The first vote, allowing voters to elect their local representatives to the Bundestag, decides which candidates are sent to Parliament from the constituencies.

From then on, most Republican candidates for local and statewide offices sought the endorsement of Bob Jones III and greeted faculty / staff voters at the University Dining Common.

Once a year, sometimes more often if needed, the registered voters of the town meet in open session to elect officers, debate local issues, and pass laws for operating the government.

State law regulates most aspects of electoral law, including primaries, the eligibility of voters ( beyond the basic constitutional definition ), the running of each state's electoral college, and the running of state and local elections.

According to him, the food aid increases corruption as local politicians steal some of the aid to bribe voters and / or sell the aid in the black markets killing the local agriculture.

As an immigrant himself, Cermak recognized Chicago's relatively new immigrants as a significant population of disenfranchised voters and a large power base for Cermak and his local Democratic organization.

Most patrons were members of the nobility or the landed gentry who could use their local influence, prestige, and wealth to sway the voters.

After the Freedom Rides, local black leaders in Mississippi such as Amzie Moore, Aaron Henry, Medgar Evers, and others asked SNCC to help register black voters and to build community organizations that could win a share of political power in the state.

For many years the description of the number of tiers in UK local government arrangements has routinely ignored any current or previous bodies at the lowest level of authorities elected by the voters within their area such as parish ( in England and Wales ) or community councils ; such bodies do not exist or have not existed in all areas.

District governors are elected by the District Council, whose members are selected from party lists made public to voters before local elections, on the basis of proportional representation.

Many Italian monarchists expressed doubts about the correctness of the referendum, claiming that millions of voters, many of them pro-monarchist, were unable to vote because they had not yet been able to return to their own local areas to register.

Chamberlain sought to stem the feared exodus of Nonconformist voters by securing a major concession – local authorities would be given the discretion over the issue of rate aid to voluntary schools, yet even this was renounced before the guillotining of the Bill and its passage through Parliament in December 1902.

Some commentators argue that the Bush Doctrine has not aimed to support genuine democratic regimes driven by local peoples, but rather US-friendly regimes installed by diplomats acting on behalf of the United States, and intended only to seem democratic to U. S. voters.

Faced with decreasing government revenues due to a recession in the local economy, voters approved a three-year local income tax ( Measure 26-48 ) on May 20, 2003 to prevent further cuts in schools, police protection, and social services.

A project to build a natural gas pipeline between the cities of Roseburg and Coos Bay, which would attract new industry to the Coos Bay area, was begun in 1999 when voters approved a local bond measure to raise as much as $ 27 million, with the state of Oregon providing $ 24 million.

Warren County has been a consistently conservative county in local, state, and national elections, with a 3 to 1 ratio of Republican: Democratic voters.

In 2006 the U. S. Department of Justice filed suit under the Voting Rights Act alleging that the local Democratic party chairman, Ike Brown, had conspired to orchestrate " relentless racial discrimination " against white voters.

The majority of the parish voters, however, has continued to support Democratic candidates at the state and local level.

In November 2004, Mobile County voters narrowly ( 500 votes out of 100, 000 cast on the issue ) defeated a local amendment which would have allowed Prichard to set up a special trade zone.

Piedmont voters have approved several local bond measures earmarked for maintaining and / or improving educational facilities.

Farmers in Kensington resisted inclusion in the city of El Cerrito when it was incorporated in 1917, and local voters have rejected incorporation various times since then.

Mr Campbell created the CSD with the help of a petition that included signatures of over 80 % of the local voters.

In 2006 Cheshire voters gave strong support to Republican Governor M. Jodi Rell, independent U. S. Senate candidate Joe Lieberman and local Democratic House candidate Chris Murphy, who defeated incumbent Nancy Johnson.

In order to achieve this, they removed themselves from the economy as much as possible and lived independently ; unlike a similar project named Brook Farm, the participants at Fruitlands avoided interaction with local communities.

" Leveritt speculated that the small local police force was overwhelmed by the crime, which was unlike any they had ever investigated.

Recent genetic studies show that there is a local stock from San Francisco to the Russian River and that eastern Pacific coastal populations rarely migrate far, unlike western Atlantic Harbor porpoise.

He distanced himself from the local clergy and notability, and travelled little to visit Bahá ’ ís unlike his grandfather.

At the local level, many sensational tabloids can be seen but unlike Khabrain or other big national newspapers, they are distributed only on local levels in districts.

Among other things, line numbers, comments and names of local variables are discarded during packing, so that, unlike the typical interpreted BASICs of the time, comments and intelligible variable names incur no runtime cost and were therefore not a ' burden ' programmers learned to avoid to maximize runtime execution time or memory efficiency.

For example, unlike the Big Three, the Fox network does not generally provide coverage of major political convention speeches, which usually occur during the 10: 00 pm ET hour when many affiliates air local news.

Chania and the rest of the island of Crete, unlike the mainland of Greece, it is not suffering from the economical crisis, as the local economy is based on the horticulture products like the olive oil.

The title of Laird may carry certain local or feudal rights, although unlike a Scottish Lordship of Parliament, a Lairdship has not always carried voting rights, either in the historic Parliament of Scotland or, after unification with the Kingdom of England, in the British House of Lords.

In 1566, unlike the situation after the Eighty Years War and today, Protestantism in the Low Countries was mainly concentrated in the south ( roughly modern Belgium ), and much weaker in the north ( roughly now the Netherlands ), and iconoclasm in the north began later, after news of the events in Antwerp was received, and was more successfully resisted by local authorities in some towns, although still succeeding in most.

In LETS, unlike other local currencies, no scrip is issued, but rather transactions are recorded in a central location open to all members.

Incorporation: in 1991 most of the old Malibu land grant was incorporated as a city to allow local control of the area ( as cities, unlike townships, are not subject to the same level of county government oversight ).

In fact, unlike many other places where the larger plantation homes were purchased by outsiders coming to live in Hawaiʻi, the manager homes in Pahala were mostly purchased by local people who have stepped up to the new economy and have such jobs as doctor, bakery manager, fisherman, policeman, painting contractor and other jobs important to the community.

The GK School District's team name is the Cogs, an acronym created from the phrase " Community of Genoa Schools " that also evokes a feeling of teamwork not unlike the cogs in a machine, however some local history states that it stands for " Consolidation of Genoa Schools ".

The local accent is not unlike that of the " Hoi Toiders " of the Outer Banks of North Carolina, also settled by English settlers, many of whom still have descendants living on the islands today.

A local newspaper, The Cle Elum Echo reported, " The city of Roslyn is situated on land directly over the tunnel of Mine No. 4, and the shock caused by the explosion was not unlike an earthquake, shaking buildings in all parts of the city, while the burning, oil soaked timbers, vomited out of the shaft, were scattered in all directions, falling upon shingled roofs and causing over twenty roof fires, which were controlled by bucket brigades, all the city water and the fire department being concentrated upon the shaft and abutting frame structures, in spite of this all frame structures within two hundred feet of the shaft and tipple No. 4 were entirely destroyed.

The base was subsequently renamed Ellsworth AFB, and unlike the previous local controversy in 1948, there was no community objection to the name change.

Basically, a modern federal government, within the limits defined by its constitution, has the power to make laws for the whole country, unlike local governments.

The DCAC unlike Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association ( NICRA ), however, was aimed specifically at a local campaign, improving the situation in Derry for all, and maintaining a peaceful stance.

( A word of caution: unlike the global exponents, these local exponents are not invariant under a nonlinear change of coordinates.

Lobby, a stew not unlike Lancashire hotpot, is still made by local people.

He writes that, unlike the court Jews of earlier centuries, who had financed and managed European noble houses, but often lost their wealth through violence or expropriation, the new kind of international bank created by the Rothschilds was impervious to local attacks.

However, many consider the term " mail-order bride " derogatory and feel it demeans foreign women by comparing them to commodities for sale and by falsely implying that ( unlike local women ), they exercise no judgment over the men they meet and would marry anyone from a relatively-wealthy country.