Postal voting and early voting are separate procedures also available to voters who would not be in their registered
electoral districts on a voting day.
come into office as the member of Parliament for
that electoral district on the day after the day of the return of that writ; and
Not exact matches
Alberta's Chief
Electoral Officer Glen Resler spoke to the Standing Committee
on Legislative Offices
on September 24, 2015 about legislated timelines that require an
Electoral Boundaries Commission be appointed to redraw the provincial
electoral districts.
The decision became necessary by the
electoral umpire due to the death of Senator Isiaka Adeleke who until his death was the Senator representing Osun West Senatorial
District on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Plus, more - traditional mass outreach may still work in online social settings, since extensive advertising
on MySpace, Facebook and LinkedIn is still relatively untested, and campaigns with the resources to buy ads targeted at their particular
electoral districts may find them an effective way to tap a politically active audience.
In 2015, attempts by the Chairperson to stop
district electoral officers from inserting ghost names
on the list of officials recruited for the 2015
district level elections, to enable them appropriate the allowances for the officials resulted in the Chairperson being reported to the BNI for investigation.
The system with 225 local single - member
districts elected by a first - past - the - post
electoral system (highest vote wins) offers much room for manipulation, use of administrative resources and pressure, extortion, vote buying and putting only one candidate
on the ballot in some
districts.
The
Electoral Commission must, at least once in each year, print a main roll for each
district that contains a list of all persons whose names are lawfully
on the
electoral roll for the relevant
district on a date to be fixed for the closing of the main rolls.
If the
Electoral Commission is satisfied that the name of a member elected to represent an
electoral district is not correctly recorded
on the writ, an
Electoral Commissioner may,
on behalf of the
Electoral Commission, before or after complying with the requirements of section 185 (1), make any alterations to the writ necessary to ensure that the member's name is correctly recorded.
the total number of persons whose names are shown
on the dormant rolls maintained under section 109 for the Maori
electoral districts; and
Any secretary of a political party listed
on the part of the ballot paper that relates to the party vote may, instead of making 1 or more separate applications for recounts under section 180 (2), apply to the Chief
District Court Judge for recounts of the party votes to be conducted in every electoral d
District Court Judge for recounts of the party votes to be conducted in every
electoral districtdistrict.
Where the property
on which a person's home is located is divided between 2 or more
electoral districts, that person shall, --
The
Electoral Commission must, from time to time, print a supplementary roll for a
district that contains a list of all persons whose names do not appear
on the main roll or any existing supplementary roll for the
district but are lawfully
on the
electoral roll for the
district on a date to be fixed for the closing of that supplementary roll by the
Electoral Commission.
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 Assembly man for the Nyinahin
electoral area, Baba Yaro presented the petition to the
District Chief Executive of the area
on behalf of the youth.
Having emigrated from the Dominican Republic at age 9, his
electoral hopes depend
on a strong showing among the
District's significant Dominican community and a good performance with the
District's Puerto Rican voters.
Although seemingly directed at what Rangel sees as Espaillat's lack of legislative accomplishments, and the corollary that Espaillat's
electoral hopes depend significantly
on support from the Dominican - Americans in the
District, it's been widely portrayed, especially by Espaillat supporters, as racially offensive.
While the voting and counting processes
on election day were assessed positively overall, the tabulation of results was negatively assessed in nearly half of the
electoral districts observed.
As New York prepares for the once - a-decade redistricting process based
on census data, Gov. Cuomo has proposed that the
electoral map be redrawn by an independent commission as opposed to the legislature, which has created some highly - gerrymandered
districts in the past.
Based
on analysis of these
districts»
electoral histories, these races had the potential to be more competitive than other races and could possibly have led to shifts in a chamber's partisan balance.
The YouGov local election poll in the Sun today is based
on just repondents in those areas that actually have local elections in May — that is, excluding London, Scotland, Wales and the 13 or so councils who do not have elections this year (primarily Cornwall, Durham, the Isle of Wight, Northumberland, Shropshire and Wiltshire, with a handful of
district councils with unusual
electoral cycles).
Daniel Tanko, the Assemblyman for the Wallembelle
electoral area, appealed to the GETfund to act
on the issue, and noted that he had gotten assurances from the
District Chief Executive of the area, and the Member of Parliament, Abass Ridwan Dauda.
«That's because
electoral districts must be drawn based
on population.
The Legislative Task Force
on Demographic Research and Reapportionment is proceeding with hearings before it redraws
electoral districts in the wake of the 2010 Census.
The
Electoral Commission (EC) has said its
district registration review officers are currently handling complaints made against some voters
on the country's
electoral roll which are before some courts in the country.
District Leaders are an essential role in our
electoral process by educating voters about various candidates and help mobilize voters to vote
on Election Day.
Ikpamezie Innocent «39 Yrs» from Mbaitoli LGA of Imo State who admitted to be the Special Adviser
on Electoral matters to Senator Hope Uzodimma representing Orlu Senatorial
District of Imo State currently in the Senate confessed that all the
electoral materials were given to them by Dr. Iyke Njoku, Zonal coordinator, Owerri Municipality to Senator Hope Uzodimma representing Orlu Senatorial
District of Imo State in the Senate.
Teachers unions put boots
on the streets in key
electoral districts (when is the last time an urban center was considered a «key
electoral district?»)
Another study, based
on interviews with 526 school - board candidates (winners and losers) in 253 California
districts, reinforces the study of
electoral outcomes (see Figure 2).
The House of Assembly, in the exercise of its historic right to expel a member in appropriate circumstances, hereby expels from the Assembly the member last elected before the coming into force of this Act for the
electoral district of Inverness South by reason of his conviction
on four counts of using forged documents in respect of money received by him in his capacity as a member, and the seat of that member is and is deemed to be vacant until an election is held in that
electoral district according to law.
(c) an employee of the Chief
Electoral Officer who is assigned
on a temporary basis to provide support to returning officers in the administration of a general election or by - election under the Election Act within a region made up of one or more, but not all,
electoral districts as determined under the Representation Act, 2015; («membre du personnel électoral»)
56 Leadership Vote procedure (1) The Leadership Vote is a direct vote of all supporters members of the Party who have a right to vote
on the Leadership Vote weighted equally for each
electoral district in Canada and counted in accordance with this Section.
1-800-463-6868 is the number
on the website, and a very nice person (after you get through various voice mail prompting levels) will give you another 800 number for your specific
electoral district.
35 (1) The Chief
Electoral Officer or the returning officer shall cause to be printed
on the approved paper a sufficient number of ballots for the election in the
electoral district.
(3)
On the abatement of an action, notice of the abatement shall be given by the local registrar of the Superior Court of Justice in the prescribed form in the
electoral district and any person who might have been a plaintiff may apply to a judge of the Superior Court of Justice or, during the trial, to the trial judge to be substituted as the sole plaintiff.
(c) a member of the Assembly is entitled to receive,
on request, a copy of the part of the permanent register that relates to his or her
electoral district, if the updating was done in respect to all of Ontario or in respect to the
electoral district.
(2) The returning officer shall transmit all election material to the Chief
Electoral Officer in boxes or packages marked «Used» or «Unused» and secured and sealed with the prescribed seals and the returning officer shall endorse
on each box or package of used material a description of the contents, the date of the election and the name of the
electoral district to which they relate.
(2) The returning officer shall cause the prescribed notice of poll to be printed and the notice shall be posted in conspicuous public places in the
electoral district and at least one copy shall be posted at each polling place
on the days of the advance poll and the general poll.
(7) The mailing address outside Ontario that is shown for an elector in the register of absentee electors shall not be changed during the period that begins
on the day a writ is issued for an election in the relevant
electoral district and ends
on polling day in that election.
(2) If an elector whose name appears
on a polling list for the polling division where he or she resides has been appointed to act as a deputy returning officer, poll clerk or scrutineer at a polling place other than his or her own but in the same
electoral district, an application may be made to the revising official for a certificate to vote at the other polling place.
15 (1) In an
electoral district in which an election to the Assembly is to be held, every person is entitled to vote who,
on the general polling day,
(3) The Chief
Electoral Officer may at his or her discretion establish any period of 12 consecutive hours
on the general polling day for voting in all or part of an
electoral district.