Sentences with phrase «post election vote»

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In Sierra Leone, this was accomplished by each vote being stored on a joint, private blockchain network accessible only by Agora staff, who then posted the tally on their election results site.

Subsequently, another peer - reviewed article argued that the findings reported in this post (and affiliated article) were biased and that the authors» data do not provide evidence of non-citizen voting in U.S. elections.»

They're in the news over speculation that «fake news» spread via Facebook posts could have influenced the election outcome, and over Google's high placement of a search result reporting wrongly that Donald Trump got more popular votes than Hillary Clinton.

According to the South China Morning Post, a record - high 2.2 million people turned out to vote, compared with the 1.8 million that turned out in the 2012 Legislative Council election.

Off topic but I am posting here... by taking voters off the voter roles, it not only disenfranchises them on election day, it takes them off the direct mailings that remind people to vote, including sample ballot, polling places, etc..

NYC Councilman Eric Ulrich has seized on this morning's NY Post report of a top Queens GOP official's suspension by the NYC Board of Elections after being caught soliciting a «finder's fee» from a voting machine contractor to continue his on - again / off - again war with the borough's Republican chairman, Phil Ragusa.

There are of course lots of other voting systems than first - past - the - post which promise more democratic election results, like approval voting, alternative vote and their many variants.

Hi folks, Quick Hits is off this week, but our friends over at the Campaign Workshop have posted a nice alternative to our usual Friday reading list: they've pulled together links to some of the best Get Out The Vote guides online, from sources like the New Organizing Institute, Campaigns & Elections and our own Epolitics.com.

But I guess that if forced to choose between those two and only those two (and the first - past - the - post system effectively does force people as far as elections are concerned), they will likely vote for candidates from the Democratic Party.

What I don't really see is how the Labour party holding three pilots in this Parliament, or even selecting all of its candidates in some form of primary at the next election or the time after would make any really significant difference to arguments for or against first - past - the - post, the Alternative Vote, AV +, AMS, STV and various hybrids thereof.

If said areas have first - past - the - post voting, a minority opinion population of any given area is basically robbed of being a full participant in a democratic process - the votes of any Republican in NY, or a Democrat in Utah, don't matter at all in terms of Presidential election.

The Fidesz parliamentary bloc, which enacted constitutional changes without including or consulting any opposition party, slashed the size of the parliament in half, redrew all of the individual constituencies unilaterally, changed the two - round system to a single first - past - the - post election for individual constituencies, and altered the way votes were aggregated.

The Post acknowledges that it «remains to be seen» whether Malpass» brand of wonkiness can translate into votes on Election Day.

A first - past - the - post election can have a spoiler effect, where people vote strategically for one of the larger parties because their actually preferred party has only a very small chance of winning.

Since some factors suggest an increase and some a decline, we will have to wait for the post election surveys to know how tactical voting changes at this election.

These elections are conducted using the so - called «First Past The Post» voting system, whereby every registered voter casts one vote for a candidate in their town or area (known as constituencies).

Under first - past - the - post, they have fared less strongly in general elections, typically recording around one per cent of the UK - wide vote (although a slightly higher average in the seats they contest); in 2010, the Greens won 0.96 per cent of the vote (1.81 per cent in the seats where they put up a candidate), and returned an MP to the House of Commons for the first time, as Caroline Lucas wrested Brighton Pavilion from Labour.

«I think these two races are going to come down to who can get the vote out,» said Libby Post of Capital Women, a progressive organization formed in response to Trump's election that's backing Doran and O'Connor.

There has been more constitutional reform over this period than really ever in history, both in the Lords and in the introduction of different forms of voting than First Past the Post in the European elections and local elections in some places and so on.

The first set of seats are won in a traditional first - past - the - post election in local areas, where the candidate with more votes than anybody else wins.

For instance, Brown takes aim at Tony Blair who argued that he personally won three elections when factors such as popular discontent with the Major administration and artificial inflation of vote share via the first - past - the - post system may greater explain Labour's landslide victory in 1997 (pp. 67 - 72).

20th July 2016, Huffington Post: More than 180,000 sign up as «Registered Supporters» to vote in Labour leadership election

With all precincts reporting, Pellegrino won 58 percent of the vote to Gargiulo's 42 percent, according to Suffolk and Nassau boards of election results posted Tuesday night.

The unofficial results posted Tuesday on the Suffolk County Board of Elections website gave Ms.. Ms. Burke - Gonzalez a comfortable lead with 1,194 votes.

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.

St. Paul, MN: Greens posted strong results in all 3 city council races they contested, in the city's first election using instant runoff voting.

In elections for the Scottish Parliament — which, incidentally, have delivered coalition governments, a minority government and now single - party majority government — 73 of the 129 MSPs are elected by first - past - the - post voting and 56 by regional lists.

Writing in the Huffington Post, Jon Trickett said the London mayoral election offered a chance for the public to reject the economic policies of the coalition government - but that a vote for Boris would be seen as an implicit endorsement of its approach.

The Huffington Post is reporting that iVote, a voting rights group is making automatic voter registration its centerpiece election reform proposal for 2016.

The 32 Scottish Authorities have all out elections, although they will change from first past the post, to election by way of the Single Transferable Vote, in three member wards.

Mr. Van Scoyoc got more than 60 percent of the vote, according to the board of elections website, and Ms. Burke - Gonzalez was the top vote - getter in the town board race, with a nearly 15 - point lead over her nearest Republican challenger, Paul Giardina, a nuclear engineer who retired last year from a post at the Environmental Protection Agency.

Perhaps unfairly, Westminster's first?past - the - post voting system still makes it very hard for new parties to break through at general elections.

The Conservative 2017 election manifesto unilaterally proposed scrapping the Supplementary Vote voting system used for elected mayors, in London and elected regions and replacing it with first past the post, which would radically lower mayor's legitimacy.

Palomares pulled in about 17 percent of the vote, according to unofficial election results posted to the Miami - Dade County Supervisor of Elections website.

It is the latest of a series of inroads on the first past the post voting system; already in elections for the Scottish parliament, the Welsh and Northern Irish assemblies and soon the election of a new London authority, proportional representation has become the chosen method of voting.

DISTRICT MAPS SHOW: Regardless of party, Rockland County elections are about Ramapo bloc vote added by rctadmin on September 20, 2017 View all posts by rctadmin →

This op - ed was published in the NY Post on July 27, 2011 Let's fix elections board Last Updated: 6:25 AM, July 27, 2011 New York City may be headed for more voting - day chaos next year — thanks to the... Continue reading →

Reynolds himself is calling for a move to the additional member system vote for Westminster elections — the hybrid system used in Scotland and Wales which combines first - past - the - post constituencies with top - up regional seats based on a proportional vote.

Labour's Shadow Welsh Secretary, Peter Hain, has called for a return to first - past - the - post voting system in the Welsh assembly elections and is meeting with Welsh Secretary Cheryl Gillan today to discuss the matter.

In the event, the PLP voted to retain elections for all shadow cabinet members and to elect the Chief Whip separately (a post previously appointed from amongst elected shadow cabinet members).

In 2007 Baston looked at 256 opinion polls, and at the election results that would have been produced by three electoral systems: first past the post, and two AV scenarios — one in which the Liberal Democrat votes went to the Tories and Labour, and another in which the Lib Dem second preference votes went to Labour.

We see Labour - Green alliances in London mayoral elections, because of preferential voting, while under first - past - the - post parties who might appeal to similar voters must be attacked as a «wasted» vote.

It is logical for a coalition fighting one last first - past - the - post election to seek a mandate for electoral reform (though how far the Lib Dems reciprocating would benefit Labour is partly a tactical judgement about how their vote would divide).

The New York State Board of Elections posted the official vote tallies on December 11.

Britain's «first past the post» voting system could be scrapped if Labour wins the general election, under plans which have been outlined by Gordon Brown.

Unofficial numbers posted by the Ulster County Board of Elections shortly after polls closed on Tuesday night showed Turco - Levin, who carried the party's official endorsement, leading the four - way primary with 228 votes.

The unofficial results posted Tuesday on the Suffolk County Board of Elections website gave Ms. Burke - Gonzalez a comfortable lead with 1,194 votes.

The Assembly election uses a form of Additional Member System (AMS), with 14 local constituency seats (spanning two or three London boroughs) with winners elected by «first past the post» (or plurality rule) voting.

The encomium from Sunder Katwala, of the Fabian Society for the Alternative Vote in the place of first - past - the post (FPTP) elections for the House of Commons is yet another example, first, of a major party's search to consolidate its electoral position, and secondly, of the weakness of campaigning bodies to oblige the parties to open up an honest debate about the alternatives to FPTP.

General elections to the UK Parliament, like the rest of the UK, use First Past the Post (FPTP), whereby the candidate who receives the most votes wins.