Sentences with phrase «to count the ballots»
"To count the ballots" means to carefully and accurately count the votes that have been cast by people on their voting papers or ballots. Full definition
But we can't count the ballot with it.
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Historically, too - late - to - count ballots represent a fraction of a percent of the votes cast in an election.
Why not count those ballots — in strict secrecy — before the machine vote and add the results election night?
LaLota said the count will be suspended Thursday and Friday for Thanksgiving and will resume Monday with officials counting ballots cast in the final 28 election districts in Brookhaven.
On Wednesday, Grant went back to court seeking a ballot by ballot count from the election, claiming the voting machines didn't count some ballots for her and the legal fight at the Board of Elections is costing her votes with Kennedy less than 300 votes ahead.
New Hampshire, like nearly two thirds of the country, has a paper ballot system that voters mark and turn in to election officials who count the ballots either by electrical scanners or by hand.
Ballots shall be counted by three inspectors of election who are Regular Members in good standing and neither members of the current Board nor candidates on the ballot (Provided, however, that the Board may designate an independent professional firm to send, receive, and count the ballots apart from the Annual Meeting.)
That's where a third candidate, Robert Bush, was still listed on the ballot, forcing Board of Elections officials to count those ballots by hand.
Our colleagues at TWC News Rochester tell us there are 3,300 absentee ballots, which does include the hand count ballots (military ballots submitted online, then subsequently printed out and mailed in).
The auditing firm, after counting the ballots received, shall return the results of that count, sealed to the Recording Secretary not less than one week prior to the annual meeting, the results of the election.
A Kuwaiti judge and his aides count the ballots at a polling station.
Follow all the local election results and political fallout as councils across England count their ballots.
After the election, the BOE will check its records and count the ballot if you're found to be eligible.
AV IS EXPENSIVE: Under AV we won't be able to count ballot papers by hand on election night if we want a quick, decisive election result.
The Court of Appeals, which has the ballots under lock and key in Albany, has not indicated when it would begin counting ballots.
(a) a deputy returning officer has improperly counted any ballot or improperly rejected any ballot or made an incorrect statement of the number of ballots cast for any candidate;
Two members, different from those who previously counted the ballots, shall be appointed by the President to conduct the recount.
Those individuals from the Nominations and Election committee counting the ballots will sign a statement validating the results of the balloting.
Ballots shall be counted by three inspectors of election who are members in good standing and neither members of the current Board nor candidates on the ballot (Provided, however, that the Board may designate an independent professional firm to send, receive and count the ballots apart from the Annual Meeting).
In any year the Board may by vote designate an independent professional firm to send, receive and count the ballots in time for a report of the results at the Annual Meeting.
The Canada Elections Act sets out the ground rules — who may vote, how they must do it, how one becomes a candidate, and who counts the ballots, etc..
But Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill told Fortune it was highly unlikely that counting these ballots would result in a change.
We counted the ballots from our esteemed panel of experts and over 8,000 votes from you, the public.
But Oaten's challenger - defeated Tory MP Gerry Malone - demanded a re-run on the basis of a decision not to count ballots that had not been properly stamped.
«I want to wait and see and count the ballots,» said current Erie County Democratic Party Chairman Jeremy Zellner.
The board will count any ballot it receives with a postmark of September 11.
After nearly screwing up the contentious primary between Rep. Charlie Rangel and State Sen. Adriano Espaillat, the troubled board voted unanimously Tuesday to immediately update the way it counts ballots on election night.
The judge said he expected both parties to act expeditiously, and then said slowly, accentuating each word: «They're just supposed to do their jobs, which is to count ballots, and there are uncounted ballots.»
The board will count any ballot it receives with a postmark of Sept. 11.
The decision rejects an appeal by Amedore's lawyers that an appellate court decision to count the ballots be overruled.
They also argued that Wright and his staff could not impartially adjudicate a nominating convention, and called for a third party to count the ballots.
«The over voting and inconsistencies between the counted ballots and card reader data remains exceedingly worrisome.
They also tested the devices to make sure they properly recorded and counted the ballots and whether they could provide accurate results even if miscalibrated.
A meeting of the Board of Directors of the Political Film Society will convene at 8481 Allenwood Road, Los Angeles, CA on March 1, 2018, at 2:00 p.m. to count ballots.
The Political Film Society Board of Directors will meet on Tuesday, February 1, at 9 a.m. (8481 Allenwood Road, LA 90046) to count ballots.
A meeting of the Board of Directors of the Political Film Society will convene at 8481 Allenwood Road, Los Angeles, CA on February 1, 2018, at 2:00 p.m. to count ballots.
There is a collective disgust among film critics towards the way Oscar season corals certain films and shuns others, turning it all into a contest, (they say as they count their ballots and tally the votes).
(c) If one or more valid additional nominations are received by the Secretary, he / she shall mail to each member in good standing, on or before thirty (30) days prior to the Annual Meeting, a ballot listing all of the nominees for each position in alphabetical order, together with an envelope addressed to the agent appointed to count the ballots.
The Board may designate an independent professional accounting firm or appropriately licensed or certified professional organization to send, receive and count the ballots, and serve as inspectors of the election, as provided in Article IV, in lieu of the Recording Secretary and inspectors of the election (as applicable) doing so.
The appeal arose out of a suit by the Northeast Ohio Coalition for the Homeless filed in 2006 regarding Ohio's then - new voter identification laws — specifically, whether Ohio must count ballots cast in the wrong precinct.
She recently represented a judicial candidate in which the process used to count ballots was challenged on constitutional bases before a federal district and circuit court, and was the subject of litigation in the Ohio Supreme Court as well.