| It is all left to a set of political compromises between Government Ministers and the electoral college. |
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| It dramatized the anti-popular bias of the electoral college, an 18 th-century invention designed to confer more political power on slave states. |
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| Two sets of electors show up in Washington on January 6 for the electoral college. |
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| One of the ways it could play out would be pressure to change the electoral college system. |
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| California is in danger of becoming a parody of itself, and The Black Table regrets that the state has so many votes in the electoral college. |
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| The leader was to be chosen by an electoral college comprising MPs and trade unions, and the compulsory re-selection of MPs was introduced. |
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| According to the electoral college theory of parliament, this legislation should already be in effect. |
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| Cosma Shalizi has put together a wonderful compilation of electoral college maps and cartograms. |
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| University candidates must lobby their electoral college by means of a mailshot to their tens of thousands of voters. |
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| The US election is not decided by the popular vote, but by a state electoral college system. |
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| The elderly are easy marks, and in electoral college rich Florida, Social Security is the third rail of politics. |
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| Doesn't the electoral college undermine the one-person, one-vote ideal of a political democracy? |
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| The US says it wants to use the appointed provincial councils to select an electoral college. |
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| The trustees will form an electoral college and that will be another committee. |
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| Like any politician fighting in the electoral college, he only ever cared about tipping enough states over. |
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| The result would be to effectively nullify the electoral college without a constitutional amendment. |
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| More than ever, they are preoccupied with pragmatic matters, such as the lowest common denominator in the political math problem known as the electoral college. |
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| At the same time, an electoral college consisting of all members of congress and six delegates chosen from each state continued to choose the president. |
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| The results have been determined by the Congress, which serves an electoral college when the winning candidate fails to obtain a majority of the vote. |
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| The party had intended to use its complex electoral college of constituency members, trade unions, MPs, MSP and MEPs to choose a leader and deputy leader. |
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| They created the electoral college as a body of wise and thoughtful individuals, dedicated to choosing a statesmanlike leader who would govern in the interests of the country. |
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| It used to be the peak of a farmer's achievement to become a member of the electoral college, which was the body that decided on who would become members of the Wool Board. |
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| Even in systems where an electoral college or other body actually stands between the people and the final vote, the vote of the people is meant to direct that body. |
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| Leaders, bulwarked by the length and complexity of electoral college replacement, are notoriously hard to get rid of. |
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| He even cranked up his office computer and developed a mathematical model of the electoral college, which was used for political strategizing. |
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| Three fifths of the House of Councillors shall be constituted by members elected by an electoral college in each of the regions of the Kingdom. |
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| The Committee established the rules that apply to the electoral process and the guide for candidates and members of the electoral college. |
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| The Court reasoned that Puerto Rico was not a State and it therefore could not have any voting members in the electoral college. |
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| The members were elected following the general elections, by an electoral college of members elected to the National or Provincial Assemblies. |
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| The United States is now the only federation making use of an electoral college to elect a president. |
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| Had such an apportionment been in place in 2000, Al Gore would have won the electoral college vote and become president. |
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| Nobody is born knowing how a bill becomes a law or what the electoral college is. |
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| Lynne explained that first came the electoral college, with each state getting two votes for president. |
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| First, the other side has a huge advantage in money, incumbency and a constituency that benefits lopsidedly from the unrepresentative electoral college and senate. |
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| The president is elected for a five-year term by an electoral college consisting of elected members of both the bicameral parliament and the state legislatures. |
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| While there is no guarantee the electoral college will choose the winner of the popular vote, it maintains the concept of America as a federal union of diverse states. |
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| Following the 1996 constitutional reform, Parliament now comprises a House of Representatives, whose members are directly elected, and a House of Councillors, whose members are elected by an electoral college. |
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| This electoral college is comprised of local representatives. |
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| The electoral college would function exactly as it always has. |
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| The electoral college consists of members of Parliament and the presidents of Regional Councils. |
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| The President may be removed by the electoral college for gross misconduct or incapacity. |
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| The provincial president is constitutionally a member of the electoral college that elects the President of Vanuatu. |
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| Instead, voters elected an electoral college by passing through a gate designated for the candidate of choice while officials counted them. |
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| In others like India, the vote is taken by an electoral college consisting of the national legislature and state legislatures. |
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| This proportionality somewhat mitigated the very high malapportionment of the electoral college itself. |
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| The third electoral college elected 45 people, which were reduced to form a fourth electoral college of 11 by drawing lots. |
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| Before being abolished in 2005, the National Assembly was a constitutional convention and electoral college for the president and vice president. |
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| The second is Republican partisanship — since 2000, many Republicans associate criticism of the electoral college with the delegitimization of the Bush presidency. |
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| President is elected by an electoral college consisting of elected members of both houses of Parliament and the legislatures of the states for a 5-year term. |
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| The city council members thus form an electoral college. |
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| Members of the National Assembly were elected by this electoral college while the general population was totally excluded from the process of elections, both as voters and as candidates. |
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| In the electoral college, maybe not that much worse. |
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| While Governors are directly elected by the people, Presidents win office through the electoral college, a body which reflects the number of Members of Congress in each state. |
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| Article 1 of the decision stipulated that half the members of the Council should be elected by an electoral college with a membership equivalent to at least 100 times the number of representatives of each Emirate. |
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| The electoral college doesn't meet until December. |
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| The President is in fact elected by an electoral college, in which each state has a specific number of votes that is equal to the number of representatives and senators that state sends to Congress. |
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| It is a commonly held misconception that there must be six diocesan bishops in order to hold the electoral college for the Archbishop of Wales. |
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| The second electoral college elected 25 people by approval voting, which were reduced to form a third electoral college of nine members by drawing lots. |
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