The system was described in 1976 by Guy Ottewell and also by Robert J. Weber, who coined the term " approval voting.

" More recently, although Robert H. Michel was the Minority Leader in 1994 when the Republicans regained control of the House in the 1994 midterm elections, he had already announced his retirement and had little or no involvement in the campaign, including the Contract with America which was unveiled six weeks before voting day.

Robert Poche, Ascension Parish voter registrar told the Advocate ( Baton Rouge ) in 2007 that " History tells us that those with no party affiliation have been voting conservatively.

The majority of voting rights are held by Robert Bosch Industrietreuhand KG, an industrial trust.

As shown in the diagram ( above ), the Robert Bosch Stiftung ( Robert Bosch Foundation ) holds 92 % of the shares ( Beteiligung ) of Robert Bosch GmbH, but no voting rights ( Stimmrecht ).

He was the only candidate put forward for the job by a six-owner search committee ( Wellington Mara, Lamar Hunt, Art Modell, Robert Parins, Dan Rooney, and Ralph Wilson ), however, a group of eleven newer owners who wanted more of a voice in the selection process abstained from voting, preventing Finks from receiving the nineteen votes necessary to become Commissioner.

Notable psephologists include Australians Antony Green and Malcolm Mackerras ( who devised the Mackerras Pendulum ); and Americans Michael Barone, who has published The Almanac of American Politics biennially since 1972, Nate Silver whose website FiveThirtyEight tracks US voting trends, and David Butler and Robert McKenzie, who co-developed the swingometer.

He was the first of two Roman Catholic priests ( the other being Robert John Cornell of Wisconsin ) to serve as a voting member of Congress.

Instead, a county official who was also named Robert Casey won the Democratic primary and the general election, spending virtually no money and doing virtually no campaigning ; voters merely assumed they were voting for the outgoing Auditor General.

In November 2005 Allmand was elected to the Montreal city council seat of Loyola in Western NDG as a member of the Union Montréal party and once again showed an independent streak by voting against his party's motion to change the name of Park Avenue to Avenue Robert Bourassa.

For example, in 1998, Sino Group chairman Robert Ng and companies he controlled held roughly 3-4 % of the votes in the real estate constituency, according to an analysis by the Hong Kong Human Rights Monitor ; they described this as being equivalent in voting power to 15, 940 people in a geographical constituency.

Fleming was a key figure in the Norwich side that won the first division championship in the 2003-2004 season, and the supporters recognised his outstanding contribution-not just during that season but over several years-by voting him Norwich City player of the year ahead of Darren Huckerby ( 2nd ) and Robert Green ( 3rd ).

: Robert Bouchard's voting history and quotes

Robert Richie ( born 1962 ) is the executive director of FairVote, a non-profit organization that researches and advocates election reforms that increase voter turnout, accountable governance, and fair representation, including reforms such as instant runoff voting and the National Popular Vote plan.

** In Starship Troopers Robert A. Heinlein describes a state in which citizens must earn voting rights and the right to hold electoral office and certain civil service jobs by completing a period of federal service.

In the 1920s, upon meeting Robert Quinn, a Freedom Party organizer, Rodriguez joined the Freedom Party and became a strong supporter, including taking part in actions against Radical Liberal landowners who discouraged voting for Featherston and who hitherto dominated the formerly-Mexican parts of the Confederacy.

* The Magic Bond ( Part 2 ) ( 1956-In this film produced by the Calvin Company for the Veterans of Foreign Wars and directed by Robert Altman, Storck narrates a brief sequence on the importance of voting )

In the 1960s, Robert Mandrou and Georges Duby harmonized the concept of mentalité history with Fernand Braudel's structures of historical time and linked mentalities with changing social conditions.

" GM Robert Byrne called him " perhaps the most brilliant theoretician and teacher in the history of the game.

Ecologist Robert Michael Pyle argues that most cultures have human-like giants in their folk history: " We have this need for some larger-than-life creature.

* Oral history interview with Robert V. D. Campbell.

The history of this process appears in the book Dr. Thomas, His Life and Work ( 1873 ) by a Christadelphian, Robert Roberts.

On the more sinister side, famous criminals from Edinburgh's history include Deacon Brodie, pillar of society by day and burglar by night, who is said to have influenced Robert Louis Stevenson's story, the Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, the murderers Burke and Hare who provided fresh corpses for anatomical dissection by the famous surgeon Robert Knox and Major Weir a notorious warlock.

In the words of Nobel Prize winner Robert E. Lucas, Jr., " For the first time in history, the living standards of the masses of ordinary people have begun to undergo sustained growth ...

* Business historian Robert Sobel wrote For Want of a Nail, a fictional history of an alternate North America which included hundreds of fictional footnotes and a bibliography listing over a hundred fictional histories and biographies.

In the words of Nobel Prize winner Robert E. Lucas, Jr., " For the first time in history, the living standards of the masses of ordinary people have begun to undergo sustained growth ...

Aside from defeating the French during the Seven Years ' War, Robert Clive, the leader of the Company in India, defeated a key Indian ruler of Bengal at the decisive Battle of Plassey ( 1757 ), a victory that ushered in the beginning of a new period in Indian history, that of informal British rule.

Robert Nozick's influential critique of Rawls argues that distributive justice is not a matter of the whole distribution matching an ideal pattern, but of each individual entitlement having the right kind of history.

Robert C. Tucker credits Marx with profoundly affecting ideas about history, society, economics, culture, politics, and the nature of social inquiry.

This can be seen comparing the Bahá ' í approach to history and the future to that of the theory of The Clash of Civilizations on the one hand and the development of a posthegemony system on the other ( compared with work of Robert Cox, for example, in Approaches to World Order, ( Robert Cox & Timonthy Sinclair eds, Cambridge University Press, 1996 ).

Edward Robert Harrison's Darkness at Night: A Riddle of the Universe ( 1987 ) is the definitive account to date of the dark night sky paradox, seen as a problem in the history of science.

Shakespeare omitted the character of the traitorous Robert de Vere, 3rd Earl of Oxford in The Life and Death of King John, and the character of the 12th Earl of Oxford is given a much more prominent role in Henry V than his limited involvement in the actual history of the times would allow.

* Robert Nozick: Criticized Rawls, and argued for libertarianism, by appeal to a hypothetical history of the state and of property.

Some of these theories posit that " Robin Hood " or " Robert Hood " or the like was his actual name ; others suggest that this may have been merely a nickname disguising a medieval bandit perhaps known to history under another name.

Though he is no relation to this great figure of Scottish history, MacDonald's Robert Bruce constantly refers to the story of " his ancestor and the spider ," even when it is totally irrelevant to the conversation at the moment.

The 1891 founding professors included Robert Allardice in mathematics, Douglas Houghton Campbell in botany, Charles Henry Gilbert in zoology, George Elliott Howard in history, Oliver Peebles Jenkins in physiology and histology, Charles David Marx in civil engineering, Fernando Sanford in physics and John Maxson Stillman in chemistry.

* Robert Bonnaud ( 2007 ) Essays of comparative history.

* 1862 – American Civil War: George B. McClellan halts the northward drive of Robert E. Lee's Confederate army in the single-day Battle of Antietam, the bloodiest day in American history.

In Normandy, Orderic Vitalis wrote his Ecclesiastical History, covering Stephen's reign until 1141, and Robert of Torigni wrote a later history of the rest of the period.

In his second year he neglected his medical studies for natural history and spent four months assisting Robert Grant's research into marine invertebrates.

John Jay Parry, the editor of De Amore, quotes critic Robert Bossuat as describing " De Amore " as " one of those capital works which reflect the thought of a great epoch, which explains the secret of a civilization ".

Trilogy, speculative fiction novels by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson, popularized Discordianism with various quotes and references.

Robert Temple quotes an account from Zhang Yan's Zhongdou xinshu ( 種痘新書 ), or New book on smallpox inoculation, written in 1741 during the Qing Dynasty ( 1644 – 1912 ), which shows how the Chinese process had become refined up until that point:

Dadosky quotes Robert Segal, a professor of religion, who draws a distinction between Platonism and Eliade's " primitive ontology ": for Eliade, the ideal models are patterns that a person or object may or may not imitate ; for Plato, there is a Form for everything, and everything imitates a Form by the very fact that it exists.

Aside from Raphael Holinshed who merely quotes John Bale, the only sixteenth-century references to " Robert Langland " as the author of Piers Plowman come from Bale and Crowley in his preface to the various impressions.

Fields, Ed Bearss, and Stephen B. Oates ; and actors reading contemporary quotes from historical figures such as Abraham Lincoln, Mary Chesnut, Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant, Walt Whitman, Stonewall Jackson, and Frederick Douglass.

James Young quotes a document written in French, and dated 4 September 1319, entitled: " Lettre d ' attorne pur doner seysine ," and is granted to " Robert de Lawedir Justice de Lounes, .... Donez a la langley en la terre de Meuros le quartior de Septembre en lan de grace MCCC et disneifme.

#: Shostakovich quotes his setting of the Robert Burns poem " MacPhersen Before His Execution " to colour Yevtushenko's imagery of the spirit of mockery, endlessly murdered and endlessly resurrected, denouncing the vain attempts of tyrants to shackle wit.

* In 2004, BookSurge published " Quips, quotes & oats: Smarty Jones Talks " written by Robert L. Merz ( ISBN 1-59457-673-4 )

Stephen Fry quotes Robert Browning's The Lost Leader as an example of the use of dactylic metre to great effect, creating verse with " great rhythmic dash and drive ":

Historian Robert H. Ferrell has alleged that Miller fabricated some of the quotes in his interviews with Truman, which were published after Truman's death.

They were frequently printed with two different papers on the same sheet of paper ( front and back ), and Pope quotes the investigation into Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford ( conducted by Walpole's administration ) as showing that the Tory ministry of Pope's friends had spent over fifty thousand pounds to support political papers.

* Robert De Niro in Analyze This / Analyze That, Meet the Parents / Meet the Fockers / Little Fockers and The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle ( in a short scene where he quotes his famous " talking to me " lines from Taxi Driver word for word ).

Robert A. Hill quotes Fackenheim in a sermon with this context:

Dirk Pitt quotes a brief line of the Inchcape Rock by Robert Southey, " No stir in the air, no stir in the sea, the ship was still as she could be .” while describing his feelings when observing a completely automated vessel.

The Webster's Dictionary also quotes Robert Louis Stevenson from 1883 in a letter saying " He's the real Mackay.

Trevor Royle quotes James Turner who in his memoirs reported that after skirmish in Kilwarlin woods, Irish prisoners were given " bad quarter, being shot dead ", but two other eye witness accounts of the skirmish, ( a letter by Roger Pike and the dispatches of Major-General Robert Monro, the Protestant commander ), do not mention the killing of prisoners.

The manual quotes Robert Orchard, who invented the name as saying " I really thought it existed.

That year Dr. Robert Ferrell, an historian who had published his own biography of Truman, asserted that Miller had fabricated many of the quotes in his book.

*" The Price of Pleasure: Pornography, Sexuality, and Relationships ," Documentary film directed by Chyng Sun and Miguel Picker ( 2008 ) quotes Robert Jensen

Robert McCrum in The Guardian quotes Ramsay as boasting that Lobster is " the only left-wing journal to pay for itself ".

John Robert Colombo, author of Mysterious Canada: Strange Sights, Extraordinary Events, and Peculiar Places, extracted the quotes about Manlike Woman from David Thompson's Narrative of His Explorations in Western America: 1784-1812 ( 1916 ) edited by J. B. Tyrrell.