Sentences with phrase «electors at»

(2) Electors resident at an institution referred to in subsection (1) and who are entered in the list of electors may vote at such polling place and the returning officer shall arrange for the deputy returning officer and the poll clerk to attend upon the electors at their bedsides or otherwise for the purpose of receiving their ballots.

36 (1) The returning officer shall supply each deputy returning officer before the polling day with a ballot box, a certified copy of the polling list, the materials provided by the Chief Electoral Officer necessary for the proper conduct of the poll and a sufficient number of ballots for the electors at the polling place.

@ElgsQianChen - Not sure if it's the case in all states, but in mine (Michigan) each party appoints a full set of electors at a convention a few weeks before the election.

Idaho: A precinct which contains no more than 125 registered electors at the last general election may be designated by the board of county commissioners a mail ballot precinct no later than April 1 in an even - numbered year (Idaho Code § 34 - 308)

The individual political parties nominate their slate of electors at their state conventions.

That's where the number 385 comes from, but that's not the end of it, some states will have more than 1/385, and even be close to 2/385, so they may be awarded an elector at the expense of a more populous state.

55 (1) On the application of any elector who is unable to read or who is disabled and thereby prevented from voting in accordance with the other provisions of this Act, the deputy returning officer may assist the elector to the voting screen or if the elector making the application takes an oath as to his or her inability to vote without assistance, shall thereafter assist the elector at the voting screen by marking his or her ballot in the manner directed by the elector in the presence of the poll clerk and of no other person, and place the ballot in the ballot box.

Not exact matches

At each level, representatives would be chosen from among persons with whom the electors have worked closely.

The meetings at Augsburg multiplied over the following two and a half months The Electors, their deputies the theologians, the Emperor's men, the Roman Curia's men, the ambassadors and assistants from all over Europe met in small groups and big groups.

And now at last the young Emperor was in Europe; the October coronation in Aachen was to be followed by his first Diet, the formal consultation with the Electors and Estates of the Empire.

«All of the affected electors will also be written to by their local Electoral Registration Officer with an explanation of what happened and will be told that they will not be able to vote at the referendum,» they said in a statement.

Define a coalition as winning if the total number of electoral votes of the state in that coalition is 270 or more (let's ignore at first that two small states make things more complicated by allowing a mixed elector group).

The electoral quota is determined by dividing the total number of electors as at the relevant date by the number of electoral districts into which the State is divided.

At issue was not only a fundamentally contrasting concept of democratic procedure, but also the extent to which electors could trust the members that they sent to Westminster.

So the «faithless elector» equivalent can not happen at the Republican convention.

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».

The Electors shall meet in their respective States, and vote by Ballot for two persons, of whom one at least shall not lie an Inhabitant of the same State with themselves.

The Electors shall meet in their respective states, and vote by ballot for President and Vice-President, one of whom, at least, shall not be an inhabitant of the same state with themselves

That is why the electors, betrayed and hurt, must take specific notices of such errant and irresponsible behaviour; and punish hard, whoever is culpable, at the next electoral cycle.

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.

Individuals (or small groups) tend to make mistakes, but the looming risk of losing power make the ruling faction to listen up to the opposition: to the electors if there are elections, or at least, to the opposition factions existing in the same political party; this is how, basically, the self - regulation works everywhere;

has been carried by a majority of the valid votes cast at a poll of the electors of the General and Maori electoral districts:

the total number of persons registered as electors of the Maori electoral districts as at the close of that last day; and

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.

A person who is qualified to be registered as an elector of any electoral district and who is outside New Zealand may apply at any time to the Electoral Commission for registration as an elector.

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.

Any registered elector of the district may inspect any master roll for the district, and the attached list, at the office of the Electoral Commission for the district, without payment of any fee, at any time when the office is open for the transaction of business.

Led by former president Bill Clinton, the electors met in the majestic state senate chamber at the Capitol for a tightly scripted session without any disruption or deviation.

shall be submitted to and decided by the electors of the state; and in case a majority of the electors voting thereon shall decide in favor of a convention for such purpose, the electors of every senate district of the state, as then organized, shall elect three delegates at the next ensuing general election, and the electors of the state voting at the same election shall elect fifteen delegates - at - large.

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.

Contrast Cameron's «Vote for me, me, me» speech at County Hall yesterday (not many Witney electors there, eh?)

County clerk must issue mail ballot to any eligibile elector who requests one in person at the county clerk \'s office.

That is a number that was arrived at by the Boundary Commission, a strictly non-party political body whose incredibly complicated job is to create a constituency map of Britain that will respect, as far as practicable, historic geographic allegiances while at the same time ensuring - once again, as far as practicable - that the number of electors in each seat is broadly similar across the country.

If you are willing to serve as an elector email us at [email protected].

While the Irish Speakers also give up their party membership and are elected automatically at general elections, much like Westminster, their local electors still get the chance to vote for party candidates to fill the constituency's remaining seats.

While it's true that an original rationale for having an electoral college was because electors were regarded, at the time, as being relatively free from undue influence, nowadays they mostly just rubber - stamp the candidate for their respective party.

Perhaps the most important deadline is Dec. 19, when electors around the country must meet to cast their Electoral College votes, said Edward Foley, an expert in election law at Moritz College of Law at Ohio State University.

The actual vote for President is conducted by Presidential electors, not rank and file voters, and the validity of the electors is vested in Congress at the time that it receives the votes, not the states.

But if one or more Trump states fails to vote at all, fewer faithless electors are required to throw it to Congress.

If states fail to appoint electors due to a recount, those states» electoral votes will not be counted, but then it's as if those states» electoral votes don't exist at all because they failed to appoint electors.

At the time, each elector voted twice, the person with the most votes won, the person with the second most votes became VP, so long as the first had at least half of the EC voteAt the time, each elector voted twice, the person with the most votes won, the person with the second most votes became VP, so long as the first had at least half of the EC voteat least half of the EC votes.

However 2010 was one of the closest elections in living memory, yet no more than two in three electors could be bothered to turn out; and if registration rates are as low as 80 %, that means only half the potential electorate care enough to even turn up at the polls.

Under the terms of the Licensing Act 1961, on the application of 500 local electors, a referendum could be held in each local government area at seven - year intervals on whether that district should be «wet» or «dry» on the Sabbath.

Around 45 % of 18 - 24 year olds are not registered to vote at their current address, compared to just 6 % of eligible electors aged 65 and over.

«None of this is to say that divisions and mega personality rows at the top are a good thing, but it is a reminder that unity is not the main thing that electors look for.

If someone's serious about doing this, the big push now would be to get Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin voters to push their legislatures to at least consider appointing electors contrary to election results.

Convincing the Michigan legislature that at least 7.21 % of the third party voters would've voted for Clinton if they knew that Trump would win otherwise, and that Clinton «should've won» might make it possible for them to flip their electors, giving Clinton 16 more electoral votes.

To bribe an elector is a felony at both the state and federal levels, with loooong prison sentences.

In a final gesture that seemed aimed at the person who won the election, the electors announced that they were donating their fees for the day to the New York Immigration Coalition.