Sentences with phrase «tie vote»

The Senate is evenly divided between Democrats and Republicans, with Democratic Lt. Gov. Nancy Wyman able to break tie votes in the 36 - member chamber.

Typical certification regimes include rules on: standards for recounts and contests; procedures and times for canvassing votes; staffing of canvassing boards; delivery, security, and return of supplies, ballots, and forms; rules on publishing and recording of certified results; and rules on tie votes and special elections.

Supervisor Wood declared at the town board meeting on Dec. 8, 2015, Gail Seaman as incumbent was to be brought forward because of tie vote and failure to elect a candidate to fill the vacant board seat.

Democratic representation demands that a fifty - fifty ratio be established; five real estate people and five consumer advocates, with an eleventh person (a blind dart champion) breaking tie votes.

We talked about the Noble Charter school discipline policy scandal, the need for an elected school board in Chicago, and yesterday's exciting win in Florida, where Parents Across America's indefatigable Rita Solnet led the opposition to a parent trigger law which finally lost in the Florida Senate on a 20 - 20 tie vote despite (or perhaps because of?)

Eugene Volokh believes that the recusal issue deserves renewed attention because tie votes produce a «pretty bad result»:

(Wikipedia) Canada: Two candidates tied votes in the 1963 Canadian General election tied in the riding of Pontiac Témiscamingue and the returning officer decided the winner with his vote.

Tie votes lose.

Yet very quickly, Florida parents realized that this measure, which died in the State Senate on a 20 - 20 bipartisan tie vote, represented yet another underhanded ploy by corporate reformers, including Jeb Bush and Michelle Rhee, to hand public schools over to private, for - profit operators.

The only tie vote in the Senate arose from a report of the Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee recommending against the adoption of Kim Campbell's anti-abortion bill.

Last week, I discussed the views of various law bloggers on how Supreme Court justices might handle the problem of recusals so as to avoid tie votes.

In the event of a tie vote on any issue, the Chairperson's vote shall decide the issue.

The chamber voted 50 — 49 — calling on Vice President Mike Pence to break a tie vote for the second time that day — to install Brownback in the vacant State Department position, which monitors persecution and discrimination on a global scale through the Office of International Religious Freedom (IRF).

Darien Mayor Kathleen Weaver recently broke a tie vote in favor of a park development that will be built next to a proposed strip mall project.

«This (a tie vote) hasn't happened, I don't think, since I was elected,» Weaver told aldermen before voting.

The vote came a month after a tie vote by the board, including Tenuto «s nay, which prevented approval of the range at the May 8 meeting.

While it will now be more likely that the justices will divide evenly on difficult cases, Justice Kennedy will remain the swing vote, providing a fifth vote for a majority of progressive justices (Ginsburg, Breyer, Sotomayor and Kagan), and remaining with the conservatives (Thomas, Roberts and Alito) in tie votes, which will leave the lower court's judgment in place and will not operate as binding precedent on lower courts.

A tie vote would leave the plaintiffs» damage award in place: a victory for the progressives.

If the Senator show ups and votes, then quorum will be obtained and the tie vote will enable the VP to cast the tie - breaking vote in favor (final result 26 - 25: measure passes and Senator is sad).

Under legislative rules, a tie vote sends a resolution back to committee.

A letter to the town board authored by Eddy was read — it objected to the bill he received from the town for $ 1,282 to reimburse taxpayers for the cost of his inquiry to the town's Attorney months ago requesting advice on the tie vote in the November election and the legality of the subsequent «holdover» of incumbent board member Gail Seaman — to which Eddy had opposed.

According to public officers law and an opinion provided by the state Association of Towns» attorney, a tie vote is considered a «failure to elect, «and the incumbent continues in the office until the next election.

In the November general election, a tie vote occurred between Seaman, an incumbent, and Joan Harris.

A tie vote Friday by the DeKalb Town Board to select a highway superintendent for the next year means Cuomo now has a chance to make the decision.

THURMAN — While many town of Thurman residents anticipated that a town board seat would be open as of Jan. 1 due to a tie vote between two candidates in November, incumbent board member Gail Seaman is continuing to serve in her post.

Sometime before 1 a.m. Tuesday morning, the hearing ended in a tie vote.

A tie vote of the Madison Common Council has put one of the city's most controversial developments back on the ropes.

In a tie vote, the Democratic parties in Oswego, Cayuga and Wayne counties decided to endorse two of the three Democratic candidates in the race for New York's 24th Congressional district.

Since a tie vote was considered a «failure to elect,» Seaman remained in her seat until the next election, as the board did not choose to hold a special election due to its expense.

A tie vote meant the contract failed.

In the United States v. Texas, he Supreme Court decided, by a tied vote, to uphold the decision of the lower courts, blocking President Obama's administrative actions on immigration and placing the futures of more than 5 million immigrants in limbo.

The measure died on a tie vote on the final day of the legislative session in March (not a single Senate Democrat voted in favor of the measure and just two Dems gave it a thumbs up in the House) but not before fiery messaging from Parent Revolution and opponents of the bill, including a coalition of Florida parent groups, the PTA among them.

The bill barely eked out of House Finance Subcommittee with Speaker Harwell having to break a tie vote.

By law, a tie vote by the Supreme Court does not settle a legal question; it simply leaves the lower court opinion in place and reserves the legal question for a future case.

In March of 2016, the Supreme Court, in a tie vote of 4 - 4, affirmed the 9th Circuit Court's ruling that public sector unions could continue to collect fair - share fees from all employees that benefit from their bargaining.

183) failed on a 50 - 50 tie vote.

The possibility of a 4 - 4 ruling in the Exxon Valdez punitive damages case as a result of Justice Alito's recusal (he holds stock in Exxon) has triggered a discussion around the blogosphere over whether there's a better way for the Court to handle recusals so as to avoid the possibility of a tie vote (in which case, the appellate court's ruling stands).

It did this without seeking submissions on the issue of whether a decision to dismiss an appeal could be rendered on a tie vote.

The Appeal Committee exceeded its jurisdiction in dismissing the appeal on a tie vote.

The Court of Appeal determined that the wording of the ATA bylaws did not allow an appeal to be dismissed on the basis of a tie vote.

Despite a tie vote, the Appeal Committee dismissed the appeal.