Sentences with phrase «to go to the polls»

But when voters go to the polls in real elections, swing voters aren't swinging.

Follow the latest developments as voters go to the polls in the biggest test for the political parties since the general election.

Of course, many voters remember 1983, although the youngest people to have voted in that election will be 50 when the country goes to the polls next year.

Tomorrow the voters go to the polls for the local and European elections.

Candidates and parties go to polling stations with sacks of money to induce voters.

Residents of school districts across the state go to the polls today to vote on budgets.

Some familiar names will be facing off against each other when the country goes to the polls next month.

That would prevent voters from having to go to the polls again in expensive, low - turnout runoff elections.

Before people go to the polls they may want to understand the role that municipal government plays in the life of a community.

You can do this by going to your polling place and requesting the ballot.

The report says that normally only a quarter of people are still undecided with a week to go to polling day.

In instant runoff voting, voters go to the polls just once and list not only their first choice but the second or even third or fourth choices.

If you're an informed voter, then please go to the polls tomorrow and vote your convictions.

Two weeks ago, this country went to the polling booth for a referendum on whether we wanted AV or first past the post.

This may well still happen, but with less than three months to go until voters go to the polls there remains zero evidence of it.

Many were surprised by the fact that a significantly larger proportion of young adults went to the polls in 2017, compared to the 2015 general election.

Yes, we're busy, but it's fast and my kids actually enjoy going to the polling station with me.

Silver lost his legislative position upon his conviction, and voters have since gone to the polls twice to fill the seat.

The issues, and the politics, are as varied as the communities going to the polls.

That's because twice as many voters tend to go to the poll during a presidential election then in off - year elections.

The first position seemed out of reach in all 13 regions going to the polls.

He feared the discrepancy could create «confusion» if their supporters go to the polls and find something else other than what is on the notice of polls.

The 2014 election had the worst voter turnout in 72 years, with less than one - third of the eligible voting population going to the polls.

Anybody else can go to the polls in the morning, then proceed with the day - long activity.

His victory over a well - funded darling of the «reform» movement shows that voters will go to the polls for candidates who support neighborhood schools.

No point in wasting shoe leather to go to the polling station.

The 2018 election could test the famous American saying that «It's the economy, stupid» that matters most when voters go to the polls.

Incumbent State Superintendent Tony Evers and challenger Lowell Holtz, a former superintendent of three school districts, met on Friday for the final time before voters go to the polls on Tuesday to choose one to lead the Department of Public Instruction for the next four years.

The exit polls, reported by CNN, also showed that 54 % of people who went to the polls Tuesday approve of the job President Obama is doing.

That's what the Commons will vote on and what the British public will be expected to base their judgement on when going to the polls in 2020.

We have not amended our constitution and so Ghana can not go to the polls on November 7.»

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Onondaga County voters will go to the polls Nov. 3 to elect a county executive, comptroller, clerk and legislators in addition to a state Assembly member and Syracuse city officials and town officials.

The health of the national economy and personal pocketbook issues are important to the voters who go to the polls in November 2012.

The local and European elections are coming, with Britain going to the polls on June 4th.

Voters in 11 state legislative districts go to the polls today to fill 9 seats in the state Assembly and two in the state Senate.

Vice President Kwesi Amissah - Arthur has appealed to commercial transport organisations and individual owners of vehicles and motorbikes to report to the police immediately people such as land guards and macho men board their vehicles or motorbikes and they suspect them of going to any polling station to cause confusion on December 7.

After all, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, the persistent frontrunner, would have the Republican nomination sewn up long before Empire State voters go to the polls April 24.

RICHMOND, Virginia: Virginia Democrats went to the polls yesterday to decide which candidates for lieutenant governor and attorney general to send to the general election.

President John Mahama has promised to provide adequate security to ensure a violence free election, as Ghanaians go to the polls on December 7.

As fearmongering election campaign ads go, it's hard to top the «Chinese Professor,» which flickered across the Internet just before Americans went to the polls last fall.

The feeling of the Olympics will be mostly forgotten by the time Scotland goes to the polls next year, but that celebration of British achievement showed how comfortable so many people still are with the Union Jack.

A week after New Yorkers go to the polls on Nov. 8, the state Commission on Legislative, Judicial, & Executive Compensation faces its deadline to recommend potential pay increases for state lawmakers as well as senior members of the executive branch.

Yes I know that there were other important issues that British Columbian's had to consider when going to the polls yesterday, but that isn't how that rest of the world saw it.

«The NDC urges the nation to use the occasion to rededicate ourselves to ensuring peace and security in the country especially, as the nation goes to the polls at the end of the year.

Political party leaders were busy trying to push home their key election messages before the UK goes to the polls on Thursday.

AARP officials say that in the 2010 midterm congressional elections, voters 50 and older went to the polls at nearly twice the rate of younger voters, accounting for 58 percent of all votes cast in New York State.

Washington is on high alert for some sort of cyber event as Americans go to the polls on Tuesday.

Though many nonvoters say they do not go to the polls because their vote does not count, research shows that this is an excuse, not a characteristic that distinguishes them from voters.

Nigerians go to the polls next month with some trepidation.