The dismissal of the most powerful military figure in Europe was a major victory for the Electors and Regensburg must be seen as a defeat for Ferdinand.

Electors in a geographical constituency, must satisfy all the following requirements to be eligible:

In the Holy Roman Empire the powerful independent Electors came to be housed in palaces ( Paläste ).

It is fully understood by the voters and the Electors themselves that they are the representative " stand-ins " for the individuals to whom they have pledged to cast their electoral college ballots to be President and Vice President.

Archbishop Siegfried believed that the Emperor should not receive the crown as an inheritance from his father, but should be freely selected by the College of Electors.

In 1826 he issued An Address to the People and Electors of England, in which, echoing his speeches, he had some success in urging the election of Members of Parliament who would not be " tools of the West India interest ", paving the way for the second Abolition Bill which succeeded in 1833.

The Electors of Brandenburg inherited the Duchy of Prussia upon Albert Frederick's death in 1618, but the duchy continued to be held as a fief under the Polish Crown until 1656 / 7.

The court ruled that voters have a right under the commonwealth's constitution to reliable and secure voting systems and can challenge the use of electronic voting machines " that provide no way for Electors to know whether their votes will be recognized " through voter verification or independent audit.

The remaining 46 are to be elected by voters on closed electoral rolls representing Fiji's ethnic communities: 23 ethnic Fijians, 19 Indo-Fijians, 1 Rotuman Islander, and 3 " General Electors " ( Europeans, Chinese, and other minorities ).

Electors also consider the two most important nationalist parties: Convergence and Union from Catalonia and Basque Nationalist Party from the Basque Country, to be centred.

Rankin helped form the Committee of Progressive Electors ( COPE ) as a left wing civic political party and it subsequently pushed for a ward-based electoral system to be introduced in Vancouver, culminating in a referendum in October 1973, at which the ward proposal was defeated.

In 1980, the Special Committee on the Political Abuse of Psychiatry, established by the Royal College of Psychiatrists in 1978, charged Snezhnevsky with involvement in the abuse and recommended that Snezhnevsky, who had been honoured as a Corresponding Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, be invited to attend the College's Court of Electors to answer criticisms because he was responsible for the compulsory detention of this celebrated dissident, Leonid Plyushch.

Electors were to be appointed by whatever method the state legislatures chose, and would presumably use their own judgment in choosing a President.

The Catholic communities were to stay subordinate to and be represented by the Kuyavian bishop and keep all of their income, while the Electors of Brandenburg and the local nobility were to have the patronage over the churches.

General Electors would be allocated 3 out of 46 " communal electorates ," with the opportunity to contest, with all other groups, the 25 Open electorates.

A new constitution promulgated in 1990, following two military coups in 1987, abolished the " national " parliamentary seats elected by universal suffrage ( which had comprised almost half the House of Representatives ); all members henceforth were to be elected by enrolled voters on " communal " electoral roles that were limited to specific ethnic communities, each of which had an allocated number of seats in the House ( 37 indigenous Fijians, 27 Indo-Fijians, 1 Rotuman, and 5 General Electors ( Europeans, Chinese, Banaban Islanders, and other minorities ).

Electors were to vote in person, except in exceptional circumstances where a proxy vote might be permitted.

Electors were not permitted to be registered more than once in a single local government district, even if they occupied multiple premises.

However the Chronological Table of the Statutes does not mention such a 1430 Act, as it was included in the Consolidated Statutes as a recital in the Electors of Knights of the Shire Act 1432 ( 10 Henry VI, c. 2 ), which amended and re-enacted the 1430 law to make clear that the resident of a county had to have a forty shilling freehold in that county to be a voter there.

British politician Edmund Burke in his 1774 Speech to the Electors at Bristol at the Conclusion of the Poll was noted for his articulation of the principles of representation against the notion that elected officials should be delegates who exactly mirror the opinions of the electorate:

There were fusion tickets in which all of Lincoln's opponents combined to support the same slate of Electors in New York, New Jersey, and Rhode Island, but even if the anti-Lincoln vote had been combined in every state, Lincoln still would have won a majority in the Electoral College.

This followed the decision of the Victoria Civic Electors, municipal arm of the New Democratic Party, against challenging the business-aligned incumbent Alan Lowe.

The Twenty-third Amendment ( Amendment XXIII ) to the United States Constitution permits citizens in the District of Columbia to vote for Electors for President and Vice President.

25 are elected by universal suffrage from Open constituencies (" open " meaning that the franchise is open to all locally resident Fijian citizens, irrespective of their ethnic background ), with the remaining 46 elected from communal constituencies, with 23 seats reserved for ethnic Fijians, 19 for Indo-Fijians, 1 for Rotuman Islanders, and 3 for " General Electors "-Europeans, Chinese, Banaban Islanders, and other minorities.

" General Electors " is the term used in Fiji to identify citizens of voting age who belong, in most cases, to ethnic minorities.

The Constitution defines General Electors as all Fiji citizens who are not registered as being of Fijian, Indian, or Rotuman descent.

The House of Representatives reflects this compromise, with 46 members chosen for " communal electorates " by voters on closed electoral rolls comprising citizens of ethnic Fijian ( 23 ), Indo-Fijian ( 19 ), and Rotuman ( 1 ) ancestry, with a further 3 reserved for General Electors.

A group of influential citizens formed The Electors Action Movement ( TEAM ) to oppose the freeway and to radically change the way decisions were made on land use.

In 1991 – 1993, he led a legal challenge to the law requiring all multiracial people to register on the General Electors ' roll, which enrolls all Fijian citizens who are neither indigenous nor of Indian or Rotuman ancestry.

Many Fijian citizens of mixed Fijian and European origin, commonly known as Vasus, have since transferred from the General Electors ' communal roll to the Fijian one.

Electors were free to vote for whomsoever they pleased ( including themselves ), but dynastic considerations played a great part in the choice.

The constitution reserves the choice of the precise manner for creating Electors to the will of the state legislatures.

In some states, in past years, this pledge was informal, and Electors could still legally cast their electoral ballot for whomever they chose.

More recently, state legislatures ( exercising their constitutional authority to do so ) have mandated in law that Electors shall cast their electoral college ballot for the Presidential Candidate to whom they are pledged.

Following the election of Joseph Ritner as Governor of Pennsylvania in 1835, a state convention was held in Harrisburg on December 14 – 17, 1835 to choose Presidential Electors for the 1836 election.

Electors chosen this way are pledged to vote for a particular presidential and vice presidential candidate ( offered by the same political party ).

Dresden has a long history as the capital and royal residence for the Electors and Kings of Saxony, who for centuries furnished the city with cultural and artistic splendour.

Electors used their second vote to cast a scattering of votes, many voting for someone besides Adams ( a carefully organized scheme originating with Alexander Hamilton ) less out of opposition to him than to prevent Adams from matching Washington's total.

In turn, the seven members of each College of Electors were elected for life by those planters possessing twenty-five or more slaves.

He was court painter to the Electors of Saxony for most of his career, and is known for his portraits, both of German princes and those of the leaders of the Protestant Reformation, whose cause he embraced with enthusiasm, becoming a close friend of Martin Luther.

Two states ( California and Utah ) refused to list Cleaver on the ballot, although each state listed the Presidential Electors and candidates for Vice President ( Terry in California and Gonzales in Utah ).

The full nationwide vote for Presidential Electors was thus 111, 607.

* President of the College of Electors under the Royal Court ( Jersey ) Law 1948 for the election of Jurats ( existing Jurats, Senators, Deputies, Connétables and all practising advocates and solicitors ); the Bailiff is a member, but may only vote in the event of a tie after a second ballot

For Capital equipment, expenditure related to preparation for electoral rolls and the scheme for Electors ' Identity Cards too, the expenditure is shared equally.

These were the Fijian Association, which was formed in 1956 to " counter the Indian demand for political reform ", National Congress of Fiji formed by Indians opposed to the Federation Party, General Electors Association representing the Europeans and Part-Europeans, Suva Rotuman Association, Rotuman Convention, Chinese Association, All-Fiji Muslim Political Front, Fiji Minority Party and the Tongan Organization.

Electors for the Confederation tier, comprises two representatives of each district ( Commonly the President and Vice President of said District Federation ).