Sentences with phrase «how electors»

There's much speculation over how the electors will vote and it's clear that many people are uncertain about how this process works.

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.

In the originally - envisioned system, Presidential electors are appointed by the states; the states decide how those electors are chosen.

Each state's law determines how those electors are selected, and which candidate they vote for.

(4) Subject to sections 14 and 55, an elector shall not display his or her ballot to any person so as to indicate how the elector has voted.

Not exact matches

Presumably this is how journalists come up with the figure of 117 electors.

How are the electors elected?

By the people, democratically, but how is not the point here (nationally or by state, proportional by state or with a majority system, with a number of electors by state proportional to the population or not exactly, etc..

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».

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;

The US Constitution is actually a non-issue here because it only prescribes how and when the electors will choose President and Vice President.

As to how that is enforced, well, the Australian model leads to summary conviction and fi ne if the elector has no sound reason for not attending.

Question: How to find out the minimum popular vote percentage determine the minimum popular vote that yields a majority of electors in the college?

«How can we go back to our constituencies and look our electors back in the eye who are paying more for their food, rail fares...» he's talking exclusively to his Tory colleagues, ignoring the opposition benches completely.

I believe it will not matter how many of the Green activists you can convince, if we can not offer nuclear at a cost competitive with coal, it will not get supported by the majority of electors.

The Constitution of the United States says that state legislatures are to decide how presidential electors are chosen.

Towards the end of the segment Oliver lamented how s. 331 of the Canada Elections Act forbids him from «in any way» inducing electors to vote out Harper on grounds of Islamophobia and environmental degradation, an offence which contemplates fines up to CAD$ 5,000 and / or 6 months imprisonment.

(2) The deputy returning officer shall ensure that the voting screens at the polling place are positioned so that electors may mark their ballots with maximum privacy and without other persons being able to see how they are marked.

(6) The returning officer may provide such additional polling places in any polling division as are required having regard to the extent of the division, and the number of electors that may conveniently vote at one polling place and the returning officer shall determine how each such polling place shall be designated and an elector is entitled to vote only at the appropriate polling place.

By Thursday, National Review had come up with the counternarrative to the sudden anti-Facebook sentiment among progressives this week, pointing out that the Obama administration had been widely lauded during the 2012 election for (in part) using the Facebook profiles of a wide swath of people not just to predict how they might vote in the election, but how to turn those electors into someone who might vote for Obama.