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After testing, election officials found that a Republican ballot and one write-in ballot were missing.
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Nina Turner, Newsweek, 30 Oct. 2024
In the run-up to the Nov. 12 reveal of the annual Sexiest Man Alive, People said this year’s reader’s voting included some intense politicking from fans involving custom shirts, attack ads and celebs nominating themselves as write-in candidates.
—Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 30 Oct. 2024
But a poll from September sponsored by King’s campaign found that, when unaffiliated write-in candidate Phil Lyman is factored in, King is only 11 points behind, 24% to Cox’s 35% and Lyman’s 19%.
—USA TODAY, 29 Oct. 2024
Shirts were made, attack ads were run, people's grandmas got involved, celeb guys nominated themselves as write-in candidates and former Sexiest Men Alive weighed in on their picks.
—Alex Apatoff, People.com, 29 Oct. 2024
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Nina Turner, Newsweek, 30 Oct. 2024
In the run-up to the Nov. 12 reveal of the annual Sexiest Man Alive, People said this year’s reader’s voting included some intense politicking from fans involving custom shirts, attack ads and celebs nominating themselves as write-in candidates.
—Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 30 Oct. 2024
But a poll from September sponsored by King’s campaign found that, when unaffiliated write-in candidate Phil Lyman is factored in, King is only 11 points behind, 24% to Cox’s 35% and Lyman’s 19%.
—USA TODAY, 29 Oct. 2024
Shirts were made, attack ads were run, people's grandmas got involved, celeb guys nominated themselves as write-in candidates and former Sexiest Men Alive weighed in on their picks.
—Alex Apatoff, People.com, 29 Oct. 2024
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Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson said every absentee ballot cast in Detroit before Tuesday was counted by 4 p.m., and that the count was going better than anticipated.Violet Ikonomova, Sam Robinson, M.L. Elrick, Natalie Davies and Dave Boucher, Detroit Free Press, 6 Nov. 2024
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The state’s election board said in February its processes mean absentee ballots returned before Election Day should be counted by that evening, though ballots returned on Election Day could take longer.Alison Durkee, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
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Hunters and conservationists viewed it as a referendum on the future of wildlife management in Colorado (and potentially elsewhere), as Prop 127 would have set the stage for future hunting bans and taken even more decision-making power away from the wildlife managers at Colorado Parks and Wildlife.Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 6 Nov. 2024
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Plus, there's a statewide referendum question, and many communities have school funding referendums.Hope Karnopp, Journal Sentinel, 5 Nov. 2024
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In a strange reversal of a longstanding trend with the Academy, this year’s documentary short ballot is almost entirely domestic (which is to say, films made by or about Americans), while the feature doc category — where subtitles aren’t so common — is entirely international.Peter Debruge, Variety, 10 Mar. 2024
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About half a dozen poll workers said this election has been particularly slow, likely because of the short ballot and bad weather.Jolene Almendarez, The Enquirer, 16 May 2023
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At the same time, voters across the United States chose to send Donald Trump back to the White House, NBC News projected, electing a presidential ticket that many advocates warned would be the worst in American history for trans people.Jo Yurcaba, NBC News, 6 Nov. 2024
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Harris has made up significant ground on the issue since taking over the top of the Democratic presidential ticket in July, narrowing a gulf between Trump and President Biden.Tobias Burns, The Hill, 5 Nov. 2024
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