Sentences with phrase «where electors»

Instead, research suggests the more prosaic, but costly, exercise of registration teams visiting households where electors have not registered would produce better results, especially if backed by a reminder of the existing legal requirement to register.

An increasing number of UK elections are now multi-member, where each elector can vote multiple times according to the number of vacant seats.

(7) An elector to whom subsection 15 (1.3) applies may make a request for a home visit to the returning officer in the electoral district where the elector is temporarily living, whether the elector wishes to vote in that electoral district or in the electoral district where his or her residence is located, and subsections (1) to (6) apply with necessary modifications.

Not exact matches

Catholic governance is a closed circle, a feedback loop where popes appoint bishops of like mind and bishops, as elector cardinals, elect a pope of like mind.

While the exact rules vary from state to state, essentially a voter is voting for a set of electors chosen by the party, and the most votes for a given party / candidate selects that set of electors, so where there is winner takes all, the set of electors is equal to the total number of electors for that state

So let's say there is state X, where people have to pick 30 electors.

The US Presidential election uses an «electoral college» system, where each state gets a certain number of «electors» (votes), and those electors cast the official votes for President.

Subject to the concurrence of the Electoral Commission, where the Returning Officer considers that the name shown on the nomination paper or other document as the name of the constituency candidate's political party is indecent or offensive or excessively long or likely to cause confusion to or mislead electors, --

Where any officer of a body designated by notice in writing pursuant to subsection (9D) wishes to obtain, for the purpose of compiling a roll of electors for an election and for no other purpose, any specified information, the Electoral Commission may, in accordance with regulations made under this Act, give that officer, on payment of the prescribed fee, a computer - compiled list or electronic storage medium containing that information.

(c) Vacancies occurring in nominations where candidates are to be voted for by the electors from more than one county, shall be filled in the manner prescribed by the State Committee.

Where it is proved before the Electoral Commission that any person who is registered or who applies for registration as an elector of a district has, within the immediately preceding period of 3 years, --

Where an application for registration as an elector has been received before the issue of a writ and it has not been possible for the Electoral Commission to ascertain, at the time of the issue of the writ, whether the applicant is currently registered as an elector of another electoral district, the Electoral Commission must, subject to subsection (4), include the name of the applicant on any main, supplementary, or composite roll printed as at writ day.

That's where the number 385 comes from, but that's not the end of it, some states will have more than 1/385, and even be close to 2/385, so they may be awarded an elector at the expense of a more populous state.

Of course 270 or more elector votes are needed to win the presidency but there are scenarios that exist where one candidate could win 269, another 268, and then a third candidate win one of the districts above and be awarded a single elector.

North Norfolk was described by the Earl of Leicester as «the one constituency in England where, in 1964, it was so feudal that it had to be explained to the electors that the ballot was secret.»

Where MPs badly fail their electors, there is at present no effective channel for electors to remove them.

The ComRes poll is also ominous for the Conservatives in putting Ukip as high as 17 % (with up to a third of electors saying they would «consider» voting for Farage's party) in seats where the electoral arithmetic means that the battle should be focused on the major government and opposition parties alone.

(5) The ballot box may be moved by the poll officials to facilitate voting by an elderly or disabled elector but where the box is so moved it may be accompanied by any scrutineer present and a record of any such action and any objection taken by a scrutineer shall be made in the poll record opposite the name of the elector.

47 (1) Every elector, on entering the room or area where the poll is being held, shall state his or her name and place of residence to the deputy returning officer.

(4) Where, in the opinion of the returning officer, it is necessary to ensure to the maximum number of electors access to conveniently located polling places,

By having information packages distributed at locations where they are likely to come to the attention of electors who are not named, or not correctly named, in the permanent register.

4.8 Where, under this Act, a returning officer or the Chief Electoral Officer are required to provide copies of polling lists, the permanent register of electors, extracts of or updates to the permanent register of electors, or any other elector information to a candidate or registered party, they shall not provide any information about electors other than the following, unless this Act specifically provided otherwise:

Distribution of information packages at locations where they are likely to come to the attention of electors who are not named, or not correctly named, in the permanent register.

(2) If an elector whose name appears on a polling list for the polling division where he or she resides has been appointed to act as a deputy returning officer, poll clerk or scrutineer at a polling place other than his or her own but in the same electoral district, an application may be made to the revising official for a certificate to vote at the other polling place.