Sentences with phrase «voting system which»

The UK is being «artificially divided» by a voting system which exaggerates political differences between the four nations, a campaign group has warned.

To be fair, it is important to acknowledge that the «First Past The Post» voting system which has been in use in Britain for hundreds of years is also deeply flawed.

It is not to be confused with a plurality voting system which does not necessarily involve plural voting.

The European elections are held under a proportional voting system which gives smaller parties a better chance of winning seats than in general elections.

Mr Clegg went on to deliver a passionate defense of AV, the voting system which will be put to a referendum next spring.

To elaborate on the mechanical concerns: It is possible to have an online voting system which guarantees anonymity of voters and to have a system which is resistant to any manipulation attempts, but there is no way which can provide both at the same time.

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.

Any voting system which can make any result decision in this situation is unfair.

Firstly, it looks like the Alternative Vote system which they are proposing for Westminster elections will be rejected in the nationwide referendum.

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CalPERS, the California Public Employees» Retirement System, which voted in favor of the climate change proposal at Exxon's shareholder's meeting Wednesday, also released a statement.

Anne Sheehan, head of corporate governance at California State Teachers» Retirement System, which backs the additional climate reporting, said Exxon's letter suggests the voting is at least very close and may be going against the company.

Doing so will significantly diminish the likelihood of electoral fraud, which is a huge issue despite the prevalence of electronic voting systems.

One share, one vote is a «psychologically important part of the free enterprise system,» which helps to encourage market participation, Whitehead says.

In late August, Yahoo broke news that foreign hackers had breached the state Board of Elections websites in Illinois and Arizona, which the FBI's cyber division followed up with an alert to election officials across the nation to increase voting system security.

Earlier this week, Georgia Representative Hank Johnson introduced two bills that he believes will help improve voting security a few years down the road: the Election Infrastructure and Security Promotion Act, which, if passed, would classify voting systems as critical infrastructure to be protected by the Department of Homeland Security; and the Election Integrity Act, which will map out a planned response for voting system failures and control the types of voting machines states are allowed to buy.

You don't have the time and you can't have a vote on which systems you're going to use, or what products or branding.

«They realized they could get access to the voting registration systems, which can have an impact on state elections and primaries.

PageRank is Google's system of counting link votes and determining which pages are most important based on them.

Speaking to 1,000 people at the sold out conference, Broadbent called on delegates to seize this «once - in - a-generation opportunity for progressive change, an opportunity to ensure we have a fair voting system in which every voter counts, in which every citizen has a real opportunity to elect a candidate according to his or her values.

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.

These include holding open Cabinet meetings at least once a month, which will be broadcasted on the Internet; giving Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs) a greater role by reforming the Legislative committee system and allowing government MLAs to vote freely (as opposed to voting according to the Party's preferences); restricting the tenure of a premier to two (four - year) terms; holding a Citizen's Assembly on electoral reform to examine alternative models for electing MLAs; instituting a system by which citizens can recall elected officials; and instituting elections for all government boards and commissions.

This selective «colorblindness» is a mighty convenient approach to race in America for white people, for it allows us to paper over America's troubled (and decidedly anti-Christian) history, to discount racism as a thing of the past for which we are no longer responsible, and to ignore persistent racial injustices like mass incarceration, police brutality, voting rights issues, white flight, and economic inequality, all while consistently benefiting from an oppressive system we claim we can not even see.

This year, the red purse contains a # 5 coin, commemorating four generations of royalty, and a 50p coin commemorating the Representation of the People Act 1918, which reformed the electoral system in Great Britain and Ireland, giving some women the right to vote for the first time.

By the time W finished his second term, I had graduated from college, come to terms with the fact that the criminalization of abortion is highly unlikely no matter the party in power, expanded my definition of «pro-life» to include Iraqi children and prisoners of war, and experienced first - hand some of the major problems with America's healthcare system, which along with poverty and education issues, contributes to the troubling abortion rate in the U.S. I remained pro-life idealistically, but for the first time, voted for a pro-choice president, hoping that the reforms I wanted to see in the healthcare, the economy, immigration, education, and for the socioeconomically disadvantaged would function pragmatically to reduce abortions.

The test in the end, which the political system provides, is whether these people comprise a significant fraction of of the voting public.

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.

There are many different political systems which engage in the economic system referenced by the Pope and I don't read where the Pope criticises any of them, including ours here in the US which, I assume, is the only one in which Varney gets to vote.

A commitment by our judicial system which we ourselves voted to obligate our judicial system to discharge, to protect the public.

Eurocrats want member states to resettle 160,000 refugees from Greece and Italy under a forced allocation system, which was voted through in 2015 despite opposition from Eastern European countries.

This I find unacceptable, which is why I refuse to vote as I do not endorse this system of «government».

One method by which they attempted to rally support for politicians who supported their particular causes was by endorsing a «rating» system which collated scores for each individual legislator according to how that legislator voted on several issues considered by the broadcasters to be «Christian» issues of the election.

The closeness of the vote turns on the peculiarities of the Spanish public school system, in which state employees offer religious instruction.

In short, the closeness of the vote reflects the peculiarities of the Spanish system, in which teachers of Catholicism are state employees, rather than the principle of church autonomy itself.

The main one is that USA has what's known as «First Past The Post» electoral system (which is an academic way of saying, you can only vote for one candidate and whichever candidate gets most votes, wins).

California has an open primary system, which means that generally speaking, voters are not restricted by party as to for whom they can vote.

In contrast, single member districts systemically underrepresent diffuse, politically extreme ideological factions which are minorities almost everywhere which tends to moderate the political system as a whole (something that instant runoff voting also does).

That parties in the US get less seats than percentage of voters may also just be because the voting system is a majority voting system not a proportional one, similar to the UK but additionally with partisan district partitioning which allows gerrymandering.

Brand had argued that voting in general elections is a sign of tacit consent to the current system, which failed to represent the interests of the public.

There are of course lots of other voting systems than first - past - the - post which promise more democratic election results, like approval voting, alternative vote and their many variants.

Are there any systems in which a single person can cast more than one vote?

In a statement released this afternoon, Ulrich said he was «appalled, but not shocked» by the Post story that Graves was suspended from his $ 66,392 - a-year job at the board after being caught on tape soliciting a $ 25,000 «finder's fee» from Denver - based Dominion Voting Systems, which was competing for a a $ 65 million electronic voting machine contract in 2009.

The new system is less proportional than the old system (which allocated half the seats through party lists and had smaller single member districts); thus Orban was able to retain his two - thirds majority despite winning 800,000 fewer votes than in 2010.

She'd have repeated the feat in May this year were it not for the complicated voting system used for Holyrood elections, which in turn allowed the Yes vote to splinter a little in favour of the Greens.

They claim boundary changes was introduced as a quid pro quo for the May 2011 referendum on electoral reform, in which the public rejected the alternative vote system by a ratio of two votes to one.

Open preferential voting is a hybrid electoral system which allows voters to either express a rank ordering of individual candidates in the same manner as STV, or to select a list of candidates chosen by a political party, much like a closed list proportional representation system.

In 2011, the party won an overall majority at the Scottish Parliament, a result which Holyrood's proportionate voting system was supposed to make impossible.

I assume that under the existing system, the focus is on swing states, which contain moderate voters, which means convincing moderate supporters of one candidate to vote for the other candidate instead, or convincing moderate supporters of one candidate to get out and vote for them, or convincing moderate supporters of the opposing candidate to stay at home on election day.

The two best countries to see this are Switzerland, which has referendum voting at the Federal Level and The United States, which has some system of referendum voting at the state level (The most common being referral voting, where the legislature can opt to pass a law by citizen vote, which is available in all 50 states.

The ERS's main objection is that the introduction of above the line voting is that closed list PR systems would increase the power of political parties to influence who gets elected, which, in the words of their chief executive Katie Ghose, would result in the Lords being «a mini-replica of the commons, full of party - politicians with pre-set loyalties» whilst «STV would help create a chamber free to provide objective scrutiny».

In several of these cases (1951, 1966 and Oct 1974) the parliament was either hung, or the Prime minister had a majority of less than 10 (which is not considered to be a «working majority» in the UK's parliamentary system) and so you can say that they «jumped» to call an election before they were «pushed» by losing a vote of no - confidence.