Sentences with phrase «votes early polls»

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As the polls showed the race tightening, he says, «reporters frequently focused on other factors, such as early voting and Democrats» supposedly superior turnout operation.»

The poll does bring some good news for Clinton, though: She leads among people who voted early by 58 % to 41 %.

Pop superstar Jennifer Lopez was joined by Hillary Clinton at a free concert in Miami Saturday night, where the Democratic presidential candidate urged supporters to head to the polls for early voting as her campaign was rocked by a renewed FBI probe of her emails the previous day.

Amazingly, some extraordinarily courageous individuals (initially Arnold himself, journalists David Quinn and Breda O'Brien, the Iona Institute; later on, John Waters, retired Regius Professor of Laws at Trinity College Dublin, William Binchy and the distinguished historian Prof. John A. Murphy; the gay campaigners for a «No» vote, Paddy Manning and Keith Mills, deserve special mention) did succeed in making a difference to the eventual numbers, although not the outcome: in the early Spring, polls indicated that 17 percent of the electorate would vote against the amendment, but by the time the actual referendum came around, 38 percent were indicating a «No» vote, and that was the eventual outcome.

The polls in Florida show Romney's lead widening, and it's possible they underestimate what his real margain will be — due to his industry in getting his people to vote early.

Though its electoral successes were widespread at the local and state level the success of the early Socialist Party as a movement with mass was very much linked to the personality of Eugene V. Debs who polled nearly a million votes in the presidential campaign of 1912.

I say that as if it were a continuing process because I live in a state with early voting and despite what polling and the Obama campaign says, pollsters only get to talk to people who will talk to them and get to choose who they poll.

We all can do something to make sure Obama gets elected - talk to your friends, families and neighbors and make sure that they all get to the polls or vote early.

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).

The Act allows two thirds of MPs to vote to have an early election, essentially requiring both Government and Opposition to decide to go to the polls together.

We could just as easily leave the polls open for a week and people can filter in when they want, which is I think what the no - excuse early voting is trying to accomplish.

Online advertising may switch to encouraging early voting and connecting people with polling places.

Still, polling day was polling day, and I manfully struggled out of bed at 6:30 am for the early morning leaflet drop: with polls opening at 7 am, we were hoping to encourage people to vote before they went to work.

Early voting and the other reforms will also ease pressure on polling sites, which will make voting more convenient.

But at 20 % the party's share of the first preference vote was well up on what might have been anticipated from the polls two months earlier.

Advocacy organizations have estimated early voting and electronic poll books (which would facilitate implementation of early voting) would cost New York State roughly $ 7 million — compared to the State's $ 160 billion budget.

The Carpool Vote platform was designed to get people to the polls on election day or during early voting, or to transport people to get a voter ID before election day.

It's a special election, though, and very few people had taken advantage of early voting as of this weekend, meaning that a candidate able to pull a core group of supporters to the polls has chance.

A new Siena College poll released Monday found 67 percent of those surveyed support instituting early voting.

Governor Cuomo is putting $ 7 million into his 30 - day budget amendments to fund poll sites for early voting in New York by the 2020 presidential race.

De Blasio was announced the winner by local newscasts before 9:30 p.m., after early poll results showed him garnering over 61 percent of the vote with more than half of precincts reporting.

But there is one challenge to implementing early voting and using electronic poll books — the costs.

Cuomo's plan would change that be requiring counties to offer at least one early voting polling location for every 50,000 residents during a 12 - day period before Election Day.

The poll found 65 percent support the governor's proposal to allow early voting in New York.

The mayor called on the state Legislature to pass broad voting and election reforms, including same - day voter registration, early voting, «no excuse» absentee voting, electronic poll books, consolidation of primary elections, reformatting ballots to make them more user - friendly, and pre-registration of 16 - and 17 - year - olds.

There is strong support for early voting among voters, according to a new Siena College poll.

[91] Opinion polling for the council elections conducted in early 2017 suggested that the SNP looked set to repeat this level of success, with 47 % of the public claiming they will be voting for SNP candidates on election day.

Expanding early voting, simplifying the ballot & modernizing the registration process including electronic poll books are some of the ways we can accomplish this goal, and I want to thank the Vote Better NY coalition for presenting their vision here today.»

A Siena Poll released in February shows that 67 % of New Yorkers, including 60 % of Upstate New Yorkers, 48 % of Republicans, and 65 % of suburban New Yorkers, support early voting.

As part of the legislation, every county will have one early voting poll site for every 50,000 residents.

ICM also asked a voting intention question asking how people would vote assuming that Gordon Brown was Labour leader — like YouGov's poll earlier this week this showed Labour doing worse under Brown than under Blair; with Brown as leader voting intention would be CON 40 %, LAB 37 %, LD 18 %.

During the early voting period, polling locations would be required to be open for eight hours on weekdays and five hours on weekends and holidays, and to offer evening hours on at least two days.

To those who suggest the current option of the absentee ballot: that choice offers an early vote only to those swearing they will be out of the county or who are physically unable to come to the polls, not to those who anticipate a personal or work - related barrier on election day.

the early voting legislation proposed by the governor will require every county to offer residents access to at least one early voting poll site during the 12 days leading up to Election Day.

According to Carroll, the early voting legislation proposed by the governor will require every county to offer residents access to at least one early voting poll site during the 12 days leading up to Election Day.

After all these problems, it is really a remarkable achievement that the party obtained 11 % of voting intentions in the YouGov poll referred to earlier.

Counties must have one early voting poll site for every 50,000 residents and the bipartisan County Boards of Elections will determine the specific location of early voting polling places, subject to standards of accessibility and convenience.

The proposal would require each county to set up at least one early voting poll site during the 12 days leading up to Election Day.

Mayor de Blasio and his GOP rival Nicole Malliotakis turned out to the polls early Tuesday to cast Election Day votes for themselves.

Quinn was the early favourite to be the Democratic nominee but De Blasio won 40.81 % of the vote in the primary, winning the poll outright.

The governor also proposed an early voting system that would require counties to open one polling place for every 50,000 residents for the 12 days preceding elections.

The legislation will require every county to offer residents access to at least one early voting poll site during the 12 days leading up to Election Day.

But Kingson on Tuesday outperformed a poll from only two weeks earlier, which showed him finishing a distant third to Deacon with 8 percent of the vote.

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Admittedly there are commuters currently wending their way home who will be voting, but based on progress from the morning into early evening, the number of London Labour voters that the GOTV operation will be able to deliver to the polls is running substantially below target.»

-- Creation of an early voting period: 35 states offer some form of early voting, generally 1 - 2 weeks before Election Day at a selected number of «super poll sites.»

A Siena poll released earlier this month found Woolf trailing his GOP opponent, Elise Stefanik, by 13 percentage points, with Green Party candidate Matt Funiciello receiving 10 percent of the vote and 11 percent of those polled saying they remain undecided.

As a replacement to Saaka Sayuti who was earlier rejected by members of the assembly, he polled 39 out of 42 valid votes cast which represented 93 %.

Nevertheless, the Electoral Commission report into these elections drew back from their earlier recommendation because its research showed that a large minority of people wished to retain the option of voting at polling stations.

Then in the early 1970s at first it was thought Labour was on course for a landslide, then that Edward Heath would win comfortably, when the results came in, to the surprise of everyone going off the polls both main party votes had collapsed with Labour having enough seats to form a majority.