Sentences with phrase «only votes count»

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Only about a third of Republicans said they have a great deal or quite a bit of confidence that votes on Election Day will be counted fairly, according to recent poll from the Associated Press - NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.

That said, these estimates count only about 20 percent of the total vote, mostly from urban areas.

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On the political level, we won a general election, only the eighth time in 40 elections that a governing party has increased both its seat count and its share of the popular vote.

Shareholders in Canada can only vote «for» a director or have their votes withheld, which means they are not counted.

It only affected the Electoral College because Florida's own method of determining Electors is tied to its own popular vote count.

You also have people who can register as a specfic party and run on a ticket to strengthen their careers and yet they only espouse one or two things that could count them into the party in the first place.There's also a huge issue of people really thinking that a vote for a 3rd party candidate is a waste, If the only way you feel your vote matters is by voting for one of 2 parties (even if you are unsatisfied with both) does it actually matter?

If you do not have your ballot, or you are at polling place other than the one you are registered for, you can vote provisionally: your vote is put aside, they check whether they have received any other votes from you, and if that's your only vote, then it's counted.

Only 16 per cent of people with learning disabilities are exercising their right to vote, it has been claimed, as a campaign is launched to make disabled people's votes count.

Moreover, each and every member of Congress should be notified that he or she is personally liable (can be sued) for his or her own failure, or the same in conspiracy with other members, to perform what is a ministerial and constitutional duty, that is, to require and / or insist that Presidential electoral votes only be counted for candidates who are «natural born citizens» under Article II of the United States Constitution, the failure of which creates a cause of action for deprivation of claimants» constitutional rights (as allowed under the Bivens case) against employees of the Federal Government, in this case, to a lawful President and Commander in Chief, and therefore, for deprivation of adequate continuation of the United States as a Constitutional Republic.

This was halved at the first election following the introduction of above the line voting, and at the last election only 3.75 % votes were counted as informal.

Finally, I also adjust the «abstention vote» weight down so that they count for only one third of normal votes.

Only in a proportional representation system do votes really count.

It's much easier to reason that voting is futile when your vote will only be counted once per election than when it will be counted hundreds of times in different permutations.

«These reforms not only cut costs to save taxpayers money, they ensure that our men and women serving in the military have their vote counted.»

Thus quotas are never recalculated between counts, but the actual quota can only be determined when the total number of formal votes is known.

That figure drops to 11 % of people who also intend to vote for UKIP in the 2015 general election (or 14 % counting only people giving a party choice).

British Election Study data released today (collected between February and March 2014) shows that 17 % of people intend to vote for UKIP in the May European Parliament elections (23 % when counting only people giving a party choice, excluding «don't know» responses).

At the extreme end, Congress might refuse to certify an electoral college result, so only the other state votes would count.

Some states (Wikipedia counts twelve) hold closed primaries, where only party members may vote in a particular party's primary, thus disenfranchising independent voters, and even voters registered to parties that do not hold their own primary.

Only the final vote count will show whether or not these predictions are accurate.

In these cases, the board will be counting only the first vote, which benefits the major parties that appear at the top of the ballot.

Mohammed refers to the recent by - election in Oldham East — but the result there is a perfect illustration of the way that AV gives the supporters of fringe parties extra chances to have their vote counted, whilst the supporters of mainstream candidates only get their vote counted once.

AV IS UNFAIR: Supporters of fringe parties can end up having their vote counted five or six times — and potentially decide the outcome of the election — while people who backed the mainstream candidates only get one vote.

(The only way the lefties will prevent this is by having a good nocturnal fiddle with the ballet boxes between the UK Thursday vote and the pan-European count on the Sunday.)

Smitherman, the former Political Coordinator of 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East, had received only 30 percent of the vote by midnight, with 76 percent of the precincts counted.

Peers wanted to only count activity directly relating to campaigning in a single constituency, but the Commons voted down their amendment by 314 votes to 274, a majority of 40.

There are extensive lists on a vast range of election facts covering not only the seats that were the fastest in counting the votes - Sunderland South in 2001 in 41 minutes - to the largest majority ever - 62,253 for the Conservatives in Brighton in 1931.

Freeman — who in the 2007 Democratic primary defeated incumbent Albany County Legislator Lucille McKnight on the machine count only to lose by four votes once absentees were tallied — this time held his lead over party - backed candidate Victor Cain for Albany's 2nd Ward Common Council seat.

The count of the Party vote would be of interest locally, but would only have practical significance when aggregated with all the other votes to reach a national total.

The midday vote count was only 132.

He complained that he's received «millions» more votes than Cruz in the primaries so far, but the «media» only emphasizes delegate count (total votes don't have a role in determining the nomination).

He said that only the delegates would be allowed to enter the venues to ensure smooth exercise and the results would be announced at the venue immediately after counting votes, while the winner would be declared there.

That race between incumbent Republican Kelly Ayotte and Democratic challenger Gov. Maggie Hassan, was down to the wire Wednesday morning with only a few thousand votes to be counted.

The vote test for a party to remain ballot - qualified is 2 %, but in presidential years, the only office that counts is the U.S. House race, and the Country Party did not poll as much as 2 % for that office.

If the only votes that counted were those cast on election day, the proposition would have gone down to defeat as there were more «no» votes cast on election day.

Labour and the Conservatives, supported by the London - based media, have long behaved as if they were the only players that counted, even though their share of the vote has declined since 1974 (despite a few spikes upwards in the 1980s) and now stands roughly at 65 %.

With only one seat yet to declare, more than 32 million votes had been counted and the figure was unlikely to surpass the total who voted in the 1992 poll.

In separate interviews given over the last few weeks, Representatives Tammy Baldwin, the only openly lesbian member of Congress, and Barney Frank — who was heckled with anti-gay slurs during the health care reform rallies — have both signaled that the time is now right to move forward with the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (HR 3017), saying that, having counted the votes, they believe that there is enough support from both Republican and Democratic legislators to pass the House version of the bill.

For these people, ranked - choice voting includes not only instant runoff voting and the single transferable vote, but also Condorcet voting and the Borda count.

In the ruling of the Apex court, the justices explained that ballots of the special voting could only be counted at the close of polls which is the 7th of December.

On the other, we keep the New Labour flag flying by treating the collapsing Liberal Democrat vote as a distraction to be ignored entirely, because the only votes that count are those won from the Conservatives.

2) Understanding how the counting works for online voting and understanding it FULLY involves not only knowledge of cryptography, but also all other protocols involved in traffic and you still can not vouch for the hardware the software runs on.

I pointed to verifying that the voting process was not corrupted, not only the counting, and security is part of the voting process.

Outside of his home state of Ohio — the only one he has won to date — Kasich has been the top vote - getter in just four counties, but he continues to insist he has a path to the GOP nomination despite his low delegate count.

She reaches for the classic political cliché that «the only polls that count are elections» and points to the Oldham West and Royton by - election in which Jim McMahon triumphed for Labour with fewer votes than his predecessor Michael Meacher, but a substantially bigger share of the overall pie.

I can only verify that the system reports that it counted it correctly and that the stored copy hasn't changed from when I cast the vote.

What is more, democratically speaking why should these people have their votes counted again and again while Labour, Conservative and Liberal Democrat supporters only get their vote counted once?

Only those paying the premium are counted in the union voting power.

The vote is razor thin and we owe it to the voters to ensure that not only were their votes counted, but counted correctly.»