Sentences with phrase «voted cast ballots»

Fifty - five percent of women who voted cast ballots for Obama, and those women made up 29 percent of the electorate.

Not exact matches

All four were unsuccessful, including Friday morning's dramatic 2 a.m. vote that failed when Sen. John McCain cast his ballot against the measure.

Buffett on Monday vowed to do «whatever it takes» to get out the vote in his congressional district in Nebraska, including driving voters himself to the polls to cast ballots.

A full 94.35 percent of business - owner respondents stated they were planning to vote in November, with 4.54 percent undecided and a mere 1.11 percent not intending to cast a ballot.

The cover layer option dubbed «Technology» won the spacesuit design challenge with 147,354 votes, or just over 63 percent of the total ballots cast, NASA officials said.

Some voters in Jefferson County ended up crossing party lines to cast their ballots for who they thought was the best candidate in each of the races — defying the practice of party line voting in an election that showed a deep red - blue political divide.

She said it's likely that there were Democratic voters who cast a ballot for her but who also voted for Trump.

Although it's not illegal to be registered to vote in multiple states, according to CNN, it is illegal to cast a ballot in more than one state.

More than two million people, or 90 percent of those who cast a ballot, voted «Yes» to Catalonia breaking away from Spain.

The Pennsylvania Department of State reported about 60 percent of Pennsylvania's voting - age population cast their ballot in 2008 and 2012.

During a surreal exchange, anchor David Muir grilled Trump over his continued spreading of the falsehood that millions of illegal ballots were cast in the 2016 election, which Trump had previously said was the reason for Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton beating him in the popular vote by 3 million ballots.

The folks in and around the Duluth metro area know how to rock the vote — more than 70 % of residents 18 and older turn out on Tuesdays to cast a ballot, according to data from the American Community Survey.

As 31 states allow military and overseas voters to return ballots via email, hackers could intercept these emails and change the votes cast or bring down the email server to which the absentee ballots are sent.

«Nor do I intend to share my private opinion other than via the anonymity of [the] ballot box when I join millions of others to cast my vote,» Carney continued.

Jones garnered 405,865 votes, just 8,331 fewer votes than Clinton received last year with 414,196 ballots cast in her name.

Small - business owners around the country are casting their ballots as the race to the 2014 Midterm Election finish line comes to an end — and how Main Street votes could determine not just who will go to Washington, but also the outcome of key initiatives that affect all of our bottom lines.

If Canadian investors could vote, they'd want to cast their ballots for Barack Obama.

Over 6 million Floridians have already cast their ballots in early voting, more than the total 5.9 million cast by registered voters in 2000.

The former federal minister campaigned for eight months, grabbed an unfamiliar delegate selection system by the lapels, and shook free 1,113 votes of 1,476 ballots cast at the weekend convention.

«It has been found that 4 ballots were cast by individuals ineligible to vote.

A deputies» union on Thursday announced that 85 percent of its members who voted — 534 out of 628 — cast ballots expressing «no confidence» in the sheriff's leadership.

Polls opened at 8 a.m. Friday in Iran as Iranians cast ballots in the first parliamentary elections since the 2009 vote that sparked riots and accusations of rigging.

I don't know what church you've been going to, but my minister goes to great pains before an election to not mention ANY candidate or particular ballot issue, but instead call on the congregation to read their scriptures (suggesting some references) and pray, pray, pray for God's guidance, as they get ready to cast their vote.

While Jesus» name won't appear on the ballot this fall, I imagine that every time I care for the poor, attempt to live more simply, turn the other cheek, and love my enemies, I'm casting a vote for Jesus, who will one day return to rule His Kingdom in person.

For the rest of us, you were required to vote for every category, so the system sometimes required me to cast ballots for categories I had no interest or experience in.

We will need to cast our votes at the ballot box to help decide how public policy should be formulated on many issues like this.

This means rather than ballots going out to individual cooperative members, the cooperatives will each cast one vote on behalf of their membership.

The ballots have been cast and the votes are in!

Oregon earns 44 first - place votes in the Week 12 BlogPoll, more than half of the total cast, but Kansas State earns 24 first - place votes of its own and is less than half a point per ballot behind the Ducks.

With 80.2 percent of those casting ballots voting to enter the 21st century and admit women, that leaves some 20 percent of the constituency still dragging their knuckles about entering the 21st century.

Next year, the hundreds of ballots of voting Baseball Writers Association of America members will be revealed, casting anonymity aside in favor of transparency.

And while Day claimed that, as of Sunday, he would still vote for Spieth for PoY, the 27 - year - old Aussie hoped to give voters some pause before they cast their ballots for the kid with two majors and two other tour victories in 2015.

Last March, when the same issue was on the ballot, it lost by only 62 votes out of 6,628 cast.

In two cases, the lawsuit alleges, candidates won office with insufficient votes, gaining victory as write - ins with a handful of ballots cast.

In two instances, the lawsuit alleges, candidates won office with insufficient votes, gaining victory as write - in candidates with a handful of ballots cast.

With 650 ballots cast, the top vote - getters for three open village trustee seats were Bonnie Cathleen Blackledge, chairwoman of the Village Cable Commission and a local merchant; Patrick O'Brien, a member of the Glen Ellyn Elementary District 41 Facilities Planning Committee and a Santa Fe Railway Co. retiree; and James Perlstein, chairman of the Capital Improvements Commission and a financial adviser.

With all 17 Lake County precincts reporting, 62 percent of the voters there cast ballots in favor of the bond issue, and 38 percent voted against.

Suppose I had cast my vote last year in an early ballot.

As IPPR's new report into political inequality shows, less than half of 18 — 24 - year - olds voted, compared to nearly four - fifths of the over-65s, while three - quarters of «AB» individuals cast a ballot, against just over half of «DE» registered voters.

A longtime push for early voting in New York took a step forward this month, with Republican Sen. Betty Little backing a bill that would allow voters to cast ballots up to two weeks before Election Day.

However, this makes higher demands of voters than simply casting a single vote, which in turn leads voters making mistakes on their ballot paper.

For all of those voters who already cast ballots through absentee or early voting, the new candidate will get all their votes.

The mainline Democratic conference in the state Senate on Tuesday pushed for a package of voting reforms designed to make it easier to cast a ballot in New York.

Retiring Rep. Charles Rangel voted in Harlem this morning, casting a ballot for the final time as a member of the House of Representatives.

In 2008, an estimated 1.9 million citizens did not vote simply because they didn't know where to go to cast a ballot.

After the recount of roughly 5,100 voting machines and so - called «emergency» paper ballots used by those who could for whatever reason not cast their vote in the usual way, de Blasio's tally stands at 40.88, which is up from 40.33 percent via the unofficial results on primary night.

(That's the unofficial tally, but I was just informed by St. Lawrence himself that he had landed 60 percent of the vote, which is cast by secret ballot).

In the wake of an appellate court decision, Spa City's charter change advocates are once again trying to get their hands on electronic images of ballots cast in November's charter referendum that was defeated by a narrow 10 - vote margin.

I spoke with individuals who had not voted since casting ballots for Ronald Reagan (in 1980 or 1984) but who were resolved to turn out to the ballot boxes for Trump.

One complication was that the authorities changed voting laws so that every voter could cast their vote at any polling station (i.e. not necessarily where they are registered) with the inevitable consequence that many polling stations ran out of ballot papers.