Sentences with phrase «based voting population»

The integrity of this system coupled with a broad - based voting population of the Academy's membership assures that the D.I.C.E. Award recipients are honored among peers.

Not exact matches

Sure, there is likely a small contingent of people who are voting based on racial preconceptions, but this is likely a small percentage of the population.

The accompanying table reports on the religious vote, based on a large national survey of the adult population (conducted before and after the election at the University of Akron with a grant from the Pew Charitable Trusts).

Similarly to a trusted justice system, other requirements that are commonly present in «one person, one vote» systems are based around trusted institutions, for example excluding mentally unstable citizens from voting would require that the population generally and overwhelmingly trust the society's health system.

Taking a mandate from his small base (compared to the UK population and also the nine million people that voted Labour at the last general election), he and Momentum are sweeping the nation with a message of progressive change.

Members of Parliament are elected from population - based single - seat constituencies using first - past - the - post voting.

(1) Your question is based on the ridiculous assumption that economy and politics is a zero sum game and that somehow being «for» middle class means you're «against» (or «don't care about») poor; (2) Leaving that aside, championing the case of 75 % of population over 25 % seems like a lot less of a political suicide than championing the case of 25 % over the 75 %, unless I don't quite understand how voting works in a democracy.

The General Assembly should be the legislature with the voting power of each country increasing logarithmically (base 2) with its population.

--RRB- Basing the number of electors on the number of Federal Representatives plus two Senators for each state prevents the dreaded one - man - one - vote which despite the just sound of it, only works in small, homogenous populations.

It was a close verbal vote, Friday, in Washington County, however because the board's votes are weighted based on population the amendment passed.

The voting membership of each county committee shall be proportional based on population of enrolled party membership or voting experience, in accordance with its bylaws, which must be confirmed by the county caucus at each biennial state convention and filed with the Republican State Committee.

All 50 states use total population as their basis for drawing district lines, but the challengers said the rural state Senate districts in which they lived had vastly more eligible voters than urban districts, making their votes count for less, in violation of the Constitution.

Latinos are more likely than the general population to support teachers» unions and to vote based on teachers» union endorsements, yet, at the same time, strongly supporting education reforms that teachers» unions actively fight against.