Sentences with phrase «electors did»

It is true that Roque De La Fuente competed in the Democratic Primary, but the Reform Party electors did not, thus Sore Loser Laws should not apply.

Never in the history of the United States did enough electors do this to make someone else president than they should have.

I am not too concerned even ifmone or two electors do go rogue.

if the elector does not wish to vote at that time, give the elector a special ballot kit to take away.

Prior to the 2007 amendments, an elector did not have to show personal identification to vote; he or she needed only to state his or her name and address to the poll clerk who would confirm this information on the list of electors.

Not exact matches

Or am I being pedantic in the overstatement of their mandate to do as they wish without elector endorsement?

Second, the electoral college got stuck in to provide a last line of defense against public stupidity — in case you didn't know it, the electors aren't legally bound to vote as their state's majority has.

The Electors, Princes and representatives of the Estates began to drift home, and nothing further was done immediately in the Luther case.

A further difficulty facing Aleander was that the Emperor needed the support of the Electors in raising an army with which to travel down to Italy to claim his coronation by the Pope as Holy Roman Emperor, and to do battle with France in Northern Italy.

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.

Voters do not pick any number of electors directly.

With political parties and pledged electors, it doesn't quite work that way.

What they'd probably do is to vote for their party's presidential candidate, and become «faithless electors» when it came to the VP, either abstaining from that vote, or voting for a non-Texan (presumably, a different member of their own party) for that office.

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, I do think the Government passed over a good chance in the week of the Queen's speech to meet electors face to face.

Even in Richmond Park, does anyone seriously think that a majority of electors live in houses worth over a million pounds.

But the referendum battle over the future of the UK concerns Scotland - based voters alone, and the outcome of the independence referendum is likely to be determined by the current 10 or 15 per cent of the «don't know» Scottish electors, mostly in Scotland's central belt.

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.

Unless there are additional rules I don't know about, you could lose the popular vote by literally 100 % and end up as president if you could somehow convince the electors to vote for you «faithlessly».

However, electoral irregularities and intimidation led Commonwealth observers to declare that «the conditions in Zimbabwe did not adequately allow for a free expression of will by the electors» and the country was suspended from the Commonwealth later that year - a decision renewed in December 2003.

Every time the census reapportions electors, several lawsuits are opened because one state didn't get enough and wants to steal an elector from CA, and CA didn't quite get enough for its share of the population either.

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

The U.S. Constitution does not specify procedures for the nomination of candidates for presidential elector.

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.

Today's memo does outline one change: the BCE will this time be prepared to use smaller blocks of electors when drawing up its plans.

mvy, you make a great argument on how the constitution does not specify how electors are awarded, but you fail to mention that the constitution clearly states that only the House of Representatives member is elected by popular vote.

To run as an independent, all you need to do is fill in the nomination forms with the AEC, meet the Constitutional and legislative requirements (in particular section 44 of the Constitution), pay the nomination fee (currently $ 2,000.00) and provide signatures of electors proving that you do have enough support for some kind of attempt (I believe it is 100 electors, but I haven't checked the AEC website for this detail).

Absent something like a candidate arranging to assassinate one or more rivals, bribe the electors, or committing fraud with the vote count (and no, some random crazy that voted 5 times doesn't count)-- a.k.a. election fraud — there's nothing to be done once the electoral vote is finished and certified.

Now, let's eliminate those states that Clinton won, that leaves us with 155 electoral votes from states that don't bind electors and were won by Trump.

My understanding is that some states have laws binding electors with either fines, criminal penalties, or the right to replace their votes if they don't vote in line with their constituents.

Technically, what we are doing today is electing the Electors.

If this is case, In December, the 5 elector from Party B have to vote to Candidate A if they don't want to be faithless, which is different from whom they voted to in the general vote, and quite likely against their will, is it correct?

Not only does this give electors a few extra days to consider their options based on the first result, it ensures that they are not forced into making a «saccharine» second choice (which AV would force them to do), before they know whether or not their first preference candidate will get over 50 % of the vote.

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.

For example, in 2000 elector Barbara Lett - Simmons of Washington, D.C. chose not to vote, rather than voting for Al Gore as she had pledged to do.

Of course, it is possible for those electors to cast an electoral vote for someone other than the person pledged or does not vote for any person, but it rarely happened.

In other words, a state legislature does not appear to have an obligation to appoint electors based on the popular plurality vote, and this presumably applies even if an election has already been held.

In order to do this, the Government «should amend paragraph 52 and Schedule 8 to the Police and Crime Commissioner Elections Order 2012 to ensure that electors are sent printed information about the candidates standing for election as PCC in their force area».

It's impossible to say whether Trump would have done better or worse than under the electoral college, making the petition to have the electors choose Hilary Clinton instead misguided, at least insofar as they rely on the popular vote outcome as justification.

All it succeeded in doing was to confuse electors for a decade or two.

Electors will typically vote along with the district they represent, although they are not bound by law to do so.

I don't say ballot to metonymically refer only to each individual's participation in the election process, but literally each ballot — each slip of paper marked with the elector's desired candidate — because if you're not careful, your vote may not float.

Indeed, we have not figured out that the absence of lawyers elected to Parliament and provincial legislatures in recent years has much to do with the fact that law and judiciary are not representative of electors.

(4) If city council does not pass a by - law in accordance with the petition within 90 days after receiving the petition, any of the electors who signed the petition may apply to the Local Planning Appeal Tribunal to have the City divided or redivided into wards or to have the existing wards dissolved.

The constitution «does not confer the franchise [the right to vote for President] on «U.S. citizens» but on «Electors» who are to be «appoint [ed]» by each «State».

(a) the information about the elector in the declaration on the outer envelope does not correspond with the information in the elector's application to vote by special ballot;

(2) A mistake in the name or the address of an elector shown in the polling list is not a ground for questioning the eligibility to vote of the elector, provided that at the time of voting the elector takes the prescribed oath or affirmation, if required to do so by the deputy returning officer.

(5) An elector who refuses to make the prescribed statutory declaration under subsection (1) when required to do so forfeits the right to vote.

(5) When subsection (4) applies, the Chief Electoral Officer has discretion to do one of the following, so as to ensure that the poll is open with free access to the electors for a total of 12 hours:

(4) An elector who is not named on the polling list and does not have a certificate to vote may apply to have his or her name added under section 47.1, and is entitled to receive a ballot once his or her name has been added.