Sentences with phrase «which electors»

At issue was not only a fundamentally contrasting concept of democratic procedure, but also the extent to which electors could trust the members that they sent to Westminster.

Not exact matches

But if an election by plebiscite is ruled out, we are again faced with the question which body of electors would represent the actual people.

«The College of Cardinals includes 5 continents and 70 countries, 50 of which have Cardinals electors.

The Emperor was attempting to buy the votes of the Electors for the imperial election which must follow his death.

A further difficulty facing Aleander was that the Emperor needed the support of the Electors in raising an army with which to travel down to Italy to claim his coronation by the Pope as Holy Roman Emperor, and to do battle with France in Northern Italy.

The Congress may determine the Time of chusing [sic] the Electors, and the Day on which they shall give their Votes; which Day shall be the same throughout the United States.

I mean 51 % voters picked 20 electors who supports candidate A, and 49 % of them voted for 20 electors supporting candidate B. Which one electors will be chose to «final» voting (sorry for lack of specialist vocabulary)?

The electoral quota is determined by dividing the total number of electors as at the relevant date by the number of electoral districts into which the State is divided.

Electors would have two votes: a constituency MP vote, and a party list vote, which might be different.

If you can tell them who they must vote for (which we'd agree most likely would be ruled out for direct elections) are they really electors?

Each state's law determines how those electors are selected, and which candidate they vote for.

Each elector must choose which election to participate in.

Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress: but no Senator or Representative, or Person holding an Office of Trust or Profit under the United States, shall be appointed an Elector.

The number of electors in each state is equal to the number of members of Congress to which the state is entitled.

By excluding men under thirty - five from the first office, and those under thirty from the second, it confines the electors to men of whom the people have had time to form a judgment, and with respect to whom they will not be liable to be deceived by those brilliant appearances of genius and patriotism, which, like transient meteors, sometimes mislead as well as dazzle.

As the president is elected by the electoral college, which in turn is composed of a number of electors.

If the Electoral Commission believes that a Māori applicant is prevented, by the manner in which the applicant last exercised the option given by section 76, from being registered as an elector of the district to which the application relates, the Electoral Commission must notify the applicant of its reasons for refusing the application.

Thanks to the narrow permitted range of electors required for each seat, between 72,810 and 80,473 voters, the commissioners have been forced to propose 16 new constituencies which cross council boundaries.

town versus country) or by artificial «fixing» of divisions (such as gerrymandering, in which the boundaries of electoral districts are abused by the party in power, or by varying the number of electors in different districts).

The right of voting was restricted to «appointed electors» (which is still the case in the electoral college in the US and many other institutions), which were often local men of power, in other words wealthy bourgeois.

«I now move that the electors of this College unanimously agree to forego their compensation as electors and have the money designated to an organization which assists the brave men, women and children wishing to make United States their home: the New York Immigration Coalition,» Heastie said during the vote yesterday.»

Idaho: A precinct which contains no more than 125 registered electors at the last general election may be designated by the board of county commissioners a mail ballot precinct no later than April 1 in an even - numbered year (Idaho Code § 34 - 308)

In that case, all 7 of A's electors will be able to vote, but B and C won't have any of their electors able to vote - the winner takes all (Unless the state is Maine or Nebraska, in which case they'll be divided up - there will still be 7 electors for the state, but maybe 4 will be for A and 3 for B).

--RRB- The winner - takes - all - electors in a state system is also a means by which smaller states gain disproportionate representation and it also helps create a mandate for the President by giving the winner a big majority in the electoral college.

--RRB- Basing the number of electors on the number of Federal Representatives plus two Senators for each state prevents the dreaded one - man - one - vote which despite the just sound of it, only works in small, homogenous populations.

If this is case, In December, the 5 elector from Party B have to vote to Candidate A if they don't want to be faithless, which is different from whom they voted to in the general vote, and quite likely against their will, is it correct?

On January 10, four Missouri state representatives introduced HB 1236, which deletes the accidental error in the 1993 ballot access reform bill that requires party petitions to include the names of presidential elector candidates.

Not only does this give electors a few extra days to consider their options based on the first result, it ensures that they are not forced into making a «saccharine» second choice (which AV would force them to do), before they know whether or not their first preference candidate will get over 50 % of the vote.

They can be removed by electors, which is of course democracy, but they should also be regularly re-endorsed (and if necessary removed) by their local Party bodies if they are no longer seen as properly representing the views of members and affiliates or for that matter if they are judged to be useless.

Plaid Cymru claimed Wales would lose up to ten Westminster parliamentary seats under the plans, which envisage there being 600, rather than 650, seats, all with about 75,000 electors.

If you could convince the state legislatures totaling exactly 36 electoral votes to exercise their option to appoint electors for Clinton, regardless of the plurality vote, Clinton and Trump would both have 269 electoral votes, which would force the election to the House of Representatives, with each state receiving one vote.

... it is organisation which gives birth to the dominion of the elected over the electors, of the mandatories over the mandators, of the delegates over the delegators.

The State Objections Board, composed of the Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General, and Secretary of State, heard testimony about the dispute, and then ruled that the state party has the authority to name the presidential electors, and therefore the state party determines which presidential nominee to list.

It is current UK government policy to pass a law removing the 15 - year limit on expatriate Britons voting before the next general election takes place, as mentioned in the 2017 Conservative Party manifesto, which stated (page 42) «We will legislate for votes for life for British overseas electors».

For a statewide office, the petition must be signed by registered electors, which are defined as residents of the state eligible to vote for the petitioner, numbering at least 2 percent of the total number of votes cast for United States Representative in the last general election for the entire state.

Latendresse pointed out that in 2011 electors could use the voter card most of us receive in the mail, which includes the residential address as corroborating ID, but the new Act will forbid that.

(7) A person who at any time in 1997 is a separate school supporter in connection with land assessed to the support of a separate school board is also, at that time, a separate school supporter for the purpose of qualifying as a separate school elector for the English - language separate district school board or the French - language separate district school board, as the case may be, the area of jurisdiction of which includes that land.

Running for election risks creating the false belief among some law society directors that their role is to represent their electors, which may result in election platforms designed to be attractive to that group.

The Electors shall meet in their respective states, and vote by ballot for President and Vice-President, one of whom, at least, shall not be an inhabitant of the same state with themselves; they shall name in their ballots the person voted for as President, and in distinct ballots the person voted for as Vice-President, and they shall make distinct lists of all persons voted for as President, and of all persons voted for as Vice-President and of the number of votes for each, which lists they shall sign and certify, and transmit sealed to the seat of the government of the United States, directed to the President of the Senate;

Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress: but no Senator or Representative, or Person holding an Office of Trust or Profit under the United States, shall be appointed an Elector.

But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice-President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty - one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty - one years of age in such State.

The Congress may determine the Time of chusing the Electors, and the Day on which they shall give their Votes; which Day shall be the same throughout the United States.

The District constituting the seat of Government of the United States shall appoint in such manner as the Congress may direct: A number of electors of President and Vice President equal to the whole number of Senators and Representatives in Congress to which the District would be entitled if it were a State, but in no event more than the least populous State; they shall be in addition to those appointed by the States, but they shall be considered, for the purposes of the election of President and Vice President, to be electors appointed by a State; and they shall meet in the District and perform such duties as provided by the twelfth article of amendment.

Towards the end of the segment Oliver lamented how s. 331 of the Canada Elections Act forbids him from «in any way» inducing electors to vote out Harper on grounds of Islamophobia and environmental degradation, an offence which contemplates fines up to CAD$ 5,000 and / or 6 months imprisonment.

«voter» means an elector who has appeared at a polling place and has accepted a ballot for marking which has been placed in the ballot box or has declined his or her ballot and so declared.

(2) Only a ballot which was supplied to the elector by the deputy returning officer and with only one of the circular spaces marked and upon which there is no writing or mark by which the voter can be identified shall be accepted as a valid ballot at the count.

(vi) any other information that the Chief Electoral Officer considers necessary to determine the elector's entitlement to vote or the electoral district in which he or she may vote; and

Vouching — which is permitted by Section 143 (3) of the current version of the Canada Elections Act — is the process by which a qualified elector may prove her identity by taking an oath and being vouched for by another qualified elector whose name appears on the voters» list for the same polling division.

The key provision at issue was s. 148.1 (1) which provided that an elector was not entitled to vote if the elector was unable to prove identity and residence in accordance with the new provisions of the...

Under the amendments, an elector must show one piece of government - issued identification with a photo, name, and address or two pieces of identification, each of which establishes the elector's name and at least one of which establishes his or her address.