These require, for example, that parties choose
candidates by secret ballot and that local members, not the national party machine, have the final say.
Now, the minimum threshold of 40 % remains, but a certification
vote by secret ballot is required regardless of the amount of support.
To the chagrin of the formerly hugely influential party whips, most committee chairs are now elected
by a secret ballot of all MPs, and committee members selected by their parties through internal ballot.
As Select Committee chairs are already
elected by secret ballot at the start of every Parliament, they believe they can sell it as part of the wider reforms programme which it will be difficult for the Speaker to object to.
At the next Club meeting the application will be voted upon and affirmative votes of 2/3 of the members present and voting
by secret ballot at that meeting shall be required to elect the applicant.
The no confidence motion will be debated at Monday night's meeting of the Parliamentary Labour Party and
followed by a secret ballot of MPs the following day.
@BHancockCFP told me today that because the votes are taken
by secret ballot on computers, «an 8 - 4 vote would not be possible»
The decision was
taken by a secret ballot, but Ms Baxter revealed that Mr Corbyn had backed calls for it to be a public vote - despite being told it could put NEC members who voted against him at risk of reprisals.
«The American workers right to a free and fair
election by secret ballot of choosing union representation or not will be made null and void.»
(d) An application which has failed to receive the requisite 2/3 affirmative votes by the Board may be presented by one of the applicant's endorsers at the next annual meeting of the Club and the members may elect such
applicant by secret ballot and a favorable vote of 75 % of the members present and voting.
The awards which went to individuals were voted
for by a secret ballot of members of the Commons and the Lords, other than the political impact award, which was done by a public vote online.
Unlike other leadership posts, which are
selected by secret ballot in the respective caucuses, the entire House must vote for the speaker in early January.
Each year, the five honorees of the International Awards are selected after a rigorous two - part review, with the winners voted
by secret ballot by a medical advisory board composed of 33 eminent scientists from around the world.
SumAll employees typically work in groups of 10 or fewer, and each quarter the team elects a
leader by secret ballot.
The recommendations emerging from those sessions included a series of worthwhile reforms to Dail procedures, notably the need to elect the Ceann Comhairle (Speaker) of the
Dail by secret ballot of all TDs; and a strong majority in favour of inserting specific protection for economic, social and cultural rights (like the rights to housing and healthcare) into the Constitution.
The leader of the House is also completing a process of democratising the Commons that has slowly taken place throughout this parliament: the Speaker's election is now the only one which doesn't take
place by secret ballot.
They are giving their tacit support to a plan that would change Commons rules to ensure that the Speaker has to be approved for
re-election by secret ballot at the start of the Parliamentary term.
It can do only so because the 5 year fixed term has allowed the Committee to plan its work, and because MPs elected for the first time to select
committees by secret ballot can think and propose public debate without anxiety about the Whips.
In 2009, the Committee recommended a series of procedural changes aimed at increasing backbench MPs» ability to scrutinise legislation effectively, most important of which were the election of select committee members and
chairs by secret ballot, and the establishment of the Backbench Business Committee.
A secret ballot vote by Democrats on Tuesday will determine Joe Lieberman's fate in the Senate: «Senate Democrats will
decide by secret ballot Tuesday whether to take away Sen. Joe Lieberman's chairmanship of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee — a post from which he oversees U.S. security issues, as well as the operations of a wide segment of the federal government.
Elections at the Electoral College shall be
done by a secret ballot supervised by an Electoral Commission appointed by the Executive Council.
A jury of 82 motoring journalists from around the world selected the
finalists by secret ballot based on their evaluation of each vehicle at exclusive drive events staged by the award's organizer.
These lists are voted on
by secret ballot as recommended by the Kennel club and indicate the names of judges who have the approval and support of The Bull Terrier Club.
However, the court held that because the Directors» decisions to award Mathis the commission and reduce his fine to $ 50 were not
made by secret ballot, they violated the association's bylaws.
The submission calls for the vast majority of the Labour Relations Code's provisions to be sustained, including the current approach to union
certification by secret ballot vote.
It will be debated at Monday night's meeting of the Parliamentary Labour Party and
followed by a secret ballot of MPs the following day.
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.
An application which has received a negative vote by the Board may be presented by the applicant's endorser at the next meeting of the Society and the Society may elect such
applicant by secret ballot and a favorable vote of 75 % of the members present.
(That's the unofficial tally, but I was just informed by St. Lawrence himself that he had landed 60 percent of the vote, which is
cast by secret ballot).
The Summits Awards are presented annually by the Summits» Alumni using an academy style system of nominations and
election by secret ballot for each category.
Upon publication in the next issue of KERRY BLUEPRINTS, applicants may be elected
by secret ballot at any
The Constitution provides that every adult citizen has the right, without unreasonable restrictions to vote
by secret ballot in any election or referendum.
The motion of no confidence will be debated at Monday night's meeting of the Parliamentary Labour Party and followed
by a secret ballot of MPs the following day.
He told a congressional committee that there are several proposals designed to drive up wages in Mexico, including the right of workers to vote
by secret ballot on collective agreements.
Voting, if it occurs, is
by secret ballot following the procedures used in chapter leader elections.