Sentences with phrase «valid votes for»

Basically, the valid votes for individual candidates are counted regardless of the list they appear on - whether printed or cumulated by hand or brought in from the list of another party.

For instance in the Volta Region which is the NDC's stronghold, the NPP is targeting 30 % of valid votes for the 2016 elections, whilst the NDC is targeting 50 % of valid...

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For months, the online voting records of the UC could be altered by any student with a valid College email address.

If valid, this explanation would suggest that it would be a good idea for any legislation on board leadership to (a) limit any mandate to the largest firms and (b) permit even those firms to «opt out» of the requirement through periodic shareholder votes (e.g., once every five years).

However, with respect to the first of those issues, I find fascinating the British idea of «virtual representation,» which meant that so long as Parliament was a mixed deliberative body of persons that represented a variety of interests and opinions, then representation was real and valid even though citizens could not vote for members of Parliament.

Both your points about freedom of association and democracy are interesting but only valid, I believe, in the unique case of a free - for - all open primary where anyone can vote.

For example, I think Stuart's criticism is a more valid one of a system where the party has to hold a primary ballot, and where anybody at all can put in as a candidate, and anybody can choose to vote in it.

There is also no rule that the legislators voting for an amendment must survive reelection for their votes to be valid.

On October 27, 2017, Kyle Bailey, campaign manager for the Maine Committee for Ranked Choice Voting, sent an email message to ranked - choice voting supporters announcing that the group had filed the paperwork to pursue a veto referendum in opposition to LD 1646: «We will have 90 days to collect 61,123 valid signatures to put a People's Veto on the June 2018 ballot.

Politics of Friday, 11 May 2018 Source: adomonline.com Freddie Blay, Acting Chairman, NPP Acting Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Freddie Blay, has said that he is targeting 70 % of valid votes that will be cast at the party's national congress for the chairmanship slot.

On March 5, 2018, Dunlap announced that a sufficient number of valid signatures had been submitted to place the referendum on the ballot, meaning that ranked - choice voting would be used for federal and state offices in the June 2018 primary election.

The Parliamentary Candidate for the Progressive People's Party (PPP), in the Komenda Edina Eguafo Abirem (KEEA) Constituency in the Central Region, John Sterlin, is aiming at winning 65 % of the valid votes cast on 7th December.

The PPP came third in the presidential elections with just 1 % of the total valid votes cast, having contested the election for the second time since it was established.

To place an initiated constitutional amendment on the ballot, proponents must collect valid signatures signatures equal to 10 percent of votes cast for governor in the last gubernatorial general election.

Initiative statutes require valid signatures from at least 5 percent of the total votes cast for governor at the last gubernatorial election, while initiative constitutional amendments require at least 8 percent.

Dayo and Sodipo contended in their suit concerning the office of the Deputy National Chairman (South) of the party, that a candidate for the position and the delegates from the state that voted in the December 9, 2017 convention were not nominated by their executive committee whose tenure they claimed remains valid till 2020.

Where preferential voting is used for the election of an assembly or council, parties and candidates often advise their supporters on their lower preferences, especially in Australia where a voter must rank all candidates to cast a valid ballot.

This is a document that tells the total number of valid votes received by each candidate for presidential elector.

It did not act on the previous referendum's result, which was the first time ever a majority of valid votes were cast for statehood in the former Spanish colony.

Akufo - Addo beat ex-president John Mahama and five other candidates in the December 7 election by securing 53.85 per cent of valid votes cast to win the contest for the presidency.

Spikes in absentee ballot applications in several City of Albany wards during this year's primary election has some campaigns concerned that voters are being misled on valid reasons for absentee ballot voting.

Candidates need to collect valid signatures by mid-July from 5 percent of party members based on the votes cast for that party's candidate in the last gubernatorial election.

A new party is created for statewide office if its organizers submit the valid signatures of 15,000 registered voters, and it automatically stays on printed ballots if its gubernatorial candidate logs 50,000 votes on its line during the election.

For their first time voting, they must also provide identification including; «copy of a valid photo ID, current utility bill, bank statement, paycheck, government check, or some other government document that shows your name or address.»

Candidates are able to challenge signatures if they believe they are not valid and the city Board of Elections can strike the signatures from the record if it turns out they, for example, are from individuals who are not registered to vote in the district.?

For instance, at Agu Oka / Aroma Junction, Unit 9 in Awka South, where the number of registered voters was put at 1,052, only 115 valid votes were recorded.

On election night, the BBC calculates percentage turnout by dividing the number of valid votes cast for all candidates by the number of people eligible to vote (known as the electorate)

«There are some very valid reasons why there is a deference to members in their home districts,» de Blasio, who represented Park Slope for eight years in the City Council, said at an unrelated press conference after the vote.

We urge the good people of Ghana who are valid voters to vote massively for PPP and NDP candidates on 7 December 2016.

I believe that the rejection of Quinn for valid, political issues such as third terms and her legislative record shows a growing maturity in our communities — we rejected the old «ethnic appeal» and instead of voting on a single - issue or identity we voted for the candidate who best represents a progressive platform.

Inaccurate Register of Voters: while raising valid complaints that were not heeded on over-voting and under - voting; these arose from the compiled register of voters for Tamale Central Constituency.

«We've continually called for every valid vote to be counted, and counted only once.

Albany attorney and former City Court Judge Thomas Keefe, who has been working on Balarin's campaign, said in the primary and now for the general election, he's seen candidates and their supporters target people who don't typically vote to encourage them to vote absentee — without necessarily having a valid reason to do so.

Buck v. Bell became a test case brought before the Supreme Court, which voted 8 — 1 to make sterilization a constitutionally valid way for the state to prevent anyone deemed «unfit» from having children.

Any suggested synonyms for the tag will appear below that with up and down arrows so that eligible users can vote on whether it is valid or invalid.

No member shall be entitled to vote by written proxy and no proxy purporting to be executed by or on behalf of a member shall be valid for any purposes.

But you also said, «But let me try and make it even clearer: consensus by a vote of qualified scientists is not a valid basis for arriving at a logical, scientific conclusions about AGW — that's true» You have clearly contradicted yourself.

When the Iowa judges were voted out for making a valid ruling, our ABA president at the time wrote: «On Election Day in Iowa, results came in that would have made our founding fathers cringe.

The Supreme Court ruled, in a five - to - two vote, that Wal - Mart changed the working conditions for employees without providing a valid reason when the store closed.

If you fdo go the information act request route, Consider asking for e-mail communications, written documents, memorandum, etc. that were used in deciding that the votes by the licensing board were valid.

57 (1) Immediately after the close of the poll, the deputy returning officer shall count the number of electors who appear by the poll record to have voted and on such record shall enter that number and draw a bold double line immediately below the name of the elector who voted last, and shall sign his or her name thereto, then, in the presence and in full view of the persons entitled to be present, as set out under subsection 42 (1), the deputy returning officer shall open the ballot box and proceed to count the number of valid ballots cast for each candidate and all other ballots therein giving full opportunity to those present to see each ballot and observe the procedure.

Twitter talked about this yesterday — there were a number of accounts on Twitter last fall that encouraged people to «vote by text,» for example, which is not a valid way to vote in a U.S. election.