Sentences with phrase «ballot vote paper»

The council has said that even if people have not yet received their postal ballot vote paper, they can still vote.

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Paper ballots are counted after the end of voting in the Italian general elections on March 4, 2018 in Naples, Italy.

A recent Politico report found that out of eight European countries that tested digital voting, six are now using paper ballots again.

In fact, over a million people in Egypt voted for Salah in the country's national election, even though he wasn't on the ballot paper!

The most important point is that everyone who is eligible to vote goes out on 6 May and puts a cross on the ballot paper.

In paper ballot states, for example California, there seem to be a «standard» way of getting a ballot (from what I was told in comments, you get mailed one when you register to vote).

@fishinear: Not sure about the US in particular, but in many countries there's a serial number on the ballot paper, which can be matched up against the same serial number on a separate record to establish identity and eligibility to vote.

California did try voting machines, and they are still an option (every precinct has a voting machine, and you can request to use it, but paper ballots are the default), and it works somewhat similarly, in that the election officers give voters a card that activates the voting machine, and the type of ballot is recorded on that card.

Although voting experienced unprecedented delays and reports of pre-ticked ballot papers, the national presiding officer described the election as «successful» in spite of the glitches.

Ultimately the government will have to choose between large numbers of voters choosing pre-determined preference orderings by voting above the line or large numbers of voters having their preferences ignored because they did not express them properly on the ballot paper.

However, this makes higher demands of voters than simply casting a single vote, which in turn leads voters making mistakes on their ballot paper.

In Australia, where the method is used to elect the Senate, this is known as voting «below» and «above» the line respectively due to the design of the ballot paper.

On Rivers» general electoral anarchy: «Shocking cases of cold blooded killings and beheading, obstruction of votes, arson, voter intimidation, ballot snatching, missing result sheets, presenting of fake ballot papers, multiple thumb - printing, campaigning at polling units, compromise of ad - hoc staffs, absence of level playing environment, violence against media personnel and impunity were witnessed in different magnitude across the length and breadth of the state.

The questioner doesn't go on to explore questions such as when and how the vote would take place, what should be on the ballot paper, and whether abandoning Brexit altogether should be an option.

The chamber is controlled by Republicans, but Democrats in the Senate were buoyed after a paper ballot count left their candidate in a Long Island Senate race with a 41 vote advantage, potentially giving them a 32 - person majority.

After the recount of roughly 5,100 voting machines and so - called «emergency» paper ballots used by those who could for whatever reason not cast their vote in the usual way, de Blasio's tally stands at 40.88, which is up from 40.33 percent via the unofficial results on primary night.

If you stir in legislation such as the European Referendum Act 2015 which set the question to appear on the ballot paper but failed to address the legal consequences of a vote to leave, and the anomalies thrown up by the Fixed Term Parliaments Act 2011, not least the ability to avoid a fixed - term, then the unsatisfactory basis upon which the country has gone to the polls three times in the last three years is underscored.

One complication was that the authorities changed voting laws so that every voter could cast their vote at any polling station (i.e. not necessarily where they are registered) with the inevitable consequence that many polling stations ran out of ballot papers.

has not achieved a total that is at least 5 % of the total number of all the party votes received by all the parties listed on the part of the ballot paper that relates to the party vote; and

175 (0.02 %) votes (952 ballot papers at 0.1836 transfer value) originally from Socialist Equality Party (Ticket 1 of 3) distributed to Liberal (Simon BIRMINGHAM) via preference 40.

Subject to subsection (4), each ballot paper in form 11 shall comprise 2 votes, namely, a party vote and an electorate vote.

13 (0.00 %) votes (385 ballot papers at 0.0339 transfer value) originally from Socialist Equality Party (Ticket 3 of 3) distributed to Palmer United Party (Zhenya WANG) via preference 18.

After checking that all ballot papers are properly accounted for, counters begin sorting them into piles to work out how many votes were cast for each candidate.

18 (0.00 %) votes (385 ballot papers at 0.0471 transfer value) originally from Socialist Equality Party (Ticket 3 of 3) distributed to The Greens (WA)(Scott LUDLAM) via preference 44.

Our online polling is also being adjusted in a comparable manner to our telephone polling, where supporters of the Green Party or UKIP have their secondary voting intention reallocated to other parties where no Green or UKIP candidate is on their ballot paper or undecided refused or would not vote.

The Electoral Commission must first ascertain from the information given under section 179 (1)(a) the total number of all the party votes received by each of the parties listed on the part of the ballot paper that relates to the party vote.

a constituency candidate for a component party of that party (being a component party that is not listed on the part of the ballot paper that relates to the party vote but is, in accordance with the details held by the Electoral Commission under any of the provisions of sections 127 (3A) and 128A, a component party of that party) has his or her name endorsed on a writ under section 185 as a person declared to be elected as a member of Parliament.

An electoral petition relating to the allocation of seats under sections 191 to 193 may be presented to the Court of Appeal by a secretary of a political party whose party was listed in the part of the ballot paper that relates to the party vote.

on the left - hand side of the ballot paper beside the name of that party on the party vote part of the ballot paper; and

Any secretary of a political party listed on the part of the ballot paper that relates to the party vote may, instead of making 1 or more separate applications for recounts under section 180 (2), apply to the Chief District Court Judge for recounts of the party votes to be conducted in every electoral district.

Having ascertained the numbers required by section 191 (7), the Electoral Commission must then proceed to ascertain the number of seats in Parliament to which each remaining party listed in the part of the ballot paper that relates to the party vote is entitled by adding the number of circles in the column of numbers under the name of that party.

Where the Electoral Commission disregards the name of a party in accordance with subsection (4), that party shall, for the purpose of this section and sections 192 and 193, be deemed to have been deleted from the list of parties included in the part of the ballot paper that relates to the party vote.

a candidate for a component party of that party (being a component party that is not listed on the part of the ballot paper that relates to the party vote but is, in accordance with the details held by the Electoral Commission under any of the provisions of sections 127 (3A) and 128A, a component party of that party)--

The maximum amount that a party may be paid in donations made to the Electoral Commission for the benefit of that party during a specified period is 10 % (excluding any interest paid under section 208E (2)-RRB- of the maximum amount of election expenses allowed under section 206C (1) to be incurred by a party that is listed in the part of the ballot paper that relates to the party vote and that has a candidate contesting every electoral district.

4 (0.00 %) votes (547 ballot papers at 0.0072 transfer value) originally from Socialist Equality Party (Ticket 3 of 3) distributed to The Greens (Adam STONE) via preference 23.

I voted by post today and had three ballot papers: mayor, police and crime commissioner, local councillor — which is a lot of decisions to make about our future leaders in one go.

Out of 229 Labour MPs, there were 172 who voted against him, 40 who backed him and four spoilt ballot papers.

But now ALL the ballots are paper, and the Democrats (who are the underdogs in most of the cliffhanger Senate races) are starting to question whether all the votes were counted on Election Day — and that's BEFORE we even broach the question of absentees et al..

When you fill out your Ballot Paper, you are voting to elect those members you want to represent you, in order of your preference.

What that means, in essence, is that the elector must attend a polling place, have their name marked off the register, and then either accept a ballot paper and vote, or leave.

We will get 135,000 - plus votes for Andrew Cuomo, and that's without the paper ballots or the machine re-canvass.

We knew we were going down; but, as in 1992, we hoped that when it came to polling day, stubby pencils would hover over the box next to the Labour candidate on the ballot paper, and people would decide to «play safe» and vote Conservative.

Voters would be given an independent «none of the above» option on their ballot papers, and the proportion of votes for this option would determine the number of representatives who came from the independents list.

• Require a clear description of the trade dispute and the planned industrial action on the ballot paper, so that all union members are clear what they are voting for.

16 (0.00 %) votes (777 ballot papers at 0.0210 transfer value) originally from Socialist Equality Party (Ticket 3 of 3) distributed to Palmer United Party (Barry MICHAEL) via preference 15.

16 (0.00 %) votes (777 ballot papers at 0.0210 transfer value) originally from Socialist Equality Party (Ticket 3 of 3) distributed to Australian Motoring Enthusiast Party (Ricky MUIR) via preference 22.

Peers voted for the second time to introduce a new requirement for voters to sign for their ballot papers last night, setting up another clash with the House of Commons.

He said the ballot paper to be used in the voting is «fraudulent» to the extent that «the leaders of the House are prepared to even rig the poll.»

Voters now receive paper ballots fed through a machine that tallies votes.

Political parties contesting this year's Parliamentary election have voted for positions on the ballot papers.