Sentences with phrase «voting system then»

If we have a fixed term parliament elected upon a proportional voting system then a threshold of 55 % or higher would be democratic.

Not exact matches

The voting system for individuals within the network to «propose» and then vote on an proposal for action for which the network can allocate resources to e.g. for the development or marketing of the currency.

If you are 55 or under and hope to enjoy some of those benefits you have been paying into from your paychecks for the last 30 years, of which the Government has borrowed 5 trillion dollars for other spending such as defense and tax breaks for the rich, which is why the current social security system is in jeopardy, then you will be voting for Obama.

democrats in America = Socialists you need to, look at France, Germany and UK political votes and systems, then you might understabd the difference between an American Democrat and a real Socialist.

The HR in Hospitality Conference voting system will then rapidly calculate the two winning topics and an announcement will be made prior to the start of the Executive Summit.

Last year in the Tap City an outfielder who spent nine years in the farm systems of three other teams wound up second in the National League Rookie of the Year vote (Scott Podsednik); a 29 - year - old reliever released by the Rangers in March 2003 became a lights - out closer (Danny Kolb); and a journeyman discarded by Texas in April and then Toronto in July became one of the league's most effective starters over the final two months (Doug Davis).

I'd also point out that, since candidates are never eliminated in your system, if you vote as your first choice a candidate who is not eventually elected, then your second choice will never be counted.

At one point, Ed Miliband seemed open to the idea of using this system to pick the London mayoral candidate, but then quietly retreated to only giving London members and affiliate members (who pay a # 3 fee) a vote.

If we are going to have a referendum on voting reform - bearing in mind other questions, such as Scottish independence, are far more pressing - then let's have one on a more credible system.

There is also a voting system which would bring you to that conclusion: Have the voters vote with a single non-transferable vote for which option they like the least, remove that option, and then repeat with the remaining options until only one option remains.

A key requirement of democracy is equal protection of all stakeholders - i.e., if at some point there is a completely fair vote of 2/3 population preferring the choices advocated and implemented by party A; and 1/3 preferring the choices of party B - then a system must ensure that the minority gets adequate protections and fair treatment; so that while at this moment country gets steered to choice A, the minority doesn't get punished in any way for saying that in their opinion choice B might be best; and if some of the original voters change their mind, the choice B can still be known even if the governing clique that was elected on the idea of A wants to continue with A forever.

We could get a different kind of tactical voting, where people try to send messages through the voting system by voting for single - issue candidates first, then the candidate they want second, on the assumption that the single - issue candidate will be knocked out before the candidate they want.

If you start them from when the selection is announced, then it gives a massive advantage to insiders (who will have been able to use the previous months or even years before the selection is announced to sign people up, campaign with unlimited resources etc.) As for the current system - you don't need 50 votes to bag a safe seat.

Electoral area system does lead to a «winner - take - all» scenario, where a 55 % majority often leads to a total dominance - a visible example is the USA elections; where if 51 % of a state votes for a presidental candidate, then nationally 100 % of that state votes go for him / her.

Assuming Mr Clegg accepts the convention that, until and unless our voting system is changed, what matters is seats, then he is saying if Labour remains the largest party it should have a shot at staying in office.

In the UK, voters vote in constituencies and votes are then translated into seats on the basis of a first - past - the - post system.

Rigging the postal voting system not quite enough gerrymandering for you then?

(Obviously, this couldn't happen under a one - vote system, because then the party would split its votes and hand the election to its opponents.)

If, in a democratic system, every vote counted equally, everyone had an equal say as to how the country is run, then we the people would be able to participate and policies would develop to respond to all our diverse views.

Given the SNP are unlikely to support a Queen's Speech unless they are needed to, and if they are needed then both SNP and LD voting together is incompatible with Nick Clegg's claim that,» I would never recommend to the Liberal Democrats that we help establish a government which is basically on a life support system, where Alex Salmond could pull the plug any time he wants.»

2) If you are interested in a particular election, for example the London Mayoral election, clink on the election link on the right hand side of the homepage, which will then take you to an overview of these elections, with an interactive map, summary results, and, importantly a section on how the voting system in your area works.

Here, I use the phrase eligible candidate to mean that the candidate is actually in the image of the voting system (if three candidates exist but you accept that one of them can not be elected in any situation, then you can consider the simple majority rule on the other two candidates, which is neither dictatorial nor manipulable).

In some cases where there is a desire to have an actual majority of votes, then there may be multiple rounds of this type of voting used in a run - off system.

«When Sen. Velmanette Montgomery gives her life and her soul to work on a package of reforms to the juvenile justice system, which we certainly need in this state, and then Ruben Diaz Sr. decides that he's going to vote against it because he's upset the Republicans are debating it too long it's unreasonable and capricious and it's the kind of irrational behavior that we've had to endure for the past eight years,» Parker told me.

It is especially obvious when epsilon tends to 0: then, the voting system is equivalent to system X, whatever it is.

He continued: «While PR was a perennial fixture of Liberal manifestos, educating the electorate in voting systems was then a subject too complex for an electoral campaign.

This can be further generalised to ranked voting systems, as then some of the first choice votes for parties C and D would be redistributed to winning candidates, and so wouldn't be counted as «wasted».

Labour's leader - in - waiting, Alan Johnson, yesterday restated his proposal for an election day referendum on the alternative vote plus system — the one recommended a decade ago by a commission headed by Roy Jenkins, but then shelved by the Blair government.

If there is something wrong with the expenses system then radical reform of that system is necessary, but this has nothing to do with how we vote.

Today, however, such a system is not commonly practiced and most parliamentary system parties» rules provide for a leadership election in which the general membership of the party is permitted to vote at some point in the process (either directly for the new leader or for delegates who then elect the new leader in a convention), though in many cases the party's legislators are allowed to exercise a disproportionate influence in the final vote.

I've been reading a lot about voting systems, and Score Voting seems like a pretty good system, but Equal Vote Coalition advocates «Score Runoff Voting» (name changed to STAR Voting = Score Then...

Then we could put some energy and effort into tackling the real corruptions and creating a democratic voting system.

Specifically, the theorem states that there's no way to design a voting system such that all three of these criteria hold: If every voter prefers alternative X over alternative Y, then the group prefers X over Y.

You could imagine other solutions, especially with electronic voting systems, but, e.g., writing down the details of every person who shows up to vote and then cross-checking those lists after the fact would be much more cumbersome than checking the details of each voter against a pre-existing list.

Considering that the choice of voting system to the most powerful legislature in the country is of fundamental importance to the very fabric of society, I believe that, if there is anything close to a majority of the electorate in favour of changing the voting system, whether that be to PR or not, then the question must be put to the electorate.

So, by some form of voting system — I think it's closer to propawtional representation than furs past the post — the politicians get their constituents to vote online for their canine running mates, and then they have to do the «Doggy Dash» where they are forcibly raced through one of two narrow tubes.

I certainly find it very odd to hear them claim that the first - past - the - post voting system «gave us the Iraq war» and then prescribe a change which would have given Tony Blair an even larger majority...

What was discovered of note was that if you changed the voting system to open list, or indeed anything candidate based as a form of voting, UKIP went down six points and the Tories up five — meaning the Conservatives would then leapfrog UKIP into second, just barely behind Labour.

On - topic questions included the timing of the effectiveness of the laws signed today and when ICE will close it's office on Rikers Island, how many people currently on Rikers Island will be covered by these laws, details of Carlos Rodriguez (who was held on Rikers Island for eight months on an ICE detainer) path to this country and his thoughts during his eight month detention, what Mayor de Blasio would like to see the federal government do about immigration and what he will do absent such action, what he would tell Republicans who think his approach is a dangerous precedent, de Blasio and Melissa Mark - Viverito's positions on municipal IDs and voting rights for non-citizens, the number of people arrested on misdemeanors and then subject to ICE detainers and whether persons arrested on felony charges must first go through the justice system before being subject to an ICE detainer.

A party such as the Lib Dems who take every opportunity to decry an electoral system that does not fairly convert votes cast into seats gained could not then turn around and say they were backing a party with the most seats (but fewer votes) and hope to retain any credibility, at least in terms of consistency.

If political system of any country is based upon voter casting his vote the importance of the voter to be adequately informed then it is of utmost importance to make sure the information is true and full.

Under the current system for the city's three citywide primaries — mayor, comptroller and public advocate races — if no candidate receives 40 percent of the vote, then the top two candidates face off in a runoff election, as mandated by state law.

Published by the BBC on 11th May: «Labour say if the Lib Dems back them they will put the Alternative Vote system into law and then hold a referendum asking voters if they want a proportional representation voting system - a key issue for the Lib Dems.»

[7] It was the way that compensatory seats were allocated that made their report the origin of the additional member system, the term which the report also invented, which was then applied along with the much older «mixed system» by English - speaking writers on voting systems to West Germany's system and similar models until mixed member proportional (MMP) was invented for the adoption of the German system proposed for New Zealand in a royal commission report in 1986, which would explain why AMS and MMP have been used as synonyms.

But then Mandelson reveals that in a series of meetings between the Sunday and Tuesday, the Liberal Democrats «ended up agreeing with us that we should hold a referendum on the alternative vote system».

To remedy this and other ills, the report calls for major changes in the current two - tier voting system, where parents first cast an advisory vote and then leaders of parent organizations in the respective area make the final choice.

Instituting runoff voting, proportional representation, will create a multi-party system that tends to do around the world — and then, you have shifting coalitions depending on the issue.

Without a viable two - party system there is no democracy; one has a one - party state controlled by the proverbial back - room politicians who permit only candidates that they control to run for your vote which then becomes meaningless.

They then asked 55 people aged between 18 and 69, with and without smartphone experience, to vote using either the app or via conventional electronic and paper systems.

The union's bargaining team will then write proposals, postdocs will vote on them, and negotiations with the UC system will commence.