Sentences with phrase «candidates tied votes»

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Even in Ancient Greek democracy, in the play Agamemnon the goddess Athena comes down to Earth and casts a coloured pebble to vote for a candidate in a tie.

The Jefferson - Burr ticket of the Democratic - Republican party executed this plan successfully in 1800, with just one little hitch: With no distinction between first - choice and second - choice votes, the two winning candidates tied each other, so the House of Representatives had to choose who would be President and who would be Vice President.

It restrains them only from a certain form of expressive activity closely tied to the voting process — providing money for a candidate or political party or spending money in order to expressly advocate for or against the election of a candidate.»

Thursday's poll by the Siena Research Institute found Buerkle, R - Onondaga Hill, and Maffei, D - DeWitt, tied with 43 percent of the vote, two years after the candidates fought a nail - biter that Buerkle won by 648 votes.

«all candidates tied for third are included in the vote in the House»: do you have anything to support that assertion?

In case of a tie for third that is not trivial (all candidates having zero electoral votes), all candidates tied for third are included in the vote in the House.

Now that group is TIED 47 - 47 on which party's candidates they will vote for.

Supervisor Wood declared at the town board meeting on Dec. 8, 2015, Gail Seaman as incumbent was to be brought forward because of tie vote and failure to elect a candidate to fill the vacant board seat.

Not at all good for Republicans to be denied a vote in who our candidates will be, which means another slate of spoon - fed candidates from Long Island with no ties to the rest of the state.

In the event of an electoral college tie, or indeed any scenario in which no candidate receives a majority of electoral college votes, the election is decided by the houseof representatives.

Democratic congressional candidate Dan Maffei and incumbent Congresswoman Ann Marie Buerkle head into the fall campaign in a statistical tie, two years after Republican Buerkle unseated Maffei by only 648 votes.

Stefanik and Woolf are in a virtual tie among independent voters, with 39 percent supporting the GOP nominee and 38 percent saying they will vote for the Democratic candidate.

In a tie vote, the Democratic parties in Oswego, Cayuga and Wayne counties decided to endorse two of the three Democratic candidates in the race for New York's 24th Congressional district.

In fact, there were 18 other candidates for tie - vote honors or condemnation.

City comptroller candidate Scott Stringer went for the jugular yesterday against rival Eliot Spitzer as a new poll showed the Democratic primary race in a statistical tie with just five days to go before the vote.

Time to vote and support the candidates with the least ties to lobbyists and the most intellectual integrity.

Since electors are not bound to follow the public vote tying them together with their candidate is a simple way to lessen the chances of «rogue electors.»