After a tie in the 1969 voting, the process was changed, in which each writer was to vote for three different pitchers: the first-place vote received five points, the second-place vote received three points, and the third-place vote received one point.

This voting method is also used in multi-member constituencies in what is referred to as an exhaustive counting system where one member is elected at a time and the process repeated until the number of vacancies is filled.

Other anti-feminists oppose women's entry into the workforce, political office, and the voting process, as well as the lessening of male authority in families.

There is no voting procedure, as it operates on rough consensus process.

In the Calculus of Consent, James Buchanan and Tullock explore the relationship between individual choice in the voting process and in the marketplace, specifically within logrolling.

A vote, by the pure nature of the voting process, demonstrates explicit interest in whatever is voted upon.

Unanimous votes, however, are not required for the American voting process.

Marxist-Leninist communist parties have typically exercised close control over the electoral process of such elections, including involvement with nomination, campaigning, and voting – including counting the ballots.

Although the counting process is complicated, voting is clear and most voters get at least one of their preferences elected.

It is justified by the notion that there exist some questions best resolved through the political process, voters approving or correcting the challenged action by voting for or against those involved in the decision.

** in a closed consensus process: Restricted membership and often having formal procedures for due-process among voting members

Until the end of the 16th century, unanimity was not required, and the majority-voting process was the most commonly used system for voting.

The states unanimously ratified the Bill of Rights ; the Thirteenth Amendment, abolishing slavery ; the Fourteenth Amendment, providing for equal protection and due process ; the Fifteenth Amendment, prohibiting racial discrimination in voting ; and the Nineteenth Amendment, granting women a federal constitutional right to vote.

Later on, this developed into a process whereby each political party would create its own ballot and thus the voter would put the party's ballot into the voting box.

Its main activities are running the selection ( voting ) process for the annual convention and various awards.

In September 2006, citizens re-elected President Saleh to a second term in a generally open and competitive election, although there were multiple problems with the voting process and use of state resources on behalf of the ruling party.

A year later the voting system for the Awards was established, and the nomination and selection process began.

The voting with dollars plan would establish a system of modified public financing coupled with an anonymous campaign contribution process.

In 1977, a federal district court ruled in favor of Curtis Holt Jr. who had claimed the councils existing election process — an at large voting system — was racially biased.

The Act established extensive federal oversight of elections administration, providing that states with a history of discriminatory voting practices ( so-called " covered jurisdictions ") could not implement any change affecting voting without first obtaining the approval of the Department of Justice, a process known as preclearance.

Additionally under the Amendment, the Congress was given the authority to enforce those rights and regulate the voting process.

From 1890 to 1908, 10 Southern states wrote new constitutions with provisions that included literacy tests, poll taxes, and grandfather clauses that permitted otherwise disqualified voters whose grandfathers voted ( thus allowing some white illiterates to vote ), some with the aim and effect of re-imposing racially motivated restrictions on the voting process that disenfranchised blacks.

Before August 1984, this process required covered jurisdictions to demonstrate that the voting test that they used immediately before coverage was not used in a discriminatory fashion.

The Fisher Body division, long controlled by the Fisher brothers under a voting trust even though General Motors owned a majority of its stock, followed an independent course for many years, but by 1947 and 1948 `` resistance had collapsed '' and its purchases from Du Pont `` compared favorably '' with purchases by other General Motors divisions.

At the central level the scrutin uninominal voting system was selected over some form of the scrutin de liste system, even though the latter had been recommended by Duverger and favored by all political parties.

Her fellow Republicans were put in office by the " drys " and, even though they eagerly partook in consumption of alcoholic beverages at her parties, in public they presented themselves as opposing the repeal of prohibition, lest they be thrown out of office by the dry voting blocks.

Opponents of Harrison have argued that a phrase in Pope Pius XII's legislation " Cardinals who have been deposed or who have resigned, however, are barred and may not be reinstated even for the purpose of voting ", though it speaks of someone deposed or resigned from the cardinalate, not of someone who may have incurred automatic excommunication but has not been officially declared excommunicated, means that, even if someone is permitted to attend, that does not automatically translate into electability.

In Australian Senate, there is proportional voting but even though smaller parties have been able to win seats, there is still a trend towards the major parties, whose dominance in the lower house effectively promotes their upper house candidates.

The Robert's Rules method for voting on motions and amendments is also a Condorcet method even though the voters do not vote by expressing their orders of preference.

The Republican coalition elected numerous African Americans to local, state, and national offices ; though they did not dominate any electoral offices, black men as representatives voting in state and federal legislatures marked a drastic social change.

However, the third vote had already begun, and thus the conclave had to continue with the voting, which resulted in no clear winner, though it did indicate that many of the conclave wished to turn their support to Sarto, who had 21 votes upon counting.

If, then he should change about, wrong the people, maim its power, and rob it of the privilege of voting, he has by his own acts deprived himself of his honourable office by not fulfilling the conditions on which he received it ; for otherwise there would be no interference with a tribune even though he should try to demolish the Capitol or set fire to the naval arsenal.

Bishops of other sui juris churches and papal nuncios are not members of episcopal conferences by law, though the conference itself may invite them in an advisory or voting capacity ( can.

At the time, Chirac ran against Giscard in the first round of runoff voting and declined to call his voters to elect Giscard, though he declared that he himself would vote for Giscard.

The Watch Tower Society has stated that voting in political elections is a personal conscience decision, though a Witness who takes any action considered to be a " violation of Christian neutrality " may face religious sanctions.

The player is not required to show this idol to other players, though may use it as a bargaining chip for alliance and voting purposes.

The minister discounted her vote, saying that, though she was a member of the church, she was not a voting member.

However, segregationist Democrats in Louisiana classified Creoles with freedmen and by the end of the 19th century had disfranchised most blacks and many poor whites under rules designed to suppress black voting ( though federal law said all black men had the vote from 1870 ).

A larger number of elected offices required longer ballots, and at times the long ballot undoubtedly resulted in confusion and blind voting, though the seriousness of either problem can be disputed.

Dole's voting record was somewhat more conservative than that of her husband, though slightly less conservative than that of Helms.

Blunt's voting record in Parliament had previously been broadly unsympathetic towards gay rights, though slightly more favourable when compared to the majority of his Conservative colleagues.

Universal suffrage ( also universal adult suffrage, general suffrage or common suffrage ) consists of the extension of the right to vote to adult citizens ( or subjects ) as a whole, though it may also mean extending said right to minors ( Demeny voting ) and non-citizens.

Legally, Mexican Americans could vote and hold elected office, though they were also constrained from voting in most places by literacy tests and poll taxes.

Under the anti-Catholic Penal Laws, Roman Catholics, though the overwhelming majority in Ireland, were harshly discriminated against, barred from holding property rights or from voting in parliamentary elections until 1793.

By the end of the 19th century a few western states had granted women full voting rights, though women had made significant legal victories, gaining rights in areas such as property and child custody.

There has not been an instance in which the Art Ross Trophy winner has been awarded the Selke Trophy, though Fedorov finished second in regular season scoring in 1994, while Hart Trophy winner and Art Ross Trophy runner-up Joe Sakic finished second in Selke voting in 2001.

These disagreements were resolved by August 1919, though sixty-seven delegates abstained from voting to adopt the Weimar Constitution.