Sentences with phrase «whose electoral votes»

Every four years, presidential candidates lavish attention (and, more important, campaign promises) on a dozen or so swing states whose electoral votes are up for grabs.

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In tandem, the campaign is investing heavily in next - door Pennsylvania, a more Democrat - friendly state whose 20 electoral votes would make Trump's overall victory all the more unreachable.

Opposition leader Mr Raila Odinga, whose legal challenge to the election results led to the vote being nullified, withdrew from the new election, saying the process was not credible because of the lack of electoral reforms.

Just have to mention the 2.5 million folks whose vote didn't count because of the ole electoral college.

According to its supporters, one of the primary virtues of the electoral college is that winning candidates must obtainconcurrent majorities from around the country to win, rather than appeal to clusters of voters whose votes could be aggregated across states and regions but nevertheless might not represent all strata of society.

An electoral petition relating to the allocation of seats under sections 191 to 193 may be presented to the Court of Appeal by a secretary of a political party whose party was listed in the part of the ballot paper that relates to the party vote.

In a situation like that, even a small amount of electoral fraud, or a small number of people whose vote was swayed by a negative story about a candidate, could be enough.

(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.