Sentences with phrase «with poll workers»

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That would include making «systemic changes» based on recommendations from an outside consultant and publicly posting all job vacancies, improving poll worker staffing with better pay and better training, and communicating more clearly with voters about poll sites, election days and registration statuses.

Poll workers at MS 158 said morning turnout had been low, with less than 10 people having voted before 11 a.m..

The BOE needs to change the attitude of its poll workers so when voters ask to use the Ballot Marking Device (BMD) they are not confronted with a response «you don't really want to use that, do you?»

But I'm sure you have an issue with having voters flash an id card at the poll workers that's asking too much right?

Poll of specialist workers finds that 20 % believe services are seriously lacking, with potentially dangerous consequences

With 120,000 polling units nationwide and on the basis of the four officials we deploy to each registration centre, we came to the conclusion that we required 620, 000 ad hoc workers.

Mr. Espaillat described last Tuesday's vote as a «murky process,» and he rattled off a series of perceived problems with the process, including a lack of Spanish translators at the polling stations and reports from his constituents that they had been turned away by election workers.

oh, and I do not detect phones easily available to poll workers at all such polling sites, so that in order for that to happen, someone would have to be equipped with at least a cellphone in order to accomplish the transmission of this information as well.

There was also a TNS poll yesterday, which asked a rather strange question on whether people thought public sector workers should strike (40 %) OR the government should continue with the reforms regardless (37 %), which is rather tricky to interpret as it deals with both whether people should strike and whether the government should proceed.

The snap poll was also responsible for an unusually low turnout, as fly - in fly - out workers and travelling voters found themselves with little opportunity to arrange postal votes.

Schneiderman's office said their preliminary investigation found that «many poll workers are not receiving consistent guidance about their legal obligations with respect to affidavit ballots,» according to the letter.

Attorney General Eric Schneiderman in 2016 proposed a package of electoral reforms that would include the automatic voter registration for anyone who deals with a state agency, same - day registration, early voting, and unified statewide training standards for poll workers.

The big story in this primary race today was not the vote counting, but the fact that Rangel allies (led by Keith Wright) met with BOE officials on June 23rd to discuss the location and placement of poll workers prior to the election.

Ferretti, who said he had nothing to do with the doctored sample ballots at the polling place, also said he is «looking into my legal remedies» after accusing a Coll campaign worker of illegal electioneering.

Mail - in absentee ballots are only available upon request for active members of the military, those with an illness, physical disability or travel plans that prevent them from voting in person on Election Day, and election workers who are working at a polling place other than their own.

Among the key reasons cited by the Assembly and the ECA for adopting a June primary date are that, in their view: an August primary would result in reduced turnout because many voters vacation during that month; identifying and training sufficient poll workers would be very difficult during a prime vacation period; schools, which are often used as poll sites, are frequently closed and unstaffed during the summer; and that, given the myriad tasks that must be completed to prepare and transmit ballots, as well as the inevitable delays caused by administrative challenges, machine malfunctions and counting of paper ballots, setting a June date would ensure better compliance with UOCAVA's 45 - day ballot transmission requirement.

And public sector workers, in spite of Ed Balls, have returned to Labour in droves: Lord Ashcroft's poll in January put Labour support amongst public sector workers at 51 % (up 12 %) with Tories on 20 % (down 6 %), UKIP on 10 % (up 8 %) and the Lib Dems collapsing to as few as 7 % (down to 18 %).

Francisco Moya signs in to vote with help from poll worker Carmel Carucci.

Incompetent poll workers added to the day - long distress, with voters told they were at the wrong polling place or incorrectly instructed not to vote for delegates.

They end their day with a better understanding of the importance of voting and the vital role poll workers play in making our elections run smoothly.

On page one, they cite a 2005 Harris Interactive poll that indicated 41 percent of U.S. workers were dissatisfied with their jobs.

The job search site polled more than 5,200 workers in November 2009 and found that 78 % are currently living paycheck to paycheck, compared with 71 % the previous May.

The latest Allstate / National Journal Heartland Monitor Poll did find that young workers are more concerned with immediate needs like paying off student debt and building an emergency fund than retirement.

Four of the company's workers are currently trapped in the office and for some reason are blogging about their predicament, asking readers for advice on how to escape and offering a poll that will determine their next action in dealing with the zombie now roaming the studio.

In a poll with the trade union, UCATT found that 37 % of workers stated that either they or a co-worker had been injured in the construction industry in the last year.

In Northeast Ohio Coalition for the Homeless v. State of Ohio (12 - 4069), the Sixth Circuit was tasked with examining the acceptability of ballots cast in the wrong precinct due to poll - worker error.

The United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit recently ruled that the Ohio board of elections must count provisional ballots with errors caused by poll workers.

In an Interact / Harris Poll survey of 1,120 U.S. workers, 616 of whom managed employees, a whopping 69 percent indicated they were uncomfortable communicating with employees.

Communicate over the phone with Registrar of Voters staff about poll worker attendance and any other team needs (missing supplies, questions, etc.).