Sentences with phrase «voting systems at»

Steven Brams, an expert on voting systems at New York University, doesn't foresee any surge of support for a change.

Communists in France in the 1950s As I understand it, France was not using the first - past - the - post voting system at the time, but I would be keen to know if you thought that this informed the discussion in some way.

Labour leader Ed Miliband praised the values of the alternative vote system at the campaign event:

They also debated the security issues for quite a while and as it shows here at E-Estonia.com, it seems to be quite safe (100 % security is not possible and no voting system can be completely secure) and also look at a recent comment on the Estonian voting system at Forbes.com I find the following statement in the forbes text on vote security quite convincing:

Also speaking on the exercise, ex - Senate President, Chief Ken Nnamani, lauded the party for adopting the open and transparent option A4 for its voting system at the ward congress; adding: «Option A4 and the friendly atmosphere the ward congress election was conducted guarantee its success.

Not exact matches

In 2014 — seven years after the suspected Russian hack — engineers at the University of Michigan studied Estonia's online - voting system and concluded that determined hackers — such as Russian operatives — could feasibly penetrate it, creating fake votes or altering the totals in order to rig elections «quite possibly without a trace,» they wrote in their report.

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.

IBM shareholders CalSTRS and The State Board of Administration for the Florida Retirement System (SBA FLA) each voted against Rommety's proposed pay package at the company's annual general meeting.

The Brennan Center for Justice estimated in August that up to 20 % of US voters would use a digital system without a paper trail to cast votes on November 8, and 42 states would use voting machines that were at least a decade old and had outdated hardware and software.

But there isn't such a computer, and without proportional representation, our valiant efforts at voting our principles are undermined or rendered neutral by a crude system designed to favour incumbents and lower expectations of what is possible.

At least Europe's political system offers a way out: New parties can be formed to replace the old, and parliamentary representation reflects approximately the public vote.

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 former federal minister campaigned for eight months, grabbed an unfamiliar delegate selection system by the lapels, and shook free 1,113 votes of 1,476 ballots cast at the weekend convention.

«When you get major news like this that is unexpected, as the «Brexit» vote was, it often takes about five trading days to kind of work through the system,» said JJ Kinahan, chief strategist at TD Ameritrade.

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.

America could be a true multi-party system as in Europe, but the existing parties have been quite effective at duping people into voting for them so that the other side wouldn't win.

For those unfamiliar with Westminster systems, most parliamentary votes are, as the British say, subject to the party whip: that is, members are expected to vote with the party leadership and are subject to severe retribution (such as being «de-certified» as a party - supported candidate at the next election) if they resist the whip.

The difference from the current system would be that at the local level voting would be based on some personal acquaintance.

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 forum even took the unusual step of voting to approve the system at the last December meeting.

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.

A committee of the Chicago Park District board voted Monday to decentralize the parks system into 17 parts and to give managers of those divisions power to make many decisions on park programs, purchasing and maintenance that are now made at the district level.

The Public Safety Committee voted to recommend the board of trustees approve an agreement negotiated with Gatso USA, the company trustees selected to manage the village's red light camera system at a board meeting in May after its contract with Redflex Traffic Systems Inc. ended.

The three committee members unanimously voted to recommend the village accept HD Supply Waterworks's proposal and install the FlexNet Fixed Meter Reading system, at a cost of $ 214,675.

Ask them whether they would prefer a system of alternative votes with preferential ordering and they will look at you as if you're mad.

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.

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?

We've seen the system used very effectively by the Greens and very effectively by Ukip, and it's really at the point that you start to threaten the vote that you can have an impact.»

It's the system of voting currently used to elect members of the Northern Ireland Assembly and select committee chairs at Westminster.

He will need to remind people want Conservatism is: To CONSERVE the status quo (Not reform the voting system, the house of Lords or the banking system) Millionaires (like Michael Ashcroft) CONSERVE their vast wealth at the expense of the poor.

All the sites front pages are predominantly top - down (campaign - driven) tools, but at least Obama and Huckabee's sites try to feature their supporters and their enthusiasm (and provide a public reporting system for voting problems).

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.

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.

Demeny voting, if established, would be a very interesting mixture of the two systems, as at one hand minors would get a vote, furthering the «one person, one vote» concept, while at the same time their parents would get more than one vote.

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.

For example, I think Stuart's criticism is a more valid one of a system where the party has to hold a primary ballot, and where anybody at all can put in as a candidate, and anybody can choose to vote in it.

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.

I don't think plural voting would be considered a less democratic system, if we were able to come up with a balanced (or at least apparently balanced) and (mostly) frictionless way of determining who gets the extra votes, similarly to how forms of weighted voting are not generally considered undemocratic and are practised and widely accepted in several democratic countries and institutions.

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.

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.

In the single - vote plurality system, both of those voters will likely feel they have to misrepresent their preferences at the polls.

But even with the Greek system which gives an extra 50 seats in the 300 seat parliament to the party with the largest share of the vote, it is not at all certain that the two big old parties will have a majority.

A constitutional convention has at its heart an assembly of citizens charged with making proposals for the basic rules of the political system, e.g., the voting system or the creation of new national or regional law - making bodies.

Labour have made strides forward in standing up for real reform of our political system — including backing votes at 16 and calling for change to the second Chamber.

The challenge for Farage is demonstrating that their vote will not be wasted in a system where there are 650 separate contests taking place at the same time - and that in the particular contest where they live, Ukip can win.

The second set of seats (20) are won at a larger regional area using a system called «proportional representation», and is designed to ensure that no party wins either far more or far fewer seats than the share of votes they received.

Evidently, Blunkett thinks there is nothing at all perculiar about a voting system in which the LibDems attract 23 % of the votes cast and get only 8 % of the seats in Parliament.

The Supplementary Vote (SV)-- this system is employed to elect single office - holders for a whole regional or local authority area (spanning many constituencies or wards, and sometimes called «at large» elections).

In the case of electoral reform, they were humiliated at the ballot box, as the alternative vote system was rejected by 67.9 % to 32.1 %.