Sentences with phrase «polling day turnout»

But for Rick Edwards, the dwindling polling day turnout among 18 - 24 year olds is an issue of some concern.

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He had encouraged people to vote a day before people went to polling stations and said it was «heartening» to see an increased voter turnout.

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

It has been shown to boost voter turnout and provide a crucial alternative for voters who can't afford a long wait or can't make it to the polls on Election Day.

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

Turnout in the poll was a slightly higher than expected at 51.35 %, despite the region being battered by Storm Doris earlier in the day.

And as for the results — while the numbers on turnout of voters are generally tallied three times during the day, the figures on who voters cast their ballots for don't get looked at until the polls close.

To help boost turnout, many candidates spent the day visiting polling station after polling station trying to make a final push.

Turnout will be the deciding factor in this race, but our poll today suggests that Ken has a mountain to climb in the three days that remain.

It's a busy day at polling places across Erie County where turnout is estimated to be high, and also at the office that oversees the process.

Aside from the cliches that it all comes down to turnout and that the only poll that counts is the one on Election Day, one more truism that talking heads will repeat endlessly Tuesday is that demographics are destiny.

Throughout the day, the candidates» teams had worked to boost turnout, urging supporters to turn up at the polls, despite the rare June Primary date.

Election day was marred by large numbers of people being turned away from polling stations following instances of queuing and higher - than - expected turnout.

Fears over poll: It is feared that the supplementary poll might not attract large turnout due to the pervading atmosphere of tension following accusations and counter-accusations from both sides of alleged stockpiling of arms in the area to be unleashed on Election Day to cow the electorates with a view to rigging the poll as well as alleged intimidation of perceived opponents by both sides.

Therefore, polling stations which functioned throughout the entire day would show a disproportionate turnout as they would have gotten additional votes from people who were turned away from their assigned polling stations.

In my own Erie County, where turnout matched statewide percentage, his margin was slightly better — 14 points — but far off the 2 - to - 1 edge polled just a couple days before.

[168] A final theory, put forward after the election, was the «Lazy Labour» factor, which claimed that Labour voters tend to not vote on polling day whereas Conservative voters have a much higher turnout.

A day ahead of the primary, Trump remains a heavy favorite in the polls, but he told the crowd polls won't necessarily matter if there's not good turnout.

In certain City Council races, de Blasio has endorsed candidates for the primary, including a small flurry of support just a few days before voters head to the polls, in what could be a sign that the mayor and his allies are concerned about turnout.

The campaign's poll, however, isn't without its own red flags: A whopping 24 percent of the Democrats it deemed likely to show up to the polls didn't lean one way or another in the presidential primary held the same day as the Senate election (the comparable number in most recent polls has been below ten), suggesting it might have been overly generous in estimating Democratic turnout on April 19.

Election Day is here at last and polling places across upstate New York are prepared to be busy, because presidential election years tend to boost turnout.

Trailing in the polls with less than a day until the primary election, Assemblyman David Weprin «s congressional campaign is pulling out all the stops and hopes to win the race on turnout, especially in the district's minority areas.

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Primary day across New York state has come and gone, and in Erie County it was marked by notably lackluster turnout, even on a day where voters don't show up in force at the polls.

Among the key reasons cited by the Assembly and the ECA for adopting a June primary date are that, in their view: an August primary would result in reduced turnout because many voters vacation during that month; identifying and training sufficient poll workers would be very difficult during a prime vacation period; schools, which are often used as poll sites, are frequently closed and unstaffed during the summer; and that, given the myriad tasks that must be completed to prepare and transmit ballots, as well as the inevitable delays caused by administrative challenges, machine malfunctions and counting of paper ballots, setting a June date would ensure better compliance with UOCAVA's 45 - day ballot transmission requirement.

On a day with low turnout, many voters who did show up at the polls said they had been moved to express their feelings about Mr. Cuomo.