Not exact matches
None of the NDP
supporters I have spoken with have been able to clearly explain how the union -
affiliate vote process will work.
Individual members and registered
supporters now vastly outnumbered
affiliated members (that is, most of the union members eligible to
vote).
Under the new one - member - one -
vote rules, individuals could sign up as full members, as
affiliated supporters for free via their unions or as registered
supporters for just # 3.
«If you are a registered
supporter or
affiliated supporter and you engage in abusive behaviour you will not get a
vote in this Leadership election.»
MPs have lost the
voting section they previously had in the electoral college, so their
votes are now worth the same as any other individual member,
affiliated supporter or registered
supporter.
Affiliated supporters will be able to
vote in leadership elections and in the London mayoral primary next summer, but not in parliamentary selection contests.
Under rules agreed last year, all Labour Party members, registered
supporters and
affiliated supporters - including union members - will be allowed a maximum of one
vote each on a one member, one
vote system.
Once they have said yes to their union, they can be contacted by Labour to become an
affiliated supporter with a
vote in leadership elections and a right to attend constituency meetings.
He dismisses suggestions that his plans for one person, one
vote elections for the Labour leadership and deputy leadership will lead to ordinary members being swamped by a stage army of leftwing union activists recruited as
affiliated supporters.
Labour party's national executive
votes to support recruitment of union political levy payers as
affiliated supporters
They will mean that only party members,
affiliated union
supporters and registered
supporters can
vote in Labour leadership contests.
«All applications to join the Labour Party as a member,
affiliate or
supporter are verified and those who are identified by our verification team as being candidates, members or
supporters of another political party will be denied a
vote.»
The sitting leader won 313,409
votes (61.8 %) from members, registered
supporters and union
affiliates compared to 193,229 (38.2 %) for rival Owen Smith.
However, the «registered
supporters» would be included in the part of Labour's electoral college which includes the unions and
affiliated socialist societies (the Fabian Society, Christian Socialist Movement, Labour Students, etc), which means - on the face of it - the unions» share of the leadership
votes will be cut.
The first
votes are cast as ballot papers are distributed to
affiliates, Labour members and
supporters.
The old three - way electoral college was replaced with a new «one - person - one -
vote» system in which leadership candidates are elected not just by party members, but also by registered and
affiliated supporters.
Since some leading trade union members of the NEC are known to favour circulating ballot papers to all levy papers — as was the previous practice — with
votes being counted provided that levy - payers tick the box to opt into
affiliated supporter status, the union influence may in fact not change so much from the process that selected Ken Livingstone.
Labour yesterday revealed that 444,000 people are registered to
vote on the next leader — 282,000 full Labour Party members, 92,000
affiliated supporters and 70,000 registered
supporters.
The 506,438
votes cast were split into full members, # 25 «registered
supporters» and
affiliates who got a
vote through their union.
The 506,438
votes cast were split into full members, # 25 «registered
supporters» and union
affiliates - and they ALL picked Jeremy Corbyn
For the first time, all Labour members, registered
supporters and
affiliated supporters will be entitled to
vote.
They have opened up a # 2 a month registered
supporter scheme, which will allow people to join the «Unite Community», with members of the
affiliated union able to
vote in the Labour leadership.
Some 30,000 new members have joined in the few days since Miliband's resignation, and unions are expected to mount an intense drive to encourage thousands of their members to become
affiliated Labour
supporters in order to have a
vote.
• If all those members,
supporters and
affiliates who
voted for Jeremy Corbyn had had the foresight and confidence to place a # 10 bet on him winning back in May and had donated their winnings to the party, it would have amounted to about # 2.5 m, assuming odds of 100 - 1.
In 2014, Labour changed the rules for future contests to move to a «one member, one
vote» system of party members,
affiliated trade union
supporters and registered
supporters.
A
supporter of the United Teachers of New Orleans, a local
affiliate of the American Federation of Teachers holds a sign during a demonstration in which hundreds marched across the Mississippi River Bridge on April 1, 2006 in New Orleans, Louisiana for the right of displaced Hurricane Katrina evacuees to
vote in the April 22 elections.
In Nigeria, a government committee is looking into claims that SCL Elections, a Cambridge Analytica
affiliate, organized rallies to dissuade opposition
supporters from
voting against Jonathan's then - ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP) in 2007.