Sentences with phrase «vote counts just»

Not necessarily — a negative anti-government vote counts just the same as a positive vote when it goes in a ballot box and the evidence from 2010 suggests that a large proportion of Conservative voters were driven more by anti-Labour feeling than support for the Tories.

Not exact matches

Moore, whose campaign filed a last - minute «election fraud» complaint on Thursday just before the results were certified just after 2 p.m. EST, claimed that widespread voter fraud had contributed to his more than 20,000 vote loss to Jones, a number that was not significantly altered by the inclusion of military and provisional ballots that were later counted.
Just have to mention the 2.5 million folks whose vote didn't count because of the ole electoral college.
«I know they're vote counting, so I'm just going to just watch like everyone else,» Collins said.
A lot of people don't realize that recounts are basically audits, not just counting the votes again.
However, I realise that the «democracity» of elections doesn't depend just on the correct count of the votes but on the citizen's fear of the aftermath of their voting or pressure from the family.
Democratic Representative Gene Green from Texas expressed that «every citizen's vote should count in America, not just the vote of partisan insiders in the electoral college.»
Just a guess as to one theory: late votes tend to come from highly urbanized areas (due to the volume of voting that needs counting).
However, in a direct election, every vote would count equally and candidates would have an incentive to appeal to all voters, not just those strategically located in swing states.
You can also read posts about the problem of missing votes in the re-count, and how the result came down to just one vote if the missing votes as counted originally were included in the count.
And because each vote counts for so much more, mainstream parties contort themselves to look like the parties that are «stealing their votes» — just look at the disproportionate influence of Ukip.
According to unofficial election night totals from the New York City Board of Elections, Vance received more than 90 percent of votes, with just under 10 percent of votes going to candidates on write - in ballots, which are still being counted.
In Arkansas, the State Supreme Court still hasn't ruled on whether a medical marijuana initiative should be included, but according to the state's Division of Elections, Arkansas has already printed the ballots with the initiative on it and just won't count the votes if the court decides the other way.
He was pursued by a scrum of journalists out of the count in Stoke - on - Trent after winning just 79 more votes than the third - placed Tory candidate.
Just Friday, Thompsons's resolve seemed steady, hoping a re-canvass of voting machines would result in a runoff between he and de Blasio, saying he wanted to wait for the official count, but Monday Thompson called for party unity.
Mr. Losquadro, who holds an 830 vote lead with just 1,000 absentee ballots still to be counted, said in a press release Sunday that he believes Mr. Alessi has «no real chance of winning» at this point.
Whereas if you let people vote online, that puts more responsibility in terms of data security into the hands of the voter (which might be perceived as positive), but knowledge about how votes will be counted or how you would go about verifying that the voting process was not corrupted, requires more than just basic computer knowledge.
Storobin emerged with a 120 - vote lead on election night, but his margin of victory shrank to just three votes after the Board of Elections counted half of the more than 700 absentee ballots and affidavits.
When you vote on paper you can «just» count - the «route» taken is physical, i.e. you can monitor the paper trail, it does not take much expert knowledge.
David Storobin's lead over NYC Councilman Lew Fidler in the 27th SD special election has shrunk to just 37 votes — 83 votes less than the election night tally showing a 120 - vote lead — after a day of ballot counting down in NYC.
Outside of his home state of Ohio — the only one he has won to date — Kasich has been the top vote - getter in just four counties, but he continues to insist he has a path to the GOP nomination despite his low delegate count.
Certainly they can't both have the power to just decide the result, but if either of them does then it's the US establishment in best position to somehow manipulate the voting and counting process.
The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously endorsed election maps that bolster the growing political influence of America's Latinos, ruling that states can count everyone, not just eligible voters, in drawing voting districts.
He is trailing behind Rangel by just 802 votes, with over 2,000 absentee and affidavit ballots left to be counted.
With just two more full days before the ballots are set to be counted, most PEF members who plan to vote have probably returned their ballots: If not they risk missing the 9 a.m. Thursday deadline (the association gets a morning mail delivery).
Shockingly, he said that, Mr. Adorye, who had no locus in the election, removed one of the blank ballot papers, thumb - printed it and put it in the box to be counted, since the nominee only needed just one vote to sail through.
Once the 14,000 absentee ballots were counted, Mr. Toulon led Mr. Zacarese by just over 2,000 votes.
With absentee ballots still to count, Mr. Goggins, a Mattituck attorney, trailed his Democratic opponent Brian Hughes by just 180 votes, according to preliminary results from the Suffolk County Board of Elections.
Most Inspiring Ad: Andrea Stuart Cousins, «18 votes» Not the most high - profile race, but this spot's simple message of a democracy of individuals where every vote counts is just too damn moving.
«Every eligible voter has the right to have their vote counted,» Clinton's campaign chair John Podesta wrote on Twitter just after midnight on Tuesday.
Unofficial results from the Suffolk County Board of Elections showed that Ms. Throne - Holst held a lead of just 29 votes, with about 1,700 absentee ballots still to be counted.
In short, we're demanding that voting be easy, that all votes count, and that politicians work for #allofus, not just the few.
Fair enough for journalistic hyperbole, but this soaraway popular mandate boost has been just 0.7 per cent of the popular vote in the many seats counted so far.
Rodriguez is just one of 51 Council members, but his vote counts the most — when it comes to matter of land use, the Council almost always votes the same way as the local member.
It just goes to show every vote does count.
Nigerians should just forget about this issue, we are not ready to answer any body, in fact we don't think you Nigerians will add any value to us after all your vote doesen count.
«As a politician I'm just thinking let's wait and see, we have got a lot of votes to be counted and we are clearly going to be in for a very long night.»
The first real concerns on counting night came in the early hours, when the number of spoiled papers in the Airdrie and Shotts seat was confirmed at 1,536 - just 90 votes away from Labour's majority.
The beauty of Scantegrity II is that anyone — not just an election official — can see from any online computer whether the posted votes correspond to actual ballots and whether the number of votes counted is identical to the number of votes cast.
I'm also happy for African - Americans that they get to feel a sense of belonging, finally, and that their vote does count, and just being able to point to our children and say, «Okay, here's the deal, everything is possible now, for real.»
It's just lazy... and your vote shouldn't count toward the Rotten Tomatoes meter because you haven't earned it.
Just a couple of weeks before the Bridgeport vote Rhee dropped $ 100,000 into the effort to pass Finch's proposal, and that doesn't even count the tens of thousands more that they failed to reveal in their campaign finance reports.
But we'll just have to wait until the consumer votes are all counted before seeing how much of a winner this dual - personality Jeep might be.
Just as every vote counts, so does every dollar that helps create every gallery visit, artist talk, and workshop possible.
With almost 80 % of the electorate counted, (at time of writing) the Greens have picked up just shy of 8 % of the vote.
The YRCC argued that the scrutineers miscounted the votes by counting a proxy of 33 votes, made on behalf of Skyrise Developments Ltd., as just one vote.
And when we call on you to «Vote, Act, and Invest,» I know I can count on you to heed the call — not just for your profession but also because it's the right thing to do for America.
Here's where to vote, just click the vote button under my mom's face at this link (Melissa from The Inspired Room) and your vote will be counted!
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