If 5 % of Town voters petition the Board of Selectmen within 14 days of Town Meeting any action taken may be submitted to voters.

If voters are explicitly allowed to abstain from rating certain candidates, as opposed to implicitly giving the lowest number of points to unrated candidates, then a candidate's score would be the average rating from voters who did rate this candidate.

If the voters determine their preferences before the election and always vote directly consistent to them, they will emulate the Contingent vote and get the same results as if they were to use that system.

If so many voters give their first preferences to the " weak " candidate that it ends up winning the first round, it is highly likely they will gain enough campaign momentum to have a strong chance of winning the runoff, too, and with it, the election.

If each is able to gather one million votes on their own, but together they were able to appeal to 2. 5 million voters, their synergy would have produced 500, 000 more votes than had they each worked independently.

If that person is able to gather 50, 000 signatures against the law within 100 days, a national vote has to be scheduled where voters decide by a simple majority of the voters whether to accept or reject the law.

If X would have won had S not been one of the nominees, and if ( most of ) the voters who prefer S over W also prefer X over W ( either S > X > W or X > S > W ), then S is a spoiler.

If Alice is preferred by more voters then she is the winner of that pairing.

If a majority of the voters in the election vote to recall the governor, then the person who gains a plurality of the votes in the replacement race will become governor.

* If every voter's preference between X and Y remains unchanged, then the group's preference between X and Y will also remain unchanged ( even if voters ' preferences between other pairs like X and Z, Y and Z, or Z and W change ).

If the same percentage of people like green as those who like red and blue, that is to say if 33 percent of the voters like green, then each green marble will only get eleven percent of the vote, while the red and blue marbles will each get 33 percent, putting the green marbles at a serious disadvantage.

If the experiment is repeated using approval voting, where voters are encouraged to vote for as many candidates as they approve of, then the winner is much more likely to be any one of the five marbles, because people who prefer green will be able to vote for every one of the green marbles.

If no single candidate has 50 % or more votes then the candidate with the least votes is excluded and their votes redistributed according to the voters nominated order of preference.

If passed the question will be place on the ballots of the voters within Ruskin and the city would be officially incorporated on April 1, 2007 as a sovereign government.

If there were 100 residents and 35 voters living within the prescribed boundaries, they could hold a referendum to establish a village form of government, he could effectively select individuals to have voted into office, and form his own government complete with codes and ordinances to serve his own interests.

If approved by voters, the sales tax in Sparta would go up a half-cent to create a city park.

If enough registered voters sign the petition, the Speaker of the legislature announces before the House that the member has been recalled and a by-election follows as soon as possible, giving voters the opportunity to replace the politician in question.

If a bond measure is proposed in a local county election, a Tax Rate Statement may be provided to voters, detailing best estimates of the tax rate required to levy and fund the bond.

If certain voters are seen as more deserving of influence, for example because they own more shares of stock in the company, they can be directly assigned more points per voter.

If at any time one candidate is ranked first ( among non-eliminated candidates ) by an absolute majority of the voters, that candidate wins.

If voters do not know where a party stands on an issue, they cannot adequately employ this information in their overall evaluation.

If the Council still does not approve the Parliament's position, then the text is taken to a " Conciliation Committee " composed of the Council members plus an equal number of MEPs.

If the deficit is not financed through a loan it is enough with a simple majority to approve the budget ( 50 % of the votes plus 1 ).

If any of the abovementioned requirements are not satisfied, the court rejects to approve the plea agreement and returns the case to the prosecutor.

If the governor does not approve of the bill, he or she may veto it.

If the delegates at the World Conference do approve an inspired document, it is the custom of the Church to then have a courtesy vote, which is opened to all non-delegates attending the conference.

* Example: " If we don't approve the McCarran Internal Security Act the Soviets will take over America.

If Congress, on the other hand, votes to approve the provisional measure, it becomes an actual law, with changes decided by the Legislative Branch.

He seems indeed himself to have been at last convinced of the necessity in English political life of party government, for though in his cautions to electors he warns them against men " tied to a party ," yet in his last words he declares: If there are two parties a man ought to adhere to that which he disliked least though in the whole he doth not approve it ; for whilst he doth not list himself in one or the other party, he is looked upon as such a straggler that he is fallen upon by both.

If such a referendum would not be held, or if the government would approve a de-facto removal of Israeli settlements, the party would resign from the government.

If Town Meeting in one town votes to approve its assessment based on the figures provided, and Town Meeting in another town votes a lesser figure than it was assessed, the disagreement becomes problematic.

If they do not approve it, the agreement is of no effect, and negotiations resume.

If he did not approve, he would veto if and return it to the Assembly for reconsideration.

If opposing sides refuse to approve individual cards, multiple cards may be lumped together into a single approve-or-reject vote.

If upon bringing the case home to our own breast we find that the sentiments which it gives occasion to, coincide and tally with our own, we necessarily approve of them as proportioned and suitable to their objects ; if otherwise, we necessarily disapprove of them, as extravagant and out of proportion ( p. 20 ).

If a landowner owns an acre of land, for instance, and wants to divide it into three pieces, a surveyor would have to take precise measurements of the land and submit the survey to the governing body, which would then have to approve it.

If the members approve of the postulant, a fully indoctrinated member may act as a sponsor and the postulant is promoted to a novice.

If more than 50 % of the voters approve the referendum then the constitutional amendment is approved and goes into effect.

Julius Caesar offered a similar opinion over a century earlier :" No disgrace attaches to armed robbery, provided it is committed outside the frontiers of the tribe .... When one of the chiefs announces at an assembly that he is going to lead a raid, and calls for volunteers, ... those who agree with the raid and approve of the men proposing it stand up .... If any of those men then fail to go with him, they are regarded as deserters and traitors and no one ever trusts them again in anything.

If two thirds of a county's commissioners adopt a resolution that the county become a code county and a majority of the voters approve of the resolution, the county becomes a code county.

If a player chooses to submit a custom name, they must wait for someone at Disney to approve it.

He did not approve of the partition, stating: " If in every home one child was taught Hindustani classical music this country would never have been partitioned.

If the Council does not approve those, then a " Conciliation Committee " is formed.

If Theodore Lector can be trusted, he was picked by the ex-consul Rufius Postumius Festus as a candidate, after Festus had secretly promised the Byzantine Emperor Zeno that Pope Anastasius would approve the Henotikon, but upon returning from Constantinople he found Pope Anastasius had died.