Sentences with phrase «about electoral votes»

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We think a lot about Nixon's downfall in the wake of Watergate, but few recall he won the job by commanding electoral landslides (and even beat John F. Kennedy in the popular vote back in 1960).

The landmark survey commissioned by the Broadbent Institute is the first study of its kind and size to measure Canadians» attitudes about voting system design and preference for electoral reform.

The electoral college is about much more than tallying votes.

Obama is going to win about 65 % of the electoral votes to romney's 35 %.

@user4012 about 2), the final election day is just the end of a lengthy electoral process; if voters are better educated and use that education all through the process a demagogue should be stopped earlier in the process (so, for a party supporter it would not be end as [My demagogue] vs [candidate from other party], because [My demagogue] would have been voted out in the primaries; in these primaries such a voter would have the option to vote for other candidates more ideologically acceptable).

The right - wing media is constantly trying to depict the current system as favouring Labour because the electoral arithmetic implies that the Tories need about 4 % more votes to gain a parliamentary majority than does Labour.

This perception about lawyer Ampaw has been there since the last time he sat on TV3 electoral petition Saga and shared his legal Opinion on the court seating — where the NPP took the EC to court to challenge the authenticity of the Vote declared.

Gerrymandering is all about drawing electoral boundaries such that the artifact of most electoral systems (that one citizen's vote doesn't translate directly into voting weight in parliament) can override the natural outcome of a vote.

About 40,000 of the 183,000 registered supporters are said to have been barred from voting in the contest, either because their cheques for # 25 bounced, they are not on the electoral roll, or because evidence has emerged of support for other parties.

5) Did Dr Bawumia peddle falsehood at the Supreme Court in 2012 about electoral fraud, padding of votes, rigging and when he was pushed for evidence, his response was that «You and I were not there»?

MPs who vote in the final round are worth 33.33 / 262 so about 0.127 % of the electoral college.

They don't care about electoral reform (at parliamentary level anyway), they don't have the habit of listening to their grassroots who are concerned about it, and they'd probably much rather have all the votes back they've lost to us.

And it is chutzpah for a pro-FPTP party to talk about votes having an «equal value» if you equalise constituency size in an electoral system where they do not.

With Texas being about 750k per electoral vote, and Wyoming with a little less than 200k per vote.

True, cases of electoral malpractices were on the decline in the Anambra election, complaints about the monetisation of votes, reported in the last Ondo governorship election, reappeared.

For me, thinking about AV and electoral reform made me realise properly, for the first time, how much the voting system dictates how we go about our democratic politics — especially in relation to marginal constituencies or marginal wards.

Read more about the allocation of electoral votes.

Both Rathony's answer and Brythan's are entirely correct about the authoritative, legal answers as to what would happen if neither candidate received 270 electoral votes.

Decisions about the rules of the political game — including the geographic delineation of electoral districts, rules about campaign financing, and voting systems such as plurality election and proportional representation — are frequently made by legislative bodies.

In Gallup polls since 1944, only about 20 % of the public has supported the current system of awarding all of a state's electoral votes to the presidential candidate who receives the most votes in each separate state (with about 70 % opposed and about 10 % undecided).

Golden Globes host Jimmy Fallon mocked Trump several times during his opening monologue, comparing the president - elect over the course of four minutes to the menacing and murderous King Joffrey from «Game of Thrones,» and joking about Trump's difficulty finding inauguration performers and said the ceremony, unlike the U.S. electoral system, still valued the popular vote.

In a situation like that, even a small amount of electoral fraud, or a small number of people whose vote was swayed by a negative story about a candidate, could be enough.

The Founding Fathers only said in the U.S. Constitution about presidential elections (only after debating among 30 ballots for choosing a method): «Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors...» The U.S. Supreme Court has repeatedly characterized the authority of the state legislatures over the manner of awarding their electoral votes as «plenary» and «exclusive.»

I threw it in a spreadsheet, and the winner of the thirty - one places with the fewest votes per electoral college vote loses the popular vote by about 79.6 % to 20.4 %.

It is logical for a coalition fighting one last first - past - the - post election to seek a mandate for electoral reform (though how far the Lib Dems reciprocating would benefit Labour is partly a tactical judgement about how their vote would divide).

«At the federal level, presidential candidate Ross Perot remains the self - financing record holder, having poured more than $ 63.5 million of his own cash into a bid that earned him about 20 percent of the national popular vote, zero electoral votes and a third - place finish behind Democrat Bill Clinton and incumbent Republican President George H.W. Bush.»

The encomium from Sunder Katwala, of the Fabian Society for the Alternative Vote in the place of first - past - the post (FPTP) elections for the House of Commons is yet another example, first, of a major party's search to consolidate its electoral position, and secondly, of the weakness of campaigning bodies to oblige the parties to open up an honest debate about the alternatives to FPTP.

That's partly why my question is about the more realistic issue of whether a state with a small population could swing the electoral vote.

You could throw in something about how Hillary actually won the national popular vote and how the electoral college system is seriously broken.

+1 for the point about Maine and Nebraska, meaning almost any combination of electoral votes could occur, which almost completely answers my question.

Another Assembly member, John Kubi, told Valentina Ofori - Afriyie on Class FM's 505 programme that: «They (thugs) entered just after the last person voted and the electoral officer was about to open the ballot box.

The U.N. and Iraqi political leaders called for investigating electoral - fraud complaints and sought manual recounts in some districts, as questions intensified about the legitimacy of the recent parliamentary vote.

Clinton is projected by that model to garner about 292 electoral college votes — 22 more than the necessary 270 votes.

A spokesman for Jack Straw said of the move on confidence votes: «For all the phoney talk about a «new politics» this proposal is simply about crudely seeking to fix the electoral system to suit partisan interests.

The angry alienated may not care about electoral systems, but they might be even angrier if they knew what harm they suffer from their voting boycott.

District Leaders are an essential role in our electoral process by educating voters about various candidates and help mobilize voters to vote on Election Day.

Meanwhile about One Million New Yorkers are denied the right to vote in the primaries we pay for simply because we won't egister in the party in control of our electoral district and no one gives a dime about that!

The new song created exclusively for this collection, the America Rock tune «I'm Gon na Send Your Vote to College» (about the electoral college system), is also uninspired, and this collection's relentless pimping of the song is downright annoying.

Voting for mascots teaches about elections, inspires fun Three schools have used a powerful process that mirrors the presidential electoral process to choose candidates and vote for a school mascot — a representative symbol that will encourage, inspire, and sometimes entertain them for years to come.

Being on the electoral roll is not just about being registered to vote — it can also make a difference to your insurance premium.

Sam Tyndall and Stephen Bruckert talk about why Hillary Clinton needs 271 electoral college votes to win the presidency this...

(2) The Chief Electoral Officer may, using any media or other means that he or she considers appropriate, provide the public with information about Ontario's electoral process, the right to vote and how to be a candidate.

In a secret recording made as part of an undercover investigation and reported on by The Guardian, the company's head of data, Alex Tayler, said, «When you think about the fact that Donald Trump lost the popular vote by 3m votes but won the electoral college vote that's down to the data and the research.»

Garrett pointed out that Obama managed to win significantly more electoral votes as Romney — 332 to 206 — even though he lost the white vote «by a landslide,» or about 20 percent.