Sentences with phrase «polling day at»

(3) Every employee who is qualified to vote shall, while the polls are open on polling day at an election, have three consecutive hours for the purpose of voting and, if the hours of his or her employment do not allow for three consecutive hours, the employee may request that his or her employer allow such additional time for voting as may be necessary to provide those three consecutive hours and the employer shall grant the request.

One of the claims regularly made by Returning Officers wanting to delay counting until the Friday was that thousands and thousands of postal votes get handed in on polling day at polling stations and that under new regulations it would take hours to verify them, thereby making it impossible to deliver a result on the night.

Returning officers issue and despatch postal ballot packs at 5 p.m. on the eleventh working day before polling day at the earliest.

His shaky strategic vision remains uncertain and may not show up before polling day at all, hitting voters» confidence in him but also the effectiveness of Labour supporters on the doorstep.

Not exact matches

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.

The distractions that crop up in a worker's day might be slightly different in the home (chores, television, pets, errands and children were all listed as time sucks by the telecommuters who were polled), but interruptions at work are just as common.

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.

A 2014 national Gallup poll put the average number at 47 hours per week, or 9.4 hours per day, with many saying they work 50 hours per week.

The long day of voting begins in South Carolina, where polls opened for Republicans at 7 a.m. (1200 GMT) and will close at 7 p.m. (2400 GMT).

«The hackers accessed software designed to be used by poll workers on Election Day, and in at least one state accessed a campaign finance database.»

The last widespread survey (i.e., not the barrage of fickle online polls that appear every Valentine's Day) was by the Society for Human Resource Management in 2005, in which 40 % of people claimed they had dated colleagues at some point during their career.

A 2015 Angus Reid poll found that 19 percent Quebecers said they or someone else in their household had either split pills, skipped days to stretch their prescriptions, or hadn't renewed or filled their prescriptions at all because of cost.

Pop superstar Jennifer Lopez was joined by Hillary Clinton at a free concert in Miami Saturday night, where the Democratic presidential candidate urged supporters to head to the polls for early voting as her campaign was rocked by a renewed FBI probe of her emails the previous day.

The prices at petrol pumps of state - owned fuel retailers like Indian Oil Corp (IOC) were cut by 1 - 3 paisa every day in the first fortnight of December 2017 before Gujarat went to polls.

With just 100 days to go before polling day in this year's general election, a Christian charity's launched a new website that is aimed at helping Christians decide...

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.

One suggestion is a 24 - hour voting day; another would be to close the polls throughout the nation at, for example, 10 p.m. Eastern (7 p.m. Pacific time).

At Sunday services prayers were said for God's guidance ahead of the vote and churches across Scotland have been invited to stay open for the duration of polling day.

* Arming you with the information you and your employees need to make an informed decision at the polls on Election Day through Get Out The Vote efforts.

The Virginia Cavaliers are ending the 2017 - 18 season at No. 5 in the final USA Today Coaches Poll, which was released Tuesday, one day after Villanova beat Michigan to win...

A recent Gallup poll revealed more stay - at - home moms report experiencing sadness or anger in their day than moms who work outside of the home.

At debates and dinner parties, commentators, journalists and academics usually say something like this: «Yes it is close now but as polling day nears people will shift toward Remain».

Betty Ann Canizio - Aqil, a Board of Elections chief clerk in Brooklyn, is expected to be suspended after a vote by the board's commissioners — the second BOE official to be suspended over New York's primary day snafu that led many voters to be turned away at the polls.

Not that Farron is at all complacent about the challenge ahead as polling day approaches.

@JeffLambert We still use (at least in many jurisdictions) actually people watching the boxes / machines as part of the security procedures for elections, so having the polls open for several days would exacerbate the problem of finding enough people to staff the security measures.

A recent poll by Siena College showed DiNapoli with a sizable lead, 49 % to 32 %, but it was below the magic 50 percent mark that all politicians like to be at this close to election day.

And of course, that one day comes down to turnout — who's actually going to show up at the polls?

Now, with less than 100 days until election day, we have an opportunity to take advantage of our strong position and solidify our lead in the fundraising race and at the polls.

The Cuomo administration is also proposing $ 7 million in the upcoming budget so that every New York county can have at least one poll site open 12 days before an election.

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

He said, «there are better days ahead», and appealed to the people not to abandon their «baby» - NDC, at the polls.

However, at the end of the day, in order to work the new structures that will emerge from the Deals (including elected City Region mayors) will have to take root in the local communities, and have the people behind them — at the polls in local and city region elections; but also on a daily basis.

Most Americans think government error is more to blame than a lack of gun control for the Valentine's Day massacre at a Florida high school, the latest Rasmussen poll finds.

All in all, it's an important day at the polls.

While we're waiting for the AG ballots to be counted here at the DRC straw poll in Niagara Falls, here are some photos from the past two days to keep you busy.

Still, polling day was polling day, and I manfully struggled out of bed at 6:30 am for the early morning leaflet drop: with polls opening at 7 am, we were hoping to encourage people to vote before they went to work.

Colin, we're two days out from the election in Virginia and just look at the latest polls from some of our must - win races:

Many of the people who appeared before Syracuse Judges Donald Greenwood and Anthony Aloi in Election Day Court this morning after experiencing trouble at the polls thought they had registered to vote online through the state Department of Motor Vehicles.

The process seemed to be abnormally long (up to 3 days and 3 nights) in the areas where opposition enjoys strong support, and was marked with constant conflicts, strange power cuts in the polls and international observers or observers from opposition parties not being let into the polls at all: all symptomatic of possible attempts to alternate the results and change the voting papers.

The Fixed - term Parliaments Act 2011 sets the period between elections at five years, and aims to fix the date of dissolution of Parliament and polling day.

With only days before the Presidential election politicians are making their rounds to encourage support at the polls.

At the end of last month, one survey put the party on 7 %; the following day another poll from a different company had them at 19 At the end of last month, one survey put the party on 7 %; the following day another poll from a different company had them at 19 at 19 %.

[99] On the same day, Labour polled ahead of all other parties at the local elections, winning 31 % of the vote and taking control of six additional councils.

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.

The funds would be used to set up at least one polling site in every county 12 days before Election Day so that voters can have several weekdays and two full weekends before elections to cast their ballot early.

Israel prime minister releases a video on election day urging supporters to vote as Joint List party prompts high Israeli Arab turnout at polls

Despite the exuberant claims at their manifesto launches, both Labour and the Conservatives will be hard pressed to neutralise their weaknesses before polling day.

Facing each other eight days before the November election, as Schneiderman's lead over Donovan narrowed in the polls, tensions at the WAMC studios in Albany were high.

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.

at any time before the close of the poll, conducts in relation to the election a public opinion poll of persons voting before polling day: