Sentences with phrase «with electors»

The Chief Electoral Officer has consulted, with registered parties, with electors and with experts on the subject of voting methods, about the alternative voting method, the test under section 4.1 and its results.

One exemption to the act covers those who have «an interest in common with electors generally.»

The final say, however, lies with the electors, who Hamilton notes are

The election would take place with electors completing the Party Ballot section only (assuming there were no candidates standing to oppose the Speaker).

And now at last the young Emperor was in Europe; the October coronation in Aachen was to be followed by his first Diet, the formal consultation with the Electors and Estates of the Empire.

This temporary staff provides support for returning officers, electoral logistics, communication with electors, and studies relating to the operation of an electoral event.

If the status of elector is viewed literally, such laws constitute interference with the elector's free franchise.

I don't say ballot to metonymically refer only to each individual's participation in the election process, but literally each ballot — each slip of paper marked with the elector's desired candidate — because if you're not careful, your vote may not float.

(3) No person shall attempt to obtain at a polling place information as to the candidate for whom an elector is about to vote or interfere or attempt to interfere with an elector in a polling place.

Not exact matches

YAC's solicitors told the Supreme Court of Western Australia on the 21 January that it would not continue with its intention to hold a General Meeting of Electors on 1 February following a challenge by WMYAC as to the validity of the meeting.

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.

With solemnity, he delivered a homily about moving the Catholic Church forward to the cardinal electors, who were dressed in light yellow robes.

At each level, representatives would be chosen from among persons with whom the electors have worked closely.

The Emperor requested the pro-imperial and pro-papal Electors to come to an arrangement with the Schmalkaldic League.

Presumably this is how journalists come up with the figure of 117 electors.

Aleander began to work very hard along with the Emperor's Confessor Fr Glapion to persuade the Electors that the Diet should issue an Edict in support of the excommunication handing Luther over to the ecclesiastical authorities.

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.

Now that Frederick had gone home, the remaining Electors might be persuaded to sign; but the Emperor thought a little further delay might persuade the Pope not to sign a Treaty of Alliance with the King of France.

A full record of the machinations involved with the German Electors, with Francis I of France and Henry VIII of England and his ministers would themselves make a large book.

While the Electors and the Estates seem not to have been universally impressed with the romantic traditionalism of the young French - speaking chevalier, yet they had to avoid a head - on clash with their recently elected Lord.

The final Reform Act did sweep away some aspects of the old system, but the conclusion drawn from this study is that the impact of reform on the constituencies varied enormously, and left a third of the surviving old boroughs with fewer electors than before.

His role (let me assume he's a male) is just to elect, with his fellow electors, the president, any year with a presidential election (that is a year whose number is a multiple of 4).

«All of the affected electors will also be written to by their local Electoral Registration Officer with an explanation of what happened and will be told that they will not be able to vote at the referendum,» they said in a statement.

I'd like to play a lot more, and were the electors of Birmingham Yardley to dispense with my services then I would.

If a state has 30 electors and party A wins with 51 % of the popular vote, then 30 electors supporting the candidate for party A will be chosen.

Specifically, state level California Republicans had been pushing an effort in the legislature there to assign California's 55 electors by proportion of the popular vote to give them an opportunity to win some votes in a state with 12 % of the national population that they haven't had success winning in a generation.

By the people, democratically, but how is not the point here (nationally or by state, proportional by state or with a majority system, with a number of electors by state proportional to the population or not exactly, etc..

With political parties and pledged electors, it doesn't quite work that way.

By enlarging too much the number of electors, you render the representatives too little acquainted with all their local circumstances and lesser interests; as by reducing it too much, you render him unduly attached to these, and too little fit to comprehend and pursue great and national objects.

Thus, even with such a dramatic swing, 28 % is less than 1 elector.

The Electors shall meet in their respective States, and vote by Ballot for two persons, of whom one at least shall not lie an Inhabitant of the same State with themselves.

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

It consists of an effort to reassure the electors Britain is on the right track, coupled with an attempt to set out a personal worldview aimed at reassuring his party he really is one of them.

What advantaged Trump seems to be the majority - take - all system with the way his electors were shared among states, with a short majority in many of the major swing states (nothing new or surprising, in other words).

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.

If, following an inquiry under section 89D, the Electoral Commission receives notice under section 89D (5)(c) of any change or correction to an elector's particulars, other than a change of place of residence referred to in subsection (1), the Electoral Commission must amend the elector's particulars on the roll in accordance with that notification.

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.

A minor party must file a list of presidential electors with the secretary of state no later than the last Tuesday in August.

If an electoral official of a local authority (as defined in section 5 of the Local Electoral Act 2001) wishes to obtain, for the purposes of compiling a roll of electors for the local authority and for no other purpose, any specified information, the Electoral Commission may, in accordance with regulations made under this Act, give that electoral official, on payment of the prescribed fee, a computer - compiled list or electronic storage medium containing that information.

If a writ has been issued requiring the conduct of an election in a district, then, subject to subsections (2) and (3), the Electoral Commission may not, at any time in the period beginning on polling day and ending with the day of the return of the writ, register any application for registration as an elector that the Electoral Commission receives on or after polling day.

The intent of giving Electors two votes was the expectation that, with a lack of knowledge of candidates outside his state, a typical Elector would cast a vote for a «favorite son» from his own state, so a second vote was added to require a vote for a more nationally - known candidate.

With characteristic arrogance (and what now looks like extraordinary hubris) he posed what he took to be a critical question before Britain's electors: ««Are you better off than you were five years ago?

The Independent article showing that a substantial majority of electors oppose Osborne's cuts programme contrasted with New Labour «s failure to join the majority.

The lowest possible population density for a state to have a majority of electors in the Electoral College would be Alaska with a population density of 347.48 pp / mi ^ 2.

The difference is that the elector is not faced with the dilemma of voting for a bad candidate for fear of not voting for the party they want to win the election.

Emergency proxy votes were offered to residents in Barnet, with would - be electors urged to return later after the local authority failed to provide up to date registers.

This slate of electors must be filed with the state, and the deadline is approaching.

In some states, the electors» names appear on the ballot along with the names of the candidates for president and vice president.

Hopefully someone with more expertise than I have can provide more details but having a list of all electors is in any case useful to ensure the integrity of the process.

We probably could dispense with the actual electors today as technology has eliminated many of the problem they were created to solve, but we would still have retain the actual voting system.