How To Use Polling station In A Sentence
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Got back to the polling station, and the turnout was still bumbling along in its slow way, if much quieter than before.
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The task of the tallyman is to get a tally of the votes for each candidate from each polling station.
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The election commission reached an impasse on the day of the vote Thursday after the opposition, backed by international observers, demanded that votes be sent from individual polling stations by a satellite-based system believed to be tamperproof.
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Less good news, however, is the very low proportion of people who chose to go the polling station to exercise their democratic right to cast a ballot.
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Apathy was so widespread that we had to cut the number of polling stations there.
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There were, for example, many local officials around the country who commandeered transport to bring voters to polling stations.
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The only obligation a voter has to fulfil is to attend the polling station between 7am and
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But, of course, the real test of that will only come in a little over two years time when we will all be off to the polling stations to exercise the franchise in another general election.
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This scheme contains a number of amendments, including the amalgamation of some smaller polling districts and their polling stations.
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Brits should be getting their lazy behinds down to the polling stations to cast their votes today.
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The problem with poor turnouts has nothing to do with the hassle of getting to a polling station, and everything to do with people feeling unrepresented and disenfranchised.
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He testified that as a police officer, he was detailed to maintain law and order at Chisokone Polling Station.
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She said the subdistrict poll committee members had to be available at the secretariat to coordinate with the members of the 165 polling stations.
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I was positioned on a polling station with a wodge of leaflets to hand out.
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However, a “roadside bomb and two suicide bombers targeting polling stations in Baghdad killed at least 12 people marring the first day of voting to elect the government that will rule as U.S. troops withdraw from Iraq.”
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At 17: 00 hours he made an announcement outside the Polling Station that the poll was closing.
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According to their own counts at polling stations, they've "massacred" Robert Mugabe's ruling Zanu-PF party.
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The lines of men and women outside polling stations were expatriates casting early votes for a new government.
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Which is ironic when a lot of the problem for government in getting shiftless bastards to vote right now is getting them to go down to polling stations in, er, libraries.
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IEC media liaison officer for the Eastern Cape Mr Matthew Moonieya said the delays were due to a problem with "resourcing" the polling stations, with "getting all the stuff there".
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Queues had formed early at one polling station in the Sydney beachside suburb of Clovelly, when polls opened under brilliant sunny skies in Australia's biggest city.
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Complaints that election agents were barred from some polling stations at the end of the election have caused concern within the commission.
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I would also like to point out that cost effectiveness cannot be an argument against running these polling stations for a general election as the costs are defrayed by central government.
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I'm not here to tell you I'm going to do this," he said to two old dears in Dennistoun, who probably thought he was the janny at the polling station.
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Having registered to vote in the polling station, Mr Cullen said it was still open to them to choose not to push the ‘cast vote’ button on the machine.
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You can cast your vote at the local polling station.
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The first official estimates from about a third of polling stations put the turnout at just over 50 percent.
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Commission was "conniving" in electoral fraud by allowing ANC members to wear uniforms at polling stations.
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You can cast your vote at the local polling station.
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At the elementary school, converted into a polling station serving two precincts for the day, it was taking voters an average of one hour to vote.
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It was a scene repeated at polling stations across America last week as an unprecedented wave of early voting signalled a potentially sharp rise in overall turnout.
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How can they ever expect conditions to change when a short trip to a polling station to mark a cross on a voting paper might make all the difference, but is too much for them?
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Azad Lashkari/Reuters Policemen stood in line at a polling station in Arbil, 190 miles north of Baghdad.
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Widespread ballot box stuffing was reported, and election observers noted how pro-government forces gathered outside polling stations intimidating voters.
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Other reports said the blast was caused by a roadside booby-trap or a rocket fired near a school due to be used as a polling station on Sunday.
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After weeks aboard a battlebus that ran on recycled cooking oil, Lucas arrived at the polling station at midnight on 6 May to find a three-way split between the Conservatives, Labour and the Greens.
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Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images Randolph Hock campaigned from the back of his Ford F-150 for his brother, Arthur Hock, outside a polling station in Stevensville, Md.
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The petitions had accused Biya of adding names to voter registration lists, setting up fake polling stations and withholding ballot papers.
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In Kandal province, which surrounds the capital Phnom Penh, every polling station could be hit.
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As if aware that their vote made little difference, more than half of the 3 million enfranchised Hong Kong people stayed away from polling stations.
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The atmosphere in genal at Western Cape polling stations was "calm",
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Legitimate voters were refused a vote when they turned up at the polling station because someone else had personated them.
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Paper ballots and physical presence in the polling station make the system too unwieldy to hack.
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The abolition of polling stations means that people cannot be guaranteed the right to vote in privacy and security.
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Mr Berisha's Democratic party alleged widespread electoral fraud by the government and intimidation of polling station officials by the police.
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He said observers and journalists could watch the first stage of the count at the polling stations, but not at provincial election commission centers where the results are tabulated.
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The activist, whose daughter was a presiding officer for one polling station, has strenuously denied any impropriety.
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Voters who do turn up to the polling stations today will have their thumb marked with indelible ink to prevent them voting more than once.
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It has redrawn the electoral boundaries, will use intimidation at the polling stations and has apparently falsified the electoral roll.
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Across the country thousands upon thousands of polling stations are closing and votes are beginning to be counted to determine the new rulers of the country.
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Every half hour, Picco's three scrutineers in the polling station provided updated lists of the names of those who had voted.
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People may also vote by proxy, and, as in the past, those whose names don't make it onto the voters' registry may vote if they fill out a form at the polling station on election day.
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Meanwhile, the polling staff complained of inadequate facilities at collectorate and at respective polling stations.
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Queues formed even before polling stations opened.
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The Democrats' mood in Cincinnati was buoyant as the polling stations closed at 7.30 pm.
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He was taking part in Operation Panchai Palang and had been part of a patrol in the Babaji area of Helmand province tasked to "recce" a suitable area for a polling station in the forthcoming Afghan presidential elections.
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As a result voters could get a vote at a polling station while still being able to vote again online from home.
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This makes for quite a bustling Election Day and when I visited one polling station in Brasilia I found it difficult to navigate the vast throngs of crowds.
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Tony Juniper stressed the need for those who are involved with NGO's or communities groups to take the batton to the polling stations and VOTE GREEN.
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Apart from annoying the people you're trying to encourage, it should be noted that no loudhailers should he used after 8pm, or within 100 yards of a polling station on election day.
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If slobs cannot be bothered to set aside 10 minutes to walk to the polling station then they don't deserve to have a say in who runs their affairs.
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They have asked for the hundreds of independent monitors to be allowed inside polling stations, a request approved by the judiciary but rejected by the electoral commission.
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At left, trishaw drivers transport ballot boxes to polling stations in Yogyakarta Tuesday.
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According to PEC regulations, results of the sorting process should be submitted to the main polling stations, and then to the PEC without being announced.
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It was one of his scrutineers at the polling station and she said she needed a ride home.
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Melkonyants, the organization's deputy director, said he was worried that the group's 3,000 monitors would be excluded from polling stations, and that they might even be in danger, after Mr. Putin's use of the word "Judas.
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With regard to Chipepa Polling Station, the poll closed 34 minutes before the gazetted time of 1700 hours.
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A team of journalists also saw ballot boxes being stuffed with ‘yes’ votes by an official at one polling station.
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In Hebbal village, in the same zilla panchayat constituency, several people stormed a polling station in the afternoon, snatched about 300 unpolled ballot papers and tore them to shreds.
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I got a part time job at the Rongotai electorate office, getting the polling stations sorted out for the election.
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Mr Berisha's Democratic party alleged widespread electoral fraud by the government and intimidation of polling station officials by the police.
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Further south at a polling station in Mwenezi, elections had gone unwatched because the official monitor had been arrested as soon as he arrived, and was still in police detention.
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Mr Berisha's Democratic party alleged widespread electoral fraud by the government and intimidation of polling station officials by the police.
