Sentences with phrase «voting methods in»

(2) The Chief Electoral Officer's direction shall describe the voting equipment or alternative voting methods in detail and refer to the provisions of this Act that will not be complied with.

Before people will reform something as momentous as a political election, Urken says, they need to learn about voting methods in less formal situations.

Proponents of other voting methods in single - member districts argue that these would reduce the need for tactical voting and reduce the spoiler effect.

Not exact matches

Interestingly, Sen. John McCain, who the day before complained about Republicans» method of «trying to find a way to win without help from across the aisle,» voted against the Democratic amendment to send health - care back to the starting line in committee.

The four pillars are: timing of the tabling of the Main Estimates; the scope and accounting methods used in the Estimates and the Budget; changes to the current vote structure; and changes to the Reports on Plans and Priorities and the Departmental Performance Reports.

The four pillars are: timing of the tabling of the Estimates; the scope and accounting methods used in the Estimates and the Budget; changes to the current vote structure; and changes to the Reports on Plans and Priorities and the Departmental Performance Reports.

EterPay is Eterbank's official token, its purpose is to give each investor shareholder status in Eterbank acting de facto as a share and following Eterbank's development EterPay will allow its holders to receive dividend payouts from Eterbank's revenue, voting shares and it will be one of the available payment methods for buying products and services in the real world through EterPOS.

For all those who are talking to themselves today, thinking that some supernatural deity is listening to them, please seek professional psychiatric help before you hurt someone or yourself in the name of your sky fairy, vote against others» rights, or promote your chosen flavor of insanity over the scientific method.

The method or timing of your vote will not limit your right to vote at the Annual Meeting if you attend the Annual Meeting and vote in person.

In upholding the prohibition against artificial methods of birth control, the encyclical dashed the hopes of many believers for a change in church teaching — hopes that had been raised when the National Catholic Reporter leaked the news that the lay and clerical members of the hand - picked papal commission studying the matter had voted decisively to support the limited use of artificial contraception within the context of marriagIn upholding the prohibition against artificial methods of birth control, the encyclical dashed the hopes of many believers for a change in church teaching — hopes that had been raised when the National Catholic Reporter leaked the news that the lay and clerical members of the hand - picked papal commission studying the matter had voted decisively to support the limited use of artificial contraception within the context of marriagin church teaching — hopes that had been raised when the National Catholic Reporter leaked the news that the lay and clerical members of the hand - picked papal commission studying the matter had voted decisively to support the limited use of artificial contraception within the context of marriage.

The Commission's method to test for dual quality products will be ready in April and, when the results are published, Europeans should «vote with their purses and refuse to buy products they consider of lower quality,» the commissioner for justice, consumers...

By using this method, OAD eliminates a dilution of results experienced in other voting systems that are based on surveys, while at the same time offering everyone an opportunity to participate.

I tried to come up with an objective method to answer the question, but when it came time to vote in the accompanying poll, a plurality of you ignored the evidence and went with your gut, like they do on the MLB Network.

There is also research that shows that kids who are more civically engaged are more likely to vote as adults, and that engagement can also be a method of reducing violence in neighborhoods.

As a method for doing this, they work better when they are, and are perceived to be, «free» as in not distorted by military action and «fair» as in votes cast chiefly determining the outcome.

Their method is much more thorough and uses information from local by - elections to estimate the National Equivalent Vote and pays attention to the actual shares of the vote in the different county council divisions last tVote and pays attention to the actual shares of the vote in the different county council divisions last tvote in the different county council divisions last time.

In a multiple representation district, the voting method is called Single Transferable Vote (STV) rather than Instant - Runoff Voting (IRV).

But in parliamentary systems, where party discipline is high and debate is relatively open, such methods are not particularly effective: voting is often strategic and reveals little in terms of ideology.

But there are various hybrid methods too: for example, there could still be rules about who can stand (eg being a party member for a year or whatever); there could be a nomination process within party structures; and then a vote open to either the general public or to anybody nominating themselves as a supporter I am not sure - in practice - whether there is much difference between an «anybody can come along» and «you have to say «I'm Labour».

However, what if the answer to «what is the best prediction method» lies in asking people not only who they will vote for, but also who they think will win (as «citizen forecasters» [1]-RRB-, and more importantly, how they feel about who other people think will win?

In the election there were 23 micro-parties, so the average vote needed by each of them for the method to work was less than 1 %.

In Australia, where the method is used to elect the Senate, this is known as voting «below» and «above» the line respectively due to the design of the ballot paper.

It is not (strictly speaking) a party - list voting system, but the method used to elect the Australian Senate operates somewhat like a ranked choice party - list system in practice.

1) There is nothing in the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918 which specifies the counting method, though there are sections on what constitutes a formal vote.

relying heavily on the methods that have served him well in past wins: a well - organized and well - financed ground operation, a heavy emphasis on early - voting recruitment, a growing list of endorsements, including from both establishment and tea - party leaders, and millions of dollars in TV advertisements.

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..)

CES: A lot of the electoral systems in the US rely on winner - take - all, which sort of directly bars out proportional voting methods.

Projecting the changes in the Westminster vote intention on to seats with the regression method (final two columns) suggests the Conservatives will emerge (for the first time in a long time) with a substantial lead in both votes and seats.

The New York State Assembly's Environmental Conservation Committee has voted in favor of a law that would defer the issuance of new hydrofracking permits amid increased environmental and health concerns about the controversial natural gas extraction method.

If your only goal was keeping Johnson out, voting against him in the Democratic primary was a more reliable method than voting for someone in the Republican primary.

Governments facing limited public trust have proved more likely to abandon the laborious — and easily manipulated - paper - based voting methods than those in countries whose system isn't obviously broken.

The method in which their new Chief Executive has been appointed is a poignant example of this problem and a source of a great deal of the ire of the protestors: elected by 689 votes from a 1,200 - seat committee of business elites, the three and a half million registered voters of Hong Kong had no say over who should lead them for the next five years.

STV is the system of choice of groups such as the Proportional Representation Society of Australia (which calls it quota - preferential proportional representation), [2] the Electoral Reform Society in the United Kingdom [3] and FairVote in the USA (which refers to both STV and instant - runoff voting as ranked - choice voting, [4] although there are other preferential voting methods that use ranked - choice ballots).

A number of methods of tactical or strategic voting exist that can be used in STV elections, but much less so than with First Past the Post.

In 1948, single transferable vote proportional representation on a state - by - state basis became the method for electing Senators to the Australian Senate.

In case you're not familiar with the terms, «First Past The Post» is the method of voting used in the US, where we cast a single ballot and whoever gets the most votes wins (basicallyIn case you're not familiar with the terms, «First Past The Post» is the method of voting used in the US, where we cast a single ballot and whoever gets the most votes wins (basicallyin the US, where we cast a single ballot and whoever gets the most votes wins (basically).

A good response as to the constitutional methods of lawmaking in the US, but we also should address the deeper part of the question, as to why US citizens don't vote for an equitable redistribution of wealth.

Curtice and Steven show that a switch from the d'Hondt to the Sainte - Laguë method of allocating list seats, a method that is already enshrined in other aspects of the UK's electoral arrangements, would have produced a more proportional result in which the SNP would not have won a majority despite winning well under 50 % of the vote.

In his only clear nod to the LibDems on PR he promised a full report on the success of the new voting methods used since Labour came to power.

Iriase said that e-voting would replace the regular voice vote being currently applied and forestall future controversies in the House, explaining that the method would promote accountability and transparency.

By keeping state operations spending growth at 2 percent, the budget hole is closer to $ 1.8 billion.As expected, the governor tucked into the budget non-monetary initiatives, such as new sexual harassment policies, the codification of abortion rights in state law and methods for New York to participate in «early voting,» all of which he touted in his Jan. 3 State of the State address.

It is the latest of a series of inroads on the first past the post voting system; already in elections for the Scottish parliament, the Welsh and Northern Irish assemblies and soon the election of a new London authority, proportional representation has become the chosen method of voting.

Whether that means that there's a series of individual races, everyone in a pool with the top X winners, everyone can vote for up to X, or some other method of determining representation isn't something I considered when asking the question.

Majority is an abstract concept in voting theory, and no voting method can guarantee a majority over 50 % when there are more than two candidates.

The plaintiffs alleged that this tabulation method dilutes the voting power of citizens residing in districts that are home to smaller concentrations of non-voting residents.

All of these favour engaging in deals before the votation is done, which limit the usefulness of alternative voting methods.

As a result of changes in state laws enacted since 1789, the people have the right to vote for presidential electors in 100 % of the states, there are no property requirements for voting in any state, and the state - by - state winner - take - all method is used by 48 of the 50 states.

The Founding Fathers only said in the U.S. Constitution about presidential elections (only after debating among 30 ballots for choosing a method): «Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors...» The U.S. Supreme Court has repeatedly characterized the authority of the state legislatures over the manner of awarding their electoral votes as «plenary» and «exclusive.»

If the top candidate method is used to gauge the number of votes for party (i.e. assuming the number of votes in support of a party is equal to the number of votes for its most popular candidate) instead of the raw vote, then the party's vote shares are: Labour 72.3 %, Conservatives 16.2 % and Liberal Democrats 11.4 %.

The outcome of those pilots was a recommendation from the Electoral Commission that all - postal voting should be adopted as the normal method of voting at local elections in the UK.