this is that the government is decided by politicians behind closed doors, not by voters in polling booths.

Would - be voters locked out of polling booths cried of conspiracy and a breach of their human rights.

Most democratic electoral processes involve polling booths, which are open for a mandated period of time.

The sense of the law is that voters should be given the opportunity to express their opinion in polling booths.

Voters are being turned away at polling booths in the UK today due to controversial identification trials aimed at eliminating voter fraud which have been branded «nonsense» by residents.

For Juncker offers Conservative election strategists something that Corbyn doesn't: a powerful and arrogant opponent that might get people off their backsides and into polling booths.

Pilot scheme in England leads to people being unable to vote due to «ineligible» identification

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A trial of voter ID has seen people in England turned away from polling booths for the first time for not carrying the necessary documents, with other issues reported including...

Emperor Palpatine has won a seat on Odessa Council, and Chewbacca got arrested while driving Darth Vader to the local polling booth on Sunday 25 October, where the Dark Lord wasn't allowed to vote.

According to Oyedepo, the election was characterised by snatching of ballot boxes in many polling booths across the state, stuffing of already thump printed ballot papers into boxes and inadequate ballot papers.

Examples include ballot papers being spoiled by weather due to the flimsy construction of polling stations and poor quality indelible ink (in which voters were required to dip their index fingers on leaving polling booths) resulting in some double - voting.

Mr Farage said he was not questioning Labour's victory, but denounced the electoral process as «bent» after claims that people had arrived at polling booths carrying bundles of postal votes.

The voting has been concluded and the LASIEC officials have begun the counting and the results were announced immediately at the various polling booths.

The poll, released as polling booths closed at 10 pm, predicted David Cameron would gain 307 seats, with Labour on 255 and the Liberal Democrats on a surprisingly low 59, down four on its current number of seats.

You man polling booths with police, thugs and you pay electoral officers.

Voters in part of London have reportedly been turned away from polling booths due to «problems with the lists».

I stood before polling booths handing out how - to - vote slips for Green candidates in three elections.

(And, the PtB would be able to track which polling booth the person went to, too.)

Handed out for the Greens for three hours (was rostered for two, but I didn't have the heart to leave), then, having watched the queue, which took anything from 30 to 60 mins, I went round to a smaller polling booth on the other side of the railway line.

Voting can also be suppressed by reducing the number of polling booths and making them hard to reach.

According to Singh, parties have reverted from using one type of voter fraud, booth capture, which required political parties to use muscle power and vote in place of legitimate voters at polling booths, to bribing voters to vote for their candidates.

The voting has commenced in many polling booths but our correspondents observed low turn out in most of the polling units.

Hundreds of voters were turned away from polling booths in a key London battleground after a blunder by the Tory - run council.

Consciousness of the topic has been raised, though it remains to be seen whether that consciousness will matter at the polling booth.

Enter that polling booth.

According to the questionnaire, most Christians will pray before they enter the polling booth, but don't like being told who to vote for by their church leader.

Data was also compiled from the answers to questions including «Will you pray before entering the polling booth?»

Asked how she would be praying on the day of the election, the Prime Minister said: «What I hope everyone will do on June 8th, however they approach the polling booth, is actually focus on the choice they have to make.

Their political uniformity is so reliable that I take an LGBT voter's guide with me into the polling booth, knowing that in voting against their endorsements I can never, for example, inadvertently harm a pro-life candidate.

The one I brought with me to the polling booth yesterday and stood knitting, standing in line with my politically - aware and very excited seven year old.

Do they really think the public will go into the polling booth thinking «oh well I would vote for Labour but they can't be trusted on the economy, and I would vote for the Conservatives but they might deliver the wrong kind of recovery, so I think I will marry economic efficiency and social justice and vote for the Liberal Democrats instead»?

No mean feat given 1.6 million Scots walked out of the polling booth that day having backed independence but each with their own vision of what the future might hold.

The restriction order given by the Inspector - General of Police, IGP Solomon Arase is gradually wearing its look as major roads can only boast of few commuters who are perhaps heading to their polling booths.

19.00: These are some of the results coming from the polling booths.

Even in London where there were no other elections apart from the AV referendum, over a third of voters managed to get out of bed and make it to the polling booths.

Other elections in the state had started and ended more in the «board room» and than at the polling booths.

In last week's election, even some candidates that I spoke to opted to mix and match at the polling booth.

i was a no2av yes to pr er right up to literally the last minute ie i changed my mind in the polling booth.

And 20 % of voters were uncommitted the day before and may have decided in the polling booth.

«For the November 18 also, what we did was to look at possible areas first, what are the flash points, the black spots, second, where are the polling booths, we assess their position and situation and we look at our deployment, how many personnel do we need.

«Could ridesharing mitigate voter suppression where marginalized communities have lost the full protection of the Voting Rights Act and find it hard to even get to a polling booth,» Sasjkia Otto thought.

Unlike previous elections, those young voters turned out to the polling booths and made quite a difference.

The Onitsha - based group suggested in a statement that «Using the state's 4,608 polling booths, it may most likely be correct to say that up to N1.5 bn or more was shared in the entire 4,608 polling booths in Anambra State in the just concluded governorship poll.

The said huge sums were criminally expended in «buying voters» and «voluntary party allowances / logistics» of electoral conductors and security agents posted to each of the 4,608 polling booths in the state.»

NAN reports that sensitive and non sensitive materials were distributed across the polling booths as early as 7 a.m.

Two weeks ago, this country went to the polling booth for a referendum on whether we wanted AV or first past the post.

«As you can see the materials have been distributed and voting has commenced in most of the polling booths.