Sentences with phrase «by a ballot conducted»

The order of parties on the ballot papers and the order of ungrouped candidates are determined by a ballot conducted by the Electoral Commission.

Not exact matches

The Reform Party of New York State says it plans to conduct candidate interviews by early June, with an eye toward forcing an opportunity - to - ballot primary in some races.

Elections to the Council and multi-option ballots shall be conducted according to the rules set out in the latest edition of «How to conduct an election by the Single Transferable Vote», published by the Electoral Reform Society.

In a second confirmation process conducted by the Municipal Electoral Commission (EC) and all 64 members present and voted, the nominee Kofi Adjei obtained 61 votes, two dissented and one ballot was rejected.

The poll, conducted for Hochul's campaign by Global Strategy Group, shows Corwin leading Hochul just 31 percent to 30 percent, with Jack Davis, an independent candidate running on the Tea Party ballot line, picking up 26 percent.

Eight polls have so far been conducted since the Scottish Government accepted in January that the question on the referendum ballot paper should read, «Should Scotland be an independent country», as recommended by the Electoral Commission.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — The Reform Party of New York State says it plans to conduct candidate interviews by early June, with an eye toward forcing an opportunity - to - ballot primary in some races.

The referendums will be independently administered by Electoral Reform Services Ltd and conducted by full postal ballot.

This is the only poll of the campaign that would usually be regarded as a «final poll», that is one that has been conducted sufficiently closely to polling day that its accuracy can reasonably be assessed by comparing its voting intentions with the tally of votes that actually emerges from the ballot boxes.

Although it was annulled without justification by military dictator, Ibrahim Babangida, it was widely acknowledged as the freest and fairest ever held in Nigeria, perhaps because it was conducted using the open ballot system.

About a third of the roughly 51,000 eligible voters participated in the election, which was conducted by mail - in ballot.

«The GMB appear to have broken the spirit of the rules guiding the conduct of the Labour party leadership election by sending out a strong recommendation for Ed Miliband together with the ballot paper for political levy payers... It may well suggest that the margin of his victory depended on votes cast in dubious circumstances.

Counties used this time to count any absentee ballots or provisional ballots not yet counted, to reconcile the number of signatures on the roster of registered voters with the number of ballots recorded on the ballot statement, to count any valid write - in votes, to reproduce any damaged ballots, if necessary, and to conduct a hand count of the ballots cast in 1 % of the precincts, chosen at random by the elections official.

Shelton Mayor Mark Lauretti, businessman Bob Stefanowski and hedge fund mogul David Stemerman are each conducting a petition drive to try to get onto the primary ballot — they need signatures from 9,600 Republicans by June 12.

A 2011 Election Advisory Council town hall series conducted by the Secretary of State's office found that the verifiable voting was the top concern of the Georgia public along with fair and equal ballot access

Ballots of the three sections of the electoral college will be conducted in time for the new leader to be named by the party's annual conference in Manchester at the end of September.

The motion made reference to a 2011 report from the Procedure Committee, which had suggested that the Commons should be consulted on whether election of the Speaker at the start of the new parliament should be conducted by secret ballot or by open vote.

(Madison, WI)-- The Wisconsin Green Party is conducting a Presidential Primary by mail, with ballots sent to all dues paying members of the Party this week.

«Notwithstanding any current state law or administrative procedure to the contrary, New York shall conduct its 2012 non-presidential federal primary election on a date no later than 35 days prior to the 45 - day advance deadline set by the MOVE Act for transmitting ballots to the State's military and overseas voters, i.e., at least 80 days before the November 6, 2012 federal general election.

Although hardly a ringing endorsement for e-voting technology, the GAO's findings contradicted those of researchers at Dartmouth College and the University of California, Los Angeles, who, after conducting a separate study (released in September) found that the «exceptionally high... undervote rate» in the Florida's 13th District race «was almost certainly caused by» a poorly designed and confusing electronic ballot displayed on the voting machine's touch screen.

Of 229 statewide ballot propositions in 42 states and the District of Columbia this year, an estimated 22 propositions in 15 states relate to education, according to a nationwide survey conducted by the staff of Initiative and Referendum Report, a monthly publication of the Institute for Government and Politics.

Any run - off election will be conducted by paper ballot at the Member Council Meeting at the TCSA Conference.

Attendance was weak at the first of two informational public meetings conducted by the Logan City School District Board of Education on Tuesday night to discuss the proposed voted local levy and bond election, both of which could be on the November ballot.

In the event an agreement can not be reached among special education teachers / clinicians or between teachers and the principal, the choices shall be put to a secret ballot vote by special education teachers and clinicians only, which shall be conducted in the same manner as a contract waiver vote (i.e., conducted by the Union delegate and certified by the delegate and principal).

The election of Governors shall be conducted by secret written ballot.

The election of Officers and Directors and Delegate to the American Kennel club, who may but need not be a Director or Officer of the Club, shall be conducted by secret ballots.

The Constitution and Bylaws and the Standard of the Breed may be amended at any time provided a copy of the proposed amendment has been mailed by the Board Secretary to each member accompanied by a ballot on which he may indicate his choice for or against the action to be taken, such balloting to be conducted according to the procedures described in Article IV.

The election of Officers and Directors and Delegate to the American Kennel Club who may, but need not be a Director or Officer of the Club, shall be conducted by secret ballot.

The election of Officers and Directors and Delegate to the American Kennel Club, who may but need not be a Director or Officer of the club, shall be conducted by secret ballot.

The election of Officers and Board Members (and Delegate to the American Kennel Club, who may - but need not - be a Board Member or Officer of the Club) shall be conducted by ballot.

Officers and directors are elected annually by mail ballot and they conduct the routine business of the Club.

(i) The vote of the Board shall be conducted by secret ballot, at any regular or special Board meeting, or by mailed ballot.

be conducted by secret written ballot, except that, if no nominations are received by the Recording Secretary, as provided in Section 4, paragraph (b) of this Article, no ballot will be necessary.

Any major decisions requiring action of the membership between annual meetings will be conducted by mail ballot or other approved method of communication.

By this Charter, the Governing Council is directed to obtain and to deploy whatever resources may be necessary for the energetic furtherance of the ambitions and activities of the Foundation, which shall conduct research, publish papers, educate students and the public and take every measure that may be necessary to restore the primacy and use of reason in science and public policy worldwide, especially insofar as they may bear upon the rights of the people fairly and fully to be informed, openly and freely to debate, and secretly by ballot to decide who shall govern them, what laws they shall live by and what imposts they shall endure.&raquBy this Charter, the Governing Council is directed to obtain and to deploy whatever resources may be necessary for the energetic furtherance of the ambitions and activities of the Foundation, which shall conduct research, publish papers, educate students and the public and take every measure that may be necessary to restore the primacy and use of reason in science and public policy worldwide, especially insofar as they may bear upon the rights of the people fairly and fully to be informed, openly and freely to debate, and secretly by ballot to decide who shall govern them, what laws they shall live by and what imposts they shall endure.&raquby ballot to decide who shall govern them, what laws they shall live by and what imposts they shall endure.&raquby and what imposts they shall endure.»

All communications and publications, including ballots, produced by governmental entities in Tennessee shall be conducted in English unless the nature of the course would require otherwise.

58.7 The election of members of a district school board shall be conducted in the same manner as the election of members of the council of a municipality that has not passed a by - law authorizing the use of a ranked ballot election.

36 (1) The returning officer shall supply each deputy returning officer before the polling day with a ballot box, a certified copy of the polling list, the materials provided by the Chief Electoral Officer necessary for the proper conduct of the poll and a sufficient number of ballots for the electors at the polling place.

(3) Where the appeal is limited, the judge who conducted the recount shall forward, in the envelope as provided for in subsection 75 (1), the ballots that are the subject of appeal together with the notice and a certificate showing the judge's findings as to the ballots in dispute, by registered mail to a local registrar of the Superior Court of Justice, but, if the appeal is not limited, the judge shall forward all the ballots and other papers to the local registrar, and in either case the judge shall await the result of the appeal before sending his or her certificate to the returning officer.

The B.C. referendum was conducted by mail - in ballot, and required one - third of the province's lawyers to participate and two - thirds to vote in favour in order to pass.

Two members, different from those who previously counted the ballots, shall be appointed by the President to conduct the recount.

A voluntary postal ballot was conducted by the Australian Electoral Commission in late 1997 to elect these delegates.

When an election is conducted by secret ballot, the vote count shall be reported to the Board of Directors.