Sentences with phrase «most voting systems»
Note: for most voting systems currently in use there are already mathematical issues when assigning seats in Parliament.
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PageRank is Google's system of counting link votes and determining which pages are most important based on them.
Most religions have consistently resisted progress — including the abolition of slavery; women's right to vote and choose contraception and abortion; medical developments such as the use of anesthesia; scientific understanding of the heliocentric solar system and evolution, and the American principle of state / church separation.
For those unfamiliar with Westminster systems, most parliamentary votes are, as the British say, subject to the party whip: that is, members are expected to vote with the party leadership and are subject to severe retribution (such as being «de-certified» as a party - supported candidate at the next election) if they resist the whip.
We feel a responsibility to make the most of our platforms and our privilege by demanding that those around us — those who come to our games to support us, those who voted for us, or those in our neighborhood who have high hopes that we will bring a higher level of thinking to our criminal justice system — are treated with respect, dignity, and fairness.
Last year in the Tap City an outfielder who spent nine years in the farm systems of three other teams wound up second in the National League Rookie of the Year vote (Scott Podsednik); a 29 - year - old reliever released by the Rangers in March 2003 became a lights - out closer (Danny Kolb); and a journeyman discarded by Texas in April and then Toronto in July became one of the league's most effective starters over the final two months (Doug Davis).
In short, we shouldn't worry too much about whether or not a voting system is perfect; picking one that's pretty good would be a vast improvement over the current situation in most elections
The main reasons it wasn't adopted more widely yet is because it isn't as intuitive to understand as most other systems, counting the votes takes longer than with single - vote systems and of course because of people who reject it for purely political reasons.
The main one is that USA has what's known as «First Past The Post» electoral system (which is an academic way of saying, you can only vote for one candidate and whichever candidate gets most votes, wins).
The instant runoff system is considered a very good voting system when choosing between multiple options because it avoids the spoiler effect (e.g. two similar options stealing each other votes so a 3rd candidate who is actually less popular than them wins), doesn't discourage votes for options perceived as underdogs and leads to a compromise most people can agree to.
I would vote for most PR systems in a referendum, though (to complicate things) I think there is a good principled case for the type of compromise package I advocate, beyond the «it could happen in practice» pragmatic argument.
Whilst it is true that most (but not all) Republican and Democratic primaries are open only to registered party supporters, the American party system is much weaker - with party affiliation only being a weak identifier for a much broader ideological spectrum, and you don't have to pay membership dues to vote - so in effect, the primaries are open for almost anyone to vote in.
The most important practical implication of this is that a democratic voting system can't entirely eliminate the spoiler effect.
While some of the other answers and comments have some good points about people supporting meritocracy and similar ideas, I believe that the most important answer has less to do with individual voter's ideologies, and more to do with the voting system.
The two best countries to see this are Switzerland, which has referendum voting at the Federal Level and The United States, which has some system of referendum voting at the state level (The most common being referral voting, where the legislature can opt to pass a law by citizen vote, which is available in all 50 states.
In most MMP systems, if a party loses the vote for a constituency, the votes go towards the list.
People were not voting based on which campaign they liked the most; they were choosing between two voting systems.
In a parliamentary system the party in power is the one with the most votes in parliament and that would always correspond to the party that won the most actual votes in the election, even if they didn't get the most seats.
Gerrymandering is all about drawing electoral boundaries such that the artifact of most electoral systems (that one citizen's vote doesn't translate directly into voting weight in parliament) can override the natural outcome of a vote.
In British Columbia citizens were tasked with solving the problem independently of politicians, precisely because political parties» vested interest in a voting system that most benefited them had rendered the problem intractable in the legislature.
The simple flaw in allocating voting power by economic wealth is that it leads to systems of government that have already been tried and rejected by most civilised countries.
There are certainly several examples in Britain where people have rejected change, the most prominent examples include the referendums on Scottish Independence, the Alternative Vote electoral system, and, in 1975, the UK's membership of the European Community.
Lib Dems attack «potty» system that could leave Labour with fewest votes but most seats, and say reform is their priority
«Unless we expand voting rights, the people who are most disadvantaged by the system will not have the ability to participate in changing it.
In fact, ERS research shows the Conservatives could have won an overall majority with just 533 extra votes in the nine most marginal constituencies — a reflection of a broken and volatile voting system, but also a hint that this debate may have had an effect on the overall outcome.
Sadly, most commentators enthuse about the House of Lords only because they despair of the tribal party antics and unrepresentative voting system for the commons, which places MPs even further down the popularity tables than peers.
In this form, the plurality principle can be problematic and ambiguous given the disproportionality of the UK's first - past - the - post electoral system, as a result of which the party with the largest number of seats may be different from the party which wins most votes.
In this system the candidate with the most votes in the first round wins.
Regardless of the actual voting patterns in this case, any voting system in which individual members are all elected from a single geographical region, as is used in the Australian House of Representatives can easily have the party with most seats (and perhaps an overall majority / plurality) not be the party which received most votes.
Most states, such as Indiana and Texas, have early voting systems in place.
In most electoral systems the vote for the individual is conflated with the vote for the party.
Nobody wins the most seats in the Commons, under any voting system, without a message that strikes home in southern England.29 percent of the vote was like going back to 1983.
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).
Today, however, such a system is not commonly practiced and most parliamentary system parties» rules provide for a leadership election in which the general membership of the party is permitted to vote at some point in the process (either directly for the new leader or for delegates who then elect the new leader in a convention), though in many cases the party's legislators are allowed to exercise a disproportionate influence in the final vote.
I don't know about traditional, but in most countries whose system derives from the British Parliamentary system (e.g. UK, Canada, Australia) you can stand as an MP if you are eligible to vote - i.e. you must be a citizen and you must be 18 years old.
The group is pushing New York to adopt a range of voter system chances, including early voting provisions, which New York has been largely lagging behind most of the country, as well as same - day registration.
«There are many things a good electoral system should do, but the most fundamental is ensuring that how people have voted is broadly reflected in the make - up of Parliament... We use an electoral system designed for there being just two political parties, when in reality we have a multi-party system.»
Considering that the choice of voting system to the most powerful legislature in the country is of fundamental importance to the very fabric of society, I believe that, if there is anything close to a majority of the electorate in favour of changing the voting system, whether that be to PR or not, then the question must be put to the electorate.
In Gallup polls since 1944, only about 20 % of the public has supported the current system of awarding all of a state's electoral votes to the presidential candidate who receives the most votes in each separate state (with about 70 % opposed and about 10 % undecided).
Under the current system, sometimes called «first past the post» or «winner takes all», the successful candidate is the one with the most votes, with no requirement for them to gain an absolute majority.
For single - member executive offices, LaVenia added, instant runoff voting where voters rank their choices in order of preference is a system that eliminates the incentives for lesser evil voting while insuring that the most preferred candidate is elected.
It is a PR system that addresses both the weaknesses of FPTP, and the disadvantages of the Mixed Member Proportional (MMP) and Single Transferable Vote (STV) systems, and so neutralises most of the arguments for keeping FPTP.
The most extensive analysis of how the alternative vote system would redistribute votes has been done by the academic Lewis Baston.
In most Westminster system nations, each constituency elects one member of parliament by simple plurality voting.
Because independent voters are the voters most likely to vote for minor party candidates, this data shows that a top - two system, which keeps minor party candidates off the November ballot, injures independent voters more than it hurts Republican and Democratic voters.
Cuomo also proposed voting reforms to what is regarded as one of the most antiquated voting systems in the country after last year's disastrous presidential primary.
do away with so - called «winner take all» elections in which the «winner» does not have the support of most of the voters, and replace that system with instant runoff voting and proportional representation, systems most advanced countries now use to good effect;
Most Conservatives will remember New Labour's promise to look at a more proportional voting system in their 1997 manifesto.
House Republicans will vote on their tax reform bill on Thursday, aiming to take the most concrete step yet toward overhauling the American tax system.
A party such as the Lib Dems who take every opportunity to decry an electoral system that does not fairly convert votes cast into seats gained could not then turn around and say they were backing a party with the most seats (but fewer votes) and hope to retain any credibility, at least in terms of consistency.