Sentences with phrase «because electoral districts»
«That's because electoral districts must be drawn based on population.
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However, this doesn't always work out in practice because of something known as overhang seats: It is possible for a party to win more electoral districts than seats they are entitled to according to party votes.
Meanwhile about One Million New Yorkers are denied the right to vote in the primaries we pay for simply because we won't egister in the party in control of our electoral district and no one gives a dime about that!
Counting will not resume until Tuesday because postal votes, absentee votes and pre-poll votes need to be packaged up and returned to each electoral district to be processed.
As Terry Moe, a senior fellow at the conservative Hoover Institution, noted in a 2002 interview with the Heartland Institute, the teacher unions «have a lot of money for campaign contributions and for lobbying... They also have a lot of electoral clout because they have many activists out in the trenches in every political district.»