Sentences with phrase «electors taking»

The 115 cardinal - electors taking part in the conclave will enter the closed - door process after a morning Mass, the Vatican said.

(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.

(a) if the elector takes the prescribed oath or affirmation as to his or her eligibility to vote; and

52 An elector who has received a ballot shall not take it out of the polling place and any elector who leaves without delivering the ballot to the deputy returning officer forfeits the right to vote and the deputy returning officer shall cause an entry to be made in the poll record that the elector took his or her ballot out of the polling place.

Not exact matches

Separating fact from fiction is the job of electors, not the elected, though publishers — and that includes search and social firms — must take responsibility, too.

It would be better to just eliminate «winner - take - all» and let each district send their own elector.

While the exact rules vary from state to state, essentially a voter is voting for a set of electors chosen by the party, and the most votes for a given party / candidate selects that set of electors, so where there is winner takes all, the set of electors is equal to the total number of electors for that state

Almost all states follow a «winner - takes - all» policy: if a candidate gets a plurality of the vote in that state, then the group of electors chosen by that candidate's party are the ones who vote.

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's not that the electors would be allocated any differently, it just that there would be no winner - takes - all system.

What advantaged Trump seems to be the majority - take - all system with the way his electors were shared among states, with a short majority in many of the major swing states (nothing new or surprising, in other words).

They entered the senate chamber together to a standing ovation, after all of the other electors and spectators had taken their seats, later rising to cast their ballots together.

With characteristic arrogance (and what now looks like extraordinary hubris) he posed what he took to be a critical question before Britain's electors: ««Are you better off than you were five years ago?

My impression is that such an election would have to take place before any electors representing Wisconsin could participate in the electoral college.

The election would take place with electors completing the Party Ballot section only (assuming there were no candidates standing to oppose the Speaker).

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).

Recounts taking too long makes the unlikely prospect of faithless electors more feasible.

In that case, all 7 of A's electors will be able to vote, but B and C won't have any of their electors able to vote - the winner takes all (Unless the state is Maine or Nebraska, in which case they'll be divided up - there will still be 7 electors for the state, but maybe 4 will be for A and 3 for B).

--RRB- The winner - takes - all - electors in a state system is also a means by which smaller states gain disproportionate representation and it also helps create a mandate for the President by giving the winner a big majority in the electoral college.

Electors were needed as a mechanism that allowed, if the need arose (nobody got enough electoral votes to get elected, a candidate died, etc.), to negotiate a solution in a timely manner (because each consultation with their home state could take weeks)

As a result of changes in state laws enacted since 1789, the people have the right to vote for presidential electors in 100 % of the states, there are no property requirements for voting in any state, and the state - by - state winner - take - all method is used by 48 of the 50 states.

Of course, if the House were to deadlock, the Vice-President selected by either the electors or the Senate (if the electors tie on VP too) would take over.

The final three columns are taken from a separate survey of more than 10,000 electors.

Registered electors with postal votes who have not yet sent them back can take them to a polling station.

It is current UK government policy to pass a law removing the 15 - year limit on expatriate Britons voting before the next general election takes place, as mentioned in the 2017 Conservative Party manifesto, which stated (page 42) «We will legislate for votes for life for British overseas electors».

To take that risk would be profoundly unfair on the electors of Blackburn, on this party, and on Alice [Perkins, his wife] and my family.

Fans of sharp - edged political fiction, take note: Neel, who recently answered questions about The Electors for BookPage, will appear tomorrow at Nashville's Parnassus Books for a reading and discussion.

No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof.

(5) The ballot box may be moved by the poll officials to facilitate voting by an elderly or disabled elector but where the box is so moved it may be accompanied by any scrutineer present and a record of any such action and any objection taken by a scrutineer shall be made in the poll record opposite the name of the elector.

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

(3) Any friend who is permitted to mark the ballot of an elector under subsection (2) shall first be required to take an oath or affirmation that he or she will keep secret the name of the candidate for whom the ballot was marked.

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.

Vouching — which is permitted by Section 143 (3) of the current version of the Canada Elections Act — is the process by which a qualified elector may prove her identity by taking an oath and being vouched for by another qualified elector whose name appears on the voters» list for the same polling division.

Alternatively, an elector may prove identity by taking a prescribed oath and having another elector who lives in the same polling division vouch for him or her.