As a consequence, this paper focuses on variations of the absolute number of ballots from one election to the other, and relies on the voting age population abroad to estimate the voter turnout.
On Thursday, the Republican leader of the State Senate, Joseph Bruno, denounced as "absolute nonsense" the Republican ballot rules that nearly blocked Senator John McCain from competing here and subjected New York to national ridicule.
Southern blacks and the Justice Department differed vehemently, arguing that the right to vote was equally affected by dilution of voting power as well as by an absolute prohibition on casting a ballot.
The National Assembly is composed of 577 deputies who are directly elected for a term of five years in single-member constituencies on the basis of a majority two-ballot system, which requires that a runoff take place if no candidate has obtained the absolute majority on the first ballot.
Candidates for the National Assembly must receive a majority, not a plurality, of votes, and, if no candidate receives an absolute majority, then a second ballot is held the following week and the post is awarded to the plurality winner.
Now if you have an absolute squeaker, a name on the ballot, a Tea Party candidate or a Green [Party candidate] can pull just enough votes so that you can see statistically they cost someone an election.
On election day, June 30, emotions ran high, and the failure of Wulff to secure an absolute majority in the first two ballots added to the tension.
Two ballots were necessary before M. Poincaré obtained the absolute majority requisite to proclaim his election, although the first ballot was a very close thing, for the new President lacked only six votes of the number constituting the absolute majority.
Two-phase voting is also used for the presidency, with the exception that, if an absolute majority is not reached after the first ballot, then only the two highest vote getters are considered for the second ballot, which is contested two weeks later.
Members must be elected by an absolute majority of the General Assembly, requiring 96 votes in a secret ballot, rather than a simple majority of General Assembly members present.
