Eight electors took the opportunity to attend the open public forum before the council meeting in July. |
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What about a law that imposed or removed a property qualification on electors? |
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However, a vote was taken last March among the 25 qualified electors named on the register of electors at Kennedy Street. |
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He appealed to the young voters to come out to vote and to make sure their names are on the register of electors. |
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In all the big swing states, electors are allotted on a winner-take-all basis. |
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By doing so, the legacy of the landgraves of Hesse-Kassel and Hesse-Darmstadt and the electors and grand dukes of Hesse may be preserved. |
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But such things insert a physical and optical barrier between electors and their representatives, the public and its servants. |
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Labour's huge majorities owe much to a decision by electors to vote tactically. |
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Instead, registered electors will be sent a ballot paper by post and it can then be sent back to the council. |
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The representative democracy of our Constitution is not confined to a ceremonial visit of electors to the ballot box each triennium. |
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Mr Jordan said it was important electors appreciate the significance of the new arrangements. |
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The US House of Congress, which holds a slender Republican majority, will decide which slate of electors to accept. |
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French electors today embark on the first round of the presidential elections with an unparalleled disdain for politics. |
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Senators today are elected largely as representatives of their constituents and carry out the instructions received from their electors. |
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The decision will be put by referendum to the vote of electors in the different regions. |
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Minor world leaders get to be statesmen for a day, and tell their parliaments and electors that they are taking part in a world summit. |
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The Geraldton City Council will canvass its electors on a proposal to amend local burning by-laws. |
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Because of the closeness of the presidential race, the role of the electors is being scrutinized as never before. |
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Little in this record was calculated to inspire enthusiasm among the electors of the Ulivo coalition, let alone those who had voted against it. |
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The ruling comes as record numbers of electors are applying for postal votes ahead of the general election. |
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Thirty-three electors took the opportunity to attend the open public forum immediately before the council meeting. |
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Instead of speaking at the declaration of the poll he addressed the electors only later from his hotel. |
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By the end of the century, however, the principle that an MP was the representative not the delegate of his electors was firmly established. |
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But you'd have to win both of the state's congressional districts to get the other two electors who are proxies for the state's House members. |
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With this vast grant of constitutional power, electors have chosen to become merely the faithful proxies of the people. |
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It is with diffidence and humility that I greet the ultimate constitutional power in the Republic, the Presidential electors. |
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The Constitution requires that all electors vote on the same day, and this has always been done. |
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At the last elections in May 2002, about 15,000 electors chose a postal vote. |
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The turnout is crucial and both sides were canvassing frantically on Friday night to get electors to use their votes on the EU's Nice treaty. |
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A narrow majority of English electors voted Conservative at the recent election, only to see Labour reinstalled in government. |
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The only way to ensure good representation is for electors to vote in quality candidates who are prepared to consult. |
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Altogether, 61 electoral pilot schemes including all postal ballots, will proceed, offering 6.5 million electors new voting opportunities. |
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Under the proportional system, electors get two votes, one for the electorate MP and one for their party preference. |
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From the beginning in 1789 down through the unforgettable election of 2000, it has been the electors who cast the votes that really matter. |
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It's the reason the Florida legislature could contemplate sending its own set of electors to Congress if it had lost in the Supreme Court. |
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One is that the Florida legislature, Republican dominated, would have selected the Bush electors to vote in the Electoral College. |
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Do the electors have to vote for the candidate who received the most votes in their state? |
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Something similar occurred at the same time in Regensburg, near Nuremberg, where the electors of the Holy Roman Empire met at regular intervals. |
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Two sets of electors show up in Washington on January 6 for the electoral college. |
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This will create a moat around City Hall's castle with maybe a drawbridge to keep electors out. |
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Article II vested the executive power of the federal government in a president and vice president, both elected for four-year terms by specially chosen electors. |
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To ask electors for an opinion without providing them with comprehensive details is bound to result in emotional responses rather than a balanced and logical reply. |
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After America's fraud-tainted election of 1876, Congress enacted legislation requiring that presidential electors be chosen based on the law in place on election day. |
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It seemed clear that the Prime Minister was going to tough it out, hoping, no doubt, that the hoopla over the Olympics would quickly distract the attention of the electors. |
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It used to be that voters voted directly for presidential electors, whose names would appear on the ballots, as Donald described for Abraham Lincoln. |
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I am confident that a large proportion of informal votes is from electors who refuse to choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee, and don't wish to pay a fine. |
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In this system, if there are n candidates, then electors cast one vote for every candidate they find acceptable and none for those whom they deem unacceptable. |
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It was encouraging to see that 90 percent of the Haitian electors had registered, and that 60 percent of those electors have voted in the first round of the elections. |
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Many dirt-poor electors, who might think the Democrats offer them some short-term material gain, vote Republican in defence of traditional decencies. |
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In parliamentary boroughs with freeman franchises, the power to bestow the freedom was in effect a power to create electors, a consideration which clearly shaped its use. |
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The case was brought after complaints from electors in the Bordesley Green and Aston wards of Birmingham city council that their votes had been stolen. |
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Although a press release was put out, letters were not sent to electors. |
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Another question is whether the electors would have counted the overvote the same way that the consortium did. |
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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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The Nationalist government conducted a state referendum in 1933, in which the electors voted two to one in favour of separating from the Commonwealth. |
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The vacancies mean by-elections could take place if ten electors in the town contact the council in writing by October 25 saying that they want one. |
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This tie came about because all the Republican electors dutifully cast their votes for Jefferson and Burr, the two candidates endorsed by their party caucus. |
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The agreement came too late to free Prussia to pursue all she wanted with her full strength in Poland, but it left the Rhenish princes and electors at the Republic's mercy. |
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From his throne of ivory and sculpted wood, the king ruled through an elaborate network of councilors and governors, clan elders and local chieftains, priests and electors. |
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Elections are subject to administrative pressure, some electors are directly leaned on, and counts are manipulated and turnout unconvincingly fixed. |
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The lieutenant governor is directed to submit this proposed amendment to the electors of the state of Utah at the next general election in the manner provided by law. |
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But a survey of 135 constituencies by the Guardian last month found record numbers of electors applying for postal votes, in some cases a tripling over four years ago. |
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Special category electors do not register through the annual canvass procedure. |
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Overseas electors are prefixed with the letter F, meaning they can only vote in European and UK Parliamentary elections. |
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By drawing lots, a body of 30 electors was chosen, which was further reduced to nine electors by drawing lots again. |
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As there was no secret ballot until 1872, the landowner could evict electors who did not vote for the man he wanted. |
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The borough has just seventeen electors, all of whom are tenants of Mr Norton. |
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Previously, hereditary peers had been constitutionally disqualified from being electors to, or members of, the House of Commons. |
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Despite this prediction, in 1868 the Conservatives lost the first general election in which the newly enfranchised electors voted. |
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Figures show that in Newcastle 165,123 electors had their details transferred on to the new electoral registers. |
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To have a valid nomination a candidate has to have a proposer, seconder and eight assenters, all of whom have to be electors in the ward. |
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Outside polling places supporters of candidates and parties hand out how-to-vote cards to electors. |
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The initial electors were the rulers of the stem duchies, who generally chose one of their own. |
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In 1028, after his coronation as Emperor in 1027, Conrad II had his son, Henry III, elected King of Germany by the prince electors. |
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The emperor now was to be elected by a majority rather than by consent of all seven electors. |
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For electors the title became hereditary, and they were given the right to mint coins and to exercise jurisdiction. |
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A candidate for election would be expected to offer concessions of land or money to the electors in order to secure their vote. |
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The first class, the Council of Electors, consisted of the electors, or the princes who could vote for King of the Romans. |
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The manner of election, the nature of candidate qualifications, and the electors vary from case to case. |
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Of the 271 electoral votes for Bush, 25 were cast by electors from Florida. |
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Until the 1868 presidential election, South Carolina's legislature, not the voters, chose the state's electors for the presidential election. |
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The electors are now limited to those who have not reached 80 on the day before the death or resignation of a pope. |
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The plate is then used to drop the ballot into the chalice, making it difficult for electors to insert multiple ballots. |
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The parliamentary assemblies are now accountable not just to the electors but also to the courts. |
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The King of Spain was a grandson of the deceased emperor, but the electors thought him to be a foreigner as much as the French king. |
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The number of Commoners a ward sends to the Common Council varies from two to ten, depending on the number of electors in each ward. |
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Every civil parish has a parish meeting, which all the electors of the parish are entitled to attend. |
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Elections only occur if, following the advertisement of the vacancy for 14 days, 10 electors send a written request to the returning officer. |
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Reviews may also be triggered by a petition of local government electors for an area. |
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Where a new parish is formed with 1,000 electors or more, a parish council must be formed. |
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Where there are between 151 and 999 electors the principal council may recommend the establishment of either a parish council or parish meeting. |
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He was also the natural candidate of the electors to succeed his grandfather as Holy Roman Emperor. |
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Currently, the average Scottish Parliament constituency comprises 55,000 electors. |
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The island archipelagos of Orkney, Shetland and the Western Isles comprise a much smaller number of electors, due to their dispersed population. |
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Overseas electors on Scottish electoral registers are not allowed to vote in Scottish Parliament elections. |
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In order to vote in the referendum, electors had to be resident in the islands, aged 18 or over and have Falkland Islands status. |
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Party discipline is strong since electors generally vote for individuals on the basis of their party affiliation. |
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This method allows electors to judge every single candidate as in a FPTP system. |
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The warrior bishops, electors, pfalzgrafs, and knights of the empire, all swore it was no shame not to be a match for Sathanas. |
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Sallust tells us that he was unknown by sight to the electors but was returned by all the tribes on the basis of his accomplishments. |
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By the end of the 12th century, the Archbishop of Cologne was one of the seven electors of the Holy Roman Emperor. |
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The Camerlengo, the one appointed to take care of the Roman Curia whilst the Papal throne is vacant, will call all of the Cardinal electors to Rome. |
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This considerably extended the borough franchise and established the principle that each parliamentary constituency should hold roughly the same number of electors. |
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A majority of the electors would always have a majority of the representatives, but a minority of the electors would always have a minority of the representatives. |
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Only electors who are Freemen of the City of London are eligible to stand. |
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In juries of the Justices in Eyre, the bailiff of the hundred would choose 4 electors who in turn chose 12 others from their hundred, and from these were selected 12 jurors. |
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The Act abolished vestries, set up urban districts and rural districts, and established elected civil parish councils in all rural parishes with more than 300 electors. |
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In urban areas the wards within a local authority area typically each contain roughly the same number of electors, and each elect three councillors. |
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South Carolina was the last state to choose its electors in this manner. |
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Existing borough electors retained a lifetime right to vote, however they had qualified, provided they were resident in the boroughs in which they were electors. |
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Each district council or unitary authority has an Electoral Register which is compiled by the Electoral Registration Officer listing all registered electors. |
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British citizens who are away overseas temporarily do not need to register as overseas electors and can register to vote in the usual way at their UK address. |
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Where there are 150 electors or fewer a parish council may not be formed. |
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