Sentences with phrase «choice votes»

This can be changed by having multi member legislative districts with ranked choice voting so that voters can make meaningful choices among a broad range of candidates.

If any of these voters cast a second choice vote for either of the two candidates still in the race then these votes are added to their piles.

People use the term ranked - choice voting in different ways.

Parties could still form a government with less than 50 % of first choice votes.

The larger sculpture won the 2007 Sculpture Without Walls Public Choice Vote.

If nobody gets more than 50 % then all but the two leading candidates are eliminated and the second choice votes are then counted.

Don't forget you can earn trading cards by buying games or voting in the community choice vote.

For some people, ranked - choice voting means any voting method where voters rank candidates.

Indeed, in its most basic original form, it is formulated as a first past the post with an either or choice voting system, although the principle can be generalized more broadly.

The system, also known as ranked choice voting, would make the city's elections more democratic by encouraging candidates to reach out to more voters, supporters argue.

Most opportunities for unusual results occur when there are options which collect significant first choice votes, but few second preferences, as in the political example I give above.

(Web Choice voting does not play a role in the selection of the winners.)

This year «s Viewers Choice voting has closed for the 9th Annual TASTE AWARDS.

The other was Sergio Ramos, whose only first - choice vote came from his club teammate Cristiano Ronaldo.

In the United States it is sometimes called choice voting, preferential voting or preference voting («preferential voting» can also refer to a broader category, ranked voting systems).

If no candidate receives a majority, the top two candidates continue to a second round while the rest are eliminated, and the second - choice votes of everyone whose first choice was eliminated is counted.

On October 27, 2017, Kyle Bailey, campaign manager for the Maine Committee for Ranked Choice Voting, sent an email message to ranked - choice voting supporters announcing that the group had filed the paperwork to pursue a veto referendum in opposition to LD 1646: «We will have 90 days to collect 61,123 valid signatures to put a People's Veto on the June 2018 ballot.

For these people, ranked - choice voting includes not only instant runoff voting and the single transferable vote, but also Condorcet voting and the Borda count.

But the pollsters calculated that once lower - ranking candidates were eliminated and their second choice votes distributed, the younger brother would prevail.

The games on the player's choice voting poll are Capcom vs. SNK 2, Dead or Alive 5, Divekick, Guilty Gear XX Accent Core + R, Injustice, Melty Blood Actress Again Current Code, MLP: Fighting is Magic, PlayStation All - Stars Battle Royale, Skullgirls, Super Smash Bros..

NOT AVAILABLE / SCREENED IN TIME FOR CRITICS CHOICE VOTING «Collateral Beauty» — Warner Bros. «Passengers» — Sony / Columbia «Rogue One: A Star Wars Story» — Disney «Silence» — Paramount

Jed Wallace, President and CEO of the California Charter Schools Association (CCSA), released the following statement regarding the Los Angeles Unified School District Board of Education's Public School Choice Vote:

An opening reception and the people's choice voting event takes place on Saturday from 5 to 7 p.m. Gallery visitors are encouraged to vote for artworks they believe to be Most Original, Most Thought - Provoking and Best in Show.

Check out the main Readers» Choice voting page here: Vote for all your favourite local businesses!

Dale Gordon, an anesthesiologist from Libertyville, Illinois, lobbies for my People's Choice vote as I approach his 1977 Lancia Scorpion.

In 2016, Maine voters approved the Maine Ranked Choice Voting Initiative, which provided for the use of ranked - choice voting in elections for United States Senators, United States Representatives, the governor, state senators, and state representatives.

This can be further generalised to ranked voting systems, as then some of the first choice votes for parties C and D would be redistributed to winning candidates, and so wouldn't be counted as «wasted».

Tropico 4 won the last community choice vote and is down 80 % to just # 4.99.

All the first choice votes are counted.

For some people, ranked - choice voting means specifically instant runoff voting when electing a single candidate and the single transferable vote when electing multiple candidates (e.g., a council or committee).

It is just one of a number of local bills that are intended to empower Montgomery County voters, including a bill that would expand the number of early voting sites, and another that would enable the County to adopt ranked choice voting for County Executive and County Council special elections.

She won the Public Choice Vote for 2014 for her lifesize «Colt & Turtle».

The main changes that I've read about were that it would introduce instant - runoff style ranked choice voting and that it would put districting in the hands of an independent commission that would create much larger districts with multiple representatives versus single representative districts that currently exist.

Like virtually all non-random voting systems, ranked choice voting (see Philipp's answer for a list of some alternative names) does have some structural weaknesses in which a voter with prior knowledge of the voting intentions of others can influence the result in her preferred direction by taking actions other than sincerely enumerating her preferred choices in order.

Let's try the instant runoff system, also known as alternative vote, transferable vote, ranked choice voting, or preferential voting

For voters, that means if the eliminated candidate was your first choice, then your second - choice vote will be applied in the next round of counting.

Maine is about to embark on an unprecedented experiment in American democracy — ranked choice voting — and Paul LePage — the state's belligerent, foul - mouthed and polarizing governor, is a big part of the reason why.