Sentences with phrase «additional voting members»

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The strategy is intended to produce a bipartisan majority vote for Mr. Brennan in the Senate Intelligence Committee without giving its members seven additional legal opinions on targeted killing sought by senators and while protecting what the White House views as the confidentiality of the Justice Department's legal advice to the president.

Fast - track votes typically happen as a straight up or down procedure, and they do not give members of Congress the ability to add additional items to the bills.

In the Scottish Parliament election, 2016, SNP saw its constituency vote increase slightly (from 45.4 % to 46.5 %) and its regional vote decrease slightly (from 44.0 % to 41.7 %), leading to a decrease from 69 to 63 seats (out of 129) in the additional member system.

Members would be elected exactly as now, but where their party was under - represented nationally this would be corrected by giving them an additional voting strength in the division lobbies of the House of Commons.

I am tabling an amendment that would rewrite the referendum question to allow people to choose from a wider range of voting systems, including properly proportional options such as the additional member system (used in elections for the Scottish Parliament, Welsh Assembly and Greater London Assembly) and the single transferable vote (used in Northern Ireland).

The proportional representation systems (List PR, the Additional Member System or the Single Transferable Vote) all fit parties» seats won closely to votes shares.

The remaining 40 to 45 per cent of representatives for each body (the «additional members») are elected in large regional areas using a proportional representation system, so as to match every party's share of winning candidates to their votes share.

(a) Hold a referendum on voting reform, giving the electorate a choice of the following four alternative voting systems: Additional Member System; Closed Party List; Open Party List; Single Transferable Vote.

That's why, as MPs start the second reading of the Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill on 6 September, I am tabling an amendment that would rewrite the referendum question to allow people to choose from a wider range of voting systems, including properly proportional options such as the additional member system (used in elections for the Scottish Parliament, Welsh Assembly and Greater London Assembly) and the single transferable vote (used in Northern Ireland).

Two options — Alternative Vote Plus (AVP) or the Additional Member System (AMS)-- have the potential to break the current electoral deadlock, albeit in a rather incremental manner.

Through YouGov, we modelled the results under three other voting systems, asking 13,000 voters how they'd vote using the Alternative Vote, the Welsh Assembly / Scottish Parliament's Additional Member System or Northern Ireland's Single Transferable Vote sysvote using the Alternative Vote, the Welsh Assembly / Scottish Parliament's Additional Member System or Northern Ireland's Single Transferable Vote sysVote, the Welsh Assembly / Scottish Parliament's Additional Member System or Northern Ireland's Single Transferable Vote sysVote system.

The County Committee shall be constituted by the election biennially in each Election District in the County of New York, at the Primary Election held in each odd - numbered year, of two members of the County Committee plus an additional member if 300 or more votes and less than 451 votes were cast in such Election District for governor under the Party emblem at the last preceding gubernatorial election, and an additional member if 451 or more votes were cast in such Election District at said time.

The Rosatellum used an additional member system, which act as a mixed system, with 36 % of seats allocated using a first past the post electoral system and 64 % using a proportional method, with one round of voting.

Say, party Y won 20 % of the party votes (meaning they have a right to about 120 seats), but their local candidates won in 130 districts; now, even though party Y won't get any additional members from their list, they have 10 seats too many, which can't be taken away from them.

I propose: Additional Member System; Closed Party List; Open Party List; and Single Transferable Vote.

Reynolds himself is calling for a move to the additional member system vote for Westminster elections — the hybrid system used in Scotland and Wales which combines first - past - the - post constituencies with top - up regional seats based on a proportional vote.

In early February, at about the same time the Council was voting through raises for all city elected officials, Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito provided Council members with about $ 29,500 each in additional funding for their offices.

The Assembly election uses a form of Additional Member System (AMS), with 14 local constituency seats (spanning two or three London boroughs) with winners elected by «first past the post» (or plurality rule) voting.

Greenport Village Board members are set to vote on a resolution paving the way for additional upgrades at the power plant on Moores Lane during its regular session Monday evening.

«While it's well - intentioned by them,» said Mike Reich, a member of the Queens party who presided over the meeting, «the executive committee has voted to table this because the additional expenses would be astronomical and the restrictions on it would hamper the ability of the political party to operate in an election time where you have to make quick expenditures in response to Republicans — as you know, Republicans can drop a million dollars in a district in a blink of an eye — and we have to be able to respond.»

[7] It was the way that compensatory seats were allocated that made their report the origin of the additional member system, the term which the report also invented, which was then applied along with the much older «mixed system» by English - speaking writers on voting systems to West Germany's system and similar models until mixed member proportional (MMP) was invented for the adoption of the German system proposed for New Zealand in a royal commission report in 1986, which would explain why AMS and MMP have been used as synonyms.

In Scotland, Wales, and the London Assembly, the fixed numbers of additional members, elected in relatively small regions, are not always sufficient to fully compensate for the disproportionality caused by the single - member district (first - past - the - post voting) tier.

Additional opposition came from Legislator Frank Sparaco, who cited a lack of time to objectively assess the situation and a reluctance to support a lawsuit without adequate information and was the only member of the legislature to vote against the resolution.

The commission reported in September 1998 and suggested the alternative vote top - up or AV + system, which would directly elect some MPs by the alternative vote, with a number of additional members elected from top up lists similarly to mixed member proportional representation.

In an election using the additional member system, each voter casts two votes: a vote for a candidate standing in their constituency (with or without an affiliated party), and a vote for a party list standing in a wider region made up of multiple constituencies.

Each of the four legislative leaders appoints two members, and two additional members are appointed by a vote of not less than five of the original eight members.

Prior to a vote on this change, the district should sit down with a select group of teachers (veteran Instructional Learning Team members, for instance), to co-design a simple but thoughtful plan outlining effective formats and meaningful topics for any additional PD days.

Members of the Utah House on Thursday voted 58 - 16 in favor of a proposal to provide $ 10M in additional funding for full - day kindergarten classes.

by Robert Hyder Yesterday, members of the House voted 234 to 191 in favor of granting bankruptcy judges additional authority to modify mortgages on primary residences.

Yesterday, members of the House voted 234 to 191 in favor of granting bankruptcy judges additional authority to modify mortgages on primary residences.

Junior Members shall be entitled to all rights and privileges of membership except the right to vote, to hold elective office, and to receive Club Yearbooks without additional charge.

Additional nominations of eligible members may be made by written petition addressed to the Interim Recording Secretary: Pattie Fischer, 3958 Happy Valley Road, Sequim, WA 98382 and postmarked on or before November 1st, signed by five (5) voting members in good standing and accompanied by the written acceptance of each such additional nominee signifying their willingness to be a Additional nominations of eligible members may be made by written petition addressed to the Interim Recording Secretary: Pattie Fischer, 3958 Happy Valley Road, Sequim, WA 98382 and postmarked on or before November 1st, signed by five (5) voting members in good standing and accompanied by the written acceptance of each such additional nominee signifying their willingness to be a additional nominee signifying their willingness to be a candidate.

Special additional Club meetings may be called by the President, or by a majority vote at any regular meeting of the Board, or by the Corresponding Secretary upon receipt of a petition signed by five (5) members of the Club who are in good standing.

Plex Pass subscribers get access to additional member - only forums for questions and to vote on community - suggested features.

(C) Any state association so elected shall be entitled to one vote as such and to an additional vote for each of its Board Members upon the same basis as local boards for their Board Members under the provisions of Article IX of this Constitution.

Additional candidates for the offices to be filled may be placed in nomination by petition signed by at least twenty - five (25) of the REALTOR ® Members eligible to vote.