Sentence examples for opening polling from inspiring English sources

They had refused to negotiate, constitutional courts had first blocked a referendum then blocked a formal "consultation", and those opening polling booths could theoretically be charged.

Late opening polling places and incomplete voting records created obstacles for our family and other voters of the Tuckahoe School District at the annual budget vote and school board election on May 15.

Noor Mohammad Noor the IEC spokesman said they were only opening polling stations in places where security was guaranteed.

Consider The Associated Press's preseason top 10: four of the top five teams in the opening poll — Ohio State, U.S.C., Georgia and Florida — have already lost.

For a start, the opening of polling stations was postponed by a couple of hours.

Mr Uba's celebration party, with plenty of booze, guns and Humvees, was quite an event.It was a pattern repeated throughout the country, particularly the late opening of polling stations and the lack of ballot material leading to widespread disfranchisement.

Callers complained of signs put up to scare black voters in Ohio, of faulty voting machines in North Carolina and other states, of arguments and snubbed voters in Florida, and of late-opening polling places and other snafus in Philadelphia.

In 2010, computer malfunctions and delayed openings of polling places led Mr. Bloomberg to pronounce the board's handling of the election a "royal screw-up".

The primary election, in September, which also used the new system, was marred by so many late openings at polling sites, inoperable voting machines and poorly trained election workers that Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg called the board's performance a "royal screw-up".

As if to remind them of the challenge, a clock above the platform ticked steadily down to the opening of referendum polling.

In the villages of the Kathmandu valley, long queues awaited the opening of polling stations.