Sentences with phrase «as voting preferences»

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The Cruz algorithm was then applied to what the campaign calls an «enhanced voter file,» which can contain as many as 50,000 data points gathered from voting records, popular websites and consumer information such as magazine subscriptions, car ownership and preferences for food and clothing.

We all vote together as a single class of preferred stock but each Series has its own price in order to prevent multiple liquidation preferences.

These include holding open Cabinet meetings at least once a month, which will be broadcasted on the Internet; giving Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs) a greater role by reforming the Legislative committee system and allowing government MLAs to vote freely (as opposed to voting according to the Party's preferences); restricting the tenure of a premier to two (four - year) terms; holding a Citizen's Assembly on electoral reform to examine alternative models for electing MLAs; instituting a system by which citizens can recall elected officials; and instituting elections for all government boards and commissions.

These investors are typically wary of foregoing the rights associated with being a shareholder such as: voting rights, control rights, pro-rata rights, and liquidation preferences.

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As the election is held under the AV system, their second preference votes will be allocated mostly to the two front runners, as those backing their preferred non-Miliband candidate use the system to have a say in the front runner race as welAs the election is held under the AV system, their second preference votes will be allocated mostly to the two front runners, as those backing their preferred non-Miliband candidate use the system to have a say in the front runner race as welas those backing their preferred non-Miliband candidate use the system to have a say in the front runner race as welas well.

Most opportunities for unusual results occur when there are options which collect significant first choice votes, but few second preferences, as in the political example I give above.

The EDBC must also ensure, as far as practicable, that the redistribution is fair to prospective candidates and groups of candidates, so that if candidates of a particular group attract more than 50 per cent of the popular vote, including preferences, they will be elected in sufficient numbers to enable a government to be formed (Constitution Act 1934 (SA) section 83 (1)-RRB-.

As voters indicated their preferential ranking, you can eliminate the weakest candidate and redistribute the votes on his ballots according to the indicated second preference.

Instant - runoff voting (or AV as it's known in the UK) is precisely that; instead of having further runoff elections it's done instantly on the basis of collecting your preferences.

If the party exceeds a threshold, the excess is transferred to the second preferences but as a fraction of a vote.

The argument presented is that as these are the most likely votes to be redistributed the majority parties would pander to them to gain second preference votes.

As candidates are eliminated, votes go to candidates still in who that voter prefers (or, in the event they have no preference, leave the pool of voters).

Each of the votes were marked by violence, and in the case of Bayelsa and Rivers, extreme violence; and in all of them, the fact that the federal government desired a predetermined outcome, even if it did not go so far as to outrightly impose its preference, was clearly evident.

For example, seeing which candidates are declared elected on first preference votes alone can be shown as follows:

From the 1984 election, group ticket voting was introduced in order to reduce a high rate of informal voting but in 2016, group tickets were abolished to avoid undue influence of preference deals amongst parties that were seen as distorting election results [22] and a form of optional preferential voting was introduced.

Lansman is referring to the Blairite organisation that, he says, was able to command only a tiny share of internal Labour support by 2015, as evidenced by Liz Kendall's miserable 4.5 % of first - preference votes in the leadership election.

Millions of Londoners will use the second preference voting system as they vote in the London mayoral election.

They asked their sample of voters whom they would vote for if they could cast a second preference as well.

Instant runoff voting, also known as ranked - choice voting, allows voters to rank primary candidates in order of preference so that if one candidate does not cross the required threshold for victory, the candidate with the least number of votes is eliminated and the votes are redistributed based on the second choice selected by voters who had selected the eliminated candidate first, and so on until a winner emerges.

Although the Irish electoral system is classified as a proportional electoral system, the proportion of seats won by parties will not measure up exactly to their actual share of the first preference votes, mainly because geography has a very significant impact here.

The share of the first preference vote is, in fact, exactly the same as it was five years ago, when the last round of local elections was held.

This was seen as a swipe at the Labour First group, which is calling on Liz Kendall to ask her supporters to give their second - preference votes to Andy Burnham and Yvette Cooper to stop Corbyn.

And although the SNP's share of the first preference vote may have held steady across Scotland as a whole as compared with 2012, it has not held up everywhere.

Although it is not regarded as truly proportional by campaigners for electoral reform, AV is favoured by some because it maintains the constituency link, ensures elected MPs have the support of at least 50 per cent of voters and allows supporters of minority parties to express opinion through their first vote while giving their second preference to a mainstream party.

The proposal, known as instant runoff voting, would allow voters to rank candidates in order of preference.

Far from streaking into the lead, David Miliband's campaign needs to fight for every vote as attention focuses on Ed Miliband's prospects in the second preferences stakes.

The call comes after the Unite union's executive committee voted on Sunday to lend its support to Corbyn, with Burnham as its second preference.

Boris is pulling ahead as I mentioned (albeit with second preference votes caveats) but Labour looks set to make big gains on the London Assembly.

But, he added: «I think, if you offer people something that isn't quite as bad as Labour and isn't quite as bad as the Tories, you're giving people quite a good reason to give you their second preference in an alternative vote election, which you might recall is a system we do not have in this country.»

Miliband, for example, it was reported, bequeathed South Shields a voter contact rate (the percentage of people in the constituency for whom the party has a record of voting preference) as low as 0.2 % — or roughly 100 people.

As in the Alternative Vote voting system, candidates are ranked numerically in order of preference.

On our figures, full Labour party members (including those paying the reduce student and unwaged rate) show Burnham defeating Corbyn by 50.5 - 49.5 % - a statistical dead heat; however, among those who have the vote in the current contest because they have paid a # 3 registration fee or signed up as a member of an affiliated trade union, Corbyn is well ahead, with 57 % of first preferences and a 69 - 31 % lead in the final round.

A system which does not allow voters to express second or third preferences, and which can give 100 % of the rewards to candidates who may get as little as a third of the votes, may have been fine as long as the overwhelming majority of voters were happy with a limited choice of parties.

My key question is this, why should someone's second preference vote, essentially the «I don't like this candidate much, but will allow them as an alternative» count as much as my original vote?

Voters are required to place the number «1» against their first choice of candidate, known as the «first preference» or «primary vote».

More than 19 out of 20 of those who said they would vote Labour or Conservative under FPTP named the same party as their first preference under AV, as did nine out of ten UKIP voters.

Similarly, the Alternative Vote places an artificial construct on voter's intentions, forcing them to make second preference choices - before they actually know the result, which inevitably would disproportionately favour the Liberal Democrats as being the «centre» party.

The London Labour selection this summer, as with the leadership contest, is decided by an «alternative vote» ballot, where you rank candidates in order of preference.

You can think of it as a mechanism; a way of voting where someone's fourth preference carries as much weight as someone's first preference.

A centrist candidate such as a Lib Dem will still need enough first preference votes to stand a chance.

Labour and Tory supporters will be able to vote sincerely for their party, with Lib Dems as their second preference, safe in the knowledge that if their candidate is eliminated their vote will still count.

As my Australian political scientist colleague Rodney Smith pointed out to me, if the other candidates really want to stop Corbyn, they would do better to co-operate to game the preferential voting system to maximise the chances of one of them beating him on second preferences.

There's no need to vote tactically because you can vote for as many preferences as you like.

Phil Woolas will become the new norm as the pressure will be on especially Labour candidates to try and reach out to those voting BNP as their first preference.

As with open lists, local lists allow the electorate to vote for individual candidates, but that preference is expressed through local or district level election processes.

It looks like the contest will be decided by second - preference votes - as no one candidate is likely to secure 50 percent in the first round.

As regards wastage, more people's votes will be counted because those who vote for candidates eliminated early on will have their second preferences counted later on.

New York City lawmakers — including three potential 2021 mayoral candidates — as well as government reform advocates are calling on the city to adopt instant runoff voting, ranking candidates based on preference, for citywide primaries.

Candidates with the smallest tally of first preference votes are eliminated (and their votes transferred as in instant runoff voting) until a candidate has more than half the vote.