You go to the table for your election district, sign in, and then wait while an election worker laboriously writes onto a paper form your voter identification information.
You went to the table for your election district, signed in, went to a big old steel mechanical voting machine made in Jamestown, New York, pulled a big lever, set small levers for all the candidates you wanted, pulled the big lever back, and were done.
In choosing the Democratic Liu from a crowded field of candidates in this year's election, District Council 37 of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees underscored the populist tenor of his campaign.
The Liberal Democrats have held onto a Somerset council seat in a by-election at Sedgemoor District Council.
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Kelly is expected to coast to victory in the April 19 general election given the district is overwhelmingly Democratic.
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They are now vying along with Green Party Candidate Eugene Platt in the May 7 special election in the district.
Deputy Flouquet, also the Minister for Public Services, was one of three sitting deputies to miss out on re-election in the district.
BBC: Guernsey's Deputy Chief Minister fails to get re-elected
The primary is Feb. 26 and the winner is expected to coast to victory in the April 19 general election given the district is overwhelmingly Democratic.
Mr Obama campaigned hard here in the closing weeks of the 2008 election and carried the district with barely half the vote.
On the same day it lost heavily in a mayoral election in the Tokyo district of Machida City, home to many salaried workers who were considered a mainstay of DPJ support in last August's general election.
When early voting began in Virginia last Wednesday, election officials in Mason District, in the northern Virginia county of Fairfax, had to turn their largest meeting room into a seating area to handle the number of voters wanting to cast early ballots.
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As a reminder of another big issue that could hurt sitting politicians in the mid-term elections, Bob Ney , a congressman who has been under investigation for his ties to Jack Abramoff, a disgraced lobbyist, declined to stand for re-election in his Ohio district.
Deputies Mike Garrett and Sean McManus also failed to win re-election in the Castel electoral district.
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He is a moderate Democrat facing a tough re-election race in a swing district.
All 229 House seats are also up for election, fought at the district level, as well as governorships and local offices.
In the run-up to the first election in yet another new district earlier this year, one academic, Effendi Ghazali, was invited onto a local radio talk show to offer a bit of civic education.
The indictment unsealed Wednesday in the Bronx against Nelson Castro alleges he lied under oath during a civil proceeding concerning his eligibility for placement on the ballot in a primary election for the 86th Assembly District in 2008.
We know why the Republicans lost the March 8 special election in Illinois' 14th Congressional District.
Unsuccessful candidates who got a call from the president included Congresswoman Connie Morella, who lost her bid for re-election in Maryland's 8th District.
The organization already has run ads this year in two districts: in the Lois Capps-Tom Bordonaro special election in California's 22nd District and in Republican Rep. Nancy L. Johnson's 6th District in Connecticut.
The strategy helped Mr. Weiner win re-election by healthy margins in a district with conservative leanings and gave him a history of working on New York City issues as he looked toward running for mayor.
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This is, after all, a Democratic primary in and around Boston (the only election that counts in this liberal district), so pretty much everyone is for the same leftish things: Medicare, education, universal health care, trees, and so on.
Brave talk, which lasted right until the moment that election results arrived from the electoral district of Central France, revealing that UMP voters had turned out in sufficient numbers to elect three MEPs from that party, incuding Mr Sarkozy's close ally and employment minister, Brice Hortefeux.
When the Democrats won a victory last month by holding a white working-class district in a special election in western Pennsylvania, their own candidate felt obliged to assure angry voters that he for one would have opposed Obamacare if he had been in Congress at the time.
On Tuesday, Mr Barber ran in the election for a newly-created congressional district in Arizona.
This is a special election and, in so conservative a district, there is little danger of a Democrat winning the seat.
As you may know, Virginia requires 10, 000 valid signatures to get on the ballot for a statewide election, including 400 from each Congressional district.
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Fewer than 100 days after Gibson survived his first reelection campaign, wealthy 26-year-old investor Sean Eldridge--who is married to Facebook cofounder Chris Hughes and campaigned for New York's gay-marriage law--filed Federal Election Commission papers to run in the district.
The biggest drama, however, comes in an election to fill a vacancy in a congressional district in rural New York, a Republican stronghold near the Canadian border.
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