Sentences with phrase «return of absentee ballots»

Traditionally, a low return of absentee ballots portends even lower «poll» voting, so this may not materialize.

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The Rensselaer County Board of Elections says almost 1,500 absentee ballots were distributed, and as of Wednesday afternoon, 750 have been returned.
Absentee ballots returned by U.S. Mail must be postmarked no later than May 7 and received by boards of elections by this date to be counted
The election - day vote tally will change as absentee ballots are counted this next week — 58 were sent out, and as of Tuesday, 50 were returned.
Officials at the Alaska Division of Elections tell CNN that as of Sunday 15,720 absentee ballots have been returned.
According to the most recent totals from Alaska Division of Elections Director Gail Fenumiai, about 11,266 absentee ballots have yet to be counted — although not all of those ballots were likely returned by GOP voters.
As of Tuesday, 87 Ward 3 absentee ballots had been returned to the board of elections).
John Conklin, director of public information for the state Board of Elections, said 1,324 absentee ballots in the race had been returned as of Monday and another 986 were outstanding.
With only 174 absentee ballots having been distributed (114 were returned as of Monday), it's all over.
While some states have made it possible for military or abroad voters to return absentee ballots by e-mail or by fax, Kellner said New York had rejected that idea out of concerns over voter privacy and the risk of vote interception, and was instead focusing on making it easier for absentee voters to receive ballots.
According to the Orange County Registrar of Voters, there are an estimated 4,700 absentee ballots returned at the polls, 1,264 provisional ballots and 141 election day paper ballots left to count.
«We don't know of any absentee ballots that weren't returned to us,» said Republican Election Commissioner Allison McGahay.
According to Southold GOP chairman Peter McGreevy, 414 of the 626 absentee ballots sent out had been returned as of Tuesday.
Following one conviction and multiple suspicions of fraud, Assemblyman Kenneth Zebrowski proposed legislation to prevent individuals from picking up and returning more than two absentee ballots.
[There are still over 2,700 absentee ballots to be counted, nearly two - thirds of which were returned by Democrats.]
There are still over 2,700 absentee ballots to be counted, nearly two - thirds of which were returned by Democrats.
As for the Rensselaer County executive GOP primary, the local Board of Elections says almost 1,500 absentee ballots were distributed, and as of Wednesday afternoon, 750 have been returned.
But there were still votes outstanding: As of Wednesday, the county had received 2,917 absentee ballots; 1,568 more had been requested but not returned.
He also pointed to the ease of returning an absentee ballot by mail.
The outcome is subject to the count of absentee and provisional ballots — 95 were sent out and 70 were returned as of Election Day.
«I'm hearing there were 143 absentee ballots issued, of which 99 have been returned.
The types of ballots ruled taboo by the judges include categories of absentee ballots submitted by non-registered voters, absentee ballots inside a return envelope not signed by the voter or absentee ballot applications that were not signed, and absentee ballots that were dropped off in person on election day.
There were 501 absentee ballots sent to voters, and 329 returned as of Tuesday, according to the county Board of Elections.
Sources in both camps noted that 160 absentee ballots had been issued to voters and 103 had been returned as of Tuesday afternoon.
In its report, a grand jury suggested the state adopt a law «[n] ot to allow for a single political operative to acquire literally dozens of absentee ballots, ostensibly take them to the voter, and then return them to the Board of Elections.»
The final outcome of this race is to be determined by tallying Thurman's absentee ballots — 58 were sent out, and as of this week, most all of them were returned, and as of Tuesday, they were still unopened due to the court order.
Republicans are also optimistic about the party breakdown of returned absentee ballots.
And it amazes me that the Democrats are claiming that Murphy will get the exact same percentage of votes from the absentee ballots that he got during the election, even though the returned absentee ballots favor the Republicans as far as registration numbers are concerned.
Of the 27,372 absentee ballots that have been returned, 45 percent have been from Republicans, an 8 percentage - point advantage over Democrats, according to Political Data's ballot tracker.
However, on September 20, 2013 (10 days after the primary) the Board of Elections issued a letter stating that they were returning the voters absentee ballots which could not be processed.
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