Sentences with phrase «using a weighted vote»

[6] Virtually all charters granted by the Maryland legislature between 1784 and 1818 used a weighted voting system.

But there are historical examples that used weighted voting at points in time - that is, countries where some voters» votes were more equal than others».

New York Republicans used a weighted voting system to choose their candidate for governor.

The board makes decisions using a weighted vote, a system that is not carried over to the committee level.

Not exact matches

I want to add my vote and appreciation for your use of weights in baking, and your response was very well put!

Those vacancies also lower the total number of potential votes (the denominator) used to determine whether a candidate earns a primary spot (which takes 25 percent of the weighted vote), formal nomination (which takes a majority) or Wilson - Pakula proclamation, the formal document required to let a non-W.F.P. member (an enrolled Democrat, usually) run on the party's line.

If the data on past vote are available, why shouldn't they be used for weighting?

Bart and John Haggerty also made attempts to wrest control of the Queens GOP from Maltese when they claimed that improper weighted voting was used to elect Maltese to he chairmanship in 2005, but the courts sided with Maltese.

«Fear of being labelled «racist» has paralysed the entire political class — leaving the way clear for Labour ideologues to use mass immigration to remake British identity, all but collapsing public services under the weight of numbers and driving down wages to undercut British workers... whereas Labour concealed what it was doing to dupe its core vote, the Tories have concealed what they are not doing in order to dupe their core vote» — Melanie Phillips, Daily Mail

«The constituencies used in the 2010 general election vary widely in size and this process will make them more equal and ensure everyone's vote has a more equal weight,» a No 10 spokesman said.

Unlike in May 2015 though I've a good idea of what went wrong (the turnout model we used for the poll weighted down people who didn't vote at the last general election, when in reality turnout ended up being higher than the last general election), which is something that can be worked on.

I am trying to decide how much weight these types of votes have to be used as a basis of comparison of different legislators

Using that weighted system, the vote from Onondaga County committee members will count more than those in Manhattan, despite the vast population difference.

It's an online poll, using the sort of weightings and adjustments ICM use — so weighted by past vote, weighted by likelihood to vote with people who didn't vote weighted down, and with 50 % of people who say don't know assumed to vote for the party they did last time.

Regular readers will know that ComRes used to use a method of past vote weighting that was quite confusing, and which seemed to result in them weighting to different targets each month.

The Society, made up of many of the country's most distinguished movie critics, held its 49th annual awards voting meeting, using a weighted ballot system, at the Elinor Bunin Munroe Center as guests of the Film Society of Lincoln Center.

There is no nomination process; members meet, vote (using a weighted ballot), and announce all on January 3rd.

Keep in mind the Oscars use a weighted ballot, and remember, an asterisk denotes my vote to win, which doesn't always correspond with my No. 1 nominee.

Hi Debbie, thanks for the vote of support:) I was glad to find from Dr. Jeff that I could use vegetables as a healthy treat as I had a dog at that time that needed to take off some weight to ease the pain on his joints.

«HODL.voting uses time locks as a sacrifice to assign votes with weight,» Ivgi explained.