Sentence examples for weighted ballot from inspiring English sources

The Marquis de Condorcet, an important theorist in the field, once said of Jean-Charles de Borda, who advocated a weighted ballot on which voters ranked candidates in descending order: "Some of his papers display talent, although nothing follows from them and nobody has ever spoken of them or ever will".

"I thought it was a weighted ballot, so I just voted for one movie.

The new voting rules stated that the leader can only be elected with an equally weighted ballot of caucus and party members.

Out of the 53 members, 38 voted at Sunday's meeting at the Elinor Bunin Monroe Center at Lincoln Center in New York using a weighted ballot system.

But according to one member present at the five-hour voting meeting who was not authorized to speak publicly, it was clear early on that "Zero Dark Thirty" would easily take the top two film awards as the clear consensus choice in the group's weighted ballot voting system.

But today, when she defeated Paul George, 108-96, in the U.S.O.C. election for president -- a margin of 5 ballots under the weighted voting system -- she understood the gravity of the history she made.

To automatically make it onto the primary ballot a candidate would have to get 25percentt of the weighted vote of the delegates.

In New York, the conventions take place before the primaries, and any candidate who wins 25percentt of the weighted vote at the convention is assured a spot on the primary ballot and a chance to address the convention.

In its rush to adjourn for the year, the State Legislature passed a bill that would overhaul school board elections in New York City, replacing paper ballots with voting machines and simplifying a system of weighted voting.

If he does not win just over 50 percent of the weighted vote at the convention, he will not be eligible to be included on the primary ballot, effectively killing his chances as a Republican candidate for governor.

In Prussia the constitution granted by the king remained in force, but its democratic potential was reduced through the introduction of a complicated electoral system by which the ballots were weighted according to the income of the voters.