Vote riggers would simply give people pre-marked ballots and watch as they deposited them into the voting box. |
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After the first round of voting for the speaker resulted in a tied vote, the house descended into uproar. |
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In March, San Francisco voted to become the first American city to implement instant runoff voting for its major local elections. |
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The voting public was just getting interested in the debate when parties began wrangling about the costings on their manifestos. |
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The Iranian voting public put a hardliner and a conservative pragmatist into a run-off election with their ballots on Friday. |
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As long as these two elements exist, not voting will not change the present condition for the worse. |
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And that agenda runs entirely counter to what I feel a lot of Mainers think they're voting for when they vote for these people. |
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Look, voting is a privilege as well as a right and if you don't vote, you should be ashamed of yourself. |
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But as we started to get the traditional boost of people voting on their way home from work it just took off. |
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Mr Lane said that by the whole district voting the temptation was there not to put two strong female candidates on the ticket. |
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With the aim of winning a legislative majority, both camps have made vote allocation and tactical voting their campaign strategy of choice. |
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They didn't make any effort to tick people off the voters' list or stop them voting twice. |
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And this may, in turn, make them far more amenable to compromise on postal voting and a new supreme court. |
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He said people's fears in relation to electronic voting should be allayed as the new service is rolled out in the run-up to election day. |
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Unfortunately the voting system they favour the alternative vote has serious weaknesses. |
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In 2001 he was appointed a life peer, following the removal of the voting rights of hereditary lords. |
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She's beautiful and confident and self-assured, and when can I start voting for her already? |
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On my recollections I cannot see how we can consider voting for such a man. |
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According to McCarthy, because voting involves a secret ballot it is impossible to prove that electronic voting is safe. |
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Mysterious extra voters appeared on the voting rolls in some constituencies. |
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When they aren't rocking out, the band do what they can to encourage their fans to become politically aware and get out to the voting polls. |
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I think the most striking fact about all of this is that people in red states aren't voting with their pocketbooks. |
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Where, for instance, was the effort to encourage tactical voting from nationalists? |
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Under state and federal law, all voting machinery and component parts must be certified before use in an election. |
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You may apply to register only for the voting district in which you are resident. |
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It applauds guest worker programs and expanded voting rights for noncitizen immigrants. |
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Someone had signed her postal voting declaration and someone else had signed as the witness. |
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State law requires local boards of elections to conduct absentee ballot voting at nursing homes. |
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It's about using fear and xenophobia as a tool to scare people into voting for the Liberals at the next election. |
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Reforming the voting system to make each vote count towards the final result would make every individual's opinion important. |
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Meanwhile, Petway abstained from voting on the proposed incentives, declaring a conflict of interest. |
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A show of hands resulted in 11 people voting to bring back the bells, with one vote against and six abstentions. |
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Mr Wilson said past experiences had shown voting was often done in the initial days of polls opening. |
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Modern changes to conclave procedures have eliminated voting by acclamation. |
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Many political affiliations are passed down through the chain, with entire villages voting in accord during an election. |
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The composition of the committee is the same as above, and the voting is in accordance with that in the Council. |
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Farheen, a third year optical management student says she won't be voting either. |
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One of the most important principles of voting is the secrecy of the ballot. |
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But so far, the signs are that that won't put Kenyans off, voting Kibaki in. |
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Speaking of which, I probably need to decide who I'm voting for pretty soon, huh? |
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Surely realpolitik dictates that this Government must use its final Budget to please the voting classes. |
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Capetonians can support the talented young matriculant by attending her free show and by voting for her online. |
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Paradoxically it is the educated and thinking class that remains the greatest defaulter when it comes to voting leaders in or out. |
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If the names on voting documents don't tally with people's ID, they will not be able to vote. |
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Make voting more accessible, the thinking goes, and more citizens will vote. |
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How many coffee-chain baristas and sweatshop seamstresses assume that voting for lower taxes will bring them security and prosperity? |
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Tactical voting offers huge advantages in getting the maximum representation. |
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Kant was clearly of the view that majority voting does not in itself produce legitimate law. |
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True, you will have to charm the decrepit blimps and blue rinses from the shires into voting for you. |
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Nor do we declare martial law to keep our people from voting for the kind of government they want. |
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For the first time in the UK voting can be done by the Internet and mobile phone text messaging, as well as by traditional ballot papers. |
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Highlights include our lead story on how tactical voting using the internet could prove crucial in the upcoming general election. |
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When politicians actively cut taxes, they are like turkeys voting for Christmas. |
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The voting machines and paper ballots for said election shall carry the following designation, which shall be the title and submission clause. |
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The election will be a postal ballot, with voting papers going out from 4 October. |
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Well look, you know, it is too late to fix these machines, but really we should be voting on paper ballots. |
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And with more than 11,000 electoral jurisdictions designing their own ballots and voting systems, all of our votes are in danger. |
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Instead, his vote dropped by over a million votes and in the first round of voting he gained just 34.9 percent of the ballot. |
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The workers are to begin voting in a strike ballot on January 25, following their rejection of a proposed two-year wage deal from the company. |
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It meets in secret and doesn't publish minutes or the voting record of its meetings. |
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The fall in the number of people voting has very little to do with inconvenience, apathy or laziness in the electorate. |
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The bill only scraped by due to a provision of the voting regulations which interprets an abstention as a vote in favour. |
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The accuracy of electronic voting can be tested by comparing paper records to digital votes but not to recount an entire election. |
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The closeness of voting in marginal seats in both state and federal elections demonstrates that our individual votes do matter. |
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They have called for tactical voting in north and south Swindon to prevent the Tories regaining the town. |
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Workers reacted against the outrageous contract demands of the company, voting by an overwhelming 48 to 3 for strike action. |
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Why should I leave the choice to a bunch of tobacco-chewing backwoodsmen who aren't even bright enough to mark the voting papers properly? |
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And in that election, the early announcement of results had manifest effects on voting behaviour on subsequent polling days. |
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Viewers will be invited to do the hiring by voting for the contestant of their choice telephonically or via SMS during the live show. |
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But too few recognise that voting for the Liberals risks letting the Tories in through the back door. |
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The simple fact is that voting Lib Dem risks letting the Tories in by the back door. |
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If you leave the voting to those keeners who were in line on Tuesday morning, then you might as well get used to not having a vote at all. |
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Before long the sports law will be amended to bring about fair play and equality in the voting system. |
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If you spend any time on the Internet in the U.S., it is almost impossible not to know about the scandal involving touch screen voting machines. |
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I say it doesn't matter what type of voting apparatus is used here or in any other state. |
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It is not possible to remedy this public disenchantment by more razzmatazz, electronic voting or Pop Idol stunts. |
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The balance of voting in the Council of Ministers had, up to this point, meant that a 'blocking minority' of 23 votes was required. |
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Only 32 percent of the electorate turned up at the polls, voting by a razor-thin margin to retain the existing law. |
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The party benefited from the sharp fall in the Tory vote and from tactical voting to win 46 seats in 1997, 10 of them in Scotland. |
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He is man whose voting record in the Senate is consistent with his party affiliation. |
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That's not deceiving voters, that's just politics, but letting the voters know what they are voting for is beyond the pale. |
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I will probably split my vote as I did last time by voting for a candidate chosen for personal qualities but voting for a different party. |
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His voting record is full of examples of when he strayed from party political orthodoxy and voted with Republicans on issues that he cares about. |
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After the voting age was lowered to 18 in 1971, it seemed anachronistic for colleges to treat their students as wards. |
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I know some wet urban liberals who are thinking of voting for the Maori Party. |
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It is my belief for fishermen to accept this would be like turkeys voting for Christmas. |
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At the same time, the new voting system will be instrumental in preventing the speaker from railroading contentious bills in a unilateral manner. |
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To avoid different voting systems, the betting is that STV will be recommended for parliamentary elections too. |
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All of these are machines that involve data input that results in a transaction, just like a voting machine. |
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A suspended election would involve extraordinary efforts to secure and protect ballots and voting systems. |
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We were voting for captains today, and I really hoped people would put me up as a candidate. |
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Gonzales said media surveys are not well-designed for measuring Hispanic voting patterns. |
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The DAB vice-chairman said the democrats had betrayed the interests of the parents and the teachers by voting against the bill. |
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A burglar in adolescence, he was addicted to heroin and behind bars before reaching voting age. |
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We'll never know because electronic voting machine don't leave an audit trail. |
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There is a good article here on how adversely midweek voting affects American productivity. |
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The presidential election is just more than five weeks away, and a key voting block is expected to be Latino voters. |
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His call only worked because a lot of people saw the sense in voting tactically. |
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Our province desperately needs a party to once again position themselves in the middle where most of the voting block is. |
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I don't think councillors will vote for this with an election looming, it would be like turkeys voting for Christmas. |
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You agreed that everyone voting against the government did so with the intention of toppling the government. |
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Many democrats that received these funds to not have a voting record that is friendly to the membership. |
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The samples we've included were weighted to favor people whose past voting behavior suggested a higher likelihood of voting. |
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You will need to register either on voting day or by completing an application available at the Office of the City Clerk in City Hall. |
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The voting process was corrupted an Alliance organiser received several ballots from delegates aligned with the Alliance. |
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We may be wrong, but we thought that most voters managed to juggle the difficult task of working and voting without bilocation. |
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So, are we being exploited twice over by parties who only want to jockey us into voting for them? |
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Most of the clubs are in exactly the same position and like turkeys voting for Christmas, they created the situation themselves. |
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The kind of universal electoral process you describe sounds wonderful at first blush and I might even consider voting for such a system. |
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The members who have been kept at arm's length will dutifully behave like turkeys voting for Christmas. |
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The Electoral Commission, as like as not, will find some dreadful problem with all-postal voting in Yorkshire and the North-West. |
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He claims to be very liberal, but when he's voting it just doesn't jibe with what he says. |
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Plenty of distraught candidates have gone to court accusing the voting machines of miscounting their votes, but to little avail. |
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Surely Claybourn isn't thinking of voting for a third-party candidate in order to salve his own political conscience. |
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There is only one fix for the Democratic Party that would bring an end to the me-too voting of Democratic politicians. |
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They skirt the law by being careful not to advocate voting for or against any candidate. |
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Seems to me that if you have 88 members out of 150 present and voting for a bill, the lack of a quorum is hardly going to influence the outcome. |
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Women are divided in their political loyalties, voting preferences, and policy preferences. |
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Indeed, what will decide this election in the next three weeks is whether Americans are voting on the message or the messenger. |
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Certainly, reading such bilge is the only time I feel like voting for them. |
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The proxy ballot card was designed to address these questions as separate voting issues. |
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It gave us all a sense of involvement and importance that electronic voting will never give us. |
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The rich and powerful in this country manipulate elections, and gerrymander voting districts. |
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His senatorial voting record and his record of writing legislation provides us with enough history for a factual and reasonable assessment. |
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In fact, she won't be voting for anybody because she is not even on the electoral register. |
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Let's take the high road, not the low road of scaring people into voting for one side or the other. |
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But if the effect of his views is difficult to gauge, the effect of tactical voting is not. |
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The ads could cause those who have supported Chen for his reformist ideals to think twice before voting for him, Tseng said. |
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The Saga poll breaks new ground by analysing the difference in voting intentions and opinions between the baby boomer generation and the over-65s who lived through the war. |
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As I went through voting I noticed at least what I saw were all ayes. |
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But this year, instead of simply voting against Boehner on Tuesday, at least two members of the group are vying to replace him. |
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However the introduction of electronic voting will herald the end of the tallymen, which will take a lot of the excitement and drama out of elections. |
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But we don't need the sanctimonious scolding of a student newspaper editor to tell us voting for a party, any party, is a manifestation of our stupidity and ignorance. |
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He's lobbying to make the working age and the voting age one and the same. |
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Preferential voting was for many years known as the Australian Ballot. |
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But how complicated can they make voting sound, for heaven's sake? |
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Split-ticket voting in general elections, the hallmark of so-called independents, is relatively rare. |
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She adds that some of the earliest voting booths were stationed inside drinking establishments. |
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We are sure that many of those who were in her position did not support the Government, but were unwilling to sacrifice their political careers by voting for the Amendment. |
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Possibility B, which McConnell seems to be supporting, involves Republican senators voting as they see fit. |
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One reason for this is that in many seats tactical voting is pointless. |
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Republicans gather in every county and go through several rounds of voting by secret ballot. |
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As she discussed her understanding of the voting rights campaign and how she planned to recreate it, I grew more relieved. |
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I asked him about this message given the efforts to restrict early voting and his overall sense of the ground game to date. |
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A custodian is responsible for everything arising from ownership of these certificates, including collecting dividends, voting at meetings, exercising rights and so forth. |
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Electoral support for the two parties has dropped to all-time lows, with record numbers of people expressing their disgust by voting for Independents or minor parties. |
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Voters could cast unlimited votes without being detected by mechanisms within the voting terminal, they reported, and votes could be overwritten in the system's logs. |
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After the U.S. government fell millions of dollars behind in arrears in the late 1990s, the United States almost lost its voting rights in the General Assembly. |
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The bell gives them a 15-minute warning, which is just about sufficient time for them to discover exactly what they are voting for, and which division lobby to enter. |
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Sitting on a wooden platform on the island of Rinca, overlooking several Komodo dragons, park ranger Martinus confessed that he would be voting for Megawati. |
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Unfortunately, as demonstrated in this debate, the major parties have prevented members from voting for what they truly believe in, or at least pay lip service to. |
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If McConnell really thinks that, then why not foil their scheme by voting yes? |
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We need to draw a line in the sand to maintain our voting rights. |
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Before and during its voting period, PopVote became the target of a series of cyber attacks. |
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Bear in mind, though, that premium rate numbers are also used legitimately for chat lines and for voting on some popular reality television shows. |
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I've been voting for him ever since he came on the scene and I've been a Labour Party member all my life, but I've ripped my card up and posted it back to Mr Blair. |
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In 1970, 1975 and 1982, Congress readopted and broadened the coverage of Section 5, based upon a continued need for preclearance of new voting procedures. |
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There was a traffic jam on the highway leading to the early voting station in Franklin County, Ohio, on Monday. |
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My point is we're not voting because it doesn't make a whit of difference. |
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He acknowledged that political parties did not encourage tactical voting in their campaign strategies, but sophisticated voters could split their vote. |
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After the closing date of February 21st a panel of judges will select shortlists for each category, for voting by the general public from 7th April. |
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However, only days before early voting was to commence, a local judge ordered the polling station open. |
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But the Democrats have the majority in the lower house, and they let the bill expire without voting on it. |
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This is to make sure results from the UK falls into line with results from the rest of Europe, where voting is traditionally carried out on a Sunday. |
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A council has been forced to reprint 16,000 postal voting packs after the first batch was declared null and void due to an administrative error, it emerged today. |
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In 2000, Mitchell was accused of disenfranchising thousands of Floridians by tampering with voting lists. |
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One of the silly arguments of those deafening poorly designed electronic voting machines is that there's never been any evidence that they miscount votes. |
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It may mean celebrities are so numerous they constitute a voting bloc that could sway state and federal elections. |
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It was a scene repeated at polling stations across America last week as an unprecedented wave of early voting signalled a potentially sharp rise in overall turnout. |
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The school campaigners saw that this was dominated by a few senior hacks, time-servers who have earned their recently doubled expenses through loyal voting records. |
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The voting patterns of Native Americans are often hard to quantify and in many places do not show a partisan tilt toward Democrats or Republicans. |
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House rules require an absolute majority of members voting to choose a speaker. |
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The largely symbolic document was approved by 123 member states, with 13 voting against and 46 abstaining. |
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But I do want to encourage people to shake up university politics by not voting in a full ticket of candidates, which has happened in the last several elections. |
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Both trials ended in mistrials, with all of the white jurors voting to convict and all of the black jurors voting to acquit. |
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And if he is re-elected, the House advisory rules prohibiting him from voting no longer apply. |
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The National Voting Rights Museum and Institution in Selma, Ala., has some of the first voting booths used in the South. |
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While Bolshevism was a dictatorship of the proletariat, Nazism was a dictatorship with a voting consensus behind it. |
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The MDC, along with Britain, the European Union and the US, has refused to accept the results, saying voting was rigged and influenced by violence and intimidation. |
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I shall certainly be voting for them, on the quiet, of course. |
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Secessionism splits people into parts, artificially separating the voting booth from the synagogue pew. |
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Fewer than 24 hours before voting begins, confusion reigns and contradictory information is bandied about. |
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Darnell Butler, who recently moved back to Washington from Maryland, said he was voting for bowser. |
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The voting was brisk although not as much compared to recent elections, locals said. |
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Is it acceptable that MPs should have the privilege of voting in secret? |
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The Democrat's early voting edge in Stark means that they are confident of winning the cities of canton, Massillon, and Alliance. |
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Hardly any of those wacks running for office are worth voting for. |
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And I cannot abide the two-party system, so I'll be voting Lib Dem. |
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For the first time in our history, according to the census Bureau, blacks are now voting at a higher rate than whites. |
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On a walkabout in Brent East, he accused Mr Blair of insulting the intelligence of electors by warning that voting Lib Dem would produce a Tory government. |
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One in seven Labour MPs defied the whip by voting against or abstaining. |
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No amount of watermarked postal voting papers can guarantee this. |
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Seattle is one of the most recent, with its city council voting this year to adopt the indigenous version of the holiday. |
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The remaining eight constitutional amendment issues include adjusting the terms of Control Yuan members, lowering the voting age and revoking compulsory military service. |
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Well, I'm talking about the fact that we have a voting system where people are conditioned to believe they have to cast their vote for the lesser of two evils. |
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It equates someone who decides to tell the world they're voting Meretz with someone who decides to tell the world they're gay. |
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Is she saying she thinks more lefty kids think voting is useless? |
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But with so little time before actual voting begins, the margin for error is infinitesimal. |
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In response, voters thought voting for Madison was inconsistent with their thirst for free booze. |
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Going out to the public square to debate issues, not voting every four years and switching off in-between. |
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Whether the idea of fairness can attract a voting majority is, alas, an iffy proposition. |
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What's creepy about this quote is the context in which it appears on the homepage of a company that manufactures touch screen voting machines in California. |
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A ballot comes to us from the Italian word balotta for a little ball, since such balls were used for secret voting by placing them in the appropriate urn or box. |
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The first is to prevent Scottish MPs from voting on issues that don't affect Scotland, but Blair needs his tartan army and so that is unlikely to happen. |
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Mitchell, which held that Congress may set requirements for voting in federal elections, but not for state or local elections. |
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Belgium has compulsory voting and thus maintains one of the highest rates of voter turnout in the world. |
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The Chamber's 150 representatives are elected under a proportional voting system from 11 electoral districts. |
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Some scholars recommend voting districts of roughly four to eight seats, which are considered small relative to PR systems in general. |
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The HBHOF is a voting body composed entirely of current and former fighters. |
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Other studies claim that the Electoral College actually increases voting power. |
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The controlling party had apportioned the voting districts such that their party would be favored in the next election. |
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The rival contested the dictator's re-election because of claims of voting irregularities. |
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The restriction of the time of voting to one day reduced the practice of cooping. |
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When comparing voting systems, it is important to know how many representatives are elected from each electoral district. |
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The White House has been engaged in a full court press to prevent other Republican senators from voting for any one of these amendments. |
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Here is a fact that will give you pause. Many states do not publish the voting records of their legislators. |
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In many cases, MPs may be expelled from their parties for voting against the instructions of party leaders. |
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A referendum in the UK on its membership of the European Union was held on 23 June 2016, with a majority of participants voting to leave. |
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The South East of England is the most Conservative voting region of Britain in terms of both seats and votes. |
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As in Great Britain and the rest of Europe, voting and membership of parliament was restricted to property owners. |
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Once a measure received support from a majority of the tribes, the voting would end. |
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William was introduced to the council on 31 May 1670 with full voting rights, despite De Witt's attempts to limit his role to that of an advisor. |
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Abolishing compulsory voting would take Queensland back to Joh era, says Wayne Swan. |
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Wellesley continued to serve at Dublin Castle, voting with the government in the Irish parliament over the next two years. |
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Over subsequent decades, voting rights expanded to include more of the population. |
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In 1964, the 24th Amendment, which abolished the use of poll taxes as a requirement for voting in federal elections, was passed. |
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Reciprocal arrangements allow British and Irish citizens full voting rights in the two states. |
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The referendum was held in May 2011 and resulted in the retention of the existing voting system. |
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Because of this, there were calls from some in UKIP for a voting reform in favour of proportional representation. |
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The voting procedure is managed by a team of independent auditors, and the voting kept secret. |
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Nixon capitalized on this changing tide of voting behaviour, and hence won a landslide victory in the 1972 election. |
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Space policy has since December 2009 been an area for voting in the European Council. |
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Bear in mind, however, that for some purchasing people, deciding to use an agent is a little like turkeys voting for Christmas. |
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One study of Denmark found that providing immigrants with voting rights reduced their crime rate. |
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However the Dissenters were major voting bloc in many areas, such as East Midlands. |
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These chairs each selected a voting panel of 35 members, who cast a total of 5,859 votes. |
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However membership does not convey voting rights or influence over the way English Heritage is run. |
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The emirate's bid beat the United States in a final round of voting last December. |
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This changed with the adoption of the current voting system whereby FIFA's support is necessary, but not sufficient, for any amendment to pass. |
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The documentary claimed it was possible to bribe IOC members into voting for a particular candidate city. |
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Elected to the IOC presidency in the first round of voting on 16 July 1980 at the 83rd Session, he succeeded Lord Killanin on 3 August that year. |
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The Legislative Council, set up in 1843, debates policies and motions before voting to adopt or rejecting bills. |
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A vote clerk sits in front of the Presiding Officer and operates the electronic voting equipment and chamber clocks. |
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The text is then submitted to national bodies for voting and comment within a period of five months. |
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The normal voting age was reduced from 18 to 16 for the referendum, as it was SNP policy to reduce the voting age for all elections in Scotland. |
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Yes Scotland and deputy first minister Nicola Sturgeon have said the existing welfare system can only be guaranteed by voting for independence. |
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The current system has been in place since 2016, and is a positional voting system. |
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Full voting results are withheld until after the grand final, whereupon they are published on the EBU's website. |
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Another study concludes that as of 2006, voting blocs have, on at least two occasions, crucially affected the outcome of the contest. |
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For example, San Marino holds the same voting power as Russia despite the vast geographic and population differences between them. |
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The 382 voting areas were grouped into twelve regional counts and there was separate declarations for each of the regional counts. |
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The following table shows the breakdown of the voting areas and regional counts that were used for the referendum. |
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Local voting figures showed that leave votes were strongly correlated with low education and older age. |
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However the Dissenters were a major voting bloc in many areas, such as the East Midlands. |
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Numerous reforms of voting rights, especially that of 1832, increased the political power of Dissenters. |
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The Bundesrat contained representatives of the states, in which the voting system was based on classes and wealth. |
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Thus, European Union citizens were given voting rights in local elections by the 1992 Maastricht Treaty. |
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The agreements at Nice had paved the way for further enlargement of the Union by reforming voting procedures. |
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The hardest part of the negotiations was reported to be Poland's insistence on square root voting in the Council of Ministers. |
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Hence, the voting powers of the member states are based on their population, and are no longer dependent on a negotiable system of voting points. |
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A president can be reappointed once, and be removed by the same voting procedure. |
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The treaty also allows for the changing of voting procedures without amending the EU treaties. |
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In 1961 she went against the Conservative Party's official position by voting for the restoration of birching as a judicial corporal punishment. |
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Plurality voting is particularly prevalent in the United Kingdom and former British colonies, including the United States, Canada and India. |
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This makes plurality voting among the simplest of all electoral systems for voters and vote counting officials. |
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Plurality voting elects the candidate who is preferred first by the largest number of voters, although this need not be an absolute majority. |
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Advocates of plurality voting suggest that this results in most serious candidates having to present a fairly moderate or centrist position. |
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The term bloc voting sometimes means simple plurality election in multimember districts. |
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In a block voting election, all candidates run against each other for m number of positions, where m is commonly called the district magnitude. |
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Parties in block voting systems can also benefit from strategic nomination. |
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Bullet voting is a strategy in which a voter only votes for a single candidate in an attempt to stop him being beaten by additional choices. |
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The block voting system has a number of features which can make it unrepresentative of the voters' intentions. |
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Block voting regularly produces complete landslide majorities for the group of candidates with the highest level of support. |
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Partial block voting is also used in the Spanish Senate, where there are 4 seats and each voter receives 3 votes. |
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Instead of a series of checkboxes, preferential block voting uses a preferential ballot. |
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Block voting was also in place in a number of multimember ridings of various Canadian provincial parliaments. |
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This change in voting system saw all but five councils end up with no one party in control. |
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For this reason some have suggested that STV can be considered a family of voting systems rather than a single system. |
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A frequent concern about STV is its complexity compared with plurality voting methods. |
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A number of methods of tactical or strategic voting exist that can be used in STV elections, but much less so than with First Past the Post. |
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Academic analysis of voting systems such as STV generally centers on the voting system criteria that they pass. |
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Before universal suffrage, adopted as part of Bermuda's Constitution in 1967, voting was dependent on a certain level of property ownership. |
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Pitcairn Island became a British colony in 1838, and was among the first territories to extend voting rights to women. |
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The process was technically sound, with a systematic adherence to established voting procedures. |
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House Democrats were split on the issue, with 115 voting in favor of and 70 voting against. |
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The voters use a secure online website to vote, and the voting is scrutinized by Electoral Reform Services. |
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Members have voting rights and can use the Pavilion and other stands at Lord's to attend all matches played at the ground. |
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The award uses a voting system and is given to the player in early January. |
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Political groups and parliamentary voting blocs exist, although most candidates run as independents. |
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In February 2007, Estonia was the first country in the world to institute electronic voting for parliamentary elections. |
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It is also required for voting and must be presented to authorities upon request. |
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There are 14 voting districts, identical to the country's administrative regions. |
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There are philosophical, moral, and practical reasons that some people cite for not voting in electoral politics. |
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One of the strongest factors affecting voter turnout is whether voting is compulsory. |
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In Venezuela and the Netherlands compulsory voting has been rescinded, resulting in substantial decreases in turnout. |
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In Greece voting is compulsory, however there are practically no sanctions for those who do not vote. |
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In Belgium and Luxembourg voting is compulsory, too, but not strongly enforced. |
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In other countries, like France, voting is held on the weekend, when most voters are away from work. |
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Many countries have looked into Internet voting as a possible solution for low voter turnout. |
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For example, the US Department of Defense looked into making Internet voting secure, but cancelled the effort. |
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