Sentences with phrase «stations on polling day»

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Determined for the club to remain neutral, Bartomeu allowed a scheduled match to go ahead on the referendum day, at the very moment when Spanish police were storming polling stations and beating voters with truncheons.

When I asked James Cleverly — the Tory MP for Braintree — about it for the Guardian's Politics Weekly podcast, he described bumping into a woman coming out of a polling station on election day, looking sheepish as she admitted she had not voted for him.

When polling stations close on Election day, democracy really begins.

CODEO says it will deploy 40 stationed observers to 40 randomly sampled polling stations across the 19 Electoral Areas in the Constituency on the day of voting.

• We have reduced the number of voters per polling station to cut down on queues on Election Day.

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.

The two women, one of them was an EC official on Election Day, moved away from her post at the polling station near the Asafo Palace to a drinking spot and handed over her EC jacket to the other woman.

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).

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.

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.

He called on party supporters to remain vigilant on election day, and police the various polling stations to ensure that thugs do not tamper with the electoral process.

Motorbikes are not permitted within 400 meters of a polling station on election day

We are going to be working with about almost 146,000 staff on election day; and at the 29,000 polling stations and coalition centers, all candidates and parties have agents there.»

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.

On Monday, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo proposed adding money to the state budget to provide for a statewide early voting system, in which some polling stations would be open during the 12 days before an election.

Several voters in Syracuse have reported they were turned away at polling stations on Election Day.

In an hour - long broadcast on ABC - affiliate WSYR, Katko and Deacon, both Syracuse University alumni, showcased their stances on different issues just two days before voters head to polling stations on Tuesday.

More recently we have been able to add information on who the candidates are that are standing in your area, and a polling station locator so you can find out exactly where you need to go on election day to have your say.

Senior executives and members of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) across the country on Wednesday continued the awareness creation exercise to get Ghanaians «adopt» various polling stations on elections day.

Holbein notes that there are barriers to voting: registering, studying the candidates, finding the location of one's polling station, and finding the time to get there on what is typically a work day, for example.

One in five of England's schools are used as polling stations and face closure or disruption on voting day, Schools Week research finds.

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A grateful party appointed their keener to be a scrutineer at polling stations on Election Day.

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.