Electoral System in a sentence

He said this new electoral system suggests tabling a proposal in Parliament to implement an electoral system devoid of preferential votes.

Bolsonaro's defense claimed last week that the meeting had no electoral bias and was held as an “institutional counterpoint” to suggest changes in the electoral system.

For me, change means radical electoral reform such as switching from the first-past-the-post electoral system to proportional representation, the reform or abolition of the House of Lords and the institution of federalism.

Unlike in previous polls where people were content with receiving peanuts and allowing political renegades to hijack the electoral process, the voting public fully took charge and worked towards ensuring the sanctity of the electoral system.

In fact, it would ease it by allowing the printing of regionwide electoral ballots, rather than the districtwide ballots that the current electoral system employs.

The Electoral College is like the rest of the Constitution in that it treats the as the essential political unit of our electoral system.

Ironically, a proposal to introduce proportional representation electoral system in the country—which formed part of the Electoral Reforms Bills—was shot down by Parliament last year.

Now let’s go down to two provisions in the amended electoral act to show that even the hullaballoo over the presidential withholding of assent are needless exercises that are made to grandstand and not to advance our electoral system.

Besides, the electoral system had a two-tier structure, in which primary assemblies of about 500 voters elected by voice-vote representatives to the second tier of electoral assemblies.

Electoral branch The electoral system functions by authorities which enter only every four years or when elections or referendums occur.

In the meantime, an Interim Political Authority (IPA), charged with reviewing the electoral structure in the country, was created in December 1998 and devised a proportional electoral system to ensure that there be opposition in the National Assembly.

The British Government was asked to appoint an electoral review commission so that divergent views on the electoral system and composition of the legislature could be reconciled.

This Bill was designed to modernise the electoral system by instituting permanent registration of voters, identification cards, voting machines and revised electoral boundaries.

Nigeria's electoral system is obviously a work in progress and since the country’s voting procedure remains largely manual, desperate politicians will always seek ways to game the system.

Before attempting to reform the current electoral system, one question needs to be answered: Do we want to stick with the PR-STV or should we abandon our 100-year-old system and switch to one of the other systems commonly used across the democratic world?

These fabrications, apart from being criminal, appear to be aimed at sowing mistrust in our electoral system, manipulating our procurement system, and influencing ongoing cases before our courts,” Garcia said.

The party’s policies will be announced during its election campaigns, but it will be centered on its main goals of reforming the governance system, the electoral system, and making the legislature representative and independent of the executive.

For parliamentary and local elections France has been able to keep the right-wing at bay thanks to its electoral system, using a constituency-based two-round majority system.

In 1929, the Parliament of Northern Ireland passed a bill shifting the Parliament's electoral system from the relatively proportional single transferable vote (STV) to the less proportional first past the post or plurality voting system.

Sachs explained how the First Past The Post voting arrangement tended to promote a two-party system: The main reason for America's majoritarian character is the electoral system for Congress.