Sentences with phrase «other electors»

Students have previously had lower turnout than other electors even when registered.

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.

4.8 Where, under this Act, a returning officer or the Chief Electoral Officer are required to provide copies of polling lists, the permanent register of electors, extracts of or updates to the permanent register of electors, or any other elector information to a candidate or registered party, they shall not provide any information about electors other than the following, unless this Act specifically provided otherwise:

Not exact matches

A few simple sentences explaining why the court in Dresden was Catholic while Saxony was Lutheran (because in 1697 the elector of Saxony, Friedrich August, opportunistically converted to Catholicism in order to be elected king of Poland), the differences between Calvinist and Lutheran realms, why Leipzig was a commercial center, and other such matters would have been helpful.

For the electors on the other side of the Sabine or Red Rivers, there would be no problem.

Just not both from State X. On the other hand, electors from State Y and State Z are perfectly free to vote for two State X candidates.

The elector has no other function besides electing the President.

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).

Subject to the concurrence of the Electoral Commission, where the Returning Officer considers that the name shown on the nomination paper or other document as the name of the constituency candidate's political party is indecent or offensive or excessively long or likely to cause confusion to or mislead electors, --

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.

Where any officer of a body designated by notice in writing pursuant to subsection (9D) wishes to obtain, for the purpose of compiling a roll of electors for an election and for no other purpose, any specified information, the Electoral Commission may, in accordance with regulations made under this Act, give that officer, on payment of the prescribed fee, a computer - compiled list or electronic storage medium containing that information.

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.

The right of voting was restricted to «appointed electors» (which is still the case in the electoral college in the US and many other institutions), which were often local men of power, in other words wealthy bourgeois.

Electors would get two votes - one for their choice of constituency MP and the other for the top - up MP.

But some states require that their electors vote for the candidate on the ballot and won't certify other results.

Other than that, the next largest numbers of faithless electors were for the vice-presidential candidates.

It also has the electoral college votes per state, but it removes faithless electors for other candidates.

However, in 2004, the State Supreme Court ruled in favor of Ralph Nader, and said there is no need for a residency requirement for presidential elector candidates, other than that they live in Wisconsin.

However, in 2004, the State Supreme Court ruled in favor of Ralph Nader, and said there is no need for a residency requirement for presidential elector candidates, other than that Read more»

Just two days ago, Mark - Viverito and New York's 28 other Democratic electors donated their Electoral College salaries — a total of $ 435 — to the New York Immigration Coalition, a well - known immigrant policy and advocacy organization despite feeling discouraged as they cast their votes for their preferred candidate Hillary Clinton following her bruising loss to Donald Trump last month.

Of course, it is possible for those electors to cast an electoral vote for someone other than the person pledged or does not vote for any person, but it rarely happened.

In other words, a state legislature does not appear to have an obligation to appoint electors based on the popular plurality vote, and this presumably applies even if an election has already been held.

In other words, the presidential election on Nov. 8th is to choose «electors» who usually pledge to vote for particular candidates.

Miner and several other mostly Democratic electors demanded an intelligence briefing regarding potential Russian meddling in the November presidential election.

In fact, when Americans vote for president, they are actually voting for a slate of electors selected by members of Democratic and Republican state parties or nominated in some other fashion.

to reproduce the opinions of the electors in parliament and other public bodies in their true proportions 2.

to secure the majority of electors shall rule and all other considerable minorities shall be heard 3.

First, they would like to make it easier for electors to vote for anyone other than Trump.

But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice-President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty - one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty - one years of age in such State.

The result of the rushed, last - minute process was a provision allowing registration of a party so long as it runs a candidate in a single electoral district, in addition to meeting some other administrative requirements such as having at least 250 electors as members.

The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election for President or Vice President, for electors for President or Vice President, or for Senator or Representative in Congress, shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any State by reason of failure to pay any poll tax or other tax.

The district judges shall be elected by the qualified electors of their respective districts, and shall hold office for the term of 6 years (excepting those elected at said first election) from and including the first Monday of January, next succeeding their election and qualification; provided, that the First Judicial District shall be entitled to, and shall have three district judges, who shall possess co-extensive and concurrent jurisdiction, and who shall be elected at the same times, in the same manner, and shall hold office for the like terms as herein prescribed, in relation to the judges in other judicial districts, any one of said judges may preside on the empanneling [empaneling] of grand juries and the presentment and trial on indictments, under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by law.

(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.

(1.1) Subsection (1) also applies, with necessary modifications, to an elector who could vote more conveniently in another polling division because his or her mobility is impaired by disability or by some other cause.

48 (1) The elector on receiving a ballot shall forthwith proceed to one of the voting screens and there, using a pencil or pen indicate the candidate of his or her choice by marking one of the circular spaces on the ballot with a cross or other mark in any colour.

(8) On the regular polling day, the poll clerk shall prepare, at intervals of no less than 30 minutes, using the prescribed form and as directed by the Chief Electoral Officer, a document permitting the identification of every elector who during that interval has voted or forfeited his or her right to vote, other than electors who registered on that day and, on request, provide it to a candidate or a candidate's representative or provide it in an electronic format to a registered party.

(5) The Chief Electoral Officer may require the elector to provide, in addition to the information listed in subsection (4), any other information that the Chief Electoral Officer considers necessary for maintaining and updating the permanent register of electors.

(1.1) The elector or other person shall submit, together with the statutory declaration, proof of the elector's identity and place of residence in accordance with section 4.2.

(vi) any other information that the Chief Electoral Officer considers necessary to determine the elector's entitlement to vote or the electoral district in which he or she may vote; and

51 (1) In a rural polling division, other than at an advance poll, an elector whose name was omitted from the polling list, may apply to the deputy returning officer to have his or her name added to the list and it shall be added,

57 (1) Immediately after the close of the poll, the deputy returning officer shall count the number of electors who appear by the poll record to have voted and on such record shall enter that number and draw a bold double line immediately below the name of the elector who voted last, and shall sign his or her name thereto, then, in the presence and in full view of the persons entitled to be present, as set out under subsection 42 (1), the deputy returning officer shall open the ballot box and proceed to count the number of valid ballots cast for each candidate and all other ballots therein giving full opportunity to those present to see each ballot and observe the procedure.

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.

(c) the elector dies and the Chief Electoral Officer receives a request to remove the elector's name, accompanied by a death certificate or other documentary evidence of the death;

(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.

(4) No person shall be allowed to act as the friend of more than one elector mentioned in subsection (1) at any polling place, other than a polling place established under section 14.

The nomination process of the U.S. Republican party is a living parable of one prophet after the other rising to the top of the heap, becoming the darling and hope of the electors, only to slip on his own past misdeeds or memory lapses and slide slowly back into the detritus of false idols.