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| NY state board of elections |
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| -also responsible for regulating disclosure and limitations of a fair campaign code intended to govern campaign practices |
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Onondaga County Elections commissioners
-democrat
-republican
-responsibilities
-elected or appointed |
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-Dustin Czarny
-Helen Kiggins Walsh
-administering the OC board of elections, conduct of elections within jurisdiction -- a county office, responsible for all federal, state, county, city, and town elections in oc
-appointed by county legislature, recommended by respective county party committees |
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OC Committee Chairs
-democratic
-republican |
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-Mark English
-Thomas Dadey |
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Syracuse City Committee Chairs
-democratic
-republican |
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-Tim Carroll
-Robert Andrews |
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-siena research institute: regional, statewide, and national surveys on business, economic, political, etc issues, director dr. don levy
-marist institute for public opinion: measures p.o. at the local, state, and national level
-the gallup organization: expertise: polling |
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Structure of OC elections
-requirements to vote |
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| -u.s. citizen 18 years old by date of primary, gen, or other, live at present address for at least 30 days, not be in jail or on parole for a felony conviction, not claim the right to vote elsewhere |
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| how can you switch political party registrations |
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obtain voter registration form, indicate change, send it to the board of elections
-info processed and sent to you with new voter card reflecting change in party
-cannot change enrollment and vote in the new party in the same year; change will go into affect one week following the general election -- last day to change enrollment is same as last day to register (25 days prior) |
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| What must college students from outside Syracuse do to be allowed to vote in Syracuse? |
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| get an absentee ballot; can only vote once in one location |
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| types of machines used in OC |
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| qualifications to vote by absentee ballot |
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-absent from your county or, if a resident of nyc absent from said city, on election day
-unable to appear at the polls due to temporary or permanent illness or disability, or because you are the primary caregiver of someone like such
-patient or inmate in a veterans administration hospital
-detained in jail awaiting grand jury action or confined in prison after conviction for an offense other than a felony |
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| who can call for a recount after an election in NY State, under what circumstances, and how |
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-NY State board of elections
-when the number of votes are counted, you see a difference between the two candidates. If that total is less than one half of 1 percent of total votes, you have to manually recount |
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what happens in the event of a tie?
-ASSK |
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| the newly elected board will vote to appoint either candidate to the seat, and a special election will be held to decide who wins |
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| what must someone do to get a party designation to run for office |
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-must circulate a petition getting at least a predetermined number of signatures that must then be filed with the board of elections
-if they want to run in a designated party, they may need to go through a designation process
-if not, they may create their own independent line by circulating and filing an independent nominating petition
-may also circulate an opportunity to ballot petition to create the opp to write in the name of an unspecified person for an office which there is no conteset |
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| current political parties |
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| -Democratic, Republican, Conservative, Working Families, Independence, and Green Parties |
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