Sentences with phrase «of voting methods»

The Chief Electoral Officer has consulted, with registered parties, with electors and with experts on the subject of voting methods, about the alternative voting method, the test under section 4.1 and its results.

The term instant runoff voting is derived from the name of a class of voting methods called runoff voting.

Instead of mailing your proxy, you may choose one of the voting methods outlined below to vote your proxy.

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If you vote using one of the methods indicated above, you will be designating Michael J. Loughlin, James M. Strother, and Julie M. White, each of whom is an executive officer, as your proxies to vote your shares as you instruct.

If you vote using one of the methods described above, you will be designating Michael J. Loughlin, James M. Strother, and Julie M. White, each of whom is an executive officer, as your proxies to vote your shares as you instruct.

Interestingly, Sen. John McCain, who the day before complained about Republicans» method of «trying to find a way to win without help from across the aisle,» voted against the Democratic amendment to send health - care back to the starting line in committee.

The four pillars are: timing of the tabling of the Main Estimates; the scope and accounting methods used in the Estimates and the Budget; changes to the current vote structure; and changes to the Reports on Plans and Priorities and the Departmental Performance Reports.

The four pillars are: timing of the tabling of the Estimates; the scope and accounting methods used in the Estimates and the Budget; changes to the current vote structure; and changes to the Reports on Plans and Priorities and the Departmental Performance Reports.

EterPay is Eterbank's official token, its purpose is to give each investor shareholder status in Eterbank acting de facto as a share and following Eterbank's development EterPay will allow its holders to receive dividend payouts from Eterbank's revenue, voting shares and it will be one of the available payment methods for buying products and services in the real world through EterPOS.

It only affected the Electoral College because Florida's own method of determining Electors is tied to its own popular vote count.

Baptists have a history of splitting and reforming, and they have used two methods: (1) bring it to a congregational vote or (2) act according to conscience and soul liberty and break away to found a new church.

For all those who are talking to themselves today, thinking that some supernatural deity is listening to them, please seek professional psychiatric help before you hurt someone or yourself in the name of your sky fairy, vote against others» rights, or promote your chosen flavor of insanity over the scientific method.

The method or timing of your vote will not limit your right to vote at the Annual Meeting if you attend the Annual Meeting and vote in person.

In upholding the prohibition against artificial methods of birth control, the encyclical dashed the hopes of many believers for a change in church teaching — hopes that had been raised when the National Catholic Reporter leaked the news that the lay and clerical members of the hand - picked papal commission studying the matter had voted decisively to support the limited use of artificial contraception within the context of marriage.

A great deal of fun has been poked at the method of deciding historical matters by majority vote of a select conclave, although that is how the church has usually decided matters of dogma.

«Not since Congress voted to ban the brutal partial - birth abortion method has a more important piece of pro-life legislation come before Congress,» said Susan Muskett of the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC).

One method by which they attempted to rally support for politicians who supported their particular causes was by endorsing a «rating» system which collated scores for each individual legislator according to how that legislator voted on several issues considered by the broadcasters to be «Christian» issues of the election.

My first thoughts were to John Dominic Crossan and the other scholars at the Jesus Seminar, and their method of voting on the veracity of key portions of the Gospels...

For one thing, its method of reaching decisions by voting creates the general impression that the majority is right.

The Commission's method to test for dual quality products will be ready in April and, when the results are published, Europeans should «vote with their purses and refuse to buy products they consider of lower quality,» the commissioner for justice, consumers...

By using this method, OAD eliminates a dilution of results experienced in other voting systems that are based on surveys, while at the same time offering everyone an opportunity to participate.

So under the Mays - Aaron method of voting, that makes it a two - player race between Paul Goldschmidt and Joey Votto.

I tried to come up with an objective method to answer the question, but when it came time to vote in the accompanying poll, a plurality of you ignored the evidence and went with your gut, like they do on the MLB Network.

There is also research that shows that kids who are more civically engaged are more likely to vote as adults, and that engagement can also be a method of reducing violence in neighborhoods.

There has always been motive; some of the known voting machine flaws already furnish plausible methods, (to say nothing of what zero day exploits may exist); the opportunities required might depend on either the methods, or else on old - fashioned human carelessness or corruption.

There's also a specific method of working out which candidate gets a particular voter's vote that is called STV.

Their method is much more thorough and uses information from local by - elections to estimate the National Equivalent Vote and pays attention to the actual shares of the vote in the different county council divisions last tVote and pays attention to the actual shares of the vote in the different county council divisions last tvote in the different county council divisions last time.

The third paragraph of my answer specifically addresses some limitations of your other suggested voting method.

Note that when I say STV, I mean the class of methods where a voter lists multiple candidates but only gets one vote.

But in parliamentary systems, where party discipline is high and debate is relatively open, such methods are not particularly effective: voting is often strategic and reveals little in terms of ideology.

More consequential methods include regime control of television news and pressure on employees to vote for United Russia.

In the election there were 23 micro-parties, so the average vote needed by each of them for the method to work was less than 1 %.

In Australia, where the method is used to elect the Senate, this is known as voting «below» and «above» the line respectively due to the design of the ballot paper.

relying heavily on the methods that have served him well in past wins: a well - organized and well - financed ground operation, a heavy emphasis on early - voting recruitment, a growing list of endorsements, including from both establishment and tea - party leaders, and millions of dollars in TV advertisements.

I calculated the vote allocation using the Webster / Sainte - Laguë method (based on results as of November 9, 2016) applied to each individual state:

Yet there are plenty of other voting systems, like the Single Transferrable Vote method used to elect moderators on Stack Exchange sites, where voters can honestly indicate their top preference and have an incentive to do so, without the disincentive that this might help their least favored candidate win.

More interestingly, as the article's title suggests, the sensitivity of the result to the national popular vote changes dramatically in the two methods, and in 2016, not in Clinton's favor (though 538 is wise enough, as usual, to note that this is specific to 2016 and you can't and shouldn't draw generic parallels to 2020 etc..)

CES: A lot of the electoral systems in the US rely on winner - take - all, which sort of directly bars out proportional voting methods.

Guy Ottewell, who helped develop the method of approval voting, now endorses range voting.

The New York State Assembly's Environmental Conservation Committee has voted in favor of a law that would defer the issuance of new hydrofracking permits amid increased environmental and health concerns about the controversial natural gas extraction method.

Interesting findings from a new study of the use of text messaging to send day - before - election reminders to vote — 5 % ain't bad, and it sure was cheap ($ 1.56 per vote vs. $ 20 - $ 70 for other methods).

The method in which their new Chief Executive has been appointed is a poignant example of this problem and a source of a great deal of the ire of the protestors: elected by 689 votes from a 1,200 - seat committee of business elites, the three and a half million registered voters of Hong Kong had no say over who should lead them for the next five years.

STV is the system of choice of groups such as the Proportional Representation Society of Australia (which calls it quota - preferential proportional representation), [2] the Electoral Reform Society in the United Kingdom [3] and FairVote in the USA (which refers to both STV and instant - runoff voting as ranked - choice voting, [4] although there are other preferential voting methods that use ranked - choice ballots).

A number of methods of tactical or strategic voting exist that can be used in STV elections, but much less so than with First Past the Post.

In case you're not familiar with the terms, «First Past The Post» is the method of voting used in the US, where we cast a single ballot and whoever gets the most votes wins (basically).

A good response as to the constitutional methods of lawmaking in the US, but we also should address the deeper part of the question, as to why US citizens don't vote for an equitable redistribution of wealth.

Curtice and Steven show that a switch from the d'Hondt to the Sainte - Laguë method of allocating list seats, a method that is already enshrined in other aspects of the UK's electoral arrangements, would have produced a more proportional result in which the SNP would not have won a majority despite winning well under 50 % of the vote.

In his only clear nod to the LibDems on PR he promised a full report on the success of the new voting methods used since Labour came to power.

Parliamentary Vote values is effectively the default method of voting.

She and Lenihan also pointed out the increased use of absentee ballots — a method of voting they estimate is seeing increased use this year.