Sentences with phrase «then election ballots»
If the name anyone who wanted to run for office appeared on every ballot, then election ballots would be unmanageably long.
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It will be interesting, then, to see how Okotokians, especially those thousands who ostensibly flocked to town specifically because of its environmental reputation, mark their ballot in the next provincial election if forced to choose between a not - so - green Smith and a pro-growth PC candidate such as Morton.
Under Labour rules Corbyn would automatically go on the ballot and the election would then be rerun on the same process that has just handed him a landslide.
governor (again)-- and plans to use the comptroller's office, should he be successful in getting on the ballot and then winning the election, as a springboard.
DioGuardi subsequently petitioned his way onto the ballot and won the primary, but then went on to lose to Gillibrand in the general election.
To get the nomination, you need 25 percent of the vote to get on the ballot, I think 40 percent to get the official designee or nominee of the party, so you want someone that would have the intention to continue to run and then that person would be on the ballot in September in the primary formally, and then in November in the general election,» Smikle explained.
But he was defeated in a September primary by Paladino, who petitioned his way onto the ballot and then went on to lose big in the general election to Democrat Andrew Cuomo.
Though, Mrs. Rawlings, was unsuccessful in that election, because her NDP, was unable to meet the requirement of the Electoral Commission (EC), then headed by Dr. Kwadwo Afari Gyan, she is making frantic effort to be counted on the ballot paper in this year's elections.
If the party's nominee for gubernatorial candidate received more than 1 %, then the party is entitled to place its candidates for state and county offices on the general election ballot.
For major - party candidates (Democrat or Republican), prospective candidates file with the county party organization in the county of their residences, and then the parties will conduct a primary whose winners will be placed on the general election ballot.
Then, in 2013, a Chinese translation error in ballots for the November election cost one employee their job while another resigned.
In 2010, his Right to Life supporters urged voters to write in his name on the general election ballot rather than vote for Hayworth — even though that might arguably have helped her Democratic opponent, then - Rep.
The amendment must then be put on the statewide ballot, but only at a time when an election for governor is also being held.
A declaration that upon a true and proper interpretation of Article 49 of the Constitution of the Republic of Ghana, 1992, and Section 13 of the Representation of the People Law, 1992; PNDCL 284; the ballots to be cast pursuant to Regulation 23 (1), (2), (3)-LRB-, (4), (5), (6), (7), (8)(9) and (10) of the Public Elections Regulations, 2016; CI.94 by special voters in the December, 2016 presidential and parliamentary elections ought to be counted and announced there and then on the date (s) of the special voting; by the presiding officers and the results at each poling station; before communicating same to the returningElections Regulations, 2016; CI.94 by special voters in the December, 2016 presidential and parliamentary elections ought to be counted and announced there and then on the date (s) of the special voting; by the presiding officers and the results at each poling station; before communicating same to the returningelections ought to be counted and announced there and then on the date (s) of the special voting; by the presiding officers and the results at each poling station; before communicating same to the returning officer.
According to Valerie Vasquez - Rivera, a spokesperson for the Board of Elections, the Board of Elections will follow normal recanvasing procedures where a bipartisan team opens up polling machines to get an official ballot count and then counts and validates all paper ballots (such as absentee ballots).
The scanner then records the voter's choice and the physical evidence of the ballot will remain — one of the main stipulations of the federal act, which was passed in part as a response to the confusion over the Florida ballots in the 2000 presidential election.
Then again, maybe it was all a fluke, the result of a ballot peculiarity unique to this year's election cycle.
Eleanor Randolph, a member of the New York Times» editorial board, profiles Zephyr Teachout's spunky bid to challenge New York governor Andrew Cuomo, asking «if she is such a trifle, then why has he hired one of the best elections experts in the state to pore over her records and find ways to get her off the ballot?»
In a ballot for the election of Deputy Speaker or Second Deputy Speaker, when there are only two candidates, with each receiving the same number of votes, the Speaker then exercises a casting vote.174 There is no instance of the Speaker exercising a casting vote in these circumstances.
«He would not be removed from the ballot, but then again there's a number of other things that will follow a protocol if the party take that permanent step and if they do, we will adhere to their request and we will honor their request as we should by law, and then we'll make sure that the proper adjudication of the process is adhered to as the election continues,» Merrill said.
He's charged with voter fraud after sources said he moved from his Grand Island rental to Niagara Falls, and then voted in the November election with an affidavit ballot using his old address.
In the 2012 presidential elections, the then NPP's flagbearer, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo - Addo had 70.9 percent in the Ashanti Region — then President, John Dramani Mahama managed to poll 28.4 percent out of the total ballots cast in the Ashanti Region.
If it passes, it then needs to be signed by Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz before it's placed on the general election ballot in November to be approved or disapproved by the voters.
For a constitutional amendment to go through in New York, it must first gain the approval of legislators voted into office in two consecutive election cycles, and then that of the public in a November ballot referendum.
And if we get fifty thousand votes then that means we have the ability to put one of the people on the ballot in every election and we'll start winning seats starting next year.»
The outcome of the primary then will be decided by 103 absentee ballots and an undetermined number of affidavit votes — votes cast by voters whose eligibility to vote could not immediately be determined at the polling place — which will be counted at the Ulster County Board of Elections on Wednesday Sept. 21, starting at 10 a.m. Absentee ballots needed to be postmarked by Sept. 13 and received no later than Sept. 21.
«First, if anyone is undemocratic enough to think that there can be a new leadership election with the existing leader kept off the ballot, then they are setting the Labour party on course for a split.
The outcome of the election was not known for more than a month after the balloting ended because of the extended process of counting and then recounting Florida's presidential ballots.
The Lenox Hill Democratic Club, which endorses candidates each election cycle and then petitions to put these picks on the ballot, isn't just turned off to Quinn.
Oddly, the banner ads make no mention of obtaining an absentee ballot, and the site they link to only allows voters to enter their zip code, and then gives the address of either the Kings or Richmond County Board of Elections office.
There are arguments for him waiting until the General Election to stand down anyway as MP, because increasingly the General Election isn't so far off so why inflict an unneccessary ballot on people, he might be best to leave it until there are other elections in the area and as he hasn't gone for the Bob Dole strategy of I'm heading for the White House or I'm going home then that probably wouldn't be until next year.
A returned absentee ballot must then be postmarked at least one day before Election Day and received by the elections board no later than 10 days after the eElection Day and received by the elections board no later than 10 days after the electionelection.
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.»
Holden lost badly to Crowley in the Democratic primary, and then turned around and ran in the general election on the ballot lines of the Republican, Reform, and Dump de Blasio Party lines.
He says a voter could cast a ballot for a candidate two weeks before the election, and then the candidate could be arrested a week later.
In 2010, it was the W.F.P. that wooed a popular Cuomo: The then - attorney general agreed to take its nomination, giving the party the general election votes needed to keep an automatic ballot line.
If Bob Holden, a CUNY professor and president of the Juniper Civic Association in Middle Village — a registered Democrat who ran on the Republican, Conservative and Reform lines in the general election — ends up defeating incumbent Queens Councilwoman Elizabeth Crowley after all the paper ballots are counted, then the Council will have 11 new members.
During the 2012 open seat election, Hoylman came through the Democratic primary, then won an uncontested general election in which 93,469 registered voters cast a ballot for him.
Many in Clarkstown believe that Wayne Ballard gave Sparaco two jobs in the Clarkstown Highway Department — one as a part - time $ 75,000 «Constituent Services Assistant» (which the Town Board eliminated) and then a job as a $ 103,600 full - time «Confidential Secretary» — because of Sparaco's «abilities» in providing additional ballot lines at election time.
In the 2013 election his Democratic opponent won a primary election for the minority Working Families Party only to find that Ballard's patronage employee, Frank Sparaco, then employed as Ballards's «Constituent Services Representative, working in conjunction with numerous favored highway employees had rounded up a bunch of absentee ballots over 90 % of which when opened contained votes for Ballard and reversed the result of the vote at the ballot on election day.
On a Facebook page authored by the then «Legislator Frank Sparaco» he appeared to have pre-knowledge of the contents of the absentee ballots which were not due to be opened until Tuesday, Sept 17, 2013 stating: I want to thank all of you that supported our team in this years primary election.
KIDS VOTING MISSOURI... Kids Voting USA is a national non-partisan, non-profit program in which students in grades K - 12 study portions of special KVUSA grade specific citizenship activities and then go to special Kids Voting Missouri polls with their parents or other adults on or near Election Day to cast ballots for many of the same candidates and issues as the adult voters.
Then Mark Thomas, Dhief Deputy and Director of Elections for the Utah Lieutenant Governor's office, joins us on the phone to talk about vote - by - mail, the importance of mailing your ballot on time to be counted, and how to protect yourself from voter fraud.
Since then, he oversaw the implementation of one of the nation's most ambitious education overhauls, ran in perhaps the state's most memorable down - ballot election in recent memory — and lost — moved to Florida to take command of that state's Department of Education, and ultimately lost that job amid a controversy over emails he sent during his time as state superintendent in Indiana.
Prior to every statewide general election, participating schools receive curriculum and supplies so that students can learn about real candidates and issues that will be on the California ballot, then vote on mock election ballots the week before the real election.
All ballots shall remain in the hands of the agent for a period of at least six (6) months subsequent to the election and then be destroyed by her / him.
HB 1848 would end the practice currently in place for the Supreme Court, Commonwealth Court, and Superior Court where judges are first elected on a partisan ballot and then in yes / no retention elections for subsequent terms.
If the Harper Conservatives continue to mishandle this file, then the only choice for Canadians will be to view the next federal election as an opportunity to put an end to this sorry chapter in Canadian history at the ballot box.