Sentence examples for methods of electing from inspiring English sources
Dorothy Samuels gave a fine recitation of the ills attending the current methods of electing our judges, but it was not until the final paragraph that she proclaimed the ultimate remedy to be so-called merit selection of state Civil and Supreme Court judges, a process requiring a change to our state's Constitution.
Several methods of electing presidents have been adopted.
As if on cue, Senator-elect Hillary Clinton announced she will lead a fight to scrap the state-by-state method of electing presidents.
The French Academy adopted Borda's method of electing members, until a new member, Napoleon Bonaparte, pressed the Academy to abandon it.
A federal lawsuit, filed in 2006 by the Justice Department, charged that the village's method of electing its trustees diluted the voting strength of Latino citizens.
He changed the rules despite benefiting from the old method of electing the leader when trade unions were given a third of the vote.
This year is the first time for more than a century that the electoral college vote has gone against the popular vote, provoking scrutiny of the indirect method of electing presidents laid down in the 18th century.
At the root is the division of power among three elected "governments" (president, House, Senate), plus between the Federal government and the state governments, plus the same tripartite structure in the state governments, plus the state-by-state winner-take-all method of electing the President.
Our Founding Fathers did not oppose or support a national popular vote or any other method of electing our president, instead leaving it to the states to award electors in a manner that is in the best interest of the people that they serve.
THE KEY CHANGES: A new method of electing Labour's leader - the electoral college, which gives unions, party members and MPs/MEPs a third of the votes each, abolished in favour of one member, one vote.
There were many advantages to the original method of electing senators.
