Voting preparations began in the fall of 1959, although the actual demarcation and planning for the rural communes was completed in 1958.

Voting was by simple majority.

Voting was usually by show of hands ( χειροτονία, kheirotonia, " arm stretching ") with officials judging the outcome by sight.

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Full enfranchisement of citizens was not secured until after the African-American Civil Rights Movement ( 1955 – 1968 ) gained passage by the United States Congress of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

Voting was also divided along ethnic lines, with the resident Somalis generally voting for independence, with the goal of eventual reunion with Somalia, and the Afars largely opting to remain associated with France.

Jenkins ' Grave In December 1997, he was appointed chair of a Government-appointed Independent Commission on the Voting System, which became known as the " Jenkins Commission ", to consider alternative voting systems for the UK.

Institutionalized racial segregation was ended as an official practice by the efforts of such civil rights activists as Clarence M. Mitchell, Jr., Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr., working during the period from the end of World War II through the passage of the Voting Rights Act and the Civil Rights Act of 1964 supported by President Lyndon B. Johnson.

* Voting on September 11 in the City of New York Mayoral Primary Election was halted.

However, this provision was never enforced while the southern states continued to use various pretexts to prevent many blacks from voting right up until the passage of Voting Rights Act in 1965.

* Voting for women ( which was opposed by most other European nations );

Washington's major congressional accomplishment involved legislation to extend the Voting Rights Act, legislation that opponents had argued was only necessary in an emergency.

It was originally described in detail by Yale Law School professors Bruce Ackerman and Ian Ayres in their 2004 book Voting with Dollars: A new paradigm for campaign finance.

After the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was implemented, African Americans were protected in exercising their constitutional rights as United States citizens to register to vote in South Carolina without harassment or discrimination.

This was his public effort to encourage blacks to register and vote after passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which promised federal enforcement of rights.

Voting was restricted to the adult male owners of freehold land valued at 40 shillings or more – the equivalent of about £ 80 as of 2008 – and votes could only be cast at the county town of Lancaster, by a public spoken declaration at the hustings.

Voting was originally restricted to male landowners.

One proposal made by many, which would have greatly simplified the current system, was to introduce a double majority of both member states and population, to replace the current Qualified Majority Voting ( QMV ) system.

Voting in parliamentary elections was restricted by a property threshold, most Londoners were unable to vote and many hoped for reforms to make Parliament more representative of the people.

Among the cases he was involved with were Baker v. Carr, which set the constitutional standards for reapportionment ; Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States, which set a precedent by recognizing the Constitution's authorization for federal laws requiring desegregation of public accommodations for African-Americans ; and South Carolina v. Katzenbach, which upheld the Voting Rights Act.

Helms was the most stridently conservative politician of the post 1960 era, especially in opposition to federal intervention into what he considered state affairs ( integration, the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act ).

Manny Benavidez, a resident of Irving, filed a lawsuit against the city in federal court in November 2007, saying that the voting system was not in compliance with the 1965 Voting Rights Act.

Voting rights for women were introduced into international law by the United Nations ' Human Rights Commission, whose elected chair was Eleanor Roosevelt.

As a colleague and friend to Martin Luther King Jr. he was a strategist and negotiator during the Civil Rights Campaigns in Birmingham ( 1963 ), St. Augustine ( 1964 ), Selma ( 1965 ), and Atlanta ( 1966 ) that resulted in the passage of the Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act.

In addition, EPIC coordinates the Public Voice coalition, launched in 1996 to promote public and NGO participation in decisions concerning the future of the Internet, as well as the National Committee for Voting Integrity, which was established to promote voter-verified balloting and to preserve privacy protections for elections in the United States.

Voting for the Juno Fan Choice Award is open to the general public, while voting on general categories is limited to CARAS members.

Voting is open to all people entitled to vote in general parliamentary elections, which in practice means that suffrage is universal for all Austrian citizens over the age of sixteen that have not been convicted of a jail term of more than one year of imprisonment.

Voting membership is limited to backbench MPs although frontbench Conservative MPs have an open invitation to attend meetings.

Seattle's open housing forces took a blow when, on May 15, 1965, just before the summer of the Voting Rights Act and the Watts Riots, an airplane crash killed Sidney Gerber and city council member Wing Luke.

Thus, relying on the Supreme Court's decision in California Democratic Party v. Jones, which had held that California's blanket primary violated the First Amendment ( despite the fact that the Court explicitly differentiated — albeit in dicta — the blanket primary from the open primary in Jones ), on McKinney's behalf, five voters claimed that the open primary system was unconstitutional, operating in violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, the associational right protected by the First Amendment, and various statutory rights protected by § 2 of the Voting Rights Act.

* Open Voting Consortium site on open source voting systems

Traditional drop-in Voting Centers were also open in more than 30 countries around the globe.

Voting on eligible films for the HKFA is conducted January through March every year and is open to all registered voters, which include local film workers as well as critics, and a selected group of abjudicators.

Voting in the second round is open to a group of 50 professional abjudicators, Executive Committee members of the HKFA, as well as members of the thirteen professional film bodies.

Voting at the Convention was open and was recorded in Hansard.

Voting is open to Australian citizens, and to British citizens who have been resident in Australia since before 1984 ( about 9 % of the electoral roll ).

Voting bureaus were open from 8am till 2pm.

Throughout the 1980s, Ms. Hillman championed many nonpartisan and bi-partisan efforts to ensure open access to the voting process for all citizens and the continued voting rights of minority Americans, including her work on the historic 25 year extension of the national Voting Rights Act.

Additionally they argue this public finance scheme would address taxpayers ' concerns that they have " no say " in where public financing monies are spent, whereas in the Voting with dollars system each taxpayer who votes has discretion over their contribution.

Noted legislative achievements during this phase of the Civil Rights Movement were passage of Civil Rights Act of 1964, that banned discrimination based on " race, color, religion, or national origin " in employment practices and public accommodations ; the Voting Rights Act of 1965, that restored and protected voting rights ; the Immigration and Nationality Services Act of 1965, that dramatically opened entry to the U. S. to immigrants other than traditional European groups ; and the Fair Housing Act of 1968, that banned discrimination in the sale or rental of housing.

Voting ( the casting of ballots ) happens at various polling stations, generally established in schools, church halls, sports clubs, or other such public places.

When administering elections in which ballots are offered in multiple languages ( in some areas of the United States, public elections are required by the National Voting Rights Act of 1965 ), electronic ballots can be programmed to provide ballots in multiple languages for a single machine.

Harris discovered that counterfeit audit records had been provided to Black Box Voting in a public records request.

Within five months, Congress and President Lyndon Johnson responded to the enormous public pressure generated by the Voting Rights Campaign by enacting into law the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

Economic measures such as increased taxes on " the rich and corporations ", " strong regulation " of the financial industry, " regulation and public ownership of utilities ", and increased federal aid to cities and states ; opposition to the Iraq War and other military interventions ; opposition to free trade treaties such as the North American Free Trade Agreement ( NAFTA ); nuclear disarmament and a reduced military budget ; various civil rights provisions ; campaign finance reform including public financing of campaigns ; and election law reform, including Instant Runoff Voting.

Voting members are community leaders from many fields, including agriculture, business, and public service.

* Voting rights distribution: 8. 89 % to Total, 15. 61 % to L ' Oréal, 2. 33 % to employees, and 73. 17 % to the public.

In addition, he helped put together partnerships and lead coalitions to recruit and manage 25, 000 volunteers for the non-partisan and nationally recognized Election Protection program ( to help ensure every vote counts ), to direct nonpartisan PFAWF programs that registered 525, 000 African American and Latino voters in three years, to block a permanent and massive tax cut, to enact the 2006 Voting Rights Act Extension, to amend the USA Patriot Act, and to defend and reform our nationÕs public schools.

Voting took place in public, orally ; there was no secret ballot.

Since the passing of the Voting Rights Act, African Americans are voting and being elected to public office in increasing numbers.

Voting at elections originally took place by way of a public show of hands or by a public ballot.

When administering elections in which ballots are offered in multiple languages ( in some areas of the United States, public elections are required to by the National Voting Rights Act of 1965 ), DRE voting systems can be programmed to provide ballots in multiple languages on a single machine.

Voting outside the country by the general public is not allowed at Barbados ' various High Commissions, Embassies, and Consulates.