There are those concerned that
votes changing because of public opinion is a bad thing, but this isn't writers being bullied.
Since some factors suggest an increase and some a decline, we will have to wait for the post election surveys to know how tactical
voting changes at this election.
These are voters who have gone through multiple extra steps to votes and generally aren't moderate or undecided voters, so it's highly unlikely that there will be
much vote changing.
The latest YouGov polling shows support for the Alternative Vote in a referendum
on voting change dropping to 39 %, just one point ahead of... (Comments: 0)
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randomize voting changes the placement so that it doesn't always line up exactly with the list above).
Had 80.000
votes change sides in Florida and 40.000 in Pennsylvania, and Hillary Clinton would be POTUS.
More interestingly, as the article's title suggests, the sensitivity of the result to the national
popular vote changes dramatically in the two methods, and in 2016, not in Clinton's favor (though 538 is wise enough, as usual, to note that this is specific to 2016 and you can't and shouldn't draw generic parallels to 2020 etc..)
That does not strictly justify Clegg in refusing to agree to boundary revisions that are plainly overdue, and were linked to the
alternative vote changes.
The moves come after the state Legislature balked at
bigger voting changes, including automatic voter registration and advance voting.
UPDATE: Take a look at this map showing how Bennett's share of the county - by -
county vote changed from 2008.
The
broker vote change was first proposed in 2006, but it languished under the previous SEC chief and was never finalized.
Shervin Pishevar, one of Kalanick's closest allies and a former board observer at the company, previously had promised a lawsuit for tens of billions of dollars should the proposal
on voting changes be approved.
The saying that «
if voting changed anything they would abolish it» rings all too true today in Britain's highly centralised system of government, where so many decisions are made by those who were not elected and can not be removed.
Before
the vote change, shares not cast counted as «no» votes; now the outcome of the vote depends solely on actual votes cast.
«Participation went up following
the voting change, it didn't go down.»
However, now that the DOJ no longer has to preclear New York's
voting changes, the City Board of Elections has already successfully pushed legislation to bring back New York's old lever voting machines for a potential mayoral primary run - off, despite objections from good government groups and disability activists.
VOTING CHANGES: New Yorkers would be allowed to cast a vote up to 12 days before an election under Cuomo's voting reform proposal.
Despite these incidents, almost all of New York's
voting changes have been approved by the DOJ.
If there was a strong tendency of this kind then we should expect to see the coalition parties performing worse where turnout fell most heavily, i.e. positive correlations between the share of
the vote changes for these parties and turnout change.
Maybe he will ask publicly why Shelly Silver the 1000 pound giant in the room with 100 plus
votes changed the rules in the middle of the game to favor Tom DiNapoli to replace Alan Hevesi.
Donna Lieberman, executive director of the New York Civil Liberties Union, said
the voting changes sought by Cuomo would «make the ballot more accessible to busy New Yorkers, so that work, school, and daily commitments aren't barriers to participation.»
Will
your vote change that?
Finally, students vote again and discuss whether
their votes changed because of what they learned about the candidates» positions on the issues.
Likely just a coincidence, but the controversial FutureGen project seemingly awarded to Illinois during Presidential primary season makes it looks like Obama helped deliver the dough to his Illinois constituents, regardless of
his vote changing, to the possible benefit of Wisconsin's Governor Doyle.
This voting change was introduced by our own members approximately 20 years ago.