Sentences with phrase «polling stations by»

He said: «Forcing voters at election time to prove their identity at polling stations by producing official documents would have a disproportionate impact on people from black and ethnic minority communities.

But fundamentally, exit polls are simply more reliable than phone or internet polls: they take place at the polling stations by people who have certainly voted.

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

Meanwhile, the Kenyan Human Rights Commission said it had discovered some discrepancies in an initial comparison between provisional results announced by the election commission and paper forms signed at polling stations by party agents.

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.

All voters must be present at their designated polling station by 13:00 local time to be allowed to cast their ballot.

«Reports that reached us from Oshiomhole's area in Edo North indicated that under - age voters and persons without voter cards were not allowed to get into the premises of the polling station by security men.

Not exact matches

Sklyarevskaya, who denied any wrongdoing, was among 17 people who were photographed by Reuters apparently casting ballots at more than one polling station Sunday in the town of Ust - Djeguta, southern Russia.

A scruitineer representing another candidate has filed a formal complaint with the party, accusing Mr. Kenney's campaign of breaking party rules by hosting a hospitality suite near the polling station.

Consider a poll conducted last week by a local TV station, which asked respondents how Buffalo would do in 2002: 60 % said the Bills would at least make the playoffs; 7 % predicted they'd get to the Super Bowl and lose (a franchise speciality), and 14 % said they'd win it all.

By Friday morning, President Museveni had polled 1,362,961 votes from 6,448 polling stations, representing 23.02 per cent of 28,010 polling wards in the whole country.

Also, the ballot you are eligible for is determined by your voter registration and is not up to you or the polling station volunteers.

We are working to resolve this issue and the updated registers have been sent to all the polling stations, which we expect to be in place by 10 am.

They're counting on those dire warnings having an effect by the time people get to the polling station, and probably they will, but in the meantime the histrionics just turn people away.

Tradition has it that rain is supposed to mean a low turnout by Labour voters, a truism that set us on edge when it became clear that all polling stations were reporting that turnout was unusually high.

But while the voting process itself has been described as fair by most international observers, the political campaign and the actual counting of the votes — no doubt the most important part of the democratic election process — has been characterized by the abuse of power, the excessive role of money, extraordinary events such as power cuts in the polling stations, fights between party representatives, accusations of fraud and scandals in denying observers access to polling stations.

Other examples from observers and social media included ballot boxes being stuffed with extra ballots in multiple regions; an election official assaulting an observer; CCTV cameras obscured by flags or nets from watching ballot boxes; discrepancies in ballot numbers; last - minute voter registration changes likely designed to boost turnout; and a huge pro-Putin sign in one polling station.

The poll was largely conducted before Monday's official beginning of the «summer of hell» — a phrase Cuomo himself coined to describe how commuters would be confronted by reduced service across the region caused by intensive track repairs at Pennsylvania Station in Manhattan.

(Not «polling stations» by the way - we don't have them in Scotland.)

According to Alhaji Haruna Rashid Ibrahim, the NDC representative at the EC's National Collation Centre (Strong Room), if the commission cancels the results from those 200 polling stations in line with C.I. 94, it would cause a reduction in the votes gathered by Nana Akufo - Addo of the New Patriotic Pary (NPP).

The poll, by YouGov and for the LBC radio station, shows there is growing support for Britain staying in the EU.

Nalerigu constituency recorded the highest number of polling stations pegged at 36 followed by Tamale South 31.

After keeping a dignified silence for years, Andy Murray shocked fans by announcing his support of the Yes campaign for Scottish Independence hours before polling stations opened yesterday morning.

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.

Many international observers in Ukraine were impressed by the way people made their way to polling stations through the ice and snow.

We the Elders of the party in this region also wish to commend the leadership of our party in the region led by our dynamic chairman Abdul - Fatawu Bugri Naabu and his team, Constituency and Polling Station Executives and all the Parliamentary candidates and Parliamentarians elect for their resilience and hard work that brought glory to our party.

For the first time, the said Forms would be polling station specific and would, therefore, not require the exercise of discretion during distribution by Election Officials.

The NPP, in a statement signed by its Acting General Secretary, John Boadu, directed that «the various Regional Executive Committees of the party see to the formation of a Polling Station Elections Committee (PSEC) and Electoral Area Elections Committee (EAEC) in each Constituency for the purpose of conducting and supervising the polling station and electoral area elections respectively in the respective constituencies.Polling Station Elections Committee (PSEC) and Electoral Area Elections Committee (EAEC) in each Constituency for the purpose of conducting and supervising the polling station and electoral area elections respectively in the respective constituencies.Station Elections Committee (PSEC) and Electoral Area Elections Committee (EAEC) in each Constituency for the purpose of conducting and supervising the polling station and electoral area elections respectively in the respective constituencies.polling station and electoral area elections respectively in the respective constituencies.station and electoral area elections respectively in the respective constituencies.»

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

Per the provisions in Article 6 (14) of our constitution, the constituency annual delegates conference shall be attended by all Constituency Executives (Elected and Appointed), all electoral area coordinators, all polling station executives, 5 members of the constituency council of elders, 5 constituency patrons, any founding member of the constituency who is a signatory to the registration document of the party at the electoral commission, Sitting MPs or Parliamentary Candidates as well as MMDCEs (as ex-officio members).

The amendments proposed the introduction of individual voter registration and for voters to prove their identity in polling stations, by showing commonly used forms of ID, such as a bank card.

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

The Acting General Secretary announced that the Party had trained more than 3000 polling station officers on the electoral processes, adding that by the end of January 2016, similar training would be organised for electoral area coordinators.

An exit poll conducted jointly by three network TV stations had put him on course to get 41.4 % of the vote, with his nearest challenger, conservative Hong Joon - Pyo, on 23.3 %.

«People are around the polling station who are not necessarily voting or have finished voting are standing by to figure out people they believe are not part of the party,» Yvonne reports.

The polling agents were informed by agents from other constituencies that each polling station agent was given GHC400 and not GHC200.

Mr Clegg urged voters not to follow Labour's «trail of broken promises» to the polling station, or be «beguiled by David Cameron's brand of political fakery».

The about 38 - year old small - scale miner popularly known as Chairman Wontumi, had stated that he would lead attacks on all NDC polling station agents in the Ashanti region, if Social Media is blocked on Election Day as suggested by the Inspector General of Police (IGP).

It helped in the process of demystifying judicial proceedings and helped send the clear message from the majority on the court that the controlling principle of judicial intervention in elections was the result delivered at the polling station, which would not be easily reversed by a court.

Number one, INEC is worried by the recent trend of vote buying at open polling stations.

I hold the view that in Ghana's present circumstances the plurality of political parties fielding candidates at the presidential elections is the only guarantee to effectively policing the process by the presence, and alertness of their supporters, polling assistants and others at the polling stations on the day of elections.

Let us continue to ignore and treat with contempt, claims by some radio and TV stations announcing who is leading the pack or winning the election based on polling station results that do not equate to a total of three (3) constituencies.

But the Mahama Campaign urged voters to «ignore and treat with contempt, claims by some radio and TV stations announcing who is leading the pack or winning the election based on polling station results that do not equate to a total of three constituencies.

Mr. Murtala said his priority now is to improve the party's structures in the region by adopting strategies such as «ADOPT A POLLING STATION», and working at getting resources to run party activities at both constituency and regional level.

One of the claims regularly made by Returning Officers wanting to delay counting until the Friday was that thousands and thousands of postal votes get handed in on polling day at polling stations and that under new regulations it would take hours to verify them, thereby making it impossible to deliver a result on the night.

The petitioners further argued that if the results of the 10,119 polling stations were annulled, President Mahama's votes would have reduced by 2,622,551, which would have, in turn, beaten down the results declared by the Electoral Commission in his favour, to 41.79 per cent.

«That the Parliament looks critically at the results of a new poll on support for nuclear weapons in Scotland commissioned by Lord Ashcroft; believes that the result stating that 51 % of Scots want the Trident nuclear deterrent to be replaced is misguidedly being used to suggest that a majority of Scots support keeping nuclear weapons in Scotland; understands that the results of this poll were intended to challenge the findings of a recent poll commissioned by the Scottish Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament that showed a decisive 75 % majority of the Scottish public is against both the cost and the reasoning behind the UK Government's intention to keep all of its nuclear weapons stationed in Scotland; understands that, while Lord Ashcroft conducted the poll to supposedly show that «more than half of Scots are in favour of nuclear weapons», the poll showed that only 37 % of Scots believe so in principle, compared with 48 % who do not; questions the integrity of a poll that, it understands, was privately paid for by a wealthy Tory backer; considers that Lord Ashcroft is spinning the results, and believes that he should stop doing so and accept what it considers the fact proven time and again that Scots want rid of nuclear weapons.»

The Guardian reports: «A former minister and fiction writer, Alvarado Quesada, 38, had 61 % of the vote with results in from 95 % of polling stations, a far bigger lead than predicted by opinion polls that foresaw a tight race.»

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Votecastr, a partnership between Slate and Vice News, will provide coverage of the race in part by tracking the number of people who have voted at particular polling stations.