Sentences with phrase «polling stations»

He tweeted that the result was «bent» and has just been on the Today programme claiming people were turning up at polling stations yesterday with «bundles» of postal votes.

This is especially true today, as voters are increasingly dependent on the internet for things like locating polling stations in their area.

Some real - life examples include reducing the number of polling stations and voting machines in some areas.

Candidates and parties go to polling stations with sacks of money to induce voters.

Over 150 observers are also reported to have been illegally removed from polling stations by police.

They may officer so the party, constituency executives, polling station executives.

The special voting exercise ongoing in polling stations across all 275 constituencies, is experiencing some challenges.

The council says it has sought in recent years to «reduce or remove the use of schools as polling stations so that pupils do not have their education disrupted».

Keep polling stations open for a week: ignore media demands for next - day results.

Most polling station results have been declared and some media outlets have been using the provisional polling centre results available to make some projections as to the overall direction of the elections.

We asked people outside polling stations to fill in a short survey that included our Z - scale.

They say that schools must provide pupils with the opportunity to register to vote and on election days they should turn into polling stations.

But, on the other hand, most polling stations have a D and a R poll worker at each station.

However, elections could not be held in some constituencies and polling stations because of some unresolved issues.

The special voting will start at 7:00 am and end at 5:00 pm at designated polling stations across the country.

By their hard work the party won 86 polling stations out of 93 in the constituency.

In a few polling stations they didn't start on time, they started around 8:30 am.

The replacement forms can not, therefore, be confused in any way with the personalised polling station specific forms.

The council again used a mobile polling station to go to railway stations and supermarkets in an attempt to increase turnout.

To safeguard polling station voting for the future voters need to be asked to show ID before receiving their ballot paper.

The party leaders were out early to cast their ballots amid heightened security at polling stations.

He said the electoral commission is verifying electronic online reporting with the physical ballot forms from polling stations.

Nearly 4,000 people were denied the right to vote following the pilot of an ID scheme at a handful of polling stations.

However, anecdotal evidence points to a closer race and much may come down to turnout after polling stations open.

It also only questions those who have definitely voted, because it is conducted outside polling stations.

Such an estimate would not be reliable, as the requirement for voters to vote at their designated polling station was removed in the last hours before the referendum began.

The lawmakers hope to hack through some of the red tape and streamline voting by automatically registering people when they get drivers» licenses or other government - issued identification and by allowing people to register at polling stations on election day.

Mr Naabu who indicates the Minister in concert with the District Chief Executive (DCE) for East Mamprusi are frustrating efforts in conducting polling station elections in the Gambaga constituency where the Minister is the Member of Parliament, has vowed to hold them responsible should anything untoward happens.

However, the NDC's regional Vice Chair, Alex Attivor Sawyer, has argued that the chief was not fully engaged as a party polling station agent on the day of elections as being reported.

Voting took place at 88 councils across England, Wales and Scotland until polling stations closed at 10 pm.

The Ghana Police Service is this morning dispatching hundreds of officers to different parts of the country to provide security at various polling stations in this year's general elections.

The face - to - face element is also cross-referenced with the marked electoral register (that is, the copy of the register in polling stations where people's names are crossed off as they vote) so that they can verify after the election whether people genuinely did or did not vote.

CNN interviewed Gray and Fenty separately as they visited polling stations in the District of Columbia Tuesday morning.

Some members of the NPP in the Ellembelle Constituency of the Western Region, in December 2017 besieged the party's headquarters in Accra, demanding that their National Executives furnish them with their original polling station register.

It was from Myrobella, in 1997, that Blair strolled with his wife and young family in tow across the open playing field to his local polling station on his last day as leader of the opposition.

MPs and councillors have reported incidences of people being turned away from polling stations for not having the right ID.

«It's the answer told by the lines of people stretched around polling stations, schools and churches.

(CNN)- Democratic Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland has moved to within one point of his Republican challenger, John Kasich, according to a new poll released the day before polling stations open in the critical battleground state.

Others reported how inspired they'd been by the hundreds of thousands of electoral commission workers in the 33,000 polling stations who spent a long, hard day making sure everyone could vote.

The dominant issues that ran through all the engagements include Police neutrality, handling of electoral offences, political party vigilantism, and invasion of polling stations by executives of political parties.

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People without ID are being turned away from polling stations during a controversial trial...

Christians will be considering many issues when they enter polling stations.

Of the 7,894 schools in the 75 areas whose councils provided data, 1,784 are being used as polling stations today (8 June).

The blind panic of last week may have subsided somewhat, but both results remain plausible with less than 100 hours to go until polling stations open.

The Electoral Commission is to investigate reports of hundreds of voters being turned away from polling stations which were unable to cope with a late surge.

The governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) has issued guidelines for the party's imminent election of polling station officers and electoral area coordinators across the country.

Kenyan law states that electronic reporting must be double - checked and verified by physical paper forms signed by polling station officials before Kenya's Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission, or IEBC, can declare a winner.

Some voters at the Post Office polling station in Dodowa, hooted at National Democratic Congress (NDC) parliamentary aspirant for the Shai Osudoku Constituency, Dr. Kpessa Whyte, when he visited the area to observe the voting process.

Voters in neighborhoods such as St. Albans, Springfield Gardens and Laurelton came out in large numbers to vote for the Council contenders as well as the mayoral and borough president candidates, but polling stations did not have the packed long lines that were present last year.

Caitlin Burns, 28, who lives on the border of Inwood and Washington Heights, said she was forced to travel to three separate polling stations early Thursday morning before eventually casting her ballot in the race between State Sen. Adriano Espaillat and Assemblyman Guillermo Linares.