What is in doubt as the free Germans and their allies consider the voting trends is the nature of the coalition that will result.

The second major aspect of the election is the actual procedure of registration, nomination and voting.

A political scientist writes of the growth of `` alienated voters '', who `` believe that voting is useless because politicians or those who influence politicians are corrupt, selfish and beyond popular control.

Here again it is not anything like a legislative commission sitting down to discuss the pros and cons and drafting proposals, but the format is that of a trial, voting yes or no after a clash of speeches and such.

Approval voting is a single-winner voting system used for elections.

This " check yes or no " approach means approval voting is one of the simplest voting systems to use.

The mayor presides over and is a voting member of the council.

This is taken to the extent that contestants are forbidden from discussing nominations or voting strategy altogether.

In an organization with voting members, e. g., a professional society, the board acts on behalf of, and is subordinate to, the organization's full assembly, which usually chooses the members of the board.

In a non-stock corporation with no general voting membership, e. g., a typical university, the board is the supreme governing body of the institution ; its members are sometimes chosen by the board itself.

Cameroon is an active participant in the United Nations, where its voting record demonstrates its commitment to causes that include international peacekeeping, the rule of law, environmental protection, and Third World economic development.

One voting table, with a ballot-box each, is set up for at-most 200 names in the voting registry.

Their principal claim relates to the definition of who is a citizen of Ivory Coast ( and so who can stand for election as president ), voting rights and their representation in government in Abidjan.

Fermanagh is part of the Fermanagh and South Tyrone Parliamentary Constituency, renowned for high levels of voting and for electing Provisional IRA hunger-striker Bobby Sands as a Member of Parliament in the Fermanagh and South Tyrone by-election, April 1981, shortly before his death.

The exact membership of the configuration depends upon the topic ; for example, when discussing agricultural policy the Council is formed by the twenty-seven national ministers whose portfolio includes this policy area ( with the related European Commissioner contributing but not voting ).

The following table is ranked for the power the member states exert on Council decisions, and lists their population figures ( criterion three ) and voting weights ( criterion two ) along with their ruling parties and affiliations to European parties.

The coalition partners, if they control the parliamentary majority, can collude to make the parliamentary discussion on the issue irrelevant by consistently disregarding the arguments of the opposition and voting against the opposition's proposals — even if there is disagreement within the ruling parties about the issue.

Of course, such an event is rare in coalition governments when compared to two-party systems, which typically exists because of stifling the growth of emerging parties, often through discriminatory nomination rules regulations and plurality voting systems, and so on.

Nevada's capital is generally considered a Republican stronghold, often voting for Republicans by wide margins.

Although these letters are not formally published in the Doctrine and Covenants, they are still deemed to be inspired, and are dealt with in the same manner that revelations are ( that is, they must be deliberated and approved by the voting members of a World Conference ).

* 1957 – U. S. Senator Strom Thurmond begins a filibuster to prevent the Senate from voting on Civil Rights Act of 1957 ; he stopped speaking 24 hours and 18 minutes later, the longest filibuster ever conducted by a single Senator.

The voting is conducted at the end of the regular season by members of the Professional Hockey Writers Association, and each individual voter ranks their top five candidates on a 10 – 7 – 5 – 3 – 1 points system.

The voting for the Representatives according to the majority principle can be conducted in two electoral rounds, whereas the voting according to the proportional principle ends in the first round.

Methodist denominations typically give lay members representation at regional and national meetings ( conferences ) at which the business of the church is conducted, making it different from most episcopal government ( The Episcopal Church USA, however, has a representational polity giving lay members, priests, and bishops voting privileges ).

French presidential elections are conducted via run-off voting which ensures that the elected President always obtains a majority: if no candidate receives a majority of votes in the first round of voting, the two highest-scoring candidates arrive at a run-off.

In both rounds of an election conducted using runoff voting, the voter simply marks an " X " beside his / her favorite candidate.

In the United States, as the majority of elections are conducted under the first past the post system, election thresholds do not apply in the actual voting.

Prior to that time voting was conducted openly, allowing campaigns to confirm that voters cast ballots for the candidates they had been paid to support.

" The voting for both awards is conducted by their respective associations.

After the nominees list is published, another voting round is conducted to determine the winners of most categories.

The voting is conducted at the end of the regular season by members of the Professional Hockey Writers Association, and each individual voter ranks their top five candidates on a 10-7-5-3-1 points system.

The voting is conducted in a succession of rounds until one bid achieves an absolute majority of votes ; if this does not happen in the first round, the bid with the fewest votes is eliminated and another voting round begins.

Secondly, the voting section was conducted using " blue screen " virtual reality technology provided by Silicon Graphics.

Channel 4 did not reveal exactly how the voting was conducted, but 150, 000 members of the public were polled, as were an undisclosed number of experts.

Elections previously took two days but as early voting became popular they are now conducted on one day, since 2011 the third Sunday in April.

The voting is conducted in several rounds, under a form of exhaustive ballot: in the first two rounds, anyone can enter their name ; but in subsequent rounds, the person receiving the fewest votes is removed from the race until one candidate gains an absolute majority.

The voting is conducted at the end of the regular season by the 30 general managers of the teams in the National Hockey League, and each individual voter ranks their top three candidates on a 5-3-1 points system.

In 2009, the MVV offered a package which would introduce a Semesterticket at a basic fee of € 78. 50 with a premium surchage of € 143. 50, totalling € 222 ; this proposition narrowly fell through after voting was conducted across all the Munich universities as it was still deemed to be too pricey in comparison to the Semesterickets offered by other German cities, with students of the LMU Munich voting 52. 1 % against and 47. 9 % in favour.

The voting is conducted by members of the Professional Hockey Writers ' Association at the conclusion of each regular season to determine the winner.

The voting is conducted at the end of the regular season by members of the Professional Hockey Writers Association, and each individual voter ranks their top five candidates on a 10-7-5-3-1 points system.

In June 2005, the Tallahassee Democrat reported that when given access to Diebold optical scan vote-counting computers, Black Box Voting, a nonprofit election watchdog group founded by Bev Harris, hired Finnish computer expert Harri Hursti and conducted a project in which vote totals were altered, by replacing the memory card that stores voting results with one that had been tampered with.