election day

Reminder: why Election Day matters in Los Angeles if you care about transportation

Mon, 20 May 2013 22:18:56 GMT

Source: thesource.metro.net --- Monday, May 20, 2013
Click above to find your polling place. As you may have heard, there’s a runoff Tuesday in Los Angeles to elect the next mayor of the second-largest city in the nation — a city with about 3.8 million inhabitants and some well-known transportation challenges. I ran the following post on March 4, the day before the primary election in Los Angeles. I’m running it again today as a reminder to vote in tomorrow’s mayoral election between Eric Garcetti and Wendy Greuel because whichever succeeds Antonio Villaraigosa will likely have a hand in many important transportation decisions, including project acceleration, the future of congestion pricing projects, the construction of five rail projects and possible changes in Metro’s fare structure in the future. Look up your polling place here . Metro is a county agency and is overseen by a 13 member Board of Directors who serve as the deciders on most significant issues. The Mayor of Los Angeles gets a seat on that board and gets to fill three other seats with his appointees. A majority of the Metro Board — i.e. seven votes — is required to approve most items. Four of those seven votes are controlled by the Los Angeles mayor. That means that the mayor controls more than half the votes needed to approve items that have impacts across Los Angeles County and the region. Here are some items that are likely to confront the Metro Board in the next four or so years, meaning they’re items likely to c ...

Chris Rock On Election Day

Mon, 20 May 2013 16:00:56 GMT

Source: www.prosebeforehos.com --- Monday, May 20, 2013
Voting on a Tuesday in November did serve some kind of purpose at one point–though mainly for the religious and rural communities. As our culture and circumstances change, so should our election processes. The post Chris Rock On election day appeared first on Prose Before Hos . ...

Today is Election Day in Dover

Mon, 20 May 2013 14:42:07 GMT

Source: www.wickedlocal.com --- Monday, May 20, 2013
Today is election day in Dover. Polls at the Town House are open from 7 a.m.-8 p.m. ...

Plenty at stake on Election Day, will voters show up?

Mon, 20 May 2013 12:05:51 GMT

Source: delcotimes.com --- Monday, May 20, 2013
Come Tuesday, the county’s 384,433 registered voters can cast their ballots for some countywide races along with ballots for candidates in municipal and school board races. ...

County ready for Election Day

Sun, 19 May 2013 09:38:18 GMT

Source: www.sungazette.com --- Sunday, May 19, 2013
All systems and personnel are in place for 86 countywide polling places for Tuesday's primary election, according to Sandy Adams, Lycoming County director of voter services. ...

Vaughn Palmer: On election day, voters focus not on the past, but on who offers best hope for the future

Sat, 18 May 2013 02:06:28 GMT

Source: www.vancouversun.com --- Friday, May 17, 2013
When Premier Christy Clark got to thanking supporters for the big win Tuesday, she made a point of singling out the wise counsel and daily support from Kelowna businessman Brad Bennett. ...

"modern Family" Election Day (2012)

Fri, 17 May 2013 11:50:08 GMT

Source: www.subtitlecube.com --- Friday, May 17, 2013
Movie subtitles in Dutch language, version on 1 CDs in srt format with framerate ...

Six months until election day, many New Yorkers can’t recognize mayoral candidates

Fri, 17 May 2013 03:25:22 GMT

Source: pix11.com --- Thursday, May 16, 2013
Downtown, BROOKLYN (PIX11) – The field of nearly a dozen people who want to be mayor may be full of men — and one woman — who have the drive and persistence to hold the city’s highest office, but what they don’t have, despite spending $3 million so far on campaigns, is recognition among voters. An unscientific survey further shows that people who are as yet undeclared or undecided as candidates may have as good a chance of becoming mayor as people who’ve been in the race for many months. PIX11 News went out to a busy New York City intersection — Atlantic and Flatbush Avenues in Brooklyn — to ask a very simple question of potential voters: Can you name any of the candidates for mayor? The headshakes, and other responses, such as the “No. Honestly, no,” from Keyana Barber of the Bronx, indicated one of two things: that either the people who wish to be mayor have some serious work ahead of them to get noticed by voters, or New York City will end up with a mayor elected by a small minority of its citizens who know barely anything about any of the large field of candidates. In the most recent polls, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn has been ahead of the pack. However, she needs 40 percent of the primary vote, as opposed to the 28 percent that she registered in the April 19th Quinnipiac College poll in order to avoid a runoff election. PIX11 News showed Quinn’s photo randomly at the Brooklyn intersection where passengers from ten d ...

Bill would create election day to decide fate of proposed constitutional amendme...

Fri, 17 May 2013 01:03:35 GMT

Source: www.facebook.com --- Thursday, May 16, 2013
Bill would create election day to decide fate of proposed constitutional amendments. Bill would create election day theadvocate.com No statewide election is scheduled this year but an effort is underway to hold one so Louisiana voters can decide the fate of proposed constitutional amendments approved in … ...

Lovely article about the Icelandic Pirate Party on election day: I’m in a van w...

Thu, 16 May 2013 16:37:05 GMT

Source: www.facebook.com --- Thursday, May 16, 2013
Lovely article about the Icelandic Pirate Party on election day: I’m in a van with three pirates, and we’re pillaging snacks from all the major political parties in Iceland. It’s 27 April, election day in Reykjavík, and the months of campaigning are over. The parliamentary candidates of the Pirate Party have nothing to do except drive around the various party headquarters appropriating cake and crisps. They prefer to call it “challenging the antagonism of the current political climate”. By dropping in on rival parties. And taking their food. “This is taxpayer-funded, so actually it’s already my food,” says Kristjan, a huge, jolly, bearded technologist who is running as a candidate in Reykjavík. He slips a choc ice into his pocket as we say goodbye to the centrist Progressive Party, with its impressive spread of smoked-tongue pavlova. Next, we’re off to see the Social Democrats, who may or may not have coffee. There are 15 parties running in what may be the oddest national election Europe has seen in decades, so we’re unlikely to go hungry. http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2013/05/icelands-elections-shattered-fairy-tale Iceland's elections: A shattered fairy tale www.newstatesman.com After the financial crash of 2008, Iceland refused to bail out its banks and overthrew its government. But five years on, has its flirtation with an alternative to austerity ended? ...

Holliston election day is Tuesday

Thu, 16 May 2013 13:16:56 GMT

Source: www.wickedlocal.com --- Thursday, May 16, 2013
There are just two contested races on the ballot for the town election on Tuesday, May 21. Voters will chose one of two candidates for town clerk and one of two candidates for one seat on the Planning Board. ...

Bachmann buys airtime 18 months from election day

Wed, 15 May 2013 23:20:55 GMT

Source: minnesota.publicradio.org --- Wednesday, May 15, 2013
It's very unusual for congressional campaigns to buy ads this far ahead of an election. ...

Lucky Obama. What if the Benghazi Leaks Had Hit The Fan Before Election Day?

Wed, 15 May 2013 19:39:00 GMT

Source: shilohmusings.blogspot.com --- Wednesday, May 15, 2013
The details about how United States President Barack Hussein Obama and his then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton handled the Benghazi crises is just now getting big play in the media. Friday, in a bombshell report that blew the long-simmering Libya scandal wide open and right into the arms of the mainstream media, ABC's Jonathan Karl reported that an email written by Rhoades specifically mentioned the State Department's concerns about the CIA talking points. Here is how Karl transcribed the Rhoades' email: We must make sure that the talking points reflect all agency equities, including those of the State Department, and we don’t want to undermine the FBI investigation. We thus will work through the talking points tomorrow morning at the Deputies Committee meeting. Though this point wasn't the main focus of Karl's report, it was important because it showed that the White House was backing State in pushing inconvenient facts out of the talking points -- this included the fact that terrorists were behind the attack and that State had been negligent when it came to providing security for our diplomatic mission. In the end, as we now all now know, and apparently due to the prodding of Hillary Clinton's right hand woman at State -- Victoria Nuland, the talking points ended up being completely wrong, which resulted in the American people being misled by the Obama Administration, straight through to a speech the President gave at the ...

Zoo Day & Election Day At Area Kroger & Scotts Stores (VIDEO)

Wed, 15 May 2013 17:17:49 GMT

Source: www.nbcnews.com --- Wednesday, May 15, 2013
It's Zoo day at area Kroger and Scotts stores, which is an annual event to raise money for the Fort Wayne Children's Zoo. ...

Elections B.C. warned candidates not to tweet on election day

Wed, 15 May 2013 15:05:00 GMT

Source: bc.ctvnews.ca --- Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Candidates in British Columbia's election could knock on all the doors they wanted to on Tuesday as voters headed to the polls, but they better not have tweeted about it. ...

Elections B.C. warned candidates: don't tweet on election day

Wed, 15 May 2013 13:17:00 GMT

Source: www.ctvnews.ca --- Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Candidates in British Columbia's election could knock on all the doors they wanted to on Tuesday as voters headed to the polls, but they better not have tweeted about it. ...

B.C. parties broke election-day rules with tweets, robocalls

Wed, 15 May 2013 06:52:13 GMT

Source: www.torontosun.com --- Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Three B.C. political parties were caught violating election-day rules by either tweeting or using robocalls. ...

“Elections B.C. warns candidates: don’t tweet on election day”

Wed, 15 May 2013 02:45:57 GMT

Source: electionlawblog.org --- Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Canadian election law more draconian than ours but less than Iran’s . ...

Election day live chat

Wed, 15 May 2013 01:43:53 GMT

Source: www.vancouversun.com --- Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Vancouver Sun editors and reporters will provide on-the-ground coverage and analysis throughout election day. ...

Polls busy on election day in Revelstoke

Wed, 15 May 2013 01:09:06 GMT

Source: www.revelstoketimesreview.com --- Tuesday, May 14, 2013
A steady stream of voters made their way to the Revelstoke Community Centre to vote on Tuesday. ...