Sentences with phrase «different voting systems»

The science occurs when different voting systems are considered: the electoral college vs majority rule vs approval voting vs rank voting.

It introduced a variety of different voting systems for different tiers of Government, with no convincing explanation as to why this hotchpotch produced a principled system.

However, the complicated voting system - with Scots voting for constituency, regional and local councils simultaneously using different voting systems - meant tens of thousands of votes have been rejected.

The report, written by elections experts, academic Prof. Roger Scully and ERS Wales» researcher Dr Owain ap Gareth, the report compares projections of what the results could have looked like under different voting systems and questions the impact of the proposed Boundary Changes.

So: why are there so many different voting systems in use across the UK?

Your recent Last Word page details how different voting systems produce different results without revealing the «best» result — that...

Your recent Last Word page details how different voting systems produce different results without revealing the «best» result — that is, the fairest and most democratic one (26 July).

Given you seem to be thinking of a completely different voting system, maybe you should read up on the basics of STV?

(That sounds contradictory, but who stands, how they campaign, and how voters choose how to vote will not stay constant under different voting systems)

But the countries mentioned in the question have different voting systems.

The report details what the results in the 2011 Assembly election could have looked like under different voting systems.

The results in Scotland mean that they either need a collapse of the SNP or a different voting system if they are to get into government again.

Because gerrymandering relies on the wasted - vote effect, the use of a different voting system with fewer wasted votes can help reduce gerrymandering.

My question: has any deliberative body tried using a different voting system here instead?

It is equally possible for a different voting system to produce a totally unprogressive outcome.

Far from a sensible discussion of the merits of different voting systems, we have seen torrents of what Jack Straw rightly described as «hyperbole and abuse» — how «old politics» is that?

However, different voting systems are affected to a greater or lesser extent by IIA failure.

What would follow if the Labour leadership were to conclude that a change to a different voting system — either Alternative Vote or some form of proportional representation — was now in the party's interests?

A Liberal Democrat amendment to hold a referendum earlier and on a different voting system - the single transferable vote - was defeated by 476 votes to 69.

Now the U.S. employs five different voting systems: punch cards, paper ballots, optical scans, lever machines and electronic voting machines, also called Direct Recording Electronic (DRE) machines.