Sentences with phrase «allocated votes based»

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Plural voting is the practice of allocating more than one vote to a person based on some criteria (such as land ownership, university education, etc...).

Theoretically speaking, there are mechanisms that prevent someone from voting twice (you are only allocated to vote to one polling place based on your residence address, and that polling place has a name list where you sign off that you voted).

You can simply allow voting for one party, tally the votes and allocate seats based on a nationwide list (as simple as it gets) or have some manageable open party list (see e.g. the Netherlands).

But analysis by UK Polling Report's Anthony Wells revealed that those numbers included allocating «don't know» responses based on how participants voted in 2010 - votes that may not be repeated in the by - election.

You then eliminate candidates one after the other, allocating the votes of dropped candidates based on their voters» next ranked choices.

Seats were allocated, on a top - down basis, in proportion to parties» share of the vote.

Arizona's district delegates were allocated on a winner - take - all basis; the candidate who won the plurality of the statewide vote received all of the state's district delegates.

The Electoral Commission performed a reallocation in keeping with the same procedures they used to allocate 72 MEPs and an extra Conservative MEP was allocated to the West Midlands constituency based on the 2009 vote and was enshrined in the European Union Act 2011 as an amendment of the European Parliamentary Elections Act 2002.

The law shifted the basis for allocating votes to seats from a winner - takes - all majoritarian logic to a more proportional logic.

I propose taking a portion of the money that subsidises private industry and giving it to new bodies set up to allocate resources on the basis of a democratic vote.

First, the county board of supervisors slashed funds for its public schools to $ 150,000, the minimum amount legally required in 1955 — $ 550,000 less than the nearly $ 700,000 requested by the county school board.9 Along with allocating fewer funds for the County's schools, supervisors also voted to switch how often they would distribute those funds, changing the schedule from an annual basis to a monthly basis.

The proposed formula, which the city school board is scheduled to vote on Tuesday, would allocate resources based largely on student...

Instead of every citizen having a vote, votes are allocated on the basis of share ownership.

In accordance with Article 7 (2) of Protocol No 2 to the Lisbon Treaty, the Commission must review its proposal when at least a quarter of all votes allocated to national Parliaments [3] reject a legislative proposal submitted on the basis of Article 76 TFEU (i.e., any proposal regarding judicial cooperation in criminal matters) for not being in compliance with the principle of subsidiarity.