Sentences with phrase «electoral system is used»

For each of the four elections that occur in Wales (now excluding elections to the European Parliament), a different electoral system is used.

At present not every party is represented on every committee, when there may be only 12 members, and this would not change whether DPR Voting or any other electoral system is used to elect the lower House.

Not exact matches

Their variables measure how open and competitive the electoral system is and how controlled the executive is in its use of power — not the perfect measure of Hallow's idea, but the best that we have.

Since the current electoral system is the same to all candidates, and all candidates agreed to these electoral rules, it is better to talk about the «particularities» of the system and how these affect candidates; in fact all of the candidates try to use those rules to their advantage (by courting swing states, etc.).

I think added to that is the incapacity of the American domestic political system to address these problems: the inability to use the tax system to address budgetary concerns; to spend money on new infrastructure; and the stasis that results from the presidential electoral season.

Indeed, I am not only worried but I'm also very concerned over the setback to our electoral system, and speaking generally in the best tradition of our legal profession, not being specific on matters before any court, the implication of some of the tribunals outcome intended to shoot down the use of the card reader as some of my fellow lawyers involved in petition matters are determined to achieve is worrisome.

A Con Con is a chance for people to say that regardless of our personal politics, we can all agree that our elected officials should not be sitting in government for their own personal gain, Nor should the electoral system we use to put those people in office be a barrier to entry for those who wish to participate.

The alternative vote (AV) electoral system would be used, where voters rank the candidates in order.

Geography will have a very significant impact here, while first past the post electoral systems, such as the one used in the United Kingdom, will always act to the advantage of the largest parties and will significantly disadvantage the smaller parties, unless their votes are strongly clustered in a specific geographical region — e.g. Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland.

But to see him being used as a pawn in Avella's devious political manipulation of the electoral system speaks volumes about his character.

Many of these other electoral systems are already in use in the UK, as the table below illustrates.

The SNP are expected to retain the majority they won in 2011 contrary to expectations and the electoral system in use.

• Elections to be held on a regional basis, using partial open lists, in a similar electoral system as for European parliamentary elections.

The Democrats with all the devices available at their outfits could not stop the Russians, Holland is not using the biometric system in its elections because of the infiltrations going on and most western nations have decided to reverse to the old electoral orthodoxies because of the manipulations going on.

More distinctive is the reiteration of Plaid's long - standing support for the use of Single Transferable Vote (STV), an electoral system that it wants to see used for electing the second chamber as well as («when applicable») in all other elections.

«There are many things a good electoral system should do, but the most fundamental is ensuring that how people have voted is broadly reflected in the make - up of Parliament... We use an electoral system designed for there being just two political parties, when in reality we have a multi-party system.»

The reason for this is that we are using a two - party electoral system for a multi-party election.

A week or so after, a potentially more serious issue emerged, when it was discovered the government was about to put in place a requirement that individuals using the new online electoral registration system should declare their previous name.

We were pleased when the BBC banned the use of the phrase electoral «reform» in its coverage of the referendum on whether to change the voting system.

The electoral system, the use of referendum on key issues, a written constitution, devolution of power and resources to the powerless in communities, cities and regions, abolition of the Lords and the end to the attacks on trade unions, charities, civil society, civil liberties and the complacency, inertia and disregard for the weakest and inequality that creates despair must be swept away.

Here, the team summarise these previews, while providing additional information about the electoral systems in use for the contest, and a set of simplified ballot papers which show each candidates actual chances of being -LSB-...]

Legislated quotas are more frequently used in PR List electoral systems where it is easier to combine quotas with lists of party candidates due to higher district magnitudes and more candidates per party in each constituency.

It will be able to change its name, which it intends to do — it will likely become the Welsh Parliament before the 2021 elections — increase or decrease the number of Assembly Members (AMs) elected, change the electoral system used for Assembly elections and reduce the voting age.

@Communisty: Many electoral systems use «party lists», where candidates are ranked by the party submitting the list.

That's even before you get started on the electoral system to be used (remember the ruckus that caused earlier this year?).

The most widely used families of PR electoral systems are party list PR, the single transferable vote (STV), and mixed member proportional representation (MMP).

With further seat reductions possible if further member states join the European Union, there may be a need to consider whether the rules shaping the redrawing of European election boundaries needs to be revised (to possibly allow for larger constituencies — even a national constituency) or to also consider whether there may be scope for using an alternative set of electoral rules (e.g. a List system) in the specific case of European elections, especially if the option of having one single constituency for the entire State was to be pursued at a later date.

But on 5 May this year a record number of voters in England and Wales will be using a two — vote electoral system to choose the London Mayor and Police Commissioners across the country, many for the first time.

Two - round systems are used regionally too, though here the electoral system takes on a proportional - list character.

The additional member system, used to elect the Welsh assembly and Scottish parliament, has so many virtues it is hard to believe it has not been a serious part of the Westminster electoral reform conversation.

The commission was set up in December 1997 by the Labour government with the support of the Liberal Democrats, to investigate alternatives to the single member plurality (or «first past the post») electoral system used for British general elections.

Not only does it differ from the rest of the United Kingdom through having it's own party system, but it also uses its own electoral system.

In 1976, the Hansard Society recommended that a mixed electoral system in a form different from the German be used for UK parliamentary elections, but instead of using closed party lists, it proposed that seats be filled by the «best runner - up» basis used by the German state of Baden - Wurttemberg, where the compensatory seats are filled by the party's defeated candidates who were the «best near - winner» in each of the state's four regions.

In the 2011 vote (on whether to use the Alternative Vote electoral system) was decided by 67.9 percent of the vote.

On 13 June 2015, alongside Murphy's resignation as Leader taking effect, the Scottish Executive Committee agreed to adopt the One Member One Vote system that the UK - wide contest is using, moving away from the electoral college system that was used up until December 2014's contest.

But the problem is a consequence of the electoral system itself, which repeatedly brings to power people unfit to use it.

- The electoral system to be used — the model of a partially open list system put forward in the 2007 white paper, has been criticised.

The blockchain could be used to manage these popular petitions along with other important aspects of the country's electoral system.

I think it is honorable that they have attempted to add further integrity to their electoral system using the Ethereum blockchain, but it only solves this one issue.

The census is used to administer the electoral systems and government funding of states based on citizen population.

The electoral system of Brazil would act as a decentralized application of its own with an independent digital token, that is used to process every vote on the Blockchain.