#election-day

#election-day

The Beaches-East York candidate is hoping he can replace John Tory, the former mayor to whom he was a key ally Toronto mayoral candidate Brad Bradford has his turn to tell CBC Radio's Metro Morning why he should be elected to lead the city on Tuesday.Bradford, the current city councillor for Beaches-East York, will speak with host Piya Chattopadhyay shortly after 7:10 a.m.

When Torontonians enter the polling booth on June 26 to elect a new mayor, they will stare down a ballot with 102 candidates before marking a single vote.Whoever gets the most votes wins, regardless of their share of the overall ballots cast.With more than half a dozen high profile candidates in the packed field, city hall watchers say the next mayor of Canada's most populous city could be elected with less than a third of the popular vote.

By Sarah Belle Lin Posted on June 15, 2023 Sign up for our amNY Sports email newsletter to get insights and game coverage for your favorite teams CUNY campuses will once again serve as early voting polling sites for the upcoming primary election.Ten colleges in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens will open from Saturday, June 17 to Sunday, June 25.

For those candidates who didn't win outright in the Feb. 28 Chicago election by securing more than 50% of the vote, there is one more election in Chicago - the runoff on April 4 - where the top two vote-getters in the race for mayor and more than a dozen aldermanic races will face off one last time.

The shift in strategy comes as his advisers recognize Democrats have been winning, in part, because of early voting.Former President Donald Trump stands with former first lady Melania Trump as he speaks to the media after voting at a polling station setup in the Morton and Barbara Mandel Recreation Center on November 8, 2022, in Palm Beach, Florida.Joe Raedle / Getty Images Former President Donald Trump has consistently pushed lies about early voting being untrustworthy and rife with fraud.

Anthony Furey, the former Toronto Sun columnist who is making a run for mayor, is set to speak with CBC Radio's Metro Morning Thursday.He will be interviewed by Piya Chattopadhyay shortly after 7:10 a.m.ET.You can watch that interview live above.Furey has never run for public office in Toronto, but a number of polls show he's garnering significant support in the city despite the fact that he hasn't said how he'll pay for his agenda.

You're going to vote this time, right?Just about one in three eligible Torontonians cast a ballot in last year's election, but a competitive and consequential mayoral byelection should bring more to the polls this time around.The City of Toronto has also made a key improvement this time around: during the advance voting window, you'll be able to vote at any polling station you like.

Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Each of the three frontrunners in Nigeria's hotly contested presidential election claimed they are on the path to victory Monday, as preliminary results trickled in two days after Africa's most populous nation went to the polls.

With less than one month until election day, CBC Toronto will host a six-candidate mayoral debate on June 6.The debate will air live from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. ET on CBC Radio, and will stream live on cbc.ca/toronto,CBC Gem, CBC Listen, on CBC News YouTube and from CBC Toronto's Facebook account.Award-winning journalist Marivel Taruc, along with municipal affairs reporter Shawn Jeffords, will co-moderate the debate which is an opportunity for voters to learn more about the mayoral hopefuls, and where they stand on the issues that matter most to Torontonians.

Counting is underway and the results from the latest round of local elections in England are beginning to trickle in after the public headed to the polls on Thursday.More than 8,000 seats were contested across 230 councils, with Bedford, Leicester, Mansfield and Middlesbrough among several cities and regions choosing a new mayor.

Democracy is a verb!Abner Mikva, the late federal judge and Illinois congressman, declared this as he challenged youth across the nation to participate in the election process and use their voices to speak to elected officials.In high school, before she was eligible to vote, my daughter participated in the Mikva Challenge by serving as a student election judge during the 2012 presidential election.

Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan received the most votes in this weekend's presidential election but failed to claim victory outright because he could not claim the majority support he needed to pass the magic 50 per cent mark.Preliminary results showed the longtime leader had 49.5 per cent of the vote.

Autumn light filters through the treetops of Central Park West, streaming into Jean-Georges, giving the gray banquettes a matte, silver gleam.The space is plain, severe in its neutrality, undeniably grand and hushed.Each table, though in clear view of the others, is luxuriously cocooned by space, almost private.

For the second consecutive parliamentary election, Cambodia has disqualified the country's main opposition party, eliminating the only credible challenge to the ruling party of Prime Minister Hun Sen. The country's National Election Commission on Monday refused to register the party, the Candlelight Party, for a general election scheduled in July, saying it had failed to file required paperwork and was therefore ineligible to take part in the contest.

PHOENIX  A judge has thrown out Republican Kari Lake's challenge of her defeat in the Arizona governor's race to Democrat Katie Hobbs, rejecting her claim that problems with ballot printers at some polling places on Election Day were the result of intentional misconduct.In a decision Saturday, Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Peter Thompson, who was appointed by then-Republican Gov. Jan Brewer, found that the court did not find clear and convincing evidence of the widespread misconduct that Lake had alleged had affected the result of the 2022 general election.

The Senate Minority Leader said Trump's endorsements in GOP primaries hindered the party in the general election.Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell arrives to a news conference after being re-elected as the leader of the Senate Republican Conference in the U.S. Capitol on November 16, 2022.Tom Williams / CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images On Tuesday, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) placed blame on former President Donald Trump for Republicans' lackluster showing in the midterm elections, particularly in the Senate, making the argument that poor "candidate quality" in key races the GOP lost was due to Trump's endorsements in the primaries.

A New Mexico voting rights bill that would expand voting access in the state, including restoring the rights of felons to vote upon release from incarceration, is headed to Democratic Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham to sign after final passage from the state legislature this week.The bill, which Lujan Grisham is expected to sign, is a part of a broad package in the Democratic-controlled legislature to expand voting rights in New Mexico.

We're not done.Following Tuesday's balloting, Chicagoans have one more Election Day to get through to determine who will be mayor as well as several races for City Council.In five weeks, on April 4, voters will decide if former Chicago Public Schools CEO Paul Vallas or Cook County Commissioner Brandon Johnson will be Chicago's next mayor, as well as who will win the alderman's seat in several council races.

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot won't rule out using public funds to keep the Chicago Bears at Soldier Field as the NFL team continues to pursue a new stadium in Arlington Heights.Lightfoot made the comment at an unrelated news conference a day after the Bears paid $197 million for the 326-acre Arlington International Racecourse site, which they hope to transform into a modern stadium that can host marquee events including Super Bowls and NCAA Final Fours.

For days, Democrats in the New York State Assembly had been considering whether to expel a Republican assemblyman because of evidence suggesting he lived in Manhattan, not in the South Brooklyn district he was recently elected to represent.The efforts to remove Assemblyman Lester Chang were seen as extraordinary a legislator hasn't been ousted from the Assembly in over a century and politically contentious, fueling accusations from Republicans that Democrats were pushing a partisan agenda to overturn his election.

The Worker Ownership, Readiness, and Knowledge (WORK) Act aims to help create and expand employee ownership centers.Sen. Bernie Sanders speaks ahead of Election Day, on November 6, 2022 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.Jeff Swensen / Getty Images Legislation that Sen. Bernie Sanders unveiled 13 years ago to help boost workplace democracy and curb worsening inequality in the United States was included in the $1.7 trillion omnibus package approved by the Senate on Thursday.

Vote Texas Here's where you can cast your ballot for the runoff election in Central Texas.Published: 11:33 AM CST December 13, 2022 Updated: 11:33 AM CST December 13, 2022 AUSTIN, Texas  Election Day for the runoff election is here and there are a select number of locations Central Texans can go to cast their vote in the ballot box.