Sentences with phrase «polling places as»

This even applies to «well intentioned» initiatives and led several states from threatening to arrest international election monitors if they attempted to monitor elections from the polling place as only legal voters and poll employees are allowed in the polling place itself.

The Voting Information Project has released an open source mobile app for iOS that enables voters to find their polling place as well as ballot and candidate details.

(6) No person shall communicate any information obtained at a polling place as to the candidate for whom an elector is about to vote or has voted or whether the elector declined to vote.

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As a senator, Sessions criticized the Justice Department in 2009 for dismissing three defendants from a voting rights lawsuit against the New Black Panther Party after allegations of voter intimidation outside a Philadelphia polling place.

Perhaps it's not a surprise that Pakistan had the unfortunate accolade of being the most anxious country polled — nine in 10 Pakistanis reported feeling anxious about the current state of the world, as well as their place in it.

Italian elections are due to take place during the first half of 2018, and have the potential to deliver another political upset, although recently there have been signs that populist parties — most notably the Five Star Movement, which according to polls enjoys similar levels of support among Italian voters as the ruling Democratic Party — are toning down their calls for a referendum on Italy's membership of the eurozone.

The county wants to create regulate accessories to firearms such as large capacity magazines, and create zoning ordinances that could outlaw guns at all times in some areas such as polling places and school administration buildings.

-- «Goodbye, neighborhood polling places — 5 counties switch to mega-vote centers,» by CALmatters» Rhonda Lyons: «This election season five California counties are doing away with hundreds of neighborhood polling places and replacing them with fewer «one - stop vote centers» — an experiment sold by Democrats as a way to save money and boost anemic voter turnout from the last midterm elections.»

It's an election issue that gets virtually no attention, but we found out today that many of you do feel strongly about it: Churches being used as Election Day polling places.

And yet today, hundreds, perhaps thousands, of churches around the country are being pressed into service as polling places.

(CNN)- It's an election issue that gets virtually no attention, but we found out today that many of you do feel strongly about it: Churches being used as Election Day polling places.

A guest Belief Blog piece on the subject Tuesday morning, «My Take: Stop using churches as polling places,» fetched more than a thousand comments, prompting us to ask Twitter followers to share their church - based voting experiences and pictures.

This summer, the New York Times concluded a lengthy series on the perceptions of race among Americans by saying: «The series has portrayed a stubbornly enduring racial divide, and the poll suggested that even as the rawest forms of bigotry have receded they have often been replaced by remoteness and distrust in places of work, learning and worship.»

CNN: My Take: Stop using churches as polling places Rev. Barry W. Lynn, executive director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, explains how voting in a place of worship can influence voters.

As a result, the Rebels received four of 26 first - place votes in the Mountain West Conference preseason media poll, which ranked second behind New Mexico.

Another way of looking at it is as an opinion poll using an unrepresentative sample, as the sample only includes people who place bets.

I placed theBroncos fifth on my final ballot, up four places from their No. 9 ranking inthe previous poll and just ahead of Louisville (12 — 1), whose Orange Bowlvictory over Wake Forest did not carry the same cachet as Boise's postseasonwin, and Wisconsin (12 — 1), which didn't have to play Ohio State because of theBig Ten schedule rotation and gained only 201 yards in its Capital One Bowl winover Arkansas.

And another poll at CS had her as far and away the event's biggest gainer, with Charlotte Flair in second place.

He was in outstanding form as the Clarets kept a clean sheet and polled 59 % of the vote with George Boyd, who scored the winning goal, taking second place with a 20 % share.

The Cuomo campaign spent huge sums on ads, polls, consultants and places to host fundraisers, such as $ 12,500 to the Hyatt Regency Buffalo for a January event.

I tried searching for opinion polling on internment, as I know opinion polls are still held about the US's atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but I only found information about opinion polling performed at the time internment was in place.

As an example, check out the find - your - polling - place ads that Barack Obama is running in advance of tomorrow's South Dakota primary, including a slick video ad.

Facebookers who had identified themselves as Tea Party supporters or Christian rock fans, or who had posted messages in favor of tax cuts or against abortion, found an ad from Bachmann waiting for them on their profile page in the weeks before the vote, asking for their support and directing them to a link where they could arrange a free ride to the polling place.

«Next year, when you are running for your third term as Governor of new York, when you go to the polling place to cast your vote, promise me you will not ride there on horseback,» he said.

Campaigns have also used search ads as a electoral turnout tool, connecting voters with information about their polling places or last - minute volunteer opportunities.

If a parliamentary general election is to take place as provided for by subsection (1) or (3), the polling day for the election is to be the day appointed by Her Majesty by proclamation on the recommendation of the Prime Minister (and, accordingly, the appointed day replaces the day which would otherwise have been the polling day for the next election determined under section 1).

As voters stand in line at polling places, tapping away on their touchscreens, use mobile ads to make the final case for your candidate before they step into the voting booth.

As Anthony Wells points out, it is somewhat inevitable that Labour should be doing worse where they started stronger because there are some places where they didn't have 15 points to lose, but it might also be partly because Ashcroft only polled in Labour seats where the Yes vote was relatively strong in the independence referendum.

Baird was rejected by the ethics board because she worked on board member John Frolish's campaign and served as an election commissioner at polling places for the candidate.

The polls were predicting a tight race between Labour and the Conservatives for second place, although most commentators believed that Labour would just about hold on to its position as the largest opposition party.

The truth is that in Australia, unless an elector provides an acceptable reason for nonattendance, such as being hospitalised, they are, by law, required to attend a polling place.

Your ballot can't contain your name because your vote is supposed to be secret, so to ensure that each voter votes only once and only registered voters can vote, each polling place has a list of the people eligible to vote there and can cross people off as they arrive.

That such occurs is essentially because, having got as far as a polling place, most people will vote, but they don't have to.

Clegg has indicated that he would not forge a coalition with Labour should it come third in the popular vote — as it is currently placed in opinion polls.

Attorney Sean Coffey sent an e-mail to supporters today touting his «strong third place victory» at the Democratic Rural Conference straw poll in Niagara Falls this past Saturday, noting he received «almost as many votes as the fourth and fifth place candidates combined.»

The governor also cited Russian attempts to hack other states» voting systems in 2016 as a reason to strengthen cyber security at polling places.

Pellegrino, 48, shook hands Tuesday as school voters left the West Babylon administrative building polling place.

As an example, check out the find - your - polling - place ads that Barack Obama is running in advance of tomorrow's South Dakota primary...

A couple of other notable features: a find - your - local - volunteer - office page, a virtual phone bank and as election day neared, a Google Maps - based find - your - polling - place application.

That, however, is hyperbole, as local government results, last year's Holyrood elections and general election polling clearly show the Conservatives rather better placed to do that.

While secrecy and backroom dealings are hardly the qualities of a well - functioning democracy, they represent business as usual in Albany — a place that 89 percent of New Yorkers believe has a serious corruption problem, according to a recent Quinnipiac poll.

The logical consequence of Labour slumping to third place in some polls would be for more Labour voters to start voting tactically just as they once routinely expected Lib Dems to, and the leftwing think tank Compass is now actively debating this idea.

What happened after that is we gained a double - digit poll lead, which hadn't been earned, and that acted as a disincentive to do all the heavy lifting, to go to all the difficult places after the 2010 defeat.

Bloomberg lauded Quinn, an early front - runner in the race who came in third place in the polls, for her work as council speaker.

The day is expected to be further complicated by brand new Assembly and Senate district lines, which have changed many voters» districts and polling places, as well as lingering doubts over the competency of the Board of Elections, which bungled the ballot count in June's Congressional race between Rep. Charlie Rangel and State Sen. Adriano Espaillat so badly that it took weeks to learn the final results.

«While assuring all law - abiding electorates of a secure and enabling environment to exercise their franchise, the IGP warns all security details to refrain from accompanying their principals and politicians to polling booths and collation centres during the election, as only security personnel specially assigned for election duties must be seen within and around the election designated places» the statement said.

The press conference also took place just as a new Quinnipiac University poll was released, showing 46 percent of New York voters think the mayor's «involvement in national issues» is a distraction from his daily duties.

In addition, voters will be able to make an account, look up biographical candidate information and polling place information, as well as populate a ballot with candidate preferences and share that information with their social networks.

He disputed that notion as he shook hands with voters Tuesday outside a polling place.

«There's a school of thought that says special elections can be costly if they're on their own day as opposed to a day when there are other elections going on,» he said, due to the costs of opening and staffing polling places.