Sentences with phrase «voting problems»

A top official at the New York City Board of Elections has been suspended after widespread complaints of voting problems in Brooklyn during Tuesday's presidential primaries, the board said Thursday.

The probe comes as City Comptroller Scott Stringer has said he plans to audit the city board of elections over voting problems on Tuesday as well.

Dozens of New Yorkers also took to Twitter to report voting problems, using the hashtag #nycvotes.

She testified last year in Tallahassee about voting problems in the 2000 presidential election.

All the sites front pages are predominantly top - down (campaign - driven) tools, but at least Obama and Huckabee's sites try to feature their supporters and their enthusiasm (and provide a public reporting system for voting problems).

«The double - vote problem certainly could cost all of the cross-endorsing minor parties a substantial number of votes.»

Following an outcry by Queens and city legislators about widespread voting problems during Primary Day, the city Board of Elections said it is taking extra precautions to educate the public about the new voting machines before the Nov. 2 election.

Even as the Presidential Commission on Election Administration is still considering improvements to the U.S. election system, politicians on the local level are also looking at ways to address voting problems that came up in recent elections.

MANHATTAN — New Yorkers faced a slew of voting problems as they cast their ballots Tuesday, including jammed scanners, locked doors, unreadable print and unclear instructions.

Threat Level will also be collecting reports of voting problems, and of course thousands of Americans will record their experiences in their own ways.

seriously though, not sure what's the best way around the voting problems.

«But given that the Independence, Conservative, and Working Families parties all had more than 150,000 votes at the top of the ticket in both 2008 and 2006, it is very unlikely that the double - vote problem will cost any party their ballot line.»

It may be that the greater familiarity with minor parties in New York means the double - vote problem won't be as large here, but one surely wouldn't want to bet the farm, or the party, on it.»

Ms. Lerner, with Common Cause, and others today noted that voting problems were reported across political ideologies on Tuesday.

Attorney General Eric Schneiderman praised the governor's voting system reform proposals, which Cuomo acknowledged were based on a report from the attorney general on voting problems around the state and the dysfunctional Board of Elections.

«The administration of the voter rolls in Brooklyn is of major concern to our office and is a key focus of our investigation,» state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said, whose office is also looking at other parts of the state that had voting problems.