Sentences with phrase «use new ballot»

The Electoral Commission (EC) of Ghana has said it will use new ballot boxes for Sunday's extended special voting exercise.

Tuesday's vote saw scattered technical glitches as voters used the new ballot - scanning machines, and some voters also complained about the miniscule 6 - point type on the paper ballots.

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He's been speaking after Rob Marris MP, who won a private member's bill ballot last week, used the opportunity to propose new legislation to revive Lord Falconer's Assisted Dying Bill.

Once they've been enacted by ordinary legislation - STV in Ireland and Tasmania, AV in mainland Australia, MMP in Germany, runoff ballots in France - and the voters have gotten used to the new system, no politician advocating a return to FPTP is taken seriously.)

State Senator Avella said, «It's ridiculous that New Yorkers vote on ballots designed for machines no longer in use.

Voter fraud in New York is not considered common or widespread, and New York officials at the state Board of Elections say those concerns don't take into consideration the machines voters use to cast their ballot.

Schneider feels that Gold focused too much on nominating judges in favor of working with newer political clubs or getting voters out to the ballots, not using the position to its full potential.

(Democrats, in New York and elsewhere, have accused Republicans over the years of using ballot security to intimidate voters, particularly minority voters.)

According to an order for declaratory judgment which was sent by Rosenblum to a New York state Supreme Court judge on Oct. 17, the mayor will seek to nullify a decision by the Democratic majority of Leon Potok, David Finch and Ilissa Miller on the village board to authorize a ballot referendum that — if passed by public vote on Election Day — would restrict Rosenblum's ability to appoint a village attorney as well as certain land use board members.

«I know Governor Cuomo was trying to use this as an opportunity to kick me off the ballot, but instead I think it's an opportunity to say, I actually understand a part of New York that Andrew Cuomo knows nothing about,» said Teachout.

Outside of wins on the Reform Party ballot line, the Reform Party has endorsed a number of independent candidates, and used New York ballot fusion endorsements to influence hundreds of other races.

Instead, New York voters mostly now use paper ballots, and it is easier for voters to cast a write - in.

Six states are responsible for 60 % of the total national number of signatures needed to place a new party or independent presidential candidate on the ballot in the entire nation (this calculation uses the easier method to get on the ballot in each state).

Officials say New York's practice of using paper ballots makes the state's election system harder to hack.

The Bond Act, as it reads on the November ballot, would provide access to classroom technology and high - speed internet connections, as well as offer funds to build more pre kindergarten classrooms, and replace the trailers that some overcrowded schools in New York City have been using to teach students.

«If you look at what happened in Virginia and New Jersey last week, people are using their ballot as a way to reject what's coming out of Washington, D.C., to reject what Trump is doing,» he said.

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The new technology was once widely viewed as an improvement over the antiquated paper ballots used in some states during the highly contentious 2000 presidential race that ushered George W. Bush into the White House (think: hanging chads).

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It was successfully applied only twice: in 1954 it was used to prevent Communist Party members from appearing on the New Jersey state ballot, and in 1960 it was cited to deny the CPUSA recognition as an employer under New York State's unemployment compensation system.

The legislation being put together in the state Congress would enact a ban on using credit scoring to determine auto insurance rates, similar to the proposed ballot initiative; create a low - cost auto insurance program for the working poor similar to California's Low - Cost Automobile Insurance Program; and set stipulations requiring insurance providers to get approval prior to implementing any new rate increases.

It is used to secure documents, ranging from election ballots to bonds to medical records, but it's about to become a bigger deal than anyone ever envisioned,» Nick Spanos, co-founder of the Zap Project, and the Bitcoin Center NYC — New York's first bitcoin exchange — told Sputnik News.