Sentences with phrase «polling places because»
«I know of at lease a dozen older people, personally including my two in - laws, who left the polling places because they said they were waiting on line» and did not want to stay any longer.
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I decided to walk to my local polling place on Tuesday to cast my vote for president this year, because, let's face it, a seven - minute walk was not going to kill me.
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.
Because United Press International placed the Tigers second to Iowa last week in its football poll (the Associated Press, perhaps in self - defense, had them No. 1), LSU students hanged the UPI in effigy.
Craft fairs are also great places to test new products because you can get direct feedback from your buyers — or if you're scared to ask them face to face, why not set up a mini voting booth or chalkboard poll, like Folksy seller Ruth Robinson did at one of her markets stalls.
By that time, the local lists seem to have been printed, because my uncle's name was still at the polling place (I checked) the first time he voted by mail.
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.
Turnout is typically very low in even the hardest - fought special elections, in part because voters simply don't expect polling places to be open in April.
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.
Voters at a polling place on West 58th Street said they cast their ballot for Quinn because they liked her «record of being a pragmatist.»
Several voters at the same polling place said they cast their ballots for de Blasio because they felt he was more in touch with the public and would steer the city in a better direction.
KINGSTON, N.Y. >> Voting got off to a late start Tuesday in the Kingston school district because ballots were not delivered to polling places at district elementary schools in advance of the scheduled 7 a.
Critics said the emergency paper ballots could take longer to tally after polling places close at 9 p.m. Tuesday, because they have to be hand - counted.
One woman exiting a polling place on Mt. Morris Park said that she «voted for Joyce Johnson because she's a woman and we need change.»
@Brythan In The Netherlands, we are allowed to vote at polling places other than our own, but we can't vote multiple times, because we have only one voting card.
Clyde Williams, a former political director for the Democratic National Committee, instructed his attorney to make the request a month ago because of what he described as a history of polling - place irregularities in the upper Manhattan district and due to problems during April's presidential primary.
In 2014, a number of Hartford polling places did not open on time because registrars failed to provide voter lists.
A Connecticut judge has ordered two Hartford polling places to stay open a half hour late until 8:30 p.m. because of Election Day problems, which Democratic Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's campaign says deprived people of their right to vote.
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.
Nov. 2004: Three people at the polls in Westchester County, NY, were given provisional ballots (in New York, «affidavit ballots») in the general election because someone had allegedly signed the poll books in their place.
Most of those polled at the Mattituck High School voting place said they were voting for Mr. Krupski because of his history of service and his stance on conservation and open space.
«We knew that quite a few [votes] were lost because of bad equipment, but we didn't realize that the polling place procedures were that bad.»
Because the sheep remaining on the island had become feral, emphasis was instead placed on cattle, and polled Herefords were introduced.
It's simple and effective in practice but politically difficult to put in place because there are approximately 100,000,000 freeloaders and a significant fraction of them can vote if there's no one at the polling place checking ID cards against outstanding arrest warrants or felony convictions.