An unusual
runoff election with what is expected to be an extremely low voter turnout is taking place today, with potentially far - reaching implications for education in the state's largest school district, Los Angeles Unified.
Not exact matches
Election Day is less than a week away (although
with runoffs, who knows!).
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With more than 19,000 paper ballots still waiting to be counted, the Board of
Elections said Tuesday that they won't know whether there will need to be a
runoff until at least next week.
Freakonomics has this story about Instant
Runoff Voting,
with an emphasis on the Portland, Maine Mayoral
election of November 8, 2011.
A special
election for the position of California State Senate District 35 was called for December 9,
with a
runoff on February 10, 2015, if necessary.
In 1993 US Senate
runoff election against KBH, the ground game was neglected again
with Kruger making a fool out of himself
with his silly «Terminator» TV ads.
The second report prepared months later, was said to have predicted that the 2016
election, will go to a
runoff, because Nana Addo, is neck - to - neck
with President Mahama.
[31] Handel lost the
runoff election to Deal by 50.2 % to 49.8 % —
with about 2,500 votes separating them out of nearly 580,000 cast.
Advancement to a
runoff election is indicated
with the following symbol:
«The first is something that is really in your lap, and that is dealing
with the
runoff primary
election,» he said, calling on the Council to quickly implement instant
runoff voting in which voters get to rank multiple candidates in order of preference.
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;
Chris McDaniel, who may soon launch an official challenge to the results of the Mississippi Republican Senate
runoff, still had $ 386,000 in his campaign coffers a week after the late June
election, according to his July quarterly report filed with the Federal Election Com
election, according to his July quarterly report filed
with the Federal
Election Com
Election Commission.
Amherst, NY (WBEN)- The
runoff election in Georgia to replace Congressman turned Cabinet Member Tom Price has ended
with a victory for the Republicans, and reaction is now pouring in from across the country.
Trenton Mayoral
Runoff Election: Perez Picks up Green Backing and Spars
with rival Gusciora over City's Direction (
with VIDEO)
With a week to go until Tuesday's
runoff election, the candidates had a sharp, often personally contentious, meeting.
* To Afghan President Hamid Karzai: schedule a
runoff election or broker a power sharing deal
with his chief
election rival.
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He defeated Samura Kamara of the ruling All People's Congress in the
runoff vote of the 2018 Sierra Leone presidential
election with 51.8 per cent of the votes to Kamara's 48.2 per cent.
(CNN)--
With only days left until her political future is decided in Arkansas» Senate Democratic primary
runoff, incumbent Blanche Lincoln criticized her opponent and defended her moderate record which has drawn fire from both conservatives and liberals during this midterm
election year.
This means that candidates can win the
election with a small percentage of the vote — and the
runoff ends up costing the city millions of dollars.
Her opponent in the June 22
runoff election, Rep. Gresham Barrett, had previously revealed his income and tax records in keeping
with federal disclosure laws.
There may not be a primary battle for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination, but the mayoral
runoff election in Chicago - triggered Tuesday by incumbent Rahm Emanuel's failure to get 50 percent of the vote - looks like it is going to serve as a proxy,
with netroots progressives and unions on one side backing Emanuel's challenger Chuy Garcia, and high finance and the Democratic establishment backing Emanuel.
A good policy is one
with clearly laid out bylaws about who can participate in these decisions, what the process is (questionnaires, interviews),
election procedures (Instant
Runoff Voting, proportional representation, winner take all, consensus).
If no candidate has more than 50 % of the vote, the two candidates
with the highest vote totals compete in a
runoff election approximately one month later.
If the results hold, Busby and Bilbray, along
with independent William Griffith and Libertarian Paul King, advance to a June 6
runoff, which will take place on the same day as the primary for the November general
election.
Vici Media Group, an Austin - based digital media firm, has been
with Sen. Konni Burton since she first announced her candidacy and helped craft her digital outreach in the 2014 primary, primary
runoff, and general
election campaigns.
The two candidates
with the most votes, who qualified for the November 21st
runoff election were Kip Holden (D) and Billy Nungesser (R).
A primary
election was held on October 24, 2015,
with a
runoff election held in districts where necessary on November 21, 2015.
AFC supported candidates in three
runoff elections,
with two winning their primary today.