Sentences with phrase «thousands of absentee»

Although hundreds of thousands of absentee ballots remained to be counted, supporters of the measure deemed their campaign a triumph for the state's children.

Coleman's attorneys say there are thousands of absentee ballots that were rejected erroneously that should be counted.

Thousands of absentee ballots remain to be counted in the special election called to fill the congressional seat vacated by Gillibrand when she was appointed to the Senate.

Thousands of absentee ballots are in play and that number is sure to increase over the next few days.

Tens of thousands of absentee ballots already cast are in limbo.

After the votes were counted last night, Democrat Scott Murphy held an advantage of roughly five dozen votes over Tedisco, with thousands of absentee ballots had yet to be counted.

In a twist that turned tragedy into farce, the second run - off ordered by the Constitutional Court, scheduled for October had to be postponed: the glue on thousands of absentee ballots had come unstuck, rendering them invalid.

Not exact matches

There's also a too - close - to - call race out on Long Island in Suffolk County's 3rd AD, where Republican Assemblyman Dean Murray holds an unofficial lead of 36 votes over his Democratic challenger, Edward Hennessey, with thousands of affidavit and absentee ballots yet to be counted.

Behind by nearly a thousand votes on the night of the election, Smyth said she was going to wait for the absentee ballots to be counted.

Coleman had filed suit to stop the recount of thousands of rejected absentee ballots until a «uniform» process for reviewing the ballots can be devised.

In addition to thousands of uncounted absentee and provisional ballots, Correa could benefit from a change in state law.

But, with thousands of late absentee and provisional ballots left to be counted, there's still a small chance that a second Republican could shut out Democrats from the November contest.

Several thousand absentee ballots had been submitted, and any others postmarked by Monday that arrive at county boards of elections in coming days would be valid.

Hundreds of thousands of potential voters remain uncertain about what, if any, forms of identification they will be required to include on their absentee ballots or to present at their polling stations.

Conor Lamb, a Democrat and former Marine, scored a razor - thin but extraordinary upset in a special House election in southwestern Pennsylvania after a few thousand absentee ballots cemented a Democratic victory in the heart of President Trump's Rust Belt base.

Currently, Democratic challenger Al Franken holds a slight lead of about 50 votes over Republican incumbent Sen. Norm Coleman, but this number does not reflect what could be more than a thousand improperly rejected absentee ballots still to be tallied, which would sway results.

«This is a victory for thousands of Minnesotans whose rejected absentee ballots will now be properly reviewed in this election,» Ben Ginsberg, a legal spokesman for the Coleman campaign said in a statement released Tuesday.