Sentences with phrase «polling places out»

Protesters — many supporting Queens City Council candidate Hiram Monserrate — slammed the city Board of Elections for «voter suppression» Tuesday over a plan to move polling places out of Monserrate's LeFrak City stronghold.
Protesters — many supporting Queens Council candidate and ex-senator Hiram Monserrate — slammed the city Board of Elections for «voter suppression» over a plan to move polling places out of Monserrate's LeFrak City stronghold.

Not exact matches

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.
(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.
The poll commissioned by the Accord Coalition found that four out of every five people asked opposed the Conservative plan to no longer require new over-subscribed faith schools to offer 50 per cent of their places to those of other religions or none.
First, take a family poll and find out what places, parks or areas everyone wants to see.
Sometimes an image tells the story, and in this case, the story is that Voter ID laws are concentrated in formerly Confederate states, places where poll taxes and similar laws once kept black voters out of the political process.
A last - minute addition to the arsenal: the campaign's new media and tech teams managed to turn out a very efficient online polling place finder on a short deadline just in time for the general election, which they promoted via online ads, the email list and direct voter contact.
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.
On Wednesday morning, these supporters will be lucky if they see an Election Day message encouraging them to get out and vote, or a link to help them find local polling places.
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.
«There are a lot of other restrictions out there, enough already, that you do have to show identification the first time you vote, you can't just come to a polling place, never have voted before and not show ID.
These are the simple ways technology can help get out the vote: check out the polling place / ballot info finder below, developed by the NOI's other election - related resources — very cool to see someone putting out this kind of data in a way that others can use.
As an example, check out the find - your - polling - place ads that Barack Obama is running in advance of tomorrow's South Dakota primary...
To find out what district you live in and where your polling place is located, click here.
If the polls to date are to be believed, the Coalition partners are battling it out for first place.
Gonzalez had been under fire since the city's Sept. 14 primary, which was marred by polling place problems and issues relating to the roll - out of the city's new voting machines.
I asked Rivera why the Election Day jobs — essentially handing out fliers for Espada outside of a polling place, surrounded by other people handing out Espada literature — were only for those over eighteen.
Registered Democrats or Republicans can find out what primaries are being held in their district, and find their polling place information by looking up their home address here.
A poll carried out by Populus in May revealed that 80 % of the public are opposed to allowing schools to select all their places on the grounds of religion.
«People are fed up with Washington — a place where good ideas and better ideals go to die at the hands of lobbyists, monied interests and the career politicians who poll test everything down to which side of bed to get out of in the morning,» he added.
Donald Trump's talk of a rigged election and calls for supporters to turn out in droves to monitor polling sites has stirred increasing fears of intimidation of minorities inside polling places, where their qualifications to vote could be challenged, or outside, where they would face illegal electioneering.
Experienced voters are sure to notice that the «I Voted» stickers handed out at each polling place feature new designs.
ComRes have a poll of marginal seats out tonight covering the forty most marginal seats with Labour and Conservative in first and second place (so 25 with Tory incumbents, 15 with Labour incumbents).
Voters fill out ballots amid strong turnout at a polling place at Bellarmine University in Louisville, Ky..
Sean Coffey's campaign strategist Bruce Gyory sent out a statement earlier today, dismissing the Siena poll that showed his candidate in third place and invoking the closer - than - expected 2009 NYC mayor's race in which Bill Thompson defied predictions and came within less than 5 percentage points of ousting Mayor Bloomberg.
The first out of the stocks (with changes from the General Election) are the ICM and Populus polls ICM have CON 18 % -LRB--8), LAB 44 % (+12), LDEM 27 % -LRB--5) Populus have CON 15 % -LRB--11), LAB 46 % (+14), LDEM 29 -LRB--3) So both have Labour substantially up on their general election support and the Lib Dems dropping less than the third placed Conservatives.
The SDP — Liberal Alliance finished in third place but came within 700,000 votes of out - polling Labour.
Taking Kingston, where about 500 votes were cast, out of the mix, fully staffed and publicly financed polling places in the county averaged fewer than 50 customers each.
Ruth Davidson spoke out after a poll suggests support for independence in Scotland is lower than when the last vote took place.
He arrived right on time at his polling place, Manhattan's P.S. 6, went inside, voted and came out.
According to well placed sources, Cuomo was planning to launch his campaign this week, timing the roll out just before the Democratic Rural Conference straw poll this weekend.
«Therefore, we have polling agents who supervise the elections at those places; those who go round to call the electorates from their homes to come out and vote.
The stickers will be rolled out to city polling places on Tuesday, September 12 for citywide primary elections for local offices such as City Council, Comptroller and Mayor.
«We have never heard or seen of any issues at polling places in Onondaga County, but with the fervor that's out there, a lot of parents were concerned and not having got kids there alleviates that concern,» Czarny said.
With the optical - scan approach, if the ballot is not filled out properly or is unreadable, the scanner will not accept it but the voter can fix it before leaving the polling place, Dill says.
And in 2017, in a poll of more than 100,000 Americans, Five Guys was ranked as the best burger chain in the U.S., with the West Coast chain In - N - Out Burger falling to second place.
So, the green pants won the poll but I couldn't leave the second place leopard print shirt out in the cold.
Also quick poll... where's your favorite place to travel??? I'm fleshing out a master travel bucket list, so if you've got recommendations, pleasepleaseplease help a sistah out and let me know.
In a global poll of 10,976 users across 19 countries carried out by the BBC World Service in 2010, 30 % of web users regard the Internet as a good place to find a romantic partner.
Audi trailed rivals in the Auto Express Driver Power 2015 satisfaction survey, finishing in 13th place out of 32 in the manufacturers» chart and 25th out of 31 in the dealers poll.
Vauxhall marched up the manufacturer rankings in the Driver Power customer satisfaction rankings for a few years, until the 2013 and 2014 polls saw it drop to 26th and then 29th place out of 33 manufacturers.
The 3 itself was ranked an okay 31th out of 75 cars in the same poll, up three places on the previous year.
Although I'm much better about reading the top personal finance blogs since they tend to be more fun and relatable:) You'll have to check out our books directory though over at Rockstar Finance as we recently polled over 100 financial bloggers on their favorites and then built a place to feature them all.
As the Toronto Star points out, «the ferry has been named one of the 50 Places of a Lifetime by National Geographic Traveler and last year was ranked first in the world's top 10 most exciting ferry rides, according to a poll by the Society of American Travel Writers.»
I'm with Rachel: followsummer.net is ranked 681,886 globally according to Alexa: we would have placed at the 135th poll postion: But as Tom pointed out as well... visits and ranking vary depending on who you are using at any given day, month or minute.
A Pew Center poll (Figure 7) is representative of public opinion and places «dealing with global warming» very low (19 out of 20) on their list of concerns.
In a recent FindLaw.com poll, nearly 45 percent of respondents indicated they use social media to find out more about the people and places they buy from.
The main reason for the permissibility of the Act is that it includes a «reasonable impediment» provision, allowing «registered voters with non-photo voter registration cards to vote without photo IDs, so long as they fill out an affidavit at the polling place and indicate the reason that they have not obtained an R54 - listed photo ID.»
(a) the person may give the person who is refusing access a notice, in a form prescribed by the Chief Electoral Officer, that sets out the entitlement under this section and requires that access be granted within 24 hours, or, if access is refused on polling day, immediate access, or post such notice conspicuously at the place where entrance is refused; and
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