Sentences with phrase «way electoral votes»

It also creates the unfortunate situation that a candidate can win the popular vote but still lose the election because of the way electoral votes are distributed.

Not exact matches

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).

For state D, with its 4 votes in the electoral college, there are two ways of deciding the coalitions that will not see it win:

The voting evidence suggests it is the logical one although I guess electoral reform will be the stumbling block - http://www.publicwhip.org.uk/mpsee.php Still, it would give Labour the chance to demonstrate that the Lib Dems are essentially a party of the centre - right in a way that we are not, to renew our policies, and to reach out to those genuinely progressive MPs who have, by some mischance, ended up in the Lib Dems.

Those two ways are: (1) small states have more electoral votes than big states relatively to their population, (2) the countries is...

Bluntly, your hope is that an issue that matters to you and to many educated middle - class people (but not to most Labour voters, who may well regard the idea in the same way as many Conservatives, as a way to give unfair influence to Liberal Democrats), electoral reform, is important enough to form an electoral alliance over, despite the fact this would leave many party members unable to vote (and who would get to stand in say Durham or Redcar anyway?).

Such figures are only estimates because there's no guarantee that people would vote the same way under a different electoral system.

Making the vote mandatory is a way but I think there are other ways to increase it such as promotion of more transparency in the electoral process, allowing independent parties to seat in the polling table (juridically and electorally), increase the participation of people with disabilities and others.

A: There is a real anomaly in the way Scottish MPs vote on English matters - but it is only one of countless anomalies in our electoral system, and they all need to be addressed together as part of a new constitutional settlement.

Individual electoral registration voting may be a good idea but the way it has been introduced in the past four years has been a disaster.

This way, a candidate who come in second place in a state with 45 % of the popular vote would receive 45 % of the electoral votes from that state, instead of 0 %.

The only way back to victory for Labour is working across the soft left to the centre to build an electoral block that can challenge for 35 - 40 % of the votes.

Advocates for electoral reform say that the outcome has again exposed the limitations of the first - past - the - post system, prompting urgent calls for a change to the way Britain votes.

The old three - way electoral college was replaced with a new «one - person - one - vote» system in which leadership candidates are elected not just by party members, but also by registered and affiliated supporters.

He said: «Election Management Bodies in our sub-regions and beyond have deployed technology in one way or another to improve on the processes, administration and outcome of elections, ranging from training and capacity - building for electoral officials, promotion of inclusivity in the electoral process (youths, women, PWDs, IDPs and out - of - country / diaspora voters), the biometric registration of voters, delineation of electoral constituencies, geo - referencing of existing as well as the creation of new polling units, establishment of robust electronic databases, accreditation of voters during elections, actual voting and the speedy and more accurate collation / transmission of results.

If a candidate or party is slightly ahead in a bare majority of electoral divisions but a long way behind in others, they can win even if a competitor gets more votes overall — as happened most notoriously in recent history in the US presidential election of 2000, when George W. Bush narrowly defeated Al Gore.

Perhaps the best way out of our electoral malaise isn't to reform campaign finances, as politicians so often say, but to reform the voting system itself — even if it means doing so one vote at a time.

In other words, members of Congress almost always vote in ways that serve their electoral interests first and any substantive reasons for their vote are secondary or coincidental.

When the chance to talk enviro - political shop with the Grand Pooh - bah «o» Polling appeared, it was an easy vote of YES WE CAN!Greenberg, a seasoned pollster and political consultant, provides a firsthand account of the electoral and personal battles of such giants as President Clinton and Prime Minister Blair as they struggle to discover the best way to communicate what they believe to nations.

The equipment must create a paper ballot that records the vote cast, is retained in the same way as ordinary ballots and shows the name of the electoral district, the date of polling and the name of the printer.