Sentences with phrase «vote in any polling station»

Let people vote in any polling station, anywhere: New Zealand does it.

Can a photo of strangers voting in a polling station be taken and put on Facebook if their ballot is not showing how they voted.

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«We voted on the first of October and now we have to defend our vote and defend our republic in the polling stations and this time they aren't going to use violence against us,» says Eduard Morell, an activist for the ERC in Terrassa.

In an interview next to her office on the hospital's fourth floor, Sklyarevskaya said she had voted only once, at a third polling station, number 217.

Silvio Berlusconi, leader of right - wing party Forza Italia, waves as he arrives to vote on March 4, 2018 at a polling station in Milan.

With many people flocking to vote in the evening, polling stations stayed open well beyond their originally scheduled closing hour — one station in Taikoo Shing received its last vote at 2:30 a.m.

He earlier on indicated that there are 38 polling stations (16 in Makindye, a Kampala suburb and 22 in Wakiso district) where voting is expected to take place today (Friday).

You might walk to the polling station or start filling in your postal voting form with no idea which way you'll go.

By Friday morning, President Museveni had polled 1,362,961 votes from 6,448 polling stations, representing 23.02 per cent of 28,010 polling wards in the whole country.

But as senior politicians cast their votes, others were turned away from voting in the north London borough of Barnet after the wrong electoral register lists were printed for polling stations.

But while the voting process itself has been described as fair by most international observers, the political campaign and the actual counting of the votes — no doubt the most important part of the democratic election process — has been characterized by the abuse of power, the excessive role of money, extraordinary events such as power cuts in the polling stations, fights between party representatives, accusations of fraud and scandals in denying observers access to polling stations.

For example, in Spain you can go to the polling station and vote in person the election day, that would automatically invalidate your mail vote (these are introduced only after the station is polled, and they are introduced only if the sender is not registered as having voted).

Liberals often claim that while there may be other forms of voter fraud in the United States, like voter registration fraud, the only kind of voter fraud that a voter ID law can possibly prevent is in - person voter fraud (where someone shows up at a polling station and votes when they're not legally permitted), and that there have been almost no documented cases of someone committing intentional in - person voter fraud in the United States.

State Sen. Toby Stavisky greets potential voters before voting during last week's primary at a polling station in northern Queens.

This morning at PS 46 in Oakland Gardens, voters were a little shocked to see a person inside the polling station wearing a «Vote for SJ» t - shirt «assisting voters,» a clear violation of election law.

A polling station in Brooklyn is open for voting in the presidential primary for the state of New York April 19, 2016 in New York / AFP PHOTO / KENA BETANCURKENA BETANCUR / AFP / Getty Images

A polling station organizer of the NPP in Suhum Krobea in the Suhum Constituency, Korsi Dogbe, has also revealed that cab drivers in the area and NPP supporters have vowed never to vote for the President Akufo - Addo in the next presidential election.

According to Alhaji Haruna Rashid Ibrahim, the NDC representative at the EC's National Collation Centre (Strong Room), if the commission cancels the results from those 200 polling stations in line with C.I. 94, it would cause a reduction in the votes gathered by Nana Akufo - Addo of the New Patriotic Pary (NPP).

NDC wants EC to cancel votes from 200 polling stations in Ashanti Region Asiedu Nketia, NDC General Secretary

It cited five examples, including a polling station in western Nandi county where the electoral board's website recorded 439 rejected votes but the paper form only had four.

CODEO says it will deploy 40 stationed observers to 40 randomly sampled polling stations across the 19 Electoral Areas in the Constituency on the day of voting.

Barnet Council said: «We are aware of problems with our electoral registration lists this morning at polling stations in Barnet which have meant that a number of people who had not brought their polling card with them were unable to vote.

In Tower Hamlets, the High Court suspended the Mayor, Lutfur Rahman, after he was found guilty of falsifying postal votes and putting undue pressure on voters at polling stations during the 2014 local and European elections.

The James - Clarke survey suggests that the electoral register needs attention: they found that over two thirds of polling stations turned away at least one citizen from voting in the 2015 election because their name was not on the electoral register.

Burns said that she mistakenly headed to the wrong polling station, a local middle school, after voting there during the Congressional primary back in June, and never receiving any notice her poll site has changed.

Others reported how inspired they'd been by the hundreds of thousands of electoral commission workers in the 33,000 polling stations who spent a long, hard day making sure everyone could vote.

The results are in contention following the NPP's discovery of over voting and unknown polling station results recorded at the end of the poll on December 7.

He added that Akufo - Addo had 4,676,998 in the 23,000 polling stations they have collated while President Mahama had 3,644,724 votes.

President Mahama thus called on NDC supporters to avoid complacency and to flock to the polling stations, to ensure that his target of amassing 56 percent of the votes in the elections is realised.

Liberal Democrats leader Tim Farron arrives to cast his vote in the General Election at a polling station at Stonecross Manor Hotel in Kendal, Cumbria

13:24 - The BBC are at a polling station in the in the Bettws ward of Newporth received literally no votes for the police commissioner for Gwent.

Meanwhile, the flagbearer of the New Patriotic Party for the 2016 general elections, Nana Akufo - Addo has cast his vote at the Rock of Ages polling station in the Abuakwa South Constituency.

Whatever their choice, I have one simple message for each and every person in the East End and that is to get down to the polling station and use your vote today.»

Heading into the polling station in Barlanark, Mr Mason said: «I urge everyone in Glasgow East, young and old, to go to your polling station today, cast your vote for the SNP and send a strong message to Gordon Brown that it's time for a fair share for the East End.

In a year's time, polling stations will open across the nation for the General Election, with 6.8 m young Britons eligible to vote.

Such an estimate would not be reliable, as the requirement for voters to vote at their designated polling station was removed in the last hours before the referendum began.

He voted at the Osu Castle at the Public Works Department (PWD) 1 polling station in the Klottey - Korle constituency.

Some real - life examples include reducing the number of polling stations and voting machines in some areas.

The EC in a statement said «all registered voters who wish to transfer their votes from the polling station in the constituency where they registered to a different constituency where they wish to vote in the 2016 general elections, are required to visit the District Office of the Electoral Commission in the constituency WHERE THEY ARE NOW RESIDENT, to complete the vote transfer application form to be processed for the transfer.»

His wife Samira Bawumia also voted at the same polling station in the constituency.

All registered voters who wish to transfer their votes from the polling station in the Constituency where they registered to a different Constituency where they wish to vote in the 2016 general elections, are required to visit the District Office of the Electoral Commission in the Constituency where they are now resident to complete the vote transfer application form to be processed for the transfer.

44th Senate District incumbent Hugh Farley enters his polling station to vote on Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2000, in Niskayuna, N.Y. (Will Waldron / Times Union)

One of the claims regularly made by Returning Officers wanting to delay counting until the Friday was that thousands and thousands of postal votes get handed in on polling day at polling stations and that under new regulations it would take hours to verify them, thereby making it impossible to deliver a result on the night.

The petitioners further argued that if the results of the 10,119 polling stations were annulled, President Mahama's votes would have reduced by 2,622,551, which would have, in turn, beaten down the results declared by the Electoral Commission in his favour, to 41.79 per cent.

He proposes that in future, in certain areas, voters should present documentary identification prior to voting at the polling station.

The Guardian reports: «A former minister and fiction writer, Alvarado Quesada, 38, had 61 % of the vote with results in from 95 % of polling stations, a far bigger lead than predicted by opinion polls that foresaw a tight race.»

In his final live televised interview ahead of polling stations opening, Ireland's prime minister, Enda Kenny, urged voters to vote yes «for love and for equality».

Votecastr, a partnership between Slate and Vice News, will provide coverage of the race in part by tracking the number of people who have voted at particular polling stations.

Boko Haram extremists killed 41 people, including a legislator, and scared hundreds of people from polling stations but millions voted across Nigeria Saturday in the most closely contested presidential race in the nation's history.

Mr. Kwabena Donkor, the incumbent MP, polled 3,938 votes securing victory over his opponent, Musa Fuseni who polled 1,130 votes in the 36 polling stations.