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

Jurors did talk informally amongst themselves during the voting procedure and juries could be rowdy, shouting out their disapproval or disbelief of things said by the litigants.

Simplified illustration of the voting rules that apply within the ordinary legislative procedure.

* Ordinarium Sanctae Romanae Ecclesiae, a document written by Jacobi Gaytani that furthered the development of the papal conclave by establishing a voting procedure currently referred to as " approval voting "

In March 1933, an argument arose over irregularities in the voting procedure.

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

McKean proposed the voting procedure that the Continental Congress later adopted: that each colony, regardless of size or population, have one vote.

When nobody has a majority, the House of Representatives, voting by states and with the same quorum requirements as under the original procedure, chooses a President.

Echoing the language of the 15th Amendment, the Act prohibits states from imposing any " voting qualification or prerequisite to voting, or standard, practice, or procedure ... to deny or abridge the right of any citizen of the United States to vote on account of race or color.

Congress amended this section in 1982, prohibiting any voting practice or procedure that has a discriminatory result.

Section 5 of the Act requires that the United States Department of Justice, through an administrative procedure, or a three-judge panel of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, through a declaratory judgment action " preclear " any attempt to change “ any voting qualification or prerequisite to voting, or standard, practice, or procedure with respect to voting ..." in any " covered jurisdiction.

However, it wished to move the voting location from a private home to a public school ; the preclearance procedure required it to seek approval from the Justice Department, because Texas is a covered jurisdiction under Section 5.

Parliamentary procedure also allows for rules in regards to nomination, voting, disciplinary action, appeals, dues, and the drafting of organization charters, constitutions, and bylaws.

The 11th edition of Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised states, " If it is desired to elect by mail, by plurality vote, by preferential voting, or by cumulative voting, this must be expressly stated, and necessary details of the procedure should be prescribed ( see 45 ).

Charles E. Bohlen writes that the Dumbarton Oaks Conference " settled all but two issues regarding the organization of the United Nations — the voting procedure in the Security Council and the Soviet pressure for the admission of all sixteen of the Soviet republics to the General Assembly.

However, unlike the Church of England, the bishops of the Scottish Episcopal Church are elected in a procedure involving clergy and laity of the vacant diocese voting at an electoral synod.

Most states chose an indirect procedure, usually involving a first round, voting to constitute an Electoral college which chose the actual deputies in a second round.

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

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 ).

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.

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.

For " significant " decisions the council will first vote and, if passed, the decision will be carried to the voting membership.

The county has been consistently Democrat in Presidential voting since 1976 and was among the counties to be carried by Walter Mondale in 1984.

However, a small part of the bill did relate directly to Scotland which is often omitted from the arguments that it was carried by Scottish MPs voting on an English and Welsh-only bill.

There was no infrastructure, and registered voters had to take a boat to vote on the island, along with another boat that carried a 1, 000 pound voting machine.

De Gaulle was carried to power by the inability of the parliament to choose a government, popular protest, and the last parliament of the Fourth Republic voting for their dissolution and the convening of a constitutional convention.

The motion of deposition carried without objection, Eustathius of Beirut and Photius of Tyre, who had previously acquitted him on the same evidence, voting with the majority.

The division in estates was of mixed nature: traditional, occupational, as well as formal: for example, voting in Duma was carried out by estates.

Polling booths are rarely used, and voting was often carried out collectively by the work force of each enterprise or by other groups of the population.

Time magazine carried a report of some voters with Callaway stickers on their cars voting in the Democratic runoff, presumably for Maddox on the theory that he would be a weaker opponent for Callaway than would have been Arnall.

During Zoellick's time at the World Bank, the institution's capital stock has been expanded and lending volumes increased to help member countries deal with the global financial and economic crisis ; assistance has been stepped-up to deal with the famine in the Horn of Africa ; a major increase in resources has been achieved for the institution's soft loan facility, the International Development Association ( IDA ), which lends to the poorest countries ; and a reform has been carried out to the World Bank's shareholding, Executive Board and voting structure, to increase the influence of developing and emerging economies in the World Bank's governance.

* Tally ( voting ); an unofficial private observation of an election count carried out under Proportional Representation using the Single Transferable Vote

The device started to be massively used in 1996, in Brazil, where 100 % of the elections voting system is carried out using machines.

Electronic voting was first introduced to Brazil in 1996 ; with the first tests carried out in the state of Santa Catarina.

He also says that such theory, if carried to its logical conclusion, would require making voting more difficult ( e. g. by spacing polling places further apart ) and eliminating secret ballots, as those who would be deterred by inconvenience or persecution for revealing their support for a candidate would be unlikely to fight for him.

In 1853, he became a member of the committee which drafted the Constitution of Victoria, and on 18 December 1855, Nicholson moved and carried a motion which stated that any Victorian electoral act should include voting by secret ballot.

A Lairdship carried voting rights in the ancient pre-Union Parliament of Scotland, although such voting rights were expressed via two representatives from each county who were known as Commissioners of the Shires, who came from the Laird class and were chosen by their peers to represent them.

Finally, the Court of Appeals concluded that " the voting restriction for trustees is rooted in historical concern for the Hawaiian race ... carried through statehood when Hawaii acknowledged a trust obligation toward native Hawaiians ... and on to 1993, when Congress passed a Joint Resolution ' apologiz to Native Hawaiians on behalf of the people of the United States for the overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii ... and the deprivation of the rights of Native Hawaiians to self-determination '.

On several occasions Salt and I, being unprejudiced, carried or struck out a rule when the voting was equal.

After privatisation the Portuguese government owned 500 golden shares in PT, which carried special rights over the company's management decisions and blocked any one shareholder from holding more than 10 % of voting rights within the company.

All the voting procedures, from nominations to choosing the winners, are carried out online through the internet.