Sentences with phrase «elector on»

The Electoral Commissioner must provide every elector on the roll later, at least 14 days before polling day, the following:

48 (1) The elector on receiving a ballot shall forthwith proceed to one of the voting screens and there, using a pencil or pen indicate the candidate of his or her choice by marking one of the circular spaces on the ballot with a cross or other mark in any colour.

It fixes the typographical error that forces groups to list their candidates for presidential elector on their petition if they intend to run a presidential nominee that year.

Any person aged 17 years or older, but under 18 years, may apply to the Electoral Commission for registration as an elector, and that person is not then required to apply for registration as an elector on attaining the age of 18 years.

Despite section 106, the Electoral Commission may modify the form of any rolls supplied under this section, and the elector particulars on those rolls, if that is necessary to facilitate the use of technology for finding an elector on the roll or for the scrutiny of the rolls under this Act.

YAC's solicitors told the Supreme Court of Western Australia on the 21 January that it would not continue with its intention to hold a General Meeting of Electors on 1 February following a challenge by WMYAC as to the validity of the meeting.

Voter turnout across Canada in 2011 was 14,720,580 (61.4 percent of the total number of electors on the voters list).

For the electors on the other side of the Sabine or Red Rivers, there would be no problem.

--RRB- Basing the number of electors on the number of Federal Representatives plus two Senators for each state prevents the dreaded one - man - one - vote which despite the just sound of it, only works in small, homogenous populations.

Not exact matches

Republican lawyers filed a motion that was posted on the court's website Friday accusing Stein of engaging in legal antics and saying her recount request endangers Pennsylvania's ability to certify its electors by the federal deadline.

The election is called for May 2 and then the electors will have the final say on who is out of touch.

The person having the greatest Number of votes for President, shall be the President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of Electors appointed; and if no person have such majority, then from the persons having the highest numbers not exceeding three on the list of those voted for as President, the House of Representatives shall choose immediately, by ballot, the President.

Stimulated by a question as to the limits of the jurisdiction of the state, put by Dalberg, the great liberal prince - elector of Mayence, Humboldt wrote down his thoughts on this subject (1791).

While the Electors and the Estates seem not to have been universally impressed with the romantic traditionalism of the young French - speaking chevalier, yet they had to avoid a head - on clash with their recently elected Lord.

The electors of President and Vice President shall be appointed, in each State, on the Tuesday next after the first Monday in November, in every fourth year succeeding every election of a President and Vice President.

The Congress may determine the Time of chusing [sic] the Electors, and the Day on which they shall give their Votes; which Day shall be the same throughout the United States.

The final Reform Act did sweep away some aspects of the old system, but the conclusion drawn from this study is that the impact of reform on the constituencies varied enormously, and left a third of the surviving old boroughs with fewer electors than before.

In the case of Florida, state law spells it out clearly: «The ballot of an elector who casts an absentee ballot shall be counted even if the elector dies on or before Election Day.»

The money was spent on transporting and entertaining electors and, in some cases, bribing them directly.

This is from the Constitution's viewpoint that assumes electors make their own decisions on whom to vote for.

Under the Proportional Electoral College system I am proposing, an automated computer system would replace individual electors in reporting and casting votes on behalf of the electorate.

Just not both from State X. On the other hand, electors from State Y and State Z are perfectly free to vote for two State X candidates.

Since the Supreme Court has now prevented itself from acknowledging the question of whether Barack H. Obama is or is not an Article II «natural born citizen» based on the Kenyan / British citizenship of Barack Obama's father at the time of his birth (irrespective of whether Barack Obama is deemed a «citizen» born in Hawaii or otherwise) as a prerequisite to qualifying to serve as President of the United States under the Constitution — the Court having done so at least three times and counting, first before the Nov 4 general election and twice before the Dec 15 vote of the College of Electors — it would seem appropriate, if not necessary, for all Executive Branch departments and agencies to secure advance formal advice from the United States Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel as to how to respond to expected inquiries from federal employees who are pledged to «support and defend the Constitution of the United States» as to whether they are governed by laws, regulations, orders and directives issued under Mr. Obama during such periods that said employees, by the weight of existing legal authority and prior to a decision by the Supreme Court, believe in good faith that Mr. Obama is not an Article II «natural born citizen».

However, if a more isolationist or nationalist US president emerges from the 2016 electoral process in America, and European electors give ever higher levels of support for nationalist - oriented parties, then we have little reason to expect partnership on foreign policy issues, and even fewer reasons to expect multilateral responses to global problems.

It consists of an effort to reassure the electors Britain is on the right track, coupled with an attempt to set out a personal worldview aimed at reassuring his party he really is one of them.

Many people know that it is electors in the electoral college that actually elect the president, not citizens voting on election day.

A legislator is to make laws for the good of his polity, not to play politics to inflict more pains on his electors.

The District Court Judge shall have all the powers that the Returning Officer had on the original count, and may, in addition, review any decision of the Returning Officer or the Registrar of Electors or the Electoral Commission in respect of --

If the Electoral Commission is satisfied that any applicant for registration as an elector (whether by transfer from another district, or otherwise) is qualified to be registered, the Electoral Commission must enter the name of the applicant on the roll.

The Electoral Commission must, at the times required by or under this section, direct an inquiry to be made in relation to the particulars on the roll for every person registered as an elector of a district.

Subject to the concurrence of the Electoral Commission, where the Returning Officer considers that the name shown on the nomination paper or other document as the name of the constituency candidate's political party is indecent or offensive or excessively long or likely to cause confusion to or mislead electors, --

If, following an inquiry under section 89D, the Electoral Commission receives notice under section 89D (5)(c) of any change or correction to an elector's particulars, other than a change of place of residence referred to in subsection (1), the Electoral Commission must amend the elector's particulars on the roll in accordance with that notification.

If a notice returned to the Electoral Commission under subsection (5)(a) is received by the Electoral Commission by post after the end of the option period but not later than noon on the day after the last day of that period, the notice is deemed to have been received in that option period, and the elector must, if the notice is otherwise in order, be deemed to have exercised the option given by section 76 (1) in that option period.

Where any officer of a body designated by notice in writing pursuant to subsection (9D) wishes to obtain, for the purpose of compiling a roll of electors for an election and for no other purpose, any specified information, the Electoral Commission may, in accordance with regulations made under this Act, give that officer, on payment of the prescribed fee, a computer - compiled list or electronic storage medium containing that information.

The Electoral Commission may at any time object to the name of any person being on the roll for a district on the ground that the person is not qualified to be registered as an elector of the district.

If an electoral official of a local authority (as defined in section 5 of the Local Electoral Act 2001) wishes to obtain, for the purposes of compiling a roll of electors for the local authority and for no other purpose, any specified information, the Electoral Commission may, in accordance with regulations made under this Act, give that electoral official, on payment of the prescribed fee, a computer - compiled list or electronic storage medium containing that information.

If a writ has been issued requiring the conduct of an election in a district, then, subject to subsections (2) and (3), the Electoral Commission may not, at any time in the period beginning on polling day and ending with the day of the return of the writ, register any application for registration as an elector that the Electoral Commission receives on or after polling day.

Where an application for registration as an elector has been received before the issue of a writ and it has not been possible for the Electoral Commission to ascertain, at the time of the issue of the writ, whether the applicant is currently registered as an elector of another electoral district, the Electoral Commission must, subject to subsection (4), include the name of the applicant on any main, supplementary, or composite roll printed as at writ day.

The electors voting on separate ballots for President and Vice President is actually what happens when the they meet in their state capitals on the Monday after the second Wednesday in December.

In this sense, the votes on devolution were republican - that the establishment of the Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly depended on the approval of electors made them «public things».

For average voters to have the chance to elect the positions separately, the state would need to find a slate of Electors pledged to a cross-party pair (e.g., Romney - Biden) and put it on the ballot.

In the early 19th century, most states did not hold popular elections for presidential electors and the legislature just chose them directly; as time went on, more and more states changed to doing popular vote for them, but as recently as 1876, the Colorado legislature appointed its electors rather than hold an election because it was newly admitted and didn't have the time to do so.

«Anyone who waited in line, anyone who had trouble voting, needs to make their voices heard to their elected officials,» Kallos said, «and Albany needs to finally make these changes even if it isn't in the interest of incumbents... Ultimately in 2017, we will have a vote on the Constitutional Convention, and if Albany won't act then the electors might.»

«Let every elector in London understand that their actions on Thursday can either accelerate the austerity or contribute to the resistance.»

The electors will end the parliamentary career of Kyle, fighting on geography far from consistently favourable to Labour, if his CLP does not first.

But on such matters as the importance of the family, the need to clean up Westminster - and, yes, until yesterday on Europe - his gut instincts have been far closer than New Labour's to the views of ordinary electors.

On the morning of October 4, the Pennsylvania Senate State Government Committee heard testimony for and against SB 1282, the bill to provide that each U.S. House district would choose its own presidential elector.

A vote on whether to make a sitting MP fight his seat again should take place when local electors want it, assuming they can gather enough signatures (most systems that allow for recall votes set high enough thresholds to deter frivolous campaigns).

In the end, success turned on our candidate, Rocky De La Fuente, sending people out in vehicles to drive hours from Alabama to Louisiana in order to contact the last remaining elector and get their notarized affidavit.

The number of Commoners a ward sends to the Common Council varies from two to ten, depending on the number of electors in each ward.