Like Georgia, a majority of those voting early in North Carolina -- 56 percent -- were women, the election board said.
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If they can pull up the website of their election board, the information will be there or they should make phone call.
Marion County Election Board, the Supreme Court likewise ruled 6-3 that an Indiana law requiring photo ID at the ballot box was constitutional.
But first he had to make two trips to the county election board to straighten out confusion over which precinct he should vote in.
In North Carolina, the problem seemed to dry up when election officials issued a memo about using paper towels, said Gary Bartlett, executive director of the North Carolina Election Board.
Turkey's election watchdog, the Higher Election Board, disagrees.
Jim Allen, a spokesman for the election board, said a printer would begin churning out absentee ballots Monday night without Mr. Emanuel's name because early voting for the Feb. 22 election starts on Jan. 31.
In North Carolina, where a Democratic presidential candidate hasn't won in 33 years, state election board Deputy Director Johnnie McLean has been watching the early balloting statistics pour in since voting began on October 16.
In particular the ISS would like to see investors have the right to vote against the election of board members they don't like (rather than merely withholding votes, as now).
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's current CEO, Meg Whitman, who is also trying to win re-election to the board.
She is not standing for re-election to the board because of the "pressures" of her new responsibilities at Pepsico.
The funds then filed an SEC notice encouraging shareholders to withhold votes for the re-election of three board members.
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The results are in, and Rupert Murdoch has won re-election to the board of his own company, having carried the all-important Rupert Murdoch vote.
Hess Corp. also said Monday that it will nominate a slate of five independent directors for election to its board at its annual meeting in May.
At Disney's annual meeting in March, 45% of shareholders failed to support his re-election to the board, and he was stripped of his role as chairman.
After Mr. Estes lost a local school board election the twice-a-week Pecos Independent and Enterprise began digging into his dealings, and its revelations were the beginning of Mr. Estes's downfall.
For widely held companies in the U.S., the Securities and Exchange Commission now has the legal authority to require shareholder nominees to be included with management's nominees for election to the board.
But he departs with his pride more intact than seemed possible in the aftermath of last year's annual meeting, when 45% of shareholders withheld their votes for his re-election to the board.
An overwhelming majority of supporters at the agm backed a challenge to the re-election to the board of directors of Donald Muir, a Murray group employee who some have claimed is effectively Lloyds representative within the corridors of power at Ibrox.
In the school board election last June Mr Riordan drew on his own money and that of his circle of wealthy friends to back four candidates, one an existing board-member and the other three newcomers, with the aim of getting a majority who shared his impatience with the state of the schools.
Chief among Mr. Cuomo's suggested reforms: an independent enforcement unit at the board that would be authorized to investigate election-law violations, without board approval.
In theory, everyone could have to wait until the Virginia Board of Election certifies the results.
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And with the election to the school board, which they also helped to finance, they have taken to intervening in parish-pump politics.
On Monday evening, the Illinois Supreme Court received an emergency motion from Mr. Emanuel's lawyers asking the court to immediately prevent the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners from taking Mr. Emanuel's name off the ballot, pending a court review, and for the court to deal with the case in an expedited manner if it decides to take the case.
The hedge fund appears intent on putting up its board candidates for election at the annual meeting June 14.
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Why didn't Suharto install a currency board after the election?
"The people of Bridgeport were robbed of their opportunity to vote on their locally elected school board in an election set only months after the takeover, " said Josephine Miller, a lawyer who represented four of the plaintiffs.
But nonprofit groups such as Common Cause and the Center for Democracy and Technology last year pressed for a direct election of at-large board members and, after winning the backing of the U.S. government, convinced ICANN to follow their advice.
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Under the agreement, eight members of the current board will seek re-election, while Icahn, who owns about 5% of the company, will be appointed to the board.
Under the agreement, eight current board members will seek re-election, while Icahn, who owns about 5% of the company, will be appointed to the board.
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