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Each league's award is voted on by members of the Baseball Writers Association of America, with one representative from each team, which means 14 ballots are cast for the American League winner, and 16 ballots are cast for the National League.
The ballots are distributed and each cardinal elector writes the name of his choice on it and pledges aloud that he is voting for " one whom under God I think ought to be elected " before folding and depositing his vote on a plate atop a large chalice placed on the altar ( in the 2005 conclave, a special urn was used for this purpose instead of a chalice and plate ).
Before being read, the ballots are counted while still folded ; if the number of ballots does not match the number of electors, the ballots are burned unopened and a new vote is held.
Once the ballots are counted and bound together, they are burned in a special stove erected in the Sistine Chapel, with the smoke escaping through a small chimney visible from St. Peter's Square.
The ballots from an unsuccessful vote are burned along with a chemical compound to create black smoke, or fumata nera.
) When a vote is successful, the ballots are burned alone, sending white smoke ( fumata bianca ) through the chimney and announcing to the world the election of a new pope.
) MVP ballots have ten ranked slots, and sportswriters are traditionally asked to recuse themselves if they feel they cannot vote for a pitcher.
Secret ballots are nearly universal in modern democracy, and considered a basic right of citizenship, despite the difficulties that they cause ( for example the inability to trace votes back to the corresponding voters increases the risk of someone stuffing additional fraudulent votes into the system: additional security controls are needed to minimize such risks ).
The ballots are burned after each vote.
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.
If ranked ballots are not used, the spoiler candidate takes votes away from the viable similar candidate ( an effect called vote splitting ).
After nominees have been determined, final voting ballots are sent to Recording Academy members, who may then vote in the general fields and in no more than eight of the 30 fields.
The Mayor and the Municipal Councillors are elected by direct popular suffrage but into separate ballots – one for the Mayor and the other for all the Councillors.
Carrie and Tommy are elected prom king and queen after Chris's henchwoman, Tina Blake, exchanges fake ballots for the real ones.
Municipal elections in Greece are held every four years and voting for the election of nomarchs and mayors is carried out concurrently but with separate ballots.

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The plate is then used to drop the ballot into the chalice, making it difficult for electors to insert multiple ballots.
If no candidate receives an absolute majority in the first round then the candidate ( s ) with the fewest number of votes is eliminated and excluded from further ballots.
The electors then traveled to regional centers and cast ballots, to choose from amongst themselves a smaller number of loya jirga delegates — according to allotted numbers assigned to each district.
Fans then voted on the players using paper and online ballots.
As other Red Tory candidates were eliminated during the first four ballots, Clark gradually overtook Mulroney and then Wagner to emerge as the victor on the fourth ballot, by 1, 187 votes to 1, 122.
Another 387, 237 ballots ( 16. 9 percent ) were cast for Bill Jones, then the California secretary of state.
Justices Breyer and Souter wanted to remand the case to the Florida Supreme Court to permit that court to establish uniform standards of what constituted a legal vote and then manually recount all ballots using those standards.
He was a local government officer at the Greater London Council, before he worked for the Trade Union movement, running the first Political Fund ballots, and then with the GMB.
While some of these ballots recorded votes for two separate candidates, a significant number ( 20 percent in Lake County, for example ) were cases of a voter voting for a candidate and then also writing in that same candidate's name on the write-in line.
Wallace resumed his gubernatorial duties and easily won the 1974 primary and then the general election, when he defeated Republican State Senator Elvin McCary ( 1907 – 1981 ), a real estate developer, who received less than 15 percent of the ballots cast.
Taylor shows that the result holds even if ties are allowed in the ballots: the winner is then chosen from the candidates tied at the top of the dictator's ballot.
The baskets that held the votes were watched by specific officers, who then counted the ballots, and reported the results to the presiding magistrate.
The PI uncovered eight cases of votes attributed to dead people ; these included one administrative error, two ballots cast by the spouses of recently deceased voters ( one who voted against Gregoire ), one case of a husband apparently voting his dead wife's ballot instead of his own, and a man who legally voted his absentee ballot and then died before election day.
He then overtook Duncan and Joe Cordiano on the third and fourth ballots, respectively, receiving the support of their delegates to win a fifth ballot over Kennedy.
The ballot boxes are then taken to counting centres to be opened and the ballots counted.
Members with Active status then vote on works appearing on preliminary ballots.
The rule then remained in place for almost the next hundred years, and often led to Democratic National Conventions which dragged on endlessly, most famously at the 1860 convention, when the convention adjourned in Charleston without making a choice and reconvening in separate groups a short time later, and the 1924 convention, when " Wets " and " Drys " deadlocked between preferred candidates Alfred E. Smith and William G. McAdoo for 103 ballots before finally agreeing on John W. Davis as a compromise candidate.
He polled only 5, 017 votes ( 10. 21 percent ) to his opponent, Grant Sawyer, who received 40, 168 ballots ( 81. 4 percent ) Sawyer then won the governorship by a nearly 2-1 margin over weak Republican opposition in the fall campaign.
The term Bucklin Voting refers to the process of counting all votes on all ballots that are above some threshold, and then adjusting that threshold down until a majority is reached.
McAllister secretly disposes of two of Tracy ’ s ballots and then demands a recount, naming Paul as the winner.
The ballots are then all burnt by the Scrutineers with the assistance of the Secretary of the College and the Masters of Ceremonies.
The physical ballots are read and interpreted ; then results are individually tabulated.
However, Johnson then lost the general election, 257, 203 votes ( 45. 6 percent ) to the moderate Republican Winthrop Rockefeller, who polled 306, 324 ballots ( 54. 4 percent ).

ballots and transported
Stored ballots are transported or transmitted to a central counting location.
Once on-the-spot tallying is over and the tallies reported officially, the ballots are sealed and transported to the Central Election Service of the Interior Ministry.

ballots and back
However, Souter and Breyer favored remanding the case back to the Florida Supreme Court for the purpose of crafting specific guidelines for how to count disputed ballots, in contrast to the majority's decision to halt the recount altogether.
Supporters claimed it would bring back voter choice ; opponents said it would exclude third parties and independents from general election ballots, could result in Democrat or Republican-only races in certain districts, and would in fact reduce voter choice.
Supporters claimed it would bring back voter choice across party lines and allow independent voters to participate in the primary ; opponents said it would exclude third parties and independent candidates from general election ballots, and would in fact reduce general election voter choice.
An unlinkable blind signature provides this guarantee, as the authority will not see the contents of any ballot it signs, and will be unable to link the blinded ballots it signs back to the un-blinded ballots it receives for count
Several bags were recovered by reporters and dozens of ballots taped back together.
On September 23, 2005, an Appellate Court panel sent the case back to Judge Doyne, ruling that he did have the authority to address a party issue and that the five uncounted ballots cast by Tenafly Democratic Committee members could be counted irrespective of the failure to file their names within the specified 30-day window.

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