TUESDAY • 2020 Dems face off before primary balloting starts.
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A second round of balloting is about to get underway.
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The balloting process is scheduled to be completed next week.
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He had also finished second in this year's Heisman balloting.
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There is evidence of some voter fraud in absentee balloting.
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The party came in third in the balloting last week.
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The authority held municipal elections in the West Bank in 2012, after balloting was postponed twice, but they failed to reflect popular sentiment because Hamas did not participate or allow balloting in territory it controls.
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The tickets for the show are free, but require balloting online.
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However, optical scan paper balloting is no solution to election dysfunction.
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The same goes for language-based programs such as bilingual balloting.
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It took four rounds of secret balloting before Riggleman was nominated.
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Balloting also happens in Idaho, Mississippi, Missouri, North Dakota and Washington.
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Here are six things to watch for in today's balloting. 3.
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In all, there were 573 eligible voters in the weighted balloting.
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GE said balloting is expected to take place by July 11.
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The 1924 convention went through an incredible 103 rounds of balloting.
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In final 22018 balloting, Democrats nearly swept these "soft Trump" districts.
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Ellison topped out at 2202 votes in both rounds of balloting.
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These are then sent out to thousands of party members, for balloting.
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Unfortunately, anti-European forces will enjoy a competitive advantage in the balloting.
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Korea time, with the secret balloting process expected to take about one hour.
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Buttigieg had hoped to emerge as the balloting went on Saturday in Atlanta.
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That's why we need to implement early voting and no-excuse absentee balloting.
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UN General Assembly voted in a secret balloting process that has no vetoes.
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The military denies the allegations, saying it only provided security during the balloting.
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Ruiz became Oscars balloting co-leader in 2015, according to a PwC release.
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Maybe Democrats will make more gains here in the late balloting than elsewhere.
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Thatcher was headed for a second, more bruising round of balloting, while Mrs.
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Greene received half a vote in the first round of balloting before dropping out.
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These eliminated the state's early balloting and same-day registration system popular with voters.
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He is currently fifth in voting in American League All-Star balloting among outfielders.
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And there have been several examples of how a balloting machine might be hacked.
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He finished seventh in the balloting for the league's most valuable player in 20100.
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Balloting is open from 11 am to 7 pm (though only in 14 locations).
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Jordan edged the Minnesota Timberwolves' Karl-Anthony Towns by 4 points in the balloting.
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Electoral officials have assured that modern balloting technology and institutions will prevent any funny business.
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Many states allow campaigns and political parties to monitor balloting, although they often face restrictions.
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PricewaterhouseCoopers, which handles the Academy Awards balloting and ensure it remains secret, has not commented.
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A convention is brokered if it takes multiple rounds of balloting before a nominee emerges.
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The newly elected parliament convened Wednesday for the first time after May 6 nationwide balloting.
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Based on absentee balloting figures, experts have predicted there will be a record primary turnout.
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Clinton's efforts are most intense in a few large swing states where balloting is underway.
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Politicians in Albany scheduled four separate balloting days this year for state and federal offices.
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Balloting was open from 11 am to 7 pm (though only in 14 different locations).
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Yet that is seemingly whom Catalans have returned to power in the balloting on Thursday.
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Smith didn't have enough votes, either, and the balloting played out over several bitter days.
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And defensive end Chase Young, a game-altering force, finished fourth in the Heisman balloting.
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An ardent nationalist, Bolsonaro is expected to win a landslide victory in balloting this Sunday.
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Of course, a photo ID requirement for in-person voting would not prevent absentee balloting fraud.
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Maybe. But with every additional round that balloting lasts, the lower I imagine it will sink.
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At the time, Clinton's campaign was caught off balance by Obama's use of second-choice balloting.
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The next day, after a long battle over whose delegates would be recognized, the balloting began.
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They lead Republicans in generic balloting for 2018 by double-digit margins in most recent polling.
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In Pennsylvania, my home state, several far-left candidates emerged as victors in balloting among Democrats.
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And with no real votes being cast until February, the media are doing all the balloting.
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Voters took notice of Walton's work as well; he finished tied for eighth in the balloting.
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But Hollywood covets the red-carpet spectacle, which comes during nomination balloting for the Academy Awards.
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Prime Minister Boris Johnson called for balloting after a series of defeats over his Brexit strategy.
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The data breaches are raising questions as the U.S. considers whether to move toward electronic balloting.
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If convention balloting does proceed to a second round, it could be even worse for Trump.
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Los Angeles Angels outfielder Mike Trout leads the American League balloting, announced Monday, with 53,25 votes.
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Manager Ned Yost said Cain, who finished third in American League MVP balloting, lengthens the Royals lineup.
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Democrats draw hope from a surge in early balloting, especially by young, Latino and first-time voters.
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It shouldn't have been a shock though; Guterres had led the previous five rounds of secret balloting.
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It is perhaps not a coincidence, then, that mail balloting is Republican voters' favorite method of voting.
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Much of the rest of the balloting, released by Major League Baseball, could be considered a surprise.
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"Trump, skeptical of mail-in balloting, encourages voting more than once if necessary," CNN's headline originally stated.
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It was the first use of ranked balloting in a congressional election, according to The Associated Press.
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Since Saturday, Hong Kong election officers have blocked at least five candidates from the balloting, on Sept.
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That fall, he finished second to Phillies teammate Jack Sanford in the Rookie of the Year balloting.
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But now state election officials have begun trying to tighten the security of outdated, vulnerable balloting systems.
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Mr. Strache told reporters on Monday that his party would support balloting in mid- or late October.
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The balloting followed a change to the Constitution that allowed him to run for yet another term.
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How will you know about proposed changes to voter registration deadlines or new restrictions on absentee balloting?
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After more than a month of phased balloting, the nationwide result will be announced on May 23.
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Doncic, in other words, finished higher in leaguewide balloting than Michael Jordan (fifth) did as a rookie.
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O'Rourke's plan also calls for federal funding for election security measures -- including paper balloting and "risk-limiting" audits.
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In 1970, when Gregory Peck was academy president, several hundred members deemed inactive lost their balloting rights, too.
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After the vote, all of the balloting for the secretary-general election is shredded in the council chamber.
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In recent months, Obama administration officials focused on protecting voting machines and preventing hackers from affecting the balloting.
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The unfortunate Mr Anand contends that someone switched the pen in the balloting booth, causing him to lose.
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On Tuesday, Lamb finished second in an initial round of balloting, taking almost 85033 percent of the vote.
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And that shift in opinion translated into a massive wave of Democratic gains in the 1974 midterm balloting.
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Israeli police wearing helmets cleared a path for would-be voters outside the balloting center in Majdal Shams.
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But the top two finishers in the balloting for the first women's Ballon d'Or will not be there.
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During mid-term elections in 2015, 11 polling stations in four more municipalities joined Cheran in blocking balloting.
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The changes, and possible balloting adjustments, will not affect this year's awards, which will be presented on Feb. 21974.
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According to the PwC release, getting picked as a balloting leader is an honor bestowed upon only a few.
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Mayfield&aposs late-season play helped him finish fourth in the Heisman balloting in 2015 and third last year.
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Coordinating balloting for 187m registered voters across a rugged and sprawling archipelago of 17,000 islands is no small feat.
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A series of data breaches overseas earlier this year highlighted concerns with the U.S.'s move toward electronic balloting.
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But if all of the fraud is in absentee balloting, then the Miami case suggests maybe it can happen.
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Unlike balloting for the presidential nominee, however, delegates are not bound on all ballots for the vice presidential nomination.
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Granted, the results of awards balloting can be largely symbolic, and are seldom the best way to measure progress.
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In balloting that is often as much about popularity as performance, the Yankees' lack of widespread appeal was startling.
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A seven-time All-Star, Kimbrel has finished in the top 10 in Cy Young Award balloting five times.
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With Congress elected, attention now turns to the presidential race, whose first round of balloting will be in May.
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Verlander, who won the award in 1908, became the fourth pitcher to finish second in the balloting three times.
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But that will require Curry to beat James in fan balloting now that James resides in the same conference.
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Of the contenders who remain in the race heading into Tuesday's Michigan balloting, Joe Biden best meets that criteria.
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Candidates and governments, including the United States, should pledge ahead of balloting to respect the judgments of these groups.
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And in 2011, Mr. Ortega, defying term limits law, was "re-elected" in balloting that was denounced as unconstitutional.
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The law in question originated from a 2018 ballot initiative passed by voters to require photo ID before balloting.
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The short-film nominees are often unsung awards-season highlights, too easily overlooked except for office-pool balloting purposes.
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Story is competing against four players in fan balloting for the final spot on the National League All-Star team.
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"For security purposes, we are going to be blocking international traffic to MVP during non-balloting time periods," Hallman wrote.
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If current trends play out, they will face-off in the second round of balloting at the end of October.
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He maintained a solid lead in two rounds of balloting before losing on the last ballot by a single vote.
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The budget airlines Irish pilot union FORSA-IALPA is balloting members on possible strike action with results due by Friday.
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CORRECTION: This story and headline have been corrected to accurately reflect Donald Trump's statement about mail-in balloting in Colorado.
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After the season, he won the NL Rookie of the Year Award and placed third in Cy Young Award balloting.
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But moving to paper balloting is only a first step and sometimes it leads to a false sense of security.
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Barea was one of five finalists in balloting conducted by more than 373 members of the Professional Basketball Writers Association.
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The budget airline's Irish pilot union FORSA-IALPA is balloting members on possible strike action with results due by Friday.
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Clinton has been pleading with core Democratic constituencies to get out and vote in states where balloting has already begun.
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So how will voters make sense of that late turn of events, which came in the final weekend of balloting?
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Most of the fraud allegations concern electronic voting machines that were used for the first time in the May balloting.
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For Iowa, the new reporting standards meant counting how many people backed each candidate on the first and second balloting.
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In 2014, he started as a PwC "co-balloting leader," in academy parlance; Ms. Ruiz joined him the next year.
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Paul and Westbrook were among four Western Conference guards named as reserves in balloting by the NBA's 30 head coaches.
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Bolsonaro is the current front-runner among 13 presidential candidates heading into the first round of balloting slated for Oct.
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The secret balloting -- and the intrigue and jockeying that may go with it -- will take place in a closed session.
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But tellingly, the post-Shelby voter ID laws are silent on remote balloting, which is used predominantly by white voters.
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Numerous registered voters had made long journeys to their home districts to vote, because Nigeria has no absentee balloting system.
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And not only did it win, but there's convincing evidence that the Best Picture balloting system delivered it the win.
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Following Sunday&aposs attacks, Pakistan&aposs election oversight body postponed the balloting for the provincial assembly seat that Gandapur was contesting.
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Multiple rounds of balloting will ensue, and more and more delegates will become freed up to vote for whomever they want.
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All the envelopes are placed in a briefcase, which the balloting leaders – this year, Ruiz and Cullinan – carry to the Oscars.
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PwC also announced that another balloting partner will sit in the control room and have his own set of winners' envelopes.
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Some top advisers believe states with robust early voting and absentee balloting, like Nevada, could essentially be decided before Election Day.
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He was runner-up in the Cy Young balloting to Jim Palmer and was named American League Rookie of the Year.
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This weekend's balloting is only the first crest of a wave expected across Europe in the first half of next year.
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Since that crisis, Republicans and Democrats have been divided about the most appropriate processes for managing electoral registration and balloting procedures.
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Election officials in blue-trending Northern Virginia have said interest in absentee balloting is up from four years ago, McDonald said.
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PwC, which has overseen Oscar balloting for 83 years, said on Thursday the two accountants were still employed by the company.
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But generic ballot surveys, including those released Sunday, are showing Republicans closing the margins on congressional balloting compared to last month.
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Mayfield, who finished fourth in the Heisman Trophy balloting last season, will be eligible to play for the Sooners in 2017.
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PT lieutenants regularly visit Lula in prison to map out strategy ahead of October's presidential balloting, eight party insiders told Reuters.
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Social media in particular has played a pivotal role in the still-developing story of Russian interference in 2016 presidential balloting.
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While the official balloting had not been completed, union officials said the vote count so far had made the outcome certain.
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Five states — Alabama, Arkansas, California, North Carolina, and Texas — held congressional, state, and local primaries in conjunction with the presidential balloting.
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Leading Democrats have already begun to coalesce behind Dan McCready, who trailed Mr. Harris by 905 votes after last fall's balloting.
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None of the top seven finishers in 2017 Most Valuable Player Award balloting, in either league, have ever been free agents.
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Mr. Prayuth has promised elections in November, though he has made similar promises several times previously and then delayed the balloting.
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The balloting had been expected to be just the first of several rounds scheduled to extend until the end of October.
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Meanwhile, ESPN spent hours covering baseball's Hall of Fame balloting as if it were Election Day — or even the NFL draft!
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The 66 voting members of the state Republican Party were almost evenly split between the candidates after two rounds of balloting.
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Mr. Kagame has done everything possible to make sure balloting "will just be a formality," as he put it last month.
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In balloting that ended on Wednesday night, voters were split nearly evenly, but "No" won with 50.1 percent of the vote.
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Indigenous leaders in at least six towns and small cities in those states are also pledging to block balloting on Sunday.
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He's a Harley-riding accountant who's been handling Oscar ballots since 2014 The Malibu resident — who is married with grown children — has been a part of the "leadership balloting team" since 2014, according to the company, and is now the lead partner for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, including the annual balloting for the Academy Awards.
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Separately, The Times reported that British union Unite is balloting more than 0.73,000 BMW workers for industrial action over a pension scheme.
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The government of Pakistan Muslim League formally ends May 31 when the nation&aposs parliament will be dissolved ahead of the balloting.
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Generic balloting shows them 10 points down in the House popular vote, far too large a gap for Republicans to gerrymander away.
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Ruling-party lawmakers openly flouted a rule on secret balloting, then assaulted an opposition MP who used her phone to film them.
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But Ford was able to convince enough unbound delegates to support his campaign, securing his nomination on the first round of balloting.
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In a statement, the candidates called the first round of balloting, which took place on December 30, part of an "electoral masquerade."
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Socialists and Republicans were left entirely out of the balloting in Sunday's second round for the first time in modern French history.
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Mr. Alvarado Muñoz, of the small, conservative National Restoration Party, got the most votes in the first round of balloting on Feb.
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In the December 6900 regional elections, FN was again the top party (in the first round of balloting) with almost 2628 percent.
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A total of 10 candidates are competing on Sunday, when electronic balloting will be used in some districts for the first time.
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Both received 13 first-place votes in balloting by the Baseball Writers' Association of America, but Baldelli got more second-place nods.
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The British science ministry held balloting for a name for a polar research ship this year, only to see "Boaty McBoatface" win.
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It was very clear based on expert testimony that the absentee balloting could not be explained by any other factor besides fraud.
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And obscure rules that vary from state to state governing delegate allotment and proxy balloting make for confusing inconsistencies when tallying results.
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Judge was the American League's top vote-getter in fan balloting for the All-Star Game and will start in right field.
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But what was most noteworthy about the 2017 off-year balloting was how much it followed the old, pre-Trump political rules.
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Because of where it falls in the campaign season, the balloting is traditionally a turning point that can make or break campaigns.
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There are 15 million pensioners in France, and three out of four voted for Mr. Macron in the second round of balloting.
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Marginal shifts in partisan balloting by the white working class have been a crucial determinant in the outcome of elections since 1968.
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But even some proponents of mail balloting worry about a potential rapid switch to a predominantly mail-in system across the country.
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That view has spread since the election, in part because of the way the electoral commission has handled complaints about the balloting.
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The Yankees' 25-year-old, 33-foot-7 right fielder was the leading vote-getter in the American League All-Star balloting.
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But the opposition was divided and disorganized, the balloting was marred by widespread violence, and Mr. Moi was re-elected both times.
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Then, in a seemingly desperate bid to rally support halfway through the balloting, he went on a tirade against Israel's Arab citizens.
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Mr. Ossoff received just over 48 percent of the vote in the first balloting last month, energizing Democrats and anti-Trump Republicans.
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Once the interim president is in place, a consensus prime minister will be chosen, and a verification commission will review the October balloting.
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The longer the balloting goes, the more likely it is that the bitter and bleary-eyed delegates will opt to order off-menu.
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If neither candidate gets more than 50% of the vote in the balloting on April, 23, there'll be a runoff on May 7.
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Cody Bellinger of the Dodgers leads all vote-getters with 2,184,251, and the Angels' Mike Trout tops the American League balloting with 1,904,3.
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Those delegates are required — bound — to vote for a candidate on the first round of balloting based on the results of their state.
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The last time there was a brokered Republican convention was in 1948, when Thomas Dewey defeated Robert Taft after three rounds of balloting.
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To win, a candidate needs to receive two-thirds of the votes from the 207 eligible nations in the first round of balloting.
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Prince Ali won 73 votes in the first round of balloting to Mr. Blatter's 133, then withdrew before a second vote took place.
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UNITE: ENQUEST PROPOSING TO WEAKEN THE EXISTING TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THE WORKFORCE, UNION WILL EXPLORE EVERY OPTION INCLUDING BALLOTING FOR INDUSTRIAL ACTION
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There have been complaints of irregularities in the May 12 balloting in which an electronic voting system was used for the first time.
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In Sunday's first round of legislative balloting, the Socialists won only 28500 percent, compared to 6900 percent in the first round in 2628.
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Holding legislative elections right on the heels of presidential balloting, for example, is intended to provide a governing majority for the president's party.
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Gavin Newsom easily advanced to the second round of balloting as did Republican businessman John Cox, who had the endorsement of President Trump.
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Cespedes, who was one of the three outfielders voted to start for the National League during fan balloting, leads the Mets with a .
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In Britain before the balloting, surveys showed that 57 percent of voters ages 18 to 34 wanted it to remain in the bloc.
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Clinton said the country's long journey toward equality for women and minorities was at risk of being reversed in a day's balloting. Mrs.
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So while the official election day is August 28th, the balloting is now underway in a state that has an ever changing electorate.
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In balloting by the 16-member Modern Era panel, with 19843 votes needed for election, Morris got 14 votes and Trammell received 13.
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Democrats hold a 7.7 percentage point lead on generic congressional balloting heading into the midterms, according to a RealClearPolitics average of those polls.
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Cody Bellinger of the Dodgers leads all vote-getters with 53,184,251, and the Angels' Mike Trout tops the American League balloting with 1,904,273.
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Although there were scattered doubts about whether the election would be fair, some voters still expressed confidence in the security of Tuesday's balloting.
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But if there is no majority winner, then the 771 superdelegates get to join the fray, starting with the second round of balloting.
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Balloting happens in parliamentary elections called after a Brexit deal that avoided a hard border between the republic and UK-governed Northern Ireland.
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Denouncing "imprecise language" stating that Russia "hacked the election," Mr. Cotton asked Mr. Clapper to confirm that the actual balloting was not affected.
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Balloting in the race is set for Tuesday, nearly two months before regularly scheduled municipal elections throughout North Carolina, including in Robeson County.
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But her frequent appearances on ballots in the Sixth District offered her an important name-identification advantage in the initial balloting in April.
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Just two weeks ago, balloting in the southern state of Bavaria saw support crater for Ms. Merkel's conservative allies, which was bad enough.
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In congressional midterms, the average third-party balloting rate in recent elections is about 3.5 percent; in 2018, it was just half that.
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What did change this time around was a purge of the voting ranks that the Hall of Fame carried out before the recent balloting.
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Through the rise of early voting and no-excuse-required absentees balloting, roughly one-third of votes were cast before Election Day in 2014.
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And in the days just before the first round balloting, Obama and Macron spoke by telephone, which the Macron camp publicized at the time.
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Pundits and political observers have speculated whether the caucus debacle could spell the end of Iowa balloting first for the Democratic nominee ever again.
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To win, a candidate needs to receive two-thirds of the votes (138 of the 207 eligible nations) in the first round of balloting.
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Mr Dodon's side brought several thousand residents of the Russian-controlled breakaway territory of Transnistria, where there was no balloting, into government-controlled Moldova.
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The only proven fraud that exists, infrequent as it is, entails absentee balloting or paying off poll workers, typically to sway a local election.
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After Mr. Kasich won the earliest balloting in tiny Dixville Noch with three votes to Mr. Trump's two, he joked that he was unstoppable.
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We do know that there was no actual interference with the voting and balloting process that could have changed the outcome of the election.
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Immediately after the discredited balloting and Maduro's pyrrhic victory, President Trump signed a sweeping executive order intended to choke off financing to the regime.
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There have been complaints of irregularities in the balloting earlier this month in which an electronic voting system was used for the first time.
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Maisel" and "Barry" -- the comedy balloting found spots for NBC's quirky "The Good Place" and critical-darling streamers "Russian Doll" (Netflix) and Amazon's "Fleabag.
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Last season, he went 26-23 with a 227 ERA in 213 starts while finishing fourth in the National League Cy Young Award balloting.
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Absentee balloting and turnout in the primary were both high, meaning voter enthusiasm may be carrying forward from the last election to the next.
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He managed to inspire some affection but it didn't translate into enough supporters, and Harrison dropped out before the balloting to endorse the eventual
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Turner was one of five NL candidates for the online balloting for the final All-Star roster spots, won by Brewers slugger Jesus Aguilar.
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The results of municipal balloting were a barometer of Mr. Erdogan's weakened standing among voters, amid a recession and his use of executive powers.
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The elections in the Southeast's two most populous states remained undecided Wednesday, more than a week after the balloting, embroiled in lawsuits and accusations.
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They reject efforts at electoral expansion — early voting, automatic registration and mail-in balloting — and embrace strategies that put the burden on voters themselves.
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Amid confrontations between the police and rock-throwing protesters who wanted to stop the vote, the authorities postponed balloting until Saturday in four districts.
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The Maxwell Football Club of Philadelphia named McDonald the nation's leading collegiate player of 1956, and he finished third in the Heisman Trophy balloting.
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And he said he would be unsurprised if the white share of the vote in this year's balloting turned out to be even lower.
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However, not all of these ballots were cast on Super Tuesday itself — several of these states began early voting or mail balloting weeks ago.
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President Barack Obama's pitch of Chicago's bid to win the 2016 Olympics failed when the city finished fourth in balloting to Rio de Janeiro.
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White voters used absentee balloting to keep their level of participation high among local residents and also to include some who had moved away.
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After the election, the local district attorney convened a grand jury to investigate absentee balloting, focusing only on black voters aided by Turner's group.
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Oklahoma quarterback Jalen Hurts was second in the balloting, with Ohio State quarterback Justin Fields third and Ohio State defensive end Chase Young fourth.
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He incurred only 212 penalty minutes as a Ranger and appeared six times among the top five in balloting for the Lady Byng award.
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He finished seventh in the Heisman Trophy balloting — highest among those who played defense — and appeared on the covers of Life and Sports Illustrated.
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The results of balloting in California, Oklahoma and Nebraska as well as the election of Donald Trump seem to foretell a comeback of capital punishment.
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No party is expected to gain an absolute majority in the 90-member parliament, with negotiations to form a coalition government likely after the balloting.
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The Department of Homeland Security has acknowledged that suspected Russian hackers attempted to breach computer systems in 21 US states ahead of last November's balloting.
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The session ended with a unanimous vote to endorse the new processes, but action on possible changes to Oscar balloting was deferred for later consideration.
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ROME (Reuters) - Italy holds national elections on March 4 under a new, complicated electoral system that mixes proportional representation with first-past-the-post balloting.
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In Mexico, where balloting for president and 2300 congressional positions won't open for another six months, at least six politicians were killed in recent weeks.
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The vote, which was the second after the first balloting in December was too close to call, did not give any party a parliamentary majority.
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He finished second in National League MVP balloting in 2013, when he set career highs of 36 homers and 125 RBIs, and again in 2015.
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Washington (CNN)Two weeks from today, Iowans will gather at caucus sites around the state in the first formal balloting of the 2016 presidential election.
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C Yadier Molina holds a slim lead over the Giants C Buster Posey in the balloting released Wednesday for the National League All-Star team.
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Pittsburgh Pirates outfielder Bryan Reynolds was fourth in the NL balloting, followed by fifth-place Dakota Hudson, a right-hander for the St. Louis Cardinals.
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As Governor of New Mexico, I standardized paper balloting in all 33 counties of our state to improve the public trust in our election system.
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The ruling makes it likely that November's state and federal balloting will follow earlier rules that allowed expanded early and weekend voting, among other changes.
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In Wisconsin this month, primary voters were arbitrarily rejected or forced to endure a maze of three separate waiting lines for registration, identification and balloting.
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Rules vary state by state, but most delegates who are bound on the first ballot by how their states voted are free in later balloting.
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If neither candidate reaches the magic number, the nominee may be decided by two, three or more rounds of balloting at the convention in Cleveland.
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Mr. Abbas, 81, and in his 12th year of what was supposed to be a four-year term, surprised many by calling the October balloting.
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In key House races, Democrats seemed poised to avoid being shut out of the November balloting under the state's so-called "top-two" primary system.
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In some cities, purchases of new voting machines slowed the balloting as voters labored to apply the new technology to the state's notoriously long ballot.
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"Joe Biden romps over Bernie Sanders in Florida, Illinois and Arizona in Tuesday balloting," by Michael Scherer, Annie Linskey and Sean Sullivan What happened Tuesday.
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The schedule availability of the two captains, once they are identified through fan balloting, is among the variables needed to lock in the broadcast specifics.
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Up to a third of voters might not have cast their ballots in person on Election Day, instead using absentee balloting or mail-in votes.
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On the other, they have New Hampshire, which views any paper balloting as the stuff of primaries, and could change their own primary in response.
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Derek Jeter and Larry Walker were elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame on Tuesday in balloting conducted by the Baseball Writers' Association of America.
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Republicans and Democrats roughly trade off winning early November's quadrennial election, but in late November's annual balloting for the Heisman Trophy, there is no contest.
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One post-2000 change — a useful one — was to move away from all-electronic touch-screen balloting, with no paper record indicating how someone voted.
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Indeed, Saturday's vote marked the first time in over three decades that the outcome of a vote for chairman was unknown when the balloting began.
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On polling day, journalists highlighted accidental failures in the nuts and bolts of electoral maladministration, including human errors and machine breakdowns in registration and balloting.
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Now, we don't really know how this would play out, because no convention under the modern system has ever progressed to a second round of balloting.
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John Kasich is trying to win the nomination by appealing to win over the 1,237 delegates if the fight goes to a second round of balloting.
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Candidates will then need at least 33 votes to proceed to the next round of balloting A winner is expected to be announced on July 22.
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Buehler, 24, went 8-5 with a 2.62 ERA in 24 appearances (23 starts) last season while finishing third in NL Rookie of the Year balloting.
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Reflecting voter dissatisfaction, an ORF/SORA/ISA poll of 1,210 eligible voters released Sunday after balloting ended showed only 19 percent "satisfied" with the government's work.
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After the second round of balloting, the candidate with the lowest vote total will be removed from subsequent ballots until one candidate emerges with a majority.
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Last time Ron Paul did not qualify to be nominated under Rule 40, but he received his delegate votes (around 200) when the balloting took place.
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Among many other changes, for example, the 2013 law cut the state's early voting period to 10 days from 17 and eliminated a Sunday balloting day.
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The small number of games McCovey played that season did not bother voters, who gave him all 24 votes in the rookie-of-the-year balloting.
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New York lags behind more electorally advanced states in its refusal to allow voters the convenience of same-day registration, early voting and easier absentee balloting.
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Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton emerged from this week's Super Tuesday balloting battle royale as the clear victors, but that doesn't mean the contest is over.
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Cody Bellinger of the Los Angeles Dodgers narrowly topped Milwaukee Brewers outfielder Christian Yelich for the most All-Star votes in the first round of balloting.
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Vesna Pusic, of Croatia, came in last with only two positive votes, according to diplomats who spoke on condition of anonymity about the closed-door balloting.
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Electoral officials at first delayed balloting in those counties and eventually canceled it completely, saying the outcome in those areas would not affect the overall result.
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The data suggests that the coronavirus crisis could accelerate an existing trend toward postal voting, where states conduct the bulk of their balloting through the mail.
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Polls have shown this contest to be between Mr. Newsom and Mr. Villaraigosa, but Mr. Chiang came in second in the delegate balloting, with 30 percent.
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If state officials find that the balloting was tainted enough to "cast doubt" on the results, they would have the power to order a new election.
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Republicans are believed to have an edge in Tuesday's balloting, but Mr. Espy has mounted one of the strongest Democratic campaigns in Mississippi in recent decades.
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KABUL, Afghanistan — Election officials in Afghanistan are considering delaying next year's presidential election by several months, amid disarray in counting votes from last month's parliamentary balloting.
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Harden would be tremendously unlucky to finish second in M.V.P. balloting for the third time in five seasons, but I think that's where this is headed.
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Leonard was named most valuable player of the 2014 N.B.A. finals in his third season and finished third in regular-season M.V.P. balloting in 2016-17.
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But Mr. Ganim trounced Ms. Moore in absentee balloting by more than 600 votes: The final count gave the mayor 5,304 votes to Ms. Moore's 5,034.
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And if part of the problem is low turnout, you can lower the barrier to voting and increase participation through universal registration and mail-in balloting.
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By the fourth and final round of balloting on Tuesday night, Mr. Tajani won 351 votes in a runoff against Mr. Pittella, who took 282 votes.
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In a separate development, Unite was balloting 2,500 offshore oil service workers for another possible strike over pay, which would affect 106 North Sea oil platforms.
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Under 2020 rules, superdelegates do not even get to vote in the first round of convention balloting unless a candidate already has a first-round majority.
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In 2015, Scott Walker, then the governor of Wisconsin, famously flamed out of the Republican contest months before balloting began because he was short on cash.
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ABOUT THE THUNDER (27-19): Westbrook's last two double-doubles have come after he was snubbed in the balloting for the Western Conference All-Star team.
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The 2016 Race In Charlotte, N.C., the lines for the first wave of early balloting last month forced some voters to wait more than two hours.
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But that's just the beginning for the A.L. Houston Astros second baseman Jose Altuve, the reigning A.L. M.V.P., led the fan balloting with 4.8 million votes.
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Mr. Correia received 4,808 votes in the balloting on who should be the next mayor — almost exactly the number he had gotten on the recall question.
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The session included no questions about steroids and only a brief reference to the Hall of Fame, where Bonds is 0 for 4 in the annual balloting.
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Before the primary system was instituted in the early 20th century, the cycle was only a few months long, the candidates often unknown until balloting at conventions.
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Reports Tuesday that absentee balloting and turnout in the primary were both high, meaning voter enthusiasm may be carrying forward from the last election to the next.
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Specifically, November balloting could bring half the 270 states that have resisted expanding Medicaid, a key feature of the Affordable Care Act, closer to taking that step.
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"[T]he Court advises the Defendants that further delay is not tolerable in their confronting and tackling the challenges before the State's election balloting system," she said.
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DHS has said there is no evidence vote totals were changed in that balloting, but it also admits it hasn't been able to conduct a formal audit.
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Even though Florida delegates are bound, the Trump supporters worried about how they would vote if the rules change or if the balloting continues beyond three ballots.
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He finished third in MVP balloting in 2017 and passed for a franchise-record 20173 touchdowns in 13 games before tearing the ACL in his left knee.
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Up in New York, the Democrats were in the midst of their angry and contentious convention — it would take two weeks of balloting to settle on Rep.
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An operative on Trump's convention team, who was not authorized to speak on the record, described Phase Two as an effort to prevent attrition in that balloting.
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Mr. Hearst, a publisher of lurid tabloid newspapers serving his first term in Congress, was crushed in the balloting as the party leaders of 1904 rejected him.
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Editorial The state of the nation's underfunded, patchwork election system and obsolete balloting machinery may not arouse voters the way candidates can with charges of rigged elections.
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Speculation about turmoil at the convention is being stoked by Trump allies who fear an outside figure may emerge in multiple rounds of balloting as the nominee.
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Further, the balloting in many of the hardest-fought states will be overseen by Republican officials, individuals who would be highly unlikely to consent to helping Mrs.
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The Spanish courts had declared the referendum illegal, and the Spanish police attempted to prevent the balloting from taking place, often using violence that left hundreds injured.
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IOWA CITY — It may be nearly nine months until the first balloting of the 2020 primary, but candidates are already practically tripping over one another in Iowa.
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But it was unclear whether Mr. Weah would be able to ultimately capture 50 percent plus one vote, the threshold to avoid a second round of balloting.
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Hasen, the election expert, said states should consider making either a temporary or permanent allowance for expanded mail-in balloting well ahead of the November general election.
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"Warren's latest campaign bet: A ground game in late-voting states like Michigan," by Jess Bidgood The hunt for votes in states where balloting has already started.
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After publicly targeting Ms. Moser before the first balloting in sharply personal terms, House Democrats handed her the sort of attention that is invaluable in multicandidate primaries.
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Antonelli finished No. 3 in balloting for the National League's Most Valuable Player and was named by The Sporting News as the league's pitcher of the year.
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Microsoft and companies that bob along in its wake don't want their proprietary voting systems replaced by open-source software balloting systems, have aggressively lobbied against them.
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The center-right candidate who emerges as the candidate of that movement could continue right up until the balloting for the nomination at the Republican National Convention.
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The Chicago Cubs will have two starters after catcher Willson Contreras and second baseman Javier Baez each won a close race at their position in fan balloting.
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There is more to the voting-rights debate than just voter ID laws; nothing in the new study settles arguments about early voting, absentee balloting and more.
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Brian Bosworth was the All-American driving force behind the title-winning Oklahoma Sooners defense in 1985, and he finished fourth in the 1986 Heisman Trophy balloting.
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Once again, Indiana politicians claimed they were trying to root out voter fraud, this time pointing to election fraud in a local Democratic primary that involved absentee balloting.
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While he's certainly had his moments, Strasburg was only just named to his second All Star team and has never finished higher than ninth in Cy Young balloting.
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While McMaster finished first in the earlier Republican primary balloting, he did not garner enough votes to avoid a runoff with businessman and first-time candidate John Warren.
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Within seconds, a crowd mobbed the presidential candidate along one side of the room, bumping into some of the precinct tables where residents were still balloting for candidates.
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The strategy is designed to prepare the way for multiple rounds of convention balloting when delegates awarded to Trump could be freed up to migrate to another candidate.
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If Donald Trump and Ted Cruz fail to hit 1,237 delegates, the nominee would be chosen via open balloting at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland in July.
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A convention is contested if no candidate has a majority of delegates going into the convention, but wins a majority of delegates on the first round of balloting.
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Gobert received 94 first-team votes and 192 total points while Davis had 73 and 803, respectively, in balloting from a select group of 100 sportswriters and broadcasters.
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"There are a lot of nuances in early balloting and you will see a lot of ebb and flows," said McDonald, who runs the United States Election Project.
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In the first round of this year's presidential balloting, however, Benoît Hamon, a virtual unknown from the party's left wing, pulled a mere 2628 percent of the vote.
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Hovering over the election is the specter of vote fraud, though electoral officials deny it is a possibility with the modern balloting technology and institutions now in place.
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This month, the city's more than 21993,29 current and retired safety workers started voting on voluntary pension trims, but then five people sued, halting the balloting for now.
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He finished third in MVP balloting in 2017, when he passed for a franchise-record 33 touchdowns in 13 games before tearing the ACL in his left knee.
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"The victories of Sanders and Trump today prove that even our highest office is no longer restricted to the powerful political class," Gilliam said after Tuesday's primary balloting.
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That Suns team finished 48-34, propelling Hornacek to a runner-up finish behind the San Antonio Spurs' Gregg Popovich in the balloting for coach of the year.
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OF Michael Saunders was added to the roster for the Tuesday's All-Star Game after winning the balloting in the Final Vote for the 2016 All-Star Game.
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In September's balloting, Mr. Kurz's secured 37.5 percent of vote, showing that the scandal and the short-lived coalition with the Freedom Party had not fatally hurt him.
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Under the rules of the Iowa caucuses, many voters who support less popular candidates will have to back someone other than their top choice in the final balloting.
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Under the Constitution, the House is "the judge of the elections, returns and qualifications of its own members," and Congress could eventually determine that November's balloting was compromised.
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Additionally, a third balloting leader with knowledge of the award winners, who will sit in the control room with the show's director throughout the ceremony, will join the team.
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Along with having two balloting partners stationed on either side of the stage during the ceremony, a third partner will sit with Oscar producers in the show's control room.
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These dynamics are likely how the election will unfold in a state that has mail balloting, in-person early voting, and Election Day voting, like Florida and North Carolina.
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In 2008, Barack Obama benefited from winning Iowa caucus-goers whose first preference had been Chris Dodd and Joe Biden in the second round of balloting, according to Politico.
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"Ramos challenged the notion that the law existed to prevent voter fraud, questioning why it "did nothing to address mail-in balloting, which is much more vulnerable to fraud.
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Balloting for the awards, named after the American League's Mariano Rivera and Trevor Hoffman of the National League, was conducted among a panel of eight all-time great relievers.
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The newly eligible players join holdovers such as Edgar Martinez (70.4), who fell 20 votes short of receiving the required 75 percent of the vote in last year's balloting.
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San Francisco 1B Brandon Belt and Colorado SS Trevor Story are among the five players named to the Final Vote balloting for the last NL All-Star roster spot.
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In October, ruling party candidate Jovenel Moise defeated opposition candidate Jude Celestin in a field of 54 candidates in balloting that opponents of Martelly said was marred by fraud.
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A pivotal figure for the Warriors as they clinched the NBA championship last season, Curry earned a total of 13,310 points in balloting for the 2015-16 MVP award.
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Poliquin last week sued in an attempt to stop the ranked balloting system from being used to declare a winner in the race, but a judge denied the request.
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Pelosi won the contest easily, but Ryan's 2628 votes marked a sharp jump above the 28500 supporters Shuler had earned six years earlier in the closed-door caucus balloting.
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Most convention delegates are bound to vote for a specific candidate in the first round of balloting (that mandate is typically based on who won their state or district).
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His numbers are undoubtedly worthy of the Hall of Fame, but questions about steroid use have kept him to about 45 percent of the vote in balloting so far.
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Perez emerged triumphant during the second round of balloting with 235 votes — enough for a majority of votes cast and more than Ellison, who finished second with 200 votes.
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Despite voter discontent and election fatigue in a country that has held balloting every year since 2016, turnout was just over 46 percent, according to the State Election Commission.
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Mr. Ossoff has now raised over $23 million and Ms. Handel, who only became the Republican nominee after the initial balloting in April, has brought in over $4.2 million.
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The parliamentary balloting marked only the second time in Pakistan's 71-year history that one civilian government has handed power to another in the country of 200 million people.
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Last November, North Carolina officials refused to certify the results of the race between Mr. McCready and his first Republican opponent, Mark Harris, because of "irregularities" in the balloting.
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Should citizens be stuck with the candidate who got two more votes in the initial balloting, even though B would beat A by four votes in a majority system?
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The first week of primary balloting was supposed to speed the winnowing of an outsized field of candidates and showcase Democrats' readiness to take back the White House in November.
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In interviews with CNN, a wide range of lawmakers refused to say how they'd vote once most delegates are free to vote their conscience after a first round of balloting.
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The first week of primary balloting was supposed to speed the winnowing of an outsized field of candidates and showcase Democrats readiness to take back the White House in November.
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In fact, they're barely trailing at all; not with preferential balloting, in which voters rank choices that are hand-run through an algorithmic series of steps to determine the winner.
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Lawmakers on Tuesday night extended that state of emergency to July 2017, covering campaigning and balloting in a two-round presidential election in which the runoff is scheduled for May.
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Former NFL and Temple running back Paul Palmer, the runner-up in the 1986 Heisman Trophy award balloting, coached Reddick and thought he was on track to earn a scholarship.
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That means there might be more than one round of balloting, and the individual state party rules allow many delegates to vote for anyone they want after the first ballot.
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But the results of that race were scrapped after North Carolina officials determined that balloting had been tainted by fraud on the part of a contractor hired by Harris's campaign.
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The most recent All-Star balloting tally includes five starting Cubs: first baseman Anthony Rizzo, second baseman Ben Zobrist, shortstop Addison Russell, third baseman Kris Bryant and outfielder Dexter Fowler.
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With the outcome of the Democratic nomination potentially in doubt until convention balloting begins in Milwaukee, passion and cash stand to rule, and Biden may be lacking on both counts.
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European candidates, both on the left and on the right, have seized the cluckers as a way to dramatize the stakes in the balloting that runs from Thursday to Sunday.
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In all, 1,357 delegates are up for grabs on Super Tuesday; it takes 1,33 delegates to win the nomination on the first round of balloting at the Democratic National Convention.
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Rio was behind Madrid in the first round of voting, but went on to clinch the Games by a vote of 3003 to 32 in the third round of balloting.
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In precincts where Biden is viable but other moderate candidates — such as Klobuchar or Buttigieg — are not, the former vice president is widely expected to gain ground on second balloting.
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Award watchers and prognosticators will be looking to the major guild balloting -- including the directors, producers and writers -- to provide more focus on which films the movie academy might favor.
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After a slightly weaker result in the November balloting, Mr. Sánchez agreed to form a coalition with Pablo Iglesias, the leader of the smaller and more radical Unidas Podemos party.
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The balloting, which carried a measure of suspense not seen in the party in decades, revealed that Democrats have yet to heal the wounds from last year's presidential primary campaign.
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Players had a say in deciding starters for next month's game in New Orleans, with their selections accounting for 25 percent of a given player's total score in the balloting.
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Though this year's numbers were not as good, and he slipped to ninth in Heisman balloting, he is still projected as a second-round pick in many mock N.F.L. drafts.
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While some of the nine Super Tuesday states allow early balloting, the Democrats who wait to vote on Primary Day itself will be heavily influenced by the South Carolina results.
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Each machine is made up of a "control unit," which tallies and stores votes, and one or more "balloting units," on which voters select their candidates by pressing a button.
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In the July 25 balloting, he was to run on the list of the Tahrike-e-Insaf party, led by Khan, who aspires to become the country&aposs next prime minister.
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The board of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences agreed to change the processes and structures underlying the nomination process, though it deferred any action on the balloting itself.
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The resolution moving forward would prevent superdelegates from voting in the first round of nomination balloting, participating in the process only if the convention was initially unable to select a nominee.
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Democrats have a slight lead in the early balloting, but their lead is smaller than in 2012, and overall Democratic turnout dropped at a higher rate than it did for Republicans.
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"We suspected that we would find that voting systems are moving away from in-person physical balloting toward systems that embrace technologies that enable remote (Internet) voting," Bollinger and McRobbie write.
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In the now-deleted tweet, Cullinan – one of two accountants from PricewaterhouseCoopers who handled the Oscars balloting – shared a photo of the Best Actress winner smiling while holding her award backstage.
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Stone's victory cements her front-runner status in the Academy's best actress race, giving the film's star a prime publicity boost one day before final Oscar balloting is set to begin.
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Many felt relief when the predicted favorite, Bahraini Sheikh Salman Bin Al-Khalifa, failed to get enough support in the second round of balloting, after some delegates recast their votes strategically.
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Verlander picked up 33 first-place votes and 171 points in balloting by the Baseball Writers Association of America, with Cole earning the other 13 first-place nods and 159 points.
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Although the system was put in place in 2010, it will be used in a Democratic presidential primary, with balloting for both candidates and delegates, for the first time this year.
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It's hard to compare this strange situation to balloting in football, basketball and other sports, because most Halls of Fame do not release voting totals, instead merely announcing each year's inductees.
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Law and Justice led the balloting for provincial assemblies four years ago, but in several states it remained out of power, as opposition parties were able to piece together governing majorities.
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The balloting will take place at the end of a long day of speeches, motions and reports, but at least the setting — the luxurious Shangri-La Hotel — promises to be comfortable.
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But because of late balloting, the results from California could take days or weeks to count — and even small margins in that state could be significant to Biden, Bloomberg and Warren.
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RELATED: North Carolina elections board votes for new election in congressional race In the immediate aftermath of the balloting, Harris claimed victory but almost immediately questions were raised about absentee ballots.
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While we don't know with full certainty that there was direct manipulation of the balloting process through hacks on voting machines, at least one respected expert says we should investigate anyway.
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Last season, he had 22 goals and 10 assists in 27 matches (24 starts) while finishing third in MVP balloting behind winner Josef Martinez and Martinez's Atlanta United teammate, Miguel Almiron.
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The task is their prize for receiving the most votes in their conferences — James in the West, and Antetokounmpo in the East — during All-Star balloting from fans, media and players.
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For the rest of us, it doesn't much matter where the Sooners finish next season, or where Mayfield places in the Heisman balloting, or what scouts say about his pro potential.
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Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union secured victory in Sunday's balloting with fewer votes than expected, forcing her to enter complicated coalition talks with various parties to form a new government.
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Green, the runner-up in the Defensive Player of the Year balloting, missed only one regular-season game, and the Warriors also lost that one, 112-110 at Denver on Jan. 13.
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The sentencing coincided with voting in parliamentary elections in Ireland, and opinion polls before the balloting suggested that Sinn Fein would increase its representation and could even become the main opposition party.
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Assembly of Experts and the Ayatollah Friday's balloting is critical because voters will also determine the makeup of the Assembly of Experts, an oversight body responsible for selecting the Supreme Leader's successor.
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LIMA (Reuters) - Peruvian presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori saw her support erode slightly, an Ipsos poll on Sunday showed, with a runoff vote likely after a first round of balloting on April 10.
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Republicans are quick to dismiss the Democrats' growing confidence, pointing to the economy and early balloting as a sign that they're poised to defy the odds and retain House control next year.
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Violence has escalated in the run-up to the balloting, with horrific attacks over the weekend killing 153 people, including a provincial assembly candidate during an election rally in southwestern Baluchistan province.
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The court case that has snarled the latest effort was brought by a Palestinian lawyer and is largely based on his complaint that there will be no municipal balloting in East Jerusalem.
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People trekked, rode bicycles and drove tractors to polling stations in the world's biggest democratic exercise, with nearly 2545 million eligible to vote during seven phases of balloting spread over 30 days.
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Another academy official said the organization had initiated a review of the backstage process and of the group's association going forward with the accounting firm, which extends beyond balloting for the Oscars.
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The program is a collaboration between King County Elections; the county's conservation district; mobile-voting nonprofit Tusk Philanthropies; the National Cybersecurity Center; and Democracy Live, a technology firm that develops electronic balloting.
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Ms. Preckwinkle, 71, a long established politician who has often been urged to run for mayor, had been widely expected to do well in Tuesday's balloting amid a cast of 14 candidates.
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That attack represents only the initial salvo in the assault on Mr. Brooks, which a well-financed "super PAC" run by Mr. McConnell's allies is expected to lead before the first balloting.
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While the best-picture balloting kept Oscar watchers guessing, the acting nominations went according to form, including lead actors McDormand and Gary Oldman, and supporting honors for Sam Rockwell and Allison Janney.
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But after more than a year of her leadership, the Social Democrats' popularity plunged further, earning only 15.8 percent of support nationwide during the balloting for the European Parliament a week ago.
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BANGUI, Central African Republic — A former prime minister who placed second in the first round of balloting has won the Central African Republic's presidential runoff vote, the national election body announced on Saturday.
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Now, with Trevor Noah taking over the program was overlooked in this year's balloting (as was "Late Show With Stephen Colbert"), opening the door for another late-night players to claim that mantle.
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Republican officials in Washington said they were likely to demand a recount through litigation, and the National Republican Congressional Committee put out a call for voters to report any irregularities in the balloting.
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In another sign that change was the biggest winner in balloting on Saturday, four members of Prime Minister Robert Fico's leftist Smer-Social Democracy Party were also defeated for election as regional governors.
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A great many of those candidates will become super delegates, who could provide pivotal votes for Bloomberg at the Democratic convention should no one win a majority on the first round of balloting.
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The election was originally scheduled for 2013, but the Lebanese Parliament extended its own term and postponed the balloting several times using the ruse that security concerns made it difficult to hold elections.
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The capital's governor, Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, an ethnic Chinese Christian known as Ahok, finished first in Wednesday's balloting, with about 43 percent of the vote, according to unofficial estimates from independent polling agencies.
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He set a record for highest percentage of points in the balloting — 93.8, breaking the record set by Ohio State quarterback Troy Smith, who earned 91.63 percent of the point total in 20053.
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But after Lockbaum finished fifth in the final Heisman balloting that season and third the next, the best showings for a small school player in a decade, it had been proven anything but.
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With many states using antiquated voting machines and with concerns about potential interference in U.S. elections by Russia or other actors, there is rising concern among experts about the need to safeguard American balloting.
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In order to try to bring an end to the dispute, Air France is balloting staff directly over its offer of a 7 percent pay rise over four years, after unions rejected the proposal.
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A rundown of voting problems so far around the country: Voting machines Some Texas voters reported that balloting machines flipped their straight-ticket selections to the other party in key races during early voting.
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With high stakes for both political parties ahead of the 2018 midterm balloting, and foreign agents ready to exploit familiar pathways of influence, Congress should draw this bright line in defense of American voters.
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The decisive second round came after a first round of balloting in which Perez fell just one vote short of a majority, with 213.5 votes to 200 for Ellison and 13.5 for other candidates.
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Late Thursday, the Department of Homeland Security issued a statement that said it remains unclear if the Russian meddling had sought to change votes in balloting systems in favor of one candidate over another.
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Former FBI Director James Comey announced the discovery of the emails less than two weeks before election day, only to conclude two days before the balloting that the emails changed nothing in the investigation.
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The post of mayor of Paris is held now by Anne Hidalgo, a Socialist who is seeking re-election and favored in polls for the two-round balloting to be held in one month.
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"It's pretty surreal, to be honest," said Judge, who added that he had been unaware of the results of the American League balloting, which were announced nearly four hours before he spoke to reporters.
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KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghan President Ashraf Ghani appears to have narrowly won a second term, according to preliminary results from September's balloting that were announced Sunday, although his main challenger rejected the outcome as illegitimate.
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The results of last year's election, when conservatives saw their ranks slip in the Legislature in a round of balloting that sometimes seemed like a referendum on Mr. Brownback's tenure, loomed over the debate.
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Watson had finished second in the Heisman Trophy balloting to Louisville quarterback Lamar Jackson despite passing for 3,403 yards and 37 touchdowns and leading the Tigers to their second consecutive Atlantic Coast Conference title.
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Kenya's Supreme Court nullified the re-election of President Uhuru Kenyatta, above, ordering a new vote to be held within 63 days after finding that the balloting last month had been tainted by irregularities.
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It also postponed the balloting for the National Assembly seat from the garrison city of Rawalpindi, where a candidate from former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif&aposs party was disqualified after being convicted of substance abuse.
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Lamb, who is 10-for-25 with four homers during his seven-game hitting streak, is one of the five players named to the Final Vote balloting for the last NL All-Star roster spot.
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If the top series categories promise to showcase some fresh faces, the limited-series and TV movie balloting could offset that with a host of movie stars, including several past Academy Award winners and nominees.
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Jim Moore, a political-science professor and election analyst at Oregon's Pacific University, said election reforms like mail-in balloting have triggered similar bumps in Democratic registration or turnout, but that they were short-lived.
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A rebellious slate of candidates who this year upset the normally placid balloting for the Board of Overseers at Harvard has failed to secure positions on the board, which helps set strategy for the university.
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My guess is that there are two possible outcomes to the fear and loathing of Trump that now grips members of the GOP establishment, who will now watch the March 85033 balloting with intense fear.
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TINKERING WITH COMMITTEES The Hall of Fame is known for revamping how its veterans committees vote on players no longer eligible for the balloting of the Baseball Writers' Association of America, managers, umpires and executives.
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Cruz is eyeing a win in Indiana next week to deny Trump delegates needed to lock up the nomination before the Republican National Convention in July with the hope of forcing multiple rounds of balloting.
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Experts also say that the risk of widespread, decisive misconduct in a national election is extremely slim, in part because of the number of regulators from both parties and the constitutional structure of presidential balloting.
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And Sanders supporters could also use a California victory to justify rules changes that could have an impact on future elections, like secret balloting at the convention, open primaries across-the-board, and eliminating superdelegates.
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What could prove most problematic for Ms. Hyde-Smith, though, is if additional Republicans enter the race, making it easier for Mr. McDaniel to emerge as the party's top vote-getter in the first balloting.
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"It was the idea of getting on the magic merry-go-round," said the sharp-witted novelist Charles Dantzig, who was encouraged to apply after winning the academy's prize, and then lost in recent balloting.
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After 39 days of polling involving as many as 900 million voters, balloting in India's vast parliamentary election came to a close on Sunday, starting a countdown to the announcement of final results on Thursday.
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On Monday, Vice President Mike Pence condemned Sunday's balloting in Venezuela in which Mr. Maduro won a second term, denouncing the government as a dictatorship and demanding that it allow humanitarian aid into the country.
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Unofficial results from the balloting in Jakarta, the capital, indicated that the governor, Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, held a small lead over his nearest challenger but was unlikely to win more than half of the vote.
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With the Iowa caucuses, the first balloting of the 2020 nominating contest, only four months away, candidates who have yet to gain traction with voters and scale up their campaigns are running out of time.
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Those in control of money looked beyond the fact that Marine Le Pen, a far-right candidate bearing intense hostility to the euro, claimed a spot in the second round of balloting on May 7.
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Three years ago the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences moved away from blue-ribbon judging panels -- which tended to skew toward those with the time to participate -- in favor of more inclusive, organization-wide balloting.
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But worries did emerge after November's balloting, especially in Bladen County, where Mr. Harris won 403 percent of the received absentee ballots, even though registered Republicans accounted for only 19 percent of the ballots submitted.
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Lightning stars Nikita Kucherov and Steven Stamkos were 230-21975 in the Atlantic balloting, but was it a close race, with Kucherov nipping at his teammate's heels the whole way only to fall just short?
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Refinery29 talked to Waters about the special, his thoughts on how this year's election measures up to elections of the past, and his recommendations for people who are planning to booze their way through the balloting.
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At the conclusion of the first round, which ends Friday, the top three players at each position — nine in the outfield — will move on to the next round of balloting with the vote tally starting over.
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Alan Cobb, the senior adviser to Trump, said the campaign was looking into the reports of balloting problems and was not ruling out a challenge to seating the Colorado delegation at the national convention in July.
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Most states -- 37 for this year's balloting -- now also offer some form of in-person early voting, where any voter can go to a polling place before Election Day and cast a ballot for any reason.
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Thirty-seven states including Minnesota and Massachusetts have relaxed the rules to allow qualified citizens to make use of early and remote balloting, without the need to provide a specific reason, such as disability or travel.
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Linda H. Lamone, the state board's administrator, said she did not "have any indication" that the results of the mayoral election would be invalidated after the board conducted a precinct-by-precinct review of the balloting.
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A year ago, the one-time Comedy Central star -- whose "The Colbert Report" won Emmys for variety series in 2013 and '14, ending Jon Stewart's decade-long streak -- was conspicuously overlooked in the late-night balloting.
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"You've got until 3 o'clock tomorrow to vote," Yost said, referring to the All-Star Game's internet balloting in which Royals third baseman Mike Moustakas is one of five candidates to join the American League team.
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He and other Catalan authorities maintained that balloting had proceeded in most of the polling stations and seemed determined to use the vote as further evidence of the legitimacy of their claim for a separate nation.
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The concept called for the respective winners of All-Star balloting in each conference, as captains, to divvy up the other eight players selected as All-Star starters by votes from fans, players and media members.
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Don't assume that Republican delegates will necessarily support "the establishment" Now, we don't really know how this would play out, because no convention under the modern system has ever progressed to a second round of balloting.
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But while Mr. Trump has repeatedly threatened a government shutdown if he does not get his wall funding, both parties appear eager to make certain that a shutdown does not happen so close to the balloting.
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But after attacking Ms. Moser during the first round of balloting in March — a move that seemed to elevate her candidacy by accident — the House Democratic campaign arm remained silent while still quietly backing Ms. Fletcher.
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In the fateful 2010 balloting—the Tea Party movement's great coming-out moment—the GOP netted 63 House seats, even while the nation's economy continued to hemorrhage from the Great Recession that began under President Bush.
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PwC, the overseer of Oscar balloting for 83 years, had earlier taken full responsibility for Sunday's unprecedented gaffe, which stunned the star-studded Dolby Theatre crowd in Hollywood and a live television audience of millions worldwide.
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On the 13th and final round of balloting, many more than political observers predicted, former House of Commons speaker Andrew Scheer edged out ex-foreign minister and favorite Maxime Bernier by 51 percent to 49 percent.
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Robert Torres, Pennsylvania's acting secretary of state, announced Thursday he'd instructed all 67 counties that they have until the end of 2019 to move their balloting to only voting machines that produce a voter-verified paper record.
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Now, under current party rules, they will still have to vote for him at first — but they could try to block his nomination by changing the rules or by defecting from him in later rounds of balloting.
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The voting tabulation process for other major awards shows are handled by varying firms: this year, Ernst & Young was in charge of the Golden Globes results, and Integrity Voting Systems handled the Screen Actors Guild Awards balloting.
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Gary Natoli spoke to The Wrap about what occurred backstage as the events unfolded, saying Brian Cullinan and Martha Ruiz, accountants with PricewaterhouseCoopers who handled the Oscars balloting, didn't react fast enough when the mistake was made.
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Teixeira led the American League with 39 home runs and 122 R.B.I., won the first of his three Gold Gloves with the Yankees and finished second in the balloting for the A.L.'s Most Valuable Player Award.
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Within hours, it became clear that Ms. Abrams, a former Democratic leader in the Georgia House of Representatives, and Mr. Kemp, the Georgia secretary of state, had shared the stage for the last time before Tuesday's balloting.
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If a majority of them don't support any one candidate on the first ballot, then they will have to vote again, for as many rounds of balloting as it takes for one candidate to get a majority.
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The seat has been held by Republicans for more than half a century, but state officials last year refused to certify Mr. Harris as the winner because of concerns about the voting and "irregularities" in absentee balloting.
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That is partly through its influence over the powerful Election Commission, which came under fire for numerous irregularities during the balloting, delays in announcing the vote count, and an unexpected surge in the number of votes reported.
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The majority of the remainder of each starting lineup was comprised of some of the game's biggest stars, with Los Angeles Angels outfielder and two-time MVP Mike Trout the leading overall vote-getter in online balloting.
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At the conclusion of the first round, which ends June 21, the top three players at each position — nine in the outfield — will move on to the next round of balloting with the vote tally starting over.
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Oscar watchers who take deep dives into such matters say it's looking best for "The Big Short," largely because the Producers Guild uses the same wackadoodle preferential balloting system that the Oscars use in voting for best picture.
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Many of them, moreover, are likely to be party regulars who may not support Mr. Trump over multiple rounds of balloting, he added, according to a person present for Mr. Sullivan's presentation, which was first reported by CNN.
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Houston RHP Will Harris was named to the American League All-Star team and OF George Springer is one of the five AL players named to the Final Vote balloting for the last All-Star roster spot. 3.
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The Florida chapter of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) last week said it would file suit against the Broward County Commissioner of Elections, which oversees balloting in the county home to Ft. Lauderdale.
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If no candidate wins a majority in the first two rounds of balloting the candidate with the least amount of votes will fall off the ballot in subsequent rounds until the last man or woman is left standing.
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This election reflects sordid calculations all around: Johnson hoping that he can win a majority, the Scottish National Party wanting the balloting over before it is discredited by a sexual assault trial next year involving its former leader.
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In also Latino-heavy Colorado, Democrats led 43 percent to 30 percent in the early vote, compared to a 59 percent to 85033 percent Republican advantage at this point in 2014, the first Colorado election with mail balloting.
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The reporters have been ferried to battleground states like Ohio and New Hampshire, shown the inner workings of the balloting process in the Bronx and given background briefings by policy experts from both sides of the political divide.
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Of course, that's an apples-and-oranges comparison—an initial cost versus a 10-year cost—and activists say that Raffensperger inflated the cost of paper and the amount of paper that would be required for hand-balloting.
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But two days ahead of the ballot, only about 60 percent of election materials - including sheets to tabulate the vote - have been delivered to balloting stations across the country, three foreign diplomats told Reuters on condition of anonymity.
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This past week, violence broke out across Kenya during primary balloting — a worrying sign for many Kenyans, who already dread elections because they often bring out the worst in the country, raising ethnic tensions and leading to bloodshed.
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" Last September, at a G-20 summit, in China, Obama confronted Putin about the hacking, telling him to "cut it out," and, above all, to keep away from the balloting in November, or there would be "serious consequences.
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Discussion topics included bound delegates and the organization of multiple rounds of balloting People who led the meeting included Sean Spicer, the party's senior strategist; Katie Walsh, the RNC chief of staff; and John Phillippe, the chief counsel.
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Soon we'll have another test of this unlikely pattern: the French presidential elections next month, in which Marine Le Pen of the far-right National Front is very likely to finish first in the initial round of balloting.
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A wave of sanctions by the United States and its Arab allies has targeted the militant Hezbollah group, which made gains in the balloting and which says it wants to play a bigger role in Lebanon&aposs new government.
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Party spokesman Fawad Chaudhry has said that in the days following the balloting, more lawmakers joined its ranks and that it now enjoys the backing of 180 parliament members after several women lawmakers, minority and independents sided with Khan.
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If organizations could obtain the Clinton emails and other state secrets prior to the election and use them as a part of the electioneering process, it is truly possible that there could have some hacking of the balloting machines.
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The appeals court disputed that, noting that a disproportionate number of African-Americans voted early — especially during the first week of balloting that the law abolished — and that voting after Sunday church services had become an African-American tradition.
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The results of the municipal balloting on Sunday from around the country was a telling barometer of Mr. Erdogan's weakened standing with voters, as Turkey's economy has fallen into a recession and he has assumed sweeping new executive powers.
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Some 30 percent of registered voters may not show up at all — compared with 20 percent in the first round of voting in 2012 — making it likely that abstention will be the most popular choice in the early balloting.
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Trump's former chief strategist Steve Bannon recently wound up a long swing across the continent shoring up right-wing, populist parties and vowing to set up "war rooms" in a host of countries in advance of the May balloting.
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The first stage of the process begins on Thursday, when Conservative Party lawmakers start balloting to draw up a shortlist of two candidates, one of whom will eventually be chosen in voting by around 150,000 members of the party.
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But his preferred choice for the vice-presidential nomination, Weld, also came up just short of 50 percent on the first round of balloting, leading to a second vote, which he won with just over 50 percent of the vote.
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Court rulings here could also provide an early glimpse at how the federal courts might examine balloting laws in the wake of the United States Supreme Court decision that, in 2013, upended a significant component of the Voting Rights Act.
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With doctors also balloting for industrial action and nurses warning of the same, the disputes are putting pressure on a deal the government agreed with most trade unions last year to gradually restore some of the pay cuts by 2018.
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A relative unknown like former Illinois Congress member Abraham Lincoln could emerge from the back and forth, and convention balloting could become truly epoch — reaching its peak at the 1924 Democratic Convention, which required more than 19883 rounds of voting.
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As a result, they can flip their support to another candidate if there are multiple rounds of balloting at a contested convention, a possibility if no candidate can secure 1,237 bound delegates on the first vote at the national convention.
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Trump's campaign was furious when Tennessee, meanwhile, picked a slate of delegates that includes several choices who are obligated to back Trump through the Republican National Convention's initial two rounds of balloting -- but then would likely bolt for another candidate.
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First, PwC Oscars balloting leaders collect the handwritten ballots, and then – with a team working from an undisclosed location – they hand-tally the results of the 24 major categories and stuff the winners envelopes – two of each for every award.
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KIEV (Reuters) - A long-awaited Ukrainian parliamentary vote to approve a nominated central bank governor was postponed on Thursday until at least mid-March due to a lack of agreement on how the balloting should be carried out, lawmakers said.
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Unofficial results from the city's election board showed more than 65% of voters in Tuesday's balloting approved restoring the name of the 10-mile (16 km) street to "The Paseo," the name it has had since the late 19th century.
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ABOUT OKLAHOMA (7-2, 6-113): Junior quarterback Baker Mayfield, who finished fourth in Heisman Trophy balloting a year ago, is having another outstanding season, completing 71.2 percent of his passes for 2,912 yards and 29 touchdowns against only six interceptions.
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Indeed, if you're looking for a movie where it's easy enough to imagine almost every Oscar voter ranking it in third place — so that it hangs back throughout the final balloting as other contenders fall — it would be Black Panther.
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Lin is coming off a bounce-back season with the Hornets in which he averaged 11.7 points, 27 rebounds and 238 assists a game, mostly off the bench, and finished seventh in the N.B.A.'s sixth-man-of-the-year balloting.
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In a positive sign for Edwards, black voters made up approximately 220006 percent of all those who cast their ballots early, a roughly 2202-point bump from the share of black voters in the first round of balloting last month.
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As he watched the balloting on Sunday night on television, Julio Barboza, 33, an environmental scientist from São Paulo, grew despondent as a stream of deputies cited God, clean government and democracy as they cast their votes against the president.
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U.S. rights advocates said they are on the alert for ways in which votes could be suppressed in today's congressional elections because complaints about registration problems, faulty equipment and intimidation have been a feature of early balloting that began last month.
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By the time Canó is eligible for Hall of Fame balloting, a generation of fans and writers who never experienced pre-steroid era baseball—or even pre-Mitchell Report baseball—will form a significant part of the baseball-watching public.
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This is the first year fan balloting was divided into two phases: "The Primary," which narrowed the starting choices to three at each position, and "The Starters," which will began online Wednesday at noon ET and closed Thursday at 4 p.m.
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" Meanwhile, the authors of the 2014 Heritage Foundation publication "Does Your Vote Count?" assert that election fraud has been a serious problem throughout US history and argue that "Photo IDs should be required for both in-person voting and absentee balloting.
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But despite having at least as many qualifications as Vizquel — and many other Hall of Fame candidates this year — Jones is getting very little support in his first year of eligibility, according to Ryan Thibodaux's tracking of Hall of Fame balloting.
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But throwing small-dollar contributions into a zero-sum struggle for the crown nine months in advance of the first primary balloting is an inherently low-value use of people's money, to say nothing of their time and emotional energy.
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Casey was named Coach of the Year by his fellow coaches in the National Basketball Coaches Association annual balloting and is one of three finalists for the N.B.A.'s official Coach of the Year voting as chosen by the news media.
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The Democratic National Committee is asking states not to postpone their primaries but instead to take measures to make voting safer and more remote when possible through mail-in balloting, absentee voting, and expanded hours to reduce lines and crowds.
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The parts of the law still in effect do foresee a prize for a party that manages to get 40 percent of the vote in the one round of balloting, to guarantee it 54 percent of seats in the Chamber.
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In response to a tweet from the league asking fans to choose a player of the week, a decision made collectively in a vote of reporters who cover the league and fan balloting on Twitter, the replies were nearly unanimous.
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In response to a tweet from the league asking fans to choose a player of the week, a decision made collectively in a vote of reporters who cover the league and fan balloting on Twitter, the replies were nearly unanimous.
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Judge, the rookie wrecking ball of a hitter who has 17 home runs through the Yankees' 10-4 loss to the Baltimore Orioles on Wednesday, had the third-highest vote total (730,438) in the first release of All-Star Game balloting.
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The nonsensical scenario they're peddling is that while the country fell apart under their watch, they somehow gained popularity to the tune of hundreds of thousands of votes, a dramatic improvement over its electoral performance in the December 2015 parliamentary balloting.
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Hebenton finished second to Glenn Hall, the Detroit Red Wings' goalie and a future Hall of Famer, in the balloting for the 26-1956 Calder Cup as the N.H.L. rookie of the year; he had scored 24 goals with 14 assists.
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LONDON — Boris Johnson finished well ahead of his rivals on Thursday in the first round of balloting among Conservative lawmakers in the race to replace Theresa May as the party's leader, taking a significant step toward becoming Britain's next prime minister.
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Trump's fixation has been a drag on the momentum of his opening days in office, with his exaggerations about inauguration crowds and false assertions about illegal balloting intruding on advisers' plans to launch his presidency with a flurry of actions on the economy.
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He and Johnson won nearly 4.9 million votes, or 3.28 percent of the popular ballots cast, finishing well behind Trump, who won 46 percent of the popular vote, and Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, who finished first in the popular balloting with 48.18 percent.
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" And even though the candidate he backed in the Democratic primary for governor that year had lost, the article noted, Mr. Johnson was such a force that "the victorious nominee, Jimmy Carter, put out peace feelers to Johnson even before the balloting.
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But the peaceful balloting has turned messy and violent: Opposition leader Nelson Chamisa has alleged there was vote fraud, protesters filled the streets of Harare on Wednesday, and a violent crackdown by the military and police resulted in at least six deaths.
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But the majority Republican plan envisions a nearly 9 percent reduction from 2012 in early voting hours, and would limit balloting to six sites during the first week of the 17-day period, then to 22 sites for the remaining 10 days.
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Some of the strictest voter-identification laws that Republican legislatures had enacted were struck down by courts before balloting began, they noted, and support for Hillary Clinton declined across the board from 2012 levels, not just in states with stricter voter ID requirements.
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The justification for the big-spending election bill—which zipped through the state House and now awaits approval in the Republican-dominated Senate—is that the machines will ward off cybersecurity threats while making elections more efficient than the messy old paper balloting.
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Underwhelming and alarming front-runners In France's two-step balloting, French voters will be able to choose from 11 candidates from old-line communists on the far left to the far-right of the National Front and its standard-bearer, Marine Le Pen.
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This is the first year fan balloting has been divided into two phases: "The Primary," which ended Friday and narrowed the choices, and "The Starters," which will begin online next Wednesday at noon ET and close the following day at 4 p.m.
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The balloting for director general is secret, making it difficult to know how each member state on the board voted, but Ms. Azoulay, a latecomer to the race, might have benefited in the final round from the rivalry between Qatar and Egypt.
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Next steps: The first stage of the process begins today, when Conservative Party lawmakers start balloting to draw up a shortlist of two candidates, one of whom will be chosen by the end of July in voting by about 20103,000 party members.
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When Senator Ugenti-Rita pressed last month to require early voters to display photo identifications — a mandate the state's voters approved in 2005 for Election Day balloting — "you would have thought I told people to get rid of their firstborn child," she said.
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But there is at least one sense in which all three athletes, one of whom will hoist the bronze statue Saturday night, are distinct from the others — an aspect that close watchers of the Heisman balloting process know can have an outsize impact.
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Thirty-two Democrats checked the "no" box in Wednesday's balloting, while 203 voted for her, a result that was simultaneously a resounding endorsement of Ms. Pelosi's nomination as speaker and an indication that she would indeed have to change more minds to win.
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He is well known among the state's conservative activists thanks to his 2014 run, when he outpolled Mr. Cochran in the first Republican balloting, and already has a "super PAC" airing radio ads and lining up field staff to help his campaign.
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As Arizona voters begin early balloting, Ms. McSally, 52, is hauling in reinforcements: former President George W. Bush is hosting a fund-raiser for her on Friday in Scottsdale, and Mr. Trump plans to be in Mesa rallying Republican voters in the evening.
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Understandably somewhat lost last week amid the very sad news of the former N.B.A. commissioner David Stern's death was the bulletin from the league office detailing the first batch of returns from fan balloting for next month's All-Star Game in Chicago.
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And in the balloting for the newest members of the Hall, the results of which will be announced next week, some members of the Baseball Writers' Association of America chose to vote for Bonds and Clemens when they hadn't in the past.
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It was intended to favor the big political parties, like his own, by introducing a second round of balloting between the two biggest vote getters from the first round, with the winner receiving — wait for it — a bonus to ensure a solid majority.
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There are 50 different balloting systems, one for each state in the United States, and only 20 work well, he said, warning that there could be a "constitutional crisis" if vote tallies or voter rolls were to be disputed after the election.
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LINE: Washington -27.5 ABOUT WASHINGTON (2016: 12-2, 8-1 Pacific-20053): Browning is recovered from offseason surgery on his passing shoulder after matching the Pac-12 record of 43 touchdown passes and finishing sixth in the Heisman Trophy balloting last season.
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Mom, meanwhile, admitted that Doncic was "quite sad at first" about missing out on an All-Star spot because of a format change in which fan balloting, as of last season, only accounts for 50 percent of the equation for determining starters.
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The third National League outfielder in the balloting is the Braves' Ronald Acuna Jr. (230,29), followed by the Dodgers' Joc Pederson, the Chicago Cubs' Albert Almora, the Colorado Rockies' Charlie Blackmon, the Cubs' Jason Heyward and Kyle Schwarber, and the Dodgers' Alex Verdugo.
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The opponents thought they might be close to unseating Mr. Barbieri in December, when members who attended balloting at league headquarters, on a night filled with heated arguments, picked Ms. Rizika over him by 158 to 114, with 99 votes going to two other candidates.
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This seemed to mirror the 60-40 advantage Macron held going into the evening -- polls that were remarkably accurate in predicting the results of the first-round balloting and that now also show that some 75% of all voters have already made up their mind.
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The outcome of those races - and how much they add to the Democrats' majority in the newly constituted House - may be uncertain for weeks to come because of mail-in and provisional balloting systems that California introduced in recent years to boost voter participation.
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The new order is aimed broadly at any potential outside interference in American elections, but is meant to give the government an additional tool to punish, and deter, Russian entities suspected of trying to spread disinformation or otherwise influence the midterm and subsequent balloting.
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CUBS' SERIES WIN VOTED TOP STORY The Cubs' first World Series title since 1908 was the runaway winner for The Associated Press's top sports story of 2016, collecting 48 of 59 first-place votes and 549 points in balloting by A.P. members and editors.
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In the coming months, Launch Michigan will present specific recommendations to the state legislature, urging policymakers to change course on such controversial topics as school funding and charter school oversight, keeping the GOP's dismal track record on education in the news as the 2020 balloting nears.
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If the race isn't settled by then, he faces the very real prospect of losing to Ted Cruz, whose campaign is mastering the complicated process of lining up individual delegates who could shift their support to the Texas senator after the first round of convention balloting.
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Speaking of unhappy coalitions, we'll learn the outcome on March 4 of the vote-by-mail balloting of 143,000-plus members of Germany's SPD, who must choose whether their center-left party should join another government led by Chancellor Angela Merkel and the center-right CDU-CSU.
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WASHINGTON — For all the fears of foreign sabotage and security lapses in voting machines, the biggest nightmares to confront election officials during the year's biggest primary balloting on Tuesday mostly proved more mundane: unexpected numbers of voters, at polling places that were unprepared to handle them.
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Indiana Secretary of State Connie Lawson also said she'd recommend to the state election commission that they suspend absentee balloting rules to allow all Indiana voters to vote absentee should they so choose, along with other recommendation that would make it easier for Hoosiers to vote.
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Indiana Secretary of State Connie Lawson also said she'd recommend to the state election commission that they suspend absentee balloting rules to allow all Indiana voters to vote absentee should they so choose, along with other recommendations that would make it easier for Hoosiers to vote.
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"Let's be clear: This is not a speech of concession because concession means to acknowledge an action is right, true or proper," Ms. Abrams said amid a blistering attack on Mr. Kemp's record as the state's chief elections regulator and on the balloting process in Georgia.
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Just before the balloting began, Ms. Pelosi dispensed with one major obstacle that had threatened to strengthen her foes, securing the support of a small but critical bloc of Democrats after she agreed to change House rules to give rank-and-file members more influence in Congress.
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That's a lot to get your head around, so it can be helpful to break down the lineup into groups: Finally, it's worth remembering that even though Super Tuesday is just one day, several of the states involved began early voting or mail balloting weeks ago.
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Ray held that "presidential electors exercise a federal function in balloting for President and Vice-President but they are not federal officers or agents" — thus suggesting that states may retain more control over an elector than they do over a sitting member of Congress or a president.
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The N.B.A. relies almost exclusively on members of the news media in balloting for its annual awards because it believes that they comprise the voting body that will be the most thorough in its research — and the least likely to let personal biases influence their selections.
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The election on Sunday was the first in a long time in which the Ecuadorean authorities did not declare a winner on the night of the balloting, leading Mr. Lasso and many of his supporters to level accusations of fraud, but no evidence of irregularities was reported.
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Sanders' campaign and its student supporters know about the problem and say they're trying to work around the scheduling conflict by getting word out about it through Facebook posts, posters in dorm hallways and by promoting alternative options when available, such as absentee balloting and early voting.
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But those delegates are only bound to Trump through the first two rounds of balloting at the Republican National Convention in July, meaning that delegates who aren't loyal to the GOP front-runner -- or any other 2016 hopeful -- could switch to a different candidate on a third ballot.
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Team captains Elena Delle Donne of the Washington Mystics and A'ja Wilson of the Las Vegas Aces took turns making selections to fill out their 8.33-player rosters, with Delle Donne going first to pick the All-Starters because she was the leading vote-getter in fan balloting.
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First baseman Carlos Santana of the Cleveland Indians, catcher Robinson Chirinos of the Houston Astros and Atlanta Braves teammates Josh Donaldson and Nick Markakis have joined the leading group at their positions in the latest balloting update for the game, which is scheduled for July 9 in Cleveland.
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The former British foreign secretary and now front-runner for the premiership finished well ahead of his rivals in the first round of balloting among Conservative lawmakers in the race to replace Theresa May as the party's leader, taking a significant step toward becoming the next prime minister.
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Taken together with rest of the results from the March 31 elections, the balloting reflected increasing discontent among voters with Mr. Erdogan, who has concentrated executive powers, carried out a sweeping purge of opponents after a failed 2016 coup, and brought a once-vibrant news media to heel.
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J. Michael Bitzer, a professor of politics and history at Catawba College, who has examined the Bladen County balloting in the primary, noted that 156 Bladen absentee ballots went unreturned in this year's primary, the highest number of any county in a district that includes far larger counties.
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But the disease is expected to have less impact on turnout in Arizona than in other states, thanks to the state's extensive mail balloting program, even though Arizona's largest county — Maricopa, home to a majority of the state's voters — is closing many polling places because of the virus.
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Richard L. Hasen, an election law expert and professor at the University of California, Irvine, has proposed that Congress require states to offer "no excuse absentee balloting" for the general election, so that anyone can opt to vote by a method besides in-person voting on Election Day.
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Sports Briefing After gaining more than 13,000 yards the past two seasons, setting an N.C.A.A. record and finishing as the runner-up last year in the Heisman Trophy balloting, running back Christian McCaffrey announced Wednesday that he would skip his senior season at Stanford and enter the N.F.L. draft.
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PwC: 'We failed the Academy' in best picture mess up The Academy now says new protocols have been established, including greater oversight from PwC's U.S. chairman Tim Ryan and the return of PwC partner Rick Rosas as co-balloting leader -- a role he previously held for more than 12 years.
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But the inquiry remains a high-stakes gamble for Democrats just over a year from the 2020 balloting, as their presidential contenders — some of whom would act as jurors in a Senate trial should the House vote to impeach — are already deep into their campaigns to try to defeat Mr. Trump.
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This was the Republican establishment's last front in its war against Trump — and Trump feared, not without cause, that his rivals would resort to whatever connivances were necessary to deny him a 1,237 majority and throw the Republican convention into a melee of multiple balloting and back-room deal-making.
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Adding to the degree of difficulty was the fact that Texas is one of only 10 states that still allows straight-party balloting, where a voter can cast one vote at the top of the ballot for all candidates in their party of choice without ever reviewing the individual races.
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Kansas City's Lorenzo Cain went 0-for-13 but walked and was hit by a pitch in his return from a month-long absence due to a hamstring injury, and the player who finished third in last season's MVP balloting is hoping to help turn around the team's sagging fortunes.
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"As our country deals with the uncertainty of Covid-19, it is critical that states provide clarity and not confusion, which could lead to disenfranchising voters," Tom Perez, the chairman of the Democratic National Committee, said on Tuesday, as he urged the remaining states to allow vote-by-mail balloting.
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Toronto posted a franchise-record 59 wins last season, but fired Coach Dwane Casey — who was later named the N.B.A.'s coach of the year in separate balloting by both news media members and his peers — after a humbling second-round sweep inflicted by the LeBron James-led Cleveland Cavaliers.
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A more urgent concern for Mr. Vilsack was the prospect of Iowa producing a muddled result, a scenario that's more likely this year because the state party, for the first time, is releasing raw vote totals from the initial round of balloting as well as the final results and delegate allocations.
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PwC encouraged people to follow Cullinan and balloting co-leader Martha Ruiz on Twitter on their "Journey to the Oscars" web page — and before the show promoted a "briefcase journey" on its corporate Twitter page, which showed the bag in various locations around the country in the weeks leading up to the show.
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"If Donald Trump gets to the convention and is denied the nomination on the first round of balloting it's entirely possible – knowing Donald Trump – that he could take his hair, his ego, his billions of dollars and stage a walkout," Dr. James Boys, political historian, author and U.S. policy expert, told CNBC Friday.
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But if the House speaker seems determined not to play the role of savior in 2016, the path envisioned for him might still be open to another surprise candidate, if neither Donald J. Trump nor Ted Cruz can secure the nomination after several rounds of balloting at the convention starting on July 2373.
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With November balloting just over three months away, US officials are on heightened alert for the kind of meddling that marred the 2016 presidential election, when Russian agents conducted a social media campaign intended to influence the outcome of the election, probed state election systems, and downloaded the personal information of 500,000 voters in Illinois.
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Following a surprise upset over Rogue One at the weekend box office, where it amassed an impressive $22.8 million three days after Oscar balloting began, the PGA recognized Hidden Figures with its third major nomination from a major industry guild, following top notices from both the Screen Actors Guild and the Casting Society of America.
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In recent days, with the approach of the midterm balloting in which Republican control of Congress is at risk, he has sought to appeal to voters by making other dramatic claims that appear to have no chance of materializing, such as imminent action to grant a 10 percent tax cut for the middle class.
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The turnout in the first round of balloting was 17 to 20 percentage points higher than that four years ago, and the turnout in the runoff round, which is usually lower, was in many places almost identical to that from the first round, said Lukasz Pawlowski, the head of the Institute of Local Government Studies.
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Yankees outfielder Aaron Judge, who hit his league-leading 24th home run of the season Tuesday night and is the leading vote-getter among American League players in All-Star balloting, has been invited to take part in the Home Run Derby in Miami on July 10, the night before the All-Star Game.
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"We must also be clear that there is no evidence that there was any interference in the voting or balloting process," House Speaker Paul RyanPaul Davis RyanEmbattled Juul seeks allies in Washington Ex-Parkland students criticize Kellyanne Conway Latina leaders: 'It's a women's world more than anything' MORE (R-Wis.) said in a statement.
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In a letter to Democratic colleagues, 11 lawmakers and four newly elected members of the House declared that "the time has come for new leadership," and said they would vote accordingly both when their party meets next week for an internal round of secret balloting to choose leaders and in a floor vote in January.
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Mr. Obama, his former aides said, had hoped that the announcement, by the director of national intelligence, James R. Clapper Jr., and the Department of Homeland Security, would follow a bipartisan statement by congressional leaders about the need for state and local authorities to guard their voter-registration and balloting machines from Russian hacking.
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By framing his possible loss as a denial of popular will and a power grab by the establishment, Mr. Trump has frustrated efforts by Republicans who have tried to hold him back and push the convention into multiple rounds of balloting, an outcome that could very well result in the nomination of someone more palatable to party loyalists.
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In the wake of hacks that infiltrated Democratic campaign computer systems, Mr. Johnson said he was conducting high-level discussions about "election cybersecurity," a vastly complex effort given that there are 9,000 jurisdictions in the United States that have a hand in carrying out the balloting, many of them with different ways of collecting, tallying and reporting votes.
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The Biden officials, led by the campaign's Iowa director, Jake Braun, asked the Klobuchar strategist, Pete Giangreco, about the prospect that the two campaigns could encourage their supporters in the state to back the other candidate in precincts where Mr. Biden or Ms. Klobuchar fall short of the 22020 percent threshold required to reach the second round of balloting.
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It was only after he was stabbed at a campaign rally on September 21946 that it became clear that he was likely to be one of top two vote winners and hence to get into the second round (In Brazil, if nobody wins 255% of the valid vote in the first round of balloting, there is a runoff).
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If balloting reflects recent poll results, it is unlikely that Mr. Assange would need to pack his bags anytime soon: While Mr. Correa's preferred successor, Lenín Moreno, is the front-runner, polls indicate that the election is likely to go to a second round, meaning that Mr. Assange's fate may not be decided until a runoff in early April.
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"We at Stop the Steal, the grassroots uprising, and March on Cleveland will ask every Trump delegate to the Republican convention to sign a pledge that 'they will remain committed to vote for the winner of the primary or caucus as chosen by the voters (Donald J. Trump)' through the entire balloting process," Stone wrote Tuesday in Breitbart.
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Voter fraud occasionally occurs through absentee balloting or even complicit poll workers, but it is absurd to claim that 3 to 5 million illegal votes -- conveniently a number higher than Hillary Clinton's 3 million popular vote lead -- changed the popular vote in the presidential election, which, in any event, does not have any relevance to the outcome beyond hurting Trump's ego.
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Before blockchain can even get involved, you need to trust that voter registration is done fairly, that ballots are given only to eligible voters, that the votes are made anonymously rather than bought or intimidated, that the vote displayed by the balloting system is the same as the vote recorded, and that no extra votes are given to the political cronies to cast.
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The danger of despotism is on display in the Russia of Vladimir Putin — invader of Ukraine, meddler in foreign democracies, accused political assassin, brazen liar and proud son of the K.G.B. Putin has just been re-elected to a new six-year term, while in Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, a ruthless ideologue, is poised to triumph in sham balloting next month.
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So on Wednesday, during a hastily convened special session, Republican lawmakers introduced bills to, among other things, require State Senate confirmation of cabinet appointments; slash the number of employees who report to the governor to 300 from 1,500; and give Republicans greater clout on the Board of Elections, the body that sets the rules for North Carolina's notoriously burdensome balloting.
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The result of the balloting, which selected a hard-line nationalist as the Serb member of Bosnia's tripartite presidency, has stirred fury among Croats, who complain that the election for their own slot on the presidency was tainted by ethnically impure voting: Many Muslims voted for the Croat winner, a moderate Croat now denounced by hard-liners because of his support across ethnic lines.
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