Sentences with phrase «votes count less»

Because there are more voters per MP in England than in Scotland or Wales, English votes count less (the same holds for variations between constituencies within each country).

How is a system where every vote counts less democratic than one where if you don't vote for the top two candidates your vote is wasted - having the same effect as having not voted at all?

Not exact matches

They are less than 1 % of the voting public and about all Obama can count on.

That amounts to less than 1 % of the normal voting public and is about all Obama can really count on.

After counting absentee ballots, Slaughter claimed victory by less than a thousand votes.

It remains an open question as to whether these «abstention votes» should be weighted equally with «positive votes», or whether they should count for less.

However, making every vote in every state count toward electing the president under direct election would stimulate state party - building efforts in the weaker party, especially in less competitive states, and encourage both parties to campaign actively.

I would suggest that what people want is for less representative democracy and more direct democracy where their vote will really count.

By the time the votes were counted, all 36 opposition candidates put together had less votes than Obiano.

The Erie County Board of Elections has spent the week counting absentee and affidavit ballots after a machine count showed Kennedy with a lead of less than 100 votes.

On Wednesday, Grant went back to court seeking a ballot by ballot count from the election, claiming the voting machines didn't count some ballots for her and the legal fight at the Board of Elections is costing her votes with Kennedy less than 300 votes ahead.

David Storobin's lead over NYC Councilman Lew Fidler in the 27th SD special election has shrunk to just 37 votes — 83 votes less than the election night tally showing a 120 - vote lead — after a day of ballot counting down in NYC.

As affadavit and absentee ballots continued to be counted in that election, the race grew tighter, eventually ending in a victory for Rangel of less than 1,000 votes.

STV would have the advantage of retaining a stronger independence of locally elected MPs (due to preferential voting and the fact that party member can in theory compete against each other), but be a more dramatic move away from single - member representation, incur geographical difficulties mentioned earlier, and have a far less transparent counting process which is far less straightforward to understand.

Having to count all votes in the state, there is a less than 1 % chance of Astorino winning.

In a race where the margin is less than half of one percent, the failure to count every vote is a disservice to every voter,» said Austin Shafran, spokesman for the DSCC.

That means that some votes cast in this race between Rep. Dave Reichert (R) and Darcy Burner (D) haven't even been received yet — much less counted.

Our electoral system creates the ultimate postcode lottery, where your votes could count more or less depending on where you happen to live.

«In a race where the margin is less than half of 1 %, the failure to count every vote is a disservice to every voter,» said Austin Shafran, spokesman for the Senate's Democratic conference.

All 50 states use total population as their basis for drawing district lines, but the challengers said the rural state Senate districts in which they lived had vastly more eligible voters than urban districts, making their votes count for less, in violation of the Constitution.

In fact, if you support a less popular party, you are more likely to have your vote counted multiple times.

If it can't get a substantial number of votes in the first round of counting, ballots from eliminated nominees will be redistributed and we suspect most will go to other less polarizing films.

The ballot shall specify a date not less than 30 days after the date of mailing to the voting members on or before which the ballots must be received by the Secretary to be counted.

Despite the statement's promises of inclusiveness and transparency there was no specific discussion of the board's process in the statement — not even a vote count, much less a list of who voted which way.

He adds that eurosceptic MEPs have a poor attendance record, meaning their votes are counted less often.

The only things you list that are actually worse for electronic voting than they are for paper balloting are the problem of risk allocation (there are fewer points of failure between the voter and the count in paper ballots, and they are less easily manipulated), and the problem of secret balloting (which is only worse for internet - based voting).