Sentences with phrase «by voting for candidates of their choice»

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Lazio on the Conservative ballot creates the awful choice for Conservatives of voting for Paladino to defeat Cuomo versus voting the Conservative line to give the party its needed 50,000 votes thereby helping Cuomo by taking away a vote from Paladino, the only candidate who can beat Cuomo.

A voter in the ongoing Anambra governorship election has said he voted for the candidate of his choice despite attempts by some party agents to persuade him otherwise.

This party bias in the voting system should be balanced by allowing voters the choice of a short vote - «Independent» - a vote for a raft of «official» (quality assured) independent candidates sponsored by an independent peers appointments commission.

Instant runoff voting, also known as ranked - choice voting, allows voters to rank primary candidates in order of preference so that if one candidate does not cross the required threshold for victory, the candidate with the least number of votes is eliminated and the votes are redistributed based on the second choice selected by voters who had selected the eliminated candidate first, and so on until a winner emerges.

Besides, Governor Ambode urged Nigerians to keep alive the principles of June 12 by upholding democratic values and culture especially by participating in democratic processes such as voters» registration exercise, voting for candidates of choice during election and avoiding any act that could disrupt peaceful conduct of free, fair and credible election.

Independent peers could be elected by having «Independent» (for a list of independent candidates) as a voting choice alongside the political parties.

An at - large voting system for electing members to the East Ramapo school board — long dominated by Orthodox Jews whose children attend private yeshivas — has prevented public school parents who are largely black and Latino from electing candidates of their choice, according to a lawsuit filed by NYCLU.

Faced by a choice of Tony Blair, John Prescott, and Margaret Beckett, every major union recommended their memberships vote for either Beckett or Prescott, and every single union membership voted for Blair... (but) every single union in 2007 that recommended a candidate (for the deputy leadership) delivered between 40 and 50 % of their union's vote to their favourite son or daughter.

Citizens vote for the candidate of their choice by secret ballot.