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.

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.

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 2005, Isitt once again ran for mayor, winning the nomination of the NDP-affiliated Victoria Civil Electors and capturing 43. 6 % of the votes cast, compared to Lowe's 51. 9 %.

Electors of Winnipeg North were allowed to cast ballots for two seats, which were called " Winnipeg North A " and " Winnipeg North B ".

Electors were allowed to cast ballots for two seats, which were called " Winnipeg Centre A " and " Winnipeg Centre B ".

Electors were among the princes of the Empire, but they had exclusive privileges in addition to their electoral ones which were not shared with the other princes.

Electors also enjoyed several judicial powers within their territories.

They were ready to elect him, provided he make extensive concessions to the Electors and follow their political demands.

But despite the tight specifications, Adolf soon emancipated himself from his Electors and concluded pacts with their opponents.

Free Imperial Cities were not officially admitted as an Imperial Estate to the Reichstag until 1489, and even then their votes were usually considered only advisory ( votum consultativum ) compared to the Benches of the Electors and the Princes.

The Protestant Princes of the Empire and the two remaining Protestant Electors ( of Hanover and Prussia ) were anxious to keep Saxony well-integrated in their camp.

Nevertheless, a few months later the Lapua Movement was capable of not only demanding " their man " appointed President of Finland by the Collegium of Electors, which only weeks before had been chosen in nation-wide voting, but a sufficient number of the electors followed the Lapua Movement's request, disregarding the intentions they had declared during the election campaign.

" Two Pair of Portraits ;" – presented to all the unbiassed Electors of Great Britain, an anti-Whig caricature published 1798 by James Gillray showing Charles James Fox | Fox as the personification of vice next to a portrait of William Pitt the Younger | Pitt as the embodiment of honesty, followed by portraits of their fathers, Lord Holland and William Pitt senior displayed below.

The Union of Electors electoral philosophy was that it was not a partisan political party but an organization which marshals voters to enforce their wishes on their elected representatives.

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.

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.

25 seats represented Communal constituencies ( 9 indigenous Fijians, 9 Indians, and 7 General Electors ( Europeans, Chinese, and other minorities ), elected on closed electoral rolls by voters registered as members of their respective ethnic groups.

The fourth electoral roll, for General Electors, is for people who have no ethnic Fijian, Indo-Fijian, or Rotuman ancestry, as well as for individuals who have such ancestry but choose, for whatever reason, not to register on the electoral roll reserved for their particular ethnic community.

Because he had no surviving male heirs, he negotiated the Pragmatic Sanction to assure that his daughter Maria Theresia would succeed him, going so far as to pre-bribe the nine Electors but, of course, once he died they ignored their promises but kept the money, resulting in the War of the Austrian Succession.

During an election, Elections Canada informs Canadians about their right to vote, how to get on the National Register of Electors and the voters list, and where and how they can vote.

In the final years of the Empire, several Electors were added, who however only held their offices for less than three years before the Empire's final dissolution.

Electors who ruled states in addition to their electorates also voted in the Council of Princes ; similarly, princes who also ruled comital territories voted both individually and in the comital benches.

However, as with Neukirchen, the Electors forwent their claim in 1663.

The lay electors therefore exercised considerable influence, being members of the small Council of Electors and holding a significant number of votes in the Council of Princes.

In 1059 the electorate was restricted to the Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church, and the individual votes of all Cardinal Electors were made equal in 1179.

* Electors to have " cumulative votes " with those paying more cess having more votes

For one, the dukedoms of the Electors were declared indivisible, and succession was regulated for them to ensure that the votes would never split.

Secondly, the Bull prescribed that four votes would always suffice to elect the new King ; as a result, three Electors could no longer block the election, and the principle of majority voting was explicitly stated for the first time in the Empire.

The following table is based on the 2009 Elections, using the 103, 949, 442 Registered Electors, the voter turn out at prefecture level and the detailed district votes.

In Germany, the Electors met at Rhense on 20 August 1400 to depose the unworthy Wenceslaus as German King and chose in his place Rupert, Duke of Bavaria and Rhenish Count Palatine.

Currently, Electors are chosen on the Tuesday following the first Monday in November, in the year before the President's term is to expire.

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.

Wenceslaus succeeded in bringing the Electors of Brandenburg and Saxony over to his side: Albert II of Saxony signed an elector pact on 29 November 1291 that he would vote the same as Wenceslaus ; Otto IV of Brandenburg made a similar commitment.

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 ).

Erich's mother, Klara Jeanette Henriette von Tempelhoff ( 1840 – 1914 ), was the daughter of the noble but impoverished Friedrich August Napoleon von Tempelhoff ( 1804 – 1868 ), and his wife Jeannette Wilhelmine von Dziembowska ( 1816 – 1854 ) – she from a Germanised Polish landed family on her father's side, and through whom Erich was a remote descendant of the Dukes of Silesia and the Marquesses and Electors of Brandenburg.

* Harry Rankin sat on Vancouver's city council on behalf of the Committee of Progressive Electors which he helped found in the late 1960s.

Even's views also led to a debate within the national Social Credit Party about whether to continue to run on a Social Credit basis or under the " non-partisan " " Union of Electors " banner.

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 ).

The 1990 Constitution abolished the common franchise, and established a 70-member House of Representatives elected on four closed electoral rolls: 37 ethnic Fijians, 27 Indo-Fijians, 1 Rotuman Islander, and 5 General Electors.

Electors were asked to vote again on 12 February 1961.

If the first phase of the Thirty Years War, or Wars, as some historians call it, hinged on the Palatine inheritance, this phase hinged on the liberties of various bishoprics in Lorraine, and the autonomy of several Lutheran princes, including imperial Electors of Saxony and Brandenburg.

In 1999 Alan Lowe managed to win a hard fought three way race versus Bob Friedland of the Victoria Civic Electors on the left and veteran right wing councilor Geoff Young.

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.

Every year, about 400, 000 Canadians reach voting age and 200, 000 Canadians die, resulting in changes to the National Register of Electors based on information obtained from the Canada Revenue Agency, provincial and territorial motor vehicle registrars, and provincial electoral agencies with permanent voters lists.

Additionally, 120, 000 individuals a year become naturalised Canadians, and are added to the National Register of Electors by Elections Canada based on information obtained from Citizenship and Immigration Canada.

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.