Sentences with phrase «selected by a ballot»

The MP initiating the debate is selected by ballot.

In advance of being selected by ballot at the Annual Selection Dinner, the works are displayed in the galleries along with contextual pieces from the permanent collection.

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This new Speaker will be selected by sitting MLA's through a secret ballot and because this election is traditionally not a whipped vote, it can sometimes lead to interesting and unexpected results.

We had 30 % turn out at my precinct and 20 cases where someone tried to vote but found that someone had already voted for them and had to fill out a provisional ballot (that gets tossed), that translates to ~ 70 total votes, our alderman was selected by a margin of 8, and our School Superintendent by 11.

De Blasio should be denied a place on the Working Families Party ballot line in November, according to a planned legal challenge by the Reform Party that questions the party's process for selecting candidates.

In London, Blair's attempt to stop Livingstone being selected as Labour candidate for mayor suffered a setback when the regional party conference voted almost unanimously for a motion saying that all candidates nominated by 10 CLPs should be automatically shortlisted for an OMOV ballot to select the candidate.

As Select Committee chairs are already elected by secret ballot at the start of every Parliament, they believe they can sell it as part of the wider reforms programme which it will be difficult for the Speaker to object to.

It can do only so because the 5 year fixed term has allowed the Committee to plan its work, and because MPs elected for the first time to select committees by secret ballot can think and propose public debate without anxiety about the Whips.

With the introduction of election by secret ballot in 2010, the party whips can no longer influence the appointment of Select Committee members or, importantly, their chairs.

To the chagrin of the formerly hugely influential party whips, most committee chairs are now elected by a secret ballot of all MPs, and committee members selected by their parties through internal ballot.

The Wright Reforms mean Select Committee Chairs are elected by all MPs in a secret ballot, not appointed by the very Government they are meant to hold to account.

Select Committees are elected in a secret ballot by their respective parties.

He was selected by the Democratic Party organization in the Bronx after another candidate, Raysa Castillo, was removed from the ballot by a State Supreme Court judge for residency discrepancies.

[35] The goal was to give potential Republican candidates who were not selected by the Conservative Party an additional ballot line.

GA: I wouldn't know because I'm not on the front bench, I'm a parliamentarian, elected for the first time ever by all parliamentarians to be a Select Committee chair, and to chair a Select Committee of people elected in a secret ballot by their parties for the first time.

And before that, delegates to that convention are selected by voters on the primary ballot on September 13.

From June 2010 chairs of select committees have been directly elected by a secret ballot of the whole House of Commons using the alternative vote system.

Unlike other leadership posts, which are selected by secret ballot in the respective caucuses, the entire House must vote for the speaker in early January.

Last week it emerged that Conservative MPs will chair twelve of Parliament's select committees, with those influential chairmanships being decided by ballots of all MPs from across the Commons next week.

The first Nominating Committee of five members (Bylaws, Article 8) shall be selected by vote of the Division members on a special ballot prepared by the Steering Committee and consisting of not less than five nor more than eight candidates.

Williams settled on a compromise, a hybrid nine - member board, with four members selected by the mayor, four elected from newly drawn districts, and a board president elected in a citywide ballot.

The review board meets to discuss, debate and finally select a winner by secret ballot.

Winners are selected by the ICOTY jury, a group of 16 nationally - renowned automotive journalists and editors, whose final ballots are tabulated by J.D. Power and Associates to ensure accuracy and credibility.

A jury of 82 motoring journalists from around the world selected the finalists by secret ballot based on their evaluation of each vehicle at exclusive drive events staged by the award's organizer.

Each tourism project has been completed within the past three years, each was nominated by a Guild member and selected via a secret ballot of the Guild's 270 professional journalists, writers, editors, photographers, broadcasters and bloggers.

Neither were selected by some sort of ballot process.