Sentences with phrase «require electors»

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

(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.

Not exact matches

The Electoral Commission must, at the times required by or under this section, direct an inquiry to be made in relation to the particulars on the roll for every person registered as an elector of a district.

Any person aged 17 years or older, but under 18 years, may apply to the Electoral Commission for registration as an elector, and that person is not then required to apply for registration as an elector on attaining the age of 18 years.

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.

The intent of giving Electors two votes was the expectation that, with a lack of knowledge of candidates outside his state, a typical Elector would cast a vote for a «favorite son» from his own state, so a second vote was added to require a vote for a more nationally - known candidate.

The truth is that in Australia, unless an elector provides an acceptable reason for nonattendance, such as being hospitalised, they are, by law, required to attend a polling place.

It is because I object to the new - fangled idea that an early election would result from a motion, perhaps proposed by the Opposition, any MP or even the Government themselves, that requires — this is contrary to all constitutional precedent and history since our Parliament first sat representing the electors of this country — the support of two - thirds or more of those eligible to vote as Members of Parliament.

Thanks to the narrow permitted range of electors required for each seat, between 72,810 and 80,473 voters, the commissioners have been forced to propose 16 new constituencies which cross council boundaries.

Virginia law requires petitions for president to include a list of presidential elector candidates, and says one elector must reside in each U.S. House district.

Federal law requires jurisdictions that vote for President to tell the National Archives the number of votes received by each candidate for presidential elector.

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

But if one or more Trump states fails to vote at all, fewer faithless electors are required to throw it to Congress.

In order to obtain this, I am thinking about a Greedy approach: order states by the «quickest win», i.e. most electors votes per votes and consider them one by one until reaching the required 270 votes.

Requiring 7 % of electors from the electoral college to be faithless is unprecedented.

Because the Virginia petition requires the presidential elector candidates to be listed, and there is a residency requirement for each elector, the old petitions are worthless.

On January 10, four Missouri state representatives introduced HB 1236, which deletes the accidental error in the 1993 ballot access reform bill that requires party petitions to include the names of presidential elector candidates.

New York state law requires ballot - qualified parties to choose their presidential elector candidates no later than September 10 this year.

(2) A mistake in the name or the address of an elector shown in the polling list is not a ground for questioning the eligibility to vote of the elector, provided that at the time of voting the elector takes the prescribed oath or affirmation, if required to do so by the deputy returning officer.

(5) An elector who refuses to make the prescribed statutory declaration under subsection (1) when required to do so forfeits the right to vote.

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:

(b) a candidate or scrutineer who is an elector requests that the deputy returning officer require the person to make the statutory declaration.

(3) Any friend who is permitted to mark the ballot of an elector under subsection (2) shall first be required to take an oath or affirmation that he or she will keep secret the name of the candidate for whom the ballot was marked.

(6) The returning officer may provide such additional polling places in any polling division as are required having regard to the extent of the division, and the number of electors that may conveniently vote at one polling place and the returning officer shall determine how each such polling place shall be designated and an elector is entitled to vote only at the appropriate polling place.

The Constitution requires: Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress... and by the Twelfth Amendment: The Electors shall meet in their respective states, and vote by ballot for...