Sentence examples for electoral method from inspiring English sources

Such systems are not entirely new; California actually adopted a similar electoral method — a so-called blanket primary that allowed voting across party lines — in 1996.

On the plus side, at least this bill will – at long last – set out Labour's policy on the second chamber, finally answering all those fiddly questions about composition, electoral method, length of terms and the rest.

They are not bothered by the intricacies or clarity of the electoral methods.

The states, left to their own devices, adopted electoral methods best described as higgledy-piggledy, except that everyone agreed that Election Day ought to be a public holiday, involving plenty of stumping, debating, and parading.

What the tea party and Boehner did not reckon with is that Obama and the Democrats are done being intimidated by the use of extra-constitutional means to extort concessions that the right cannot win through normal legislative and electoral methods.

The literature on external voting eventually includes research studies that apply electoral sociology methods to understand the patterns and dynamics of external voting behaviour.

The preferential system, adopted by the academy in 2009, is similar to electoral voting methods used around the world — and in some U.S. cities including San Francisco — when there are more than two candidates.

However, they disputed the electoral council's method of determining first-round winners.

The elections were duly held, though the electoral laws and methods varied considerably from state to state, and on May 18 the national assembly met in the Church of St .Paul (Paulskirche) in Frankfurt.

"It would be unforgivable to limit ourselves to only electoral or other methods of struggle," said Adán Chávez, a former university professor involved in political activity long before his brother, who is less than two years his junior, formed a nationalist cell of young army officers in the late 1970s.

But as with polling site problems, most US electoral systems have methods to remedy issues with vote tabulation, like audits or recounts.