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* Lanoue, David J. and Craig F. Emmert ; " Voting in the Glare of the Spotlight: Representatives ' Votes on the Impeachment of President Clinton " Polity, Vol.
After the six-year voting ban on Bal Thackeray was lifted in 2005, he voted for the first time in the 2006 BMC elections .< ref name =" Voting ban lifted ">
Voting systems then determine the result on the basis of the tally.
How Gerrymandering can influence electoral results on a Voting system # Nonproportional and semiproportional methods | non-proportional system. Example for a state with 3 equally sized districts, 15 voters and 2 parties: Plum ( squares ) and Orange ( circles ). In ( a ), creating 3 mixed-type districts yields a 3 – 0 win to Plum — a disproportional result considering the state-wide 9: 6 Plum majority. In ( b ), Orange wins the urban district while Plum wins the rural districts — the 2-1 result reflects the state-wide vote ratio. In ( c ), gerrymandering techniques ensure a 2-1 win to the state-wide minority Orange party.
Jenkins ' Grave In December 1997, he was appointed chair of a Government-appointed Independent Commission on the Voting System, which became known as the " Jenkins Commission ", to consider alternative voting systems for the UK.
Voting in the General Assembly on important questions – recommendations on peace and security ; election of members to organs ; admission, suspension, and expulsion of members ; budgetary matters – is by a two-thirds majority of those present and voting.
* Riker, William H. “ The Paradox of Voting and Congressional Rules for Voting on.
During hearings in the South regarding the Voting Rights Act, Washington asked questions that shed light on tactics used to prevent African Americans from voting ( among them, closing registration early, literacy tests, and gerrymandering ).
Noted legislative achievements during this phase of the Civil Rights Movement were passage of Civil Rights Act of 1964, that banned discrimination based on " race, color, religion, or national origin " in employment practices and public accommodations ; the Voting Rights Act of 1965, that restored and protected voting rights ; the Immigration and Nationality Services Act of 1965, that dramatically opened entry to the U. S. to immigrants other than traditional European groups ; and the Fair Housing Act of 1968, that banned discrimination in the sale or rental of housing.
President Johnson, Martin Luther King, Jr. and Rosa Parks at the signing of the Voting Rights Act on August 6, 1965.
* U. S. Commission on Civil Rights, Voting Rights Enforcement and Reauthorization: An Examination of the Act's Section 5 Preclearance Provision
Voting is by weighted vote of each of the communities based on population, which is the reason why Saratoga Springs and Clifton Park, the two largest communities in Saratoga County, elect two Supervisors.
Voting on issues by initiative may be available in some jurisdictions but not others.
Voting for the Juno Fan Choice Award is open to the general public, while voting on general categories is limited to CARAS members.
Direct Legislation: Voting on Ballot Propositions in The United States.
Voting began on the day of the announcement and will continue until February 17.
* In January 2011, Labour peers were attempting to delay the passage of the Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill 2010 until after 16 February, the deadline given by the Electoral Commission to allow the referendum on the Alternative Vote to take place on 5 May.
Voting in the 1918 general election occurred in most constituencies on 14 December and elections were held almost entirely under the ' first-past-the-post voting ' system.
Disagreeing with Fair Voting BC's decision to devote the movement's energies to backing the new BC Liberal government's plan to move forward with the Citizens ' Assembly process it had developed in 1997, Carr founded a rival electoral reform organization called Free Your Vote to utilize the province's citizen initiative legislation ( which technically allows citizens to force referendums on legislation if they gather a sufficient number of signatures ).
EPIC also established the National Committee on Voting Integrity.
Voting on the ballot of five nominations is performed roughly in April through July, subject to change depending on when that year's Worldcon is held.

Voting and September
* Why Voting Just Encourages Politicians discusses his research at The Commonwealth Club, September 2010
Former Civil Rights Division Voting Section Chief Christopher Coates testified on September 24, 2010, " I am here today to testify about the Department of Justice's final disposition of the New Black Panther Party case and the hostility in the Civil Rights Division and the Voting Section towards the equal enforcement of some of the federal voting laws.
On September 5, a three-member panel of federal judges ruled that the county's election plans did not constitute a violation of the federal Voting Rights Act.
A second report was released in September 2005 detailing some of the concerns with electronic voting, and ongoing improvements, titled " Federal Efforts to Improve Security and Reliability of Electronic Voting Systems Are Under Way, but Key Activities Need to Be Completed ".
Voting irregularities in 9 constituencies ( 17 seats ) in the June elections led to the subsequent by-elections in September for those seats.
Voting in the PEI general election on September 29 was also disrupted, though more than 80 % of voters made it to polling stations.
* September 28, 1984: Voting Accessibility for the Elderly and Handicapped Act
* September 28, 1984: Voting Accessibility for the Elderly and Handicapped Act,
Voting was held on September 24, 2006, the results of which showed a clear majority of the electorate – 63 percent – opposed to such a merger.
Geraghty's book, Voting to Kill: How 9 / 11 Launched the Era of Republican Leadership ( Touchstone, September 2006, ISBN 0-7432-9042-9 ) argues that national security and safety in the face of terrorist threats is the key issue in U. S. politics.
Voting in the various states was held between April 1818 ( New York ) and September 1819 ( Alabama ).
Voting in the various states took place between August 1794 ( New Hampshire and Rhode Island ) and September 1795 ( Kentucky ).

Voting and 11
* Bernadette Heenan, Region 3 ( Voting Districts 1, 11 and 15 ) current term expires 12 / 2013
" ( p. 7, 22-25 ; p. 8, 1-2 ) Abigail Thernstrom, the Republican-appointed vice chairwoman of the Commission, has written that " Perhaps the Panthers should have been prosecuted under section 11 ( b ) of the Voting Rights Act for their actions of November 2008, but the legal standards that must be met to prove voter intimidation — the charge — are very high.
* DeltaFort Beleggingen B. V. ( Capital interest: 11. 23 %; Voting rights: 3. 82 %)
Section 11, Clause 6 ( 1 ) of the Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Act 2011 states ; " There shall be two constituencies in the Isle of Wight .".
* 11 ) The Voting Members of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura

Voting and City
On 2008-02-28, the Maryland American Civil Liberties Union and Prince George's County NAACP sent a letter to the Greenbelt City Council claiming that Greenbelt's at-large system may violate section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
2008 ): Rejecting a constitutional challenge to the Voting Rights Act's preclearance requirement, Judge Tatel ’ s 121-page opinion held that the rationality standard articulated in South Carolina v. Katzenbach and City of Rome v. United States — two Supreme Court decisions upholding prior versions of the Act — remains the appropriate standard of review despite the congruence and proportionality test announced in City of Boerne v. Flores.

Voting and New
Allegany is part of New York's 29th congressional district, which has a Cook Partisan Voting Index of R + 5.
It is located in New Mexico's 3rd congressional district, which has a Cook Partisan Voting Index rating of D + 7 and is represented by Democrat Ben R. Luján.
Courts sometimes mandate its use as a remedy in lawsuits brought under the Voting Rights Act in the United States ; an example of this occurred in 2009 in Port Chester, New York., which had its first cumulative voting elections for its Board of Trustees in 2010 ..
On January 7, 2009, the United States Department of Justice ( DOJ ) filed a civil suit against the New Black Panther Party and three of its members alleging violations of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 over the incident at the Philadelphia polling place.
Image: Standardvotingmachine. jpg | A voting machine designed by Alfred J. Gillespie and marketed by the Standard Voting Machine Company of Rochester, New York from the late 1890s.
File: Voting machine lever. jpg | The famous lever of a lever voting machine still being used in 2008 in Kingston, New York
The New York Times quoted a participant in the poll as stating, " The ' media ' tells us what food to eat, what movies to see, what music to listen to, who to vote for politically and what kind of people are attractive enough to have relationships with !... Voting for ' Hank the Dwarf ' is a reflection of how the people really feel about media!
MacDonald ’ s published journalism ( The Independent, The Daily Telegraph, the Glasgow Herald and the New Statesman ) include articles on: Northern Ireland ; the Balkans ; Russia ; links between Labour and the Liberal Democrats ; Voting Reform ; the Debate on Clause 4, etc.
* Kim, Soo Yeon and Bruce Russett, " The New Politics of Voting Alignments in the United Nations General Assembly ", International Organization Vol.
The New Zealand Green Party MP Sue Bradford announced on 21 June 2007 that she intended to introduce her Civics Education and Voting Age Bill on the next occasion upon which a place became available for the consideration of Members ' Bills.
McCaughey also wrote op-ed columns that appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and USA Today, in which she opposed plans involving local and state redistricting to comply with the Voting Rights Act, and criticized court ordered desegregation of schools in Connecticut and New Jersey.
* Queensland, along with New South Wales, operates a balloting system known as Optional Preferential Voting for state elections.
The Board of Directors for the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Foundation, Inc. is made up of four parts: the Voting Board ( 30 community members ), the Executive Board ( President, Vice-President, Secretary, etc.
Again, the initially slow pace of the Civil Rights era reforms, notably in the areas of school desegregation and voting rights, at first made the " New South " more of a slogan than a description of the South as it was ; the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 brought an era of far more rapid change.
On October 24, 2006 the Chief Electoral Officer of Quebec released a report ( in French only ) " Report on the Evaluation of New Methods of Voting ".
* The New Method of Voting by William Mahone, The North American review.
*" Voting Alone ," by Nick Arvin, New York Times, November 8, 2008
After the District of Columbia Voting Rights Amendment expired in 1985, another constitution for the state of New Columbia was drafted in 1987.
* C. Rallings & M. Thrasher, Local Voting and the New Parliamentary Constituencies, ( Plymouth: LGC Elections Centre, 1996 )
* C. Rallings & M. Thrasher, Local Voting and the New Parliamentary Constituencies, ( Plymouth: LGC Elections Centre, 1996 )
" European Integration and Ethnic Voting: Electoral Fortune of Ethnic Parties in Seven European Regions " Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, New Orleans, LA, 2004-01-08

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