Sentences with phrase «election votes cast»

Corporate voting season is already well underway behind the scenes, and, actions you take during these contests could be just as important as the mid-term election votes cast in November.

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Last week, Cal Henderson, the co-founder and CTO at Slack, cast his vote in a U.S. election for the first time.

Some voters in Jefferson County ended up crossing party lines to cast their ballots for who they thought was the best candidate in each of the races — defying the practice of party line voting in an election that showed a deep red - blue political divide.

During a surreal exchange, anchor David Muir grilled Trump over his continued spreading of the falsehood that millions of illegal ballots were cast in the 2016 election, which Trump had previously said was the reason for Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton beating him in the popular vote by 3 million ballots.

The failure of coalition talks is unprecedented in Germany's post-war history, and was likened by newsmagazine Der Spiegel to the shock election of U.S. President Donald Trump or Britain's referendum vote to leave the EU - moments when countries cast aside reputations for stability built up over decades.

The Company's Corporate Governance Guidelines require any director in an uncontested election who fails to receive over 50 % of the votes cast «for» his or her election to tender his or her resignation to the board within five days of the election.

Small - business owners around the country are casting their ballots as the race to the 2014 Midterm Election finish line comes to an end — and how Main Street votes could determine not just who will go to Washington, but also the outcome of key initiatives that affect all of our bottom lines.

If my proxy solicitation results in Mr. Hagenbuch's failure to receive over 50 % of the votes cast for his election, then I believe the failure of the board to accept his resignation would be an egregious violation of proper corporate governance and in direct opposition to a clear shareholder directive.

Fortune will go on a limb to predict he will cast the deciding vote in a 5 - 4 ruling in Gill v. Whitford that will declare the redrawing of election districts for political purposes to be unconstitutional.

Still, though, the majority of votes have not been cast so there is a chance that the election will proceed and if it does, it's going to be a tight race.

The GOP holds just a one - seat majority in the chamber after the surprise victory of Democrat Doug Jones in last year's Alabama special election; that means they can lose just one Republican vote, even under reconciliation (Vice President Mike Pence would cast a tie - breaker in the case of a 50 - 50 split).

If you hold your shares in street name, it is critical that you cast your vote if you want it to count in the election of directors, the vote to approve the amendment to our Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation, the vote to approve the amendment and restatement of our 2013 Equity Incentive Plan, the advisory vote to approve named executive officer compensation, and the stockholder proposals requesting: (i) the elimination of supermajority voting requirements, (ii) the adoption of a policy to consider employee pay ranges when setting CEO compensation, and (iii) a report on Salesforce's criteria for investing in, operating in and withdrawing from high - risk regions (Proposals 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7 and 8 in this Proxy Statement).

Therefore, brokers holding shares for their customers will not have the ability to cast votes with respect to the election of directors unless they have received instructions from their customers.

L. (Sept. 1, 2014), http://us.practicallaw.com/4-578-4485 [http://perma.cc/8XRK-A4YL](«It appears that ISS negative vote recommendations based on the perceived lack of board responsiveness to shareholder concerns (as evidenced by the failure to implement a successful shareholder proposal) was the leading factor associated with directors who failed to receive a majority of votes cast in an uncontested election in 2014.»)

Cambridge Analytica did not engage in efforts to discourage any Americans from casting their vote in the presidential election.

«In light of evolving investor sentiment, we have clarified that we consider that the board generally has an imperative to respond to shareholder dissent from a proposal at an annual meeting of more than 20 % of votes cast — particularly in the case of a compensation or director election proposal.»

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani casts his vote during elections for the parliament and Assembly of Experts, which has the power to appoint and dismiss the supreme leader, in Tehran February Continue Reading

As expected, Don Iveson was re-elected Mayor of Edmonton in a huge landslide with 141,182 votes — 72 percent of the total votes cast in that race — increasing his total vote count from the 2013 election.

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Brokers holding shares beneficially owned by their clients do not have the ability to cast votes with respect to the election of Directors unless they have received instructions from the beneficial owner of the shares.

Rod and I both still believe that Christians should be involved in their communities, cast votes in elections, and be «in the world but not of it.»

I would do the same for every single election I am eligible to cast a vote in.

Polls opened at 8 a.m. Friday in Iran as Iranians cast ballots in the first parliamentary elections since the 2009 vote that sparked riots and accusations of rigging.

My suggestion for religious conservatives is to do us all a favor and cast a «protest vote» by staying home on election day.

I don't know what church you've been going to, but my minister goes to great pains before an election to not mention ANY candidate or particular ballot issue, but instead call on the congregation to read their scriptures (suggesting some references) and pray, pray, pray for God's guidance, as they get ready to cast their vote.

The Broward Sheriff's Office uncovered evidence Francis Bellanger cast an illegal vote in a March 2011 municipal election.

A similar, more expensive $ 48 million referendum failed in the March election with 52.63 percent of votes rejecting it out of 12,189 votes cast.

When a referendum is held during a general election as it was here, the judge said «the referendum vote count must be related to the total votes cast in the general election.

UPDATE: Bill also states that a tenant would lose their rent controlled apartment if they cast a vote from another location in any election.

A longtime push for early voting in New York took a step forward this month, with Republican Sen. Betty Little backing a bill that would allow voters to cast ballots up to two weeks before Election Day.

Obama's folks could (and did) model the election over and over in the weeks before the votes were cast, using the results to focus their persuasion and GOTV work.

These delegates cast their votes in the general election for president and almost always vote the way their state voted.

In the last election, the incumbent, Collins Owusu Amankwah, polled 36,775 votes representing 69.57 per cent of the entire votes cast.

According to them, by nullifying elections in 18 out of 31 local government areas, Section 179 (2)(b) of the Nigerian Constitution, which required that a candidate vying for the office of the Governor would be declared winner if he has not less than one quarter of the votes cast at the election in each of at least two - thirds of the local government areas, has been breached.

The Presidential Advisory Commission on Elections is investigating claims initially made by President Donald Trump first made as a candidate that votes were cast illegally, which he later attributed to his loss in the popular vote tally.

In 2014, 300 million eligible voters across the European Union (EU) will have the opportunity to cast their vote in the elections for the second - largest legislative body in the world: the European Parliament.

Total expenditures equaled $ 65.7 million, or $ 26.2 per vote cast, up more than 50 % from $ 37.4 million or $ 17.3 per vote cast in the 2010 gubernatorial election between the same two men.

Even though Samia was earlier tipped to win the elections, the former General Secretary emerged with 1, 288 votes, representing 64.2 % of valid votes cast.

Election means any casting of votes where a specific elected position was to be filled.

Quoting portions of the 20 - page document to back his claim he said «What was done exactly was that, on election day a member went to his village and doled out one Ghana cedi each to about 50 vulnerable street drunkards and «busemen» as inducement for them to cast their vote for NPP.

Inevitably however most analysis of the results will simply reflect how many votes were cast for each party on the day and commentators will imagine what parliament will look like if the same results were for a general election.

The US Presidential election uses an «electoral college» system, where each state gets a certain number of «electors» (votes), and those electors cast the official votes for President.

To put it another way, there were 351,971,792 votes cast (total) in the presidential elections in the years in question (2000, 2004, 2008)(2012 was too late to be included in the database).

«Speak» in this sense does not relate to the casting of votes — the General Election will not vent the pressure — but to a deeper form of democracy that facilitates both «democratic voice» and «democratic listening».

Guelleh, who ran on the UMP party ticket, secured 87 percent of the votes cast in Friday's elections, according to provisional results announced by the country's interior minister.

But she noted that in an off - year election, about half of votes are cast outside the five boroughs.

He cast a vote for Heastie's election, but said noting else.

According to the Times, Hernandez cast improper votes in «every major election» since 1976.

Here's what you need to know before you cast your vote in the elections for local police crime commissioners.

Also, range voting satisfies the participation criterion, i.e. casting a sincere vote can never result in a worse election winner (from your point of view) than if you had simply abstained from voting.