Sentences with phrase «if electors»

If all electors from Texas and Iowa votes for Clinton, then she would already win with 276 electoral votes.

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.

@SJuan76, if all electors are faithful, the result should not change, is it correct?

The Founding Fathers thought that if electors only had one vote, they'd each vote for a «favorite son» from their own state.

In the case of Florida, state law spells it out clearly: «The ballot of an elector who casts an absentee ballot shall be counted even if the elector dies on or before Election Day.»

I want to understand if elector boycotts are a powerful tool of protest, or just wishful thinking.

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.

(6) If the elector is unable to sign the declaration on the sealed outer envelope as mentioned in clause 45.8 (d), one of the special ballot officers shall make a note on the envelope indicating that the elector voted at a home visit.

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

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

(6) If the elector so requests, the deputy returning officer shall instruct the elector in the manner of marking and refolding the ballot.

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.

If the elector is named on the list of electors or the polling list and votes as described in subparagraph 3 ii,

(2) If an elector whose name appears on a polling list for the polling division where he or she resides has been appointed to act as a deputy returning officer, poll clerk or scrutineer at a polling place other than his or her own but in the same electoral district, an application may be made to the revising official for a certificate to vote at the other polling place.

The key provision at issue was s. 148.1 (1) which provided that an elector was not entitled to vote if the elector was unable to prove identity and residence in accordance with the new provisions of the...

Not exact matches

The person having the greatest Number of votes for President, shall be the President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of Electors appointed; and if no person have such majority, then from the persons having the highest numbers not exceeding three on the list of those voted for as President, the House of Representatives shall choose immediately, by ballot, the President.

But if an election by plebiscite is ruled out, we are again faced with the question which body of electors would represent the actual people.

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).

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.

If a state has 30 electors and party A wins with 51 % of the popular vote, then 30 electors supporting the candidate for party A will be chosen.

If you can tell them who they must vote for (which we'd agree most likely would be ruled out for direct elections) are they really electors?

If the status of elector is viewed literally, such laws constitute interference with the elector's free franchise.

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, if a more isolationist or nationalist US president emerges from the 2016 electoral process in America, and European electors give ever higher levels of support for nationalist - oriented parties, then we have little reason to expect partnership on foreign policy issues, and even fewer reasons to expect multilateral responses to global problems.

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;

Hypothetically, if all states were to allocate their electors proportionally to the votes in their state, who would have won the last election?

Despite section 106, the Electoral Commission may modify the form of any rolls supplied under this section, and the elector particulars on those rolls, if that is necessary to facilitate the use of technology for finding an elector on the roll or for the scrutiny of the rolls under this Act.

If the Electoral Commission believes that a Māori applicant is prevented, by the manner in which the applicant last exercised the option given by section 76, from being registered as an elector of the district to which the application relates, the Electoral Commission must notify the applicant of its reasons for refusing the application.

If the Electoral Commission is satisfied that any applicant for registration as an elector (whether by transfer from another district, or otherwise) is qualified to be registered, the Electoral Commission must enter the name of the applicant on the roll.

if the Electoral Commission is unable to contact the elector, remove the name of the elector from the roll and include the name in the dormant roll maintained under section 109.

If, following an inquiry under section 89D, the Electoral Commission receives notice under section 89D (5)(c) of any change or correction to an elector's particulars, other than a change of place of residence referred to in subsection (1), the Electoral Commission must amend the elector's particulars on the roll in accordance with that notification.

If a notice returned to the Electoral Commission under subsection (5)(a) is received by the Electoral Commission by post after the end of the option period but not later than noon on the day after the last day of that period, the notice is deemed to have been received in that option period, and the elector must, if the notice is otherwise in order, be deemed to have exercised the option given by section 76 (1) in that option perioIf a notice returned to the Electoral Commission under subsection (5)(a) is received by the Electoral Commission by post after the end of the option period but not later than noon on the day after the last day of that period, the notice is deemed to have been received in that option period, and the elector must, if the notice is otherwise in order, be deemed to have exercised the option given by section 76 (1) in that option perioif the notice is otherwise in order, be deemed to have exercised the option given by section 76 (1) in that option period.

to notify the Electoral Commission if the number of current financial members of the party who are eligible to enrol as electors falls below 500; and

must require the elector, if any of those particulars have changed or are incorrect, to notify the Electoral Commission by --

If an electoral official of a local authority (as defined in section 5 of the Local Electoral Act 2001) wishes to obtain, for the purposes of compiling a roll of electors for the local authority and for no other purpose, any specified information, the Electoral Commission may, in accordance with regulations made under this Act, give that electoral official, on payment of the prescribed fee, a computer - compiled list or electronic storage medium containing that information.

This section applies if, as a result of a comparison carried out under section 263A, the Electoral Commission believes that a person who has applied to be (but is not yet) registered as an elector of an electoral district is --

If, following an inquiry under section 89D, the Electoral Commission receives notice under section 89D (5)(b) that an elector has changed his or her place of residence and now resides in another electoral district, the Electoral Commission --

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.

«Anyone who waited in line, anyone who had trouble voting, needs to make their voices heard to their elected officials,» Kallos said, «and Albany needs to finally make these changes even if it isn't in the interest of incumbents... Ultimately in 2017, we will have a vote on the Constitutional Convention, and if Albany won't act then the electors might.»

If Trump were to die before the electoral college casts their votes, then I am not sure of the elector's voting obligations.

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».

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

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

If a state fails to submit electors then shouldn't it change the number of votes needed to get a majority?

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 electorIf 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 electorif those states» electoral votes don't exist at all because they failed to appoint electors.

If this is the case, it seems the only reason of the existence of elector vote is to give the electors a chance to be faithless, is it correct?

The person having the greatest number of [electoral] votes for President, shall be the President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of Electors appointed

If this is the case, it looks like the only reason for the elector vote is to let some electors be faithless.

@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.