Sentences with phrase «voters register before»

He said that the exercise was conducted at the local government level and all the 326 electoral wards across the state, to enable eligible voters register before the closing date.

Various pressure groups and political parties, especially the New Patriotic Party (NPP) have been mounting pressure on the EC to validate the voters register before new voters are registered ahead of the elections.

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Plus, voter - file targeting risks missing voters who move to the district soon before the election or who otherwise register late.

The Court issued a warrant for the owners of the station, host of the station's «Pampaso» programme, and the panelists, who threatened to kill judges over their handling of a case on the credibility of the voters» register to appear before them to answer for contempt charges.

According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, 32 states and the District of Columbia have an early voting system that allows registered voters to cast their votes in person before Election Day.

On October 13, one day before the state's voter registration deadline for new voters wishing to vote November 8, de Blasio spent about 30 minutes registering voters in downtown Brooklyn.

In an age of instant communication, advocates for changing the voting rules say there's no reason to require voters be registered at least 25 days before the next election.

An order setting aside the current register of voters and compelling the Electoral Commission to compile a fresh register of voters before the conduct of any new public elections or referenda in Ghana.

A minor party can maintain its status if one of its candidates for statewide office received at least 5 percent of the total votes cast in either of the last two elections or if 1,000 or more registered voters have affiliated with the minor party prior to July 1 before either of the last two elections.

Governor Bello had registered in Abuja, prior to the 2015 general elections, and all efforts to transfer the voters card to Kogi state, according to him, had been unsuccessful before 2015 had become an issue.

The bill was amended on the day before it passed the legislature, so that parties not recognized by the FEC as national committees need a petition of 1 % of the number of registered voters.

Recall that before 2011, the register of voters was full of errors including strange entries like Mike Tyson, incorrect entries and misplaced records.

But with same - day voter registration, he said people would be allowed to update their addresses and register to vote right before the election.

More voters — Deadlines for registering and for switching parties must be closer to election dates, eligible voters should be automatically registered when they conduct business with various state agencies, and early voting is a must, perhaps starting the weekend before Election Day.

The proposal would allow «non-aligned» voters registered on or before Aug. 19 to vote in the Sept. 13 Democratic primary — or up to 25 days before the primary, the same deadline for newly registered voters.

A Supreme Court ruling on Thursday instructed the election management body to immediately clean the voters» register before the 2016 general elections.

There's also little desire among voters to see lawmakers receive a pay bump from their base $ 79,500, with opposition to the proposal registering at 55 percent to 42 percent (pay raises for lawmakers and cabinet officials is now before a panel that could decide on salary increases at the end of this year).

Justice Abba Aji in his judgment said, since, evidences and exhibits presented before the court have shown that the elections in the said polling were marred with irregularities and the number of registered voters from the affected polling units if they were not disenfranchised can change the outcome of the election, the right thing to do is to have a fresh election in the polling units.

Agbaje added that those who were newly - captured would undergo Automatic Finger Identification System (AFIS) before their names would be ratified and added to the present list of registered voters in Osun.

The REC reassured that the PVC for registered voters in the state would be distributed before the governorship election on September 22.

National Voter Registration Day, a massive 50 - state effort to register voters before Election Day 2014, will be celebrated on Tues., Sept. 23rd...

Candidates that qualify for public financing receive $ 1 for each registered voter in the city — about $ 380,000 in 2017 — minus the seed money the candidate collected before qualifying.

McKenzie said New York's electoral rules, like closed primaries and a requirement that voters register in a party six months before the ballot, had left many Sanders supporters shocked, disillusioned and determined to bring about a change.

In Delaware, a political party will not be listed on the general election ballot unless a number of registered voters equal to 0.1 percent of the total registered voters in the state as of December 31 of the year prior to the election have affiliated with that party no later than three weeks before the primary election.

To become a major party, at least 5 percent of all registered voters in the state must affiliate with the party by December 31 of the year before the election.

State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's voter hotline recorded far more complaints than ever before, with the mess focused in Brooklyn among voters who were no longer listed as being registered.

Meanwhile, DAILY POST is aware that under the Electoral Act No. 6 2010 (Amendment) Bill 2017 recently passed into law by the Senate, INEC is mandated to publish voters» registers on its official website (s) for public scrutiny at least 30 days before a general election and any INEC staff who is responsible for this but fails to act as prescribed shall be liable on conviction to six months» imprisonment.

«Given that the register was substantially not used to accredit voters before voting, it is logical to conclude that if underage voting occurred in the election, it was not due to any presence of underage registrants on the register of voters.

We started in April and as at last week, and we have registered 3.2 million (Nigerians) on top of the 70 million registered voters for the 2015 general elections that we had before.

The Ohio Cannabis Institute says it will promote the former Ohio Supreme Court justice among its significant following of registered voters before...

He said: «Let me, for the sake of transparency and openness, tell you that the entire number of registered voters by distribution will be uploaded on our website before the end of this week.

The Electoral Commission's penguin encourages younger voters to register before the EU referendum.

While states were permitted to require voters to register for a political party 30 days before an election, or to require them to vote in only one party primary, the state could not prevent a voter from voting in a party primary if the voter has voted in another party's primary in the last 23 months.

Yvette Cooper, Labour's former shadow home secretary, who spoke at the event to encourage more young voters to register before the new extended deadline, said Corbyn would not privately vote leave.

Among them he says are the increasing dip in the credibility of the Electoral Commission, the constituency creation and boundary settings, the determination of who qualifies to vote especially following allegations of some foreign nationals on the voters» register, the bigger issue of financing the activities of the EC and national elections, ensuring sustainable peace and security before, during and after elections and the use of gate speech, inflammatory language and dangerous campaigning tactics.

The Niger State PDP Chairman, Tanko Beji, highlighted the importance of permanent voter cards and advised members that had not registered to do so before it was late.

drew almost unanimously positive reviews — but despite its quality, Linklater's purposefully ramshackle comedy about the last weekend before college is probably far too low - key to register strongly with Oscar voters.

Thousands of teachers are scouring «the valley» of Texas — the expanse stretching south from Houston to the Gulf Coast and in the west along the Rio Grande — joining in the drive to register one million Hispanic voters before the state's Oct. 7 deadline.

Across the state, members engaged as never before in non-partisan efforts to register voters and to educate school communities on key ballot measures in addition to working on their own time to support important races at the local, county and state levels.

Among registered voters, 63 percent say preschool attendance is very important, nearly identical to the response in May 2006 (60 %)-- just before voters rejected a June ballot measure that would have taxed upper - income residents to fund universal voluntary preschool.

Voters must be game professionals who are registered (or register before voting) with a user account at Gamasutra.com.