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- A ballot is a device used to cast votes in an election; types of ballots include secret ballots and ranked ballots.
- Ballot design can aid or inhibit clarity in an election.
- The butterfly ballot used in Florida in the 2000 U.S.
- The use of a butterfly ballot led to widespread allegations of mismarked ballots.
- Each voter uses one ballot, and ballots are not shared.
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- The state of Washington voters saw Ballot Initiative 119 in 1991, the state of California placed Proposition 161 on the ballot in 1992, Oregon voters passed Measure 16 (Death with Dignity Act) in 1994, the state of Michigan included Proposal B in their ballot in 1998, and Washington's Initiative 1000 passed in 2008.
- Attempts to legalize PAD resulted in ballot initiatives and "legislation bills" in the United States in the last 20 years, as follows.
- Voters in the state of Washington saw Ballot Initiative 119 in 1991.
- The state of California placed Proposition 161 on the ballot in 1992.
- The state of Michigan included Proposal B in their ballot in 1998.
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- A common use of direct lobbying is to persuade the general public about a ballot proposal.
- This aspect of direct lobbying attempts to alter the legislature before it is placed on the ballot.
- Communications regarding a ballot measure are also considered direct lobbying.
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- Generally, elections consist of voters casting ballots at polling places on a scheduled election day .
- The first step in determining the results of an election is to tally the votes, for which various vote counting systems and ballot types are used.
- Many electoral systems require voters to cast ballots at official, regulated polling places.
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- In order to have their names listed on election ballots, individuals seeking these offices must first be nominated.
- The presumptive nominee is not formally nominated until the national convention, but he or she is all but assured of a place on the ballot in the general election by the conclusion of the primary season.
- In a case where an independent, or unaffiliated, candidate receives sufficient signatures, his or her name will appear on the ballot in the general election.
- Describe the steps by which a candidate appears on the ballot in a general election
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- When he fought his first contested local election, he demonstrated a willingness to put his policies to the ballot.
- When he fought his first contested local election, he demonstrated a willingness to put his policies to the ballot.
- By contrast, in an open primary all voters may cast votes on a ballot of any party.
- An Afghan man casts his ballot at a polling station in Lash Kar Gah, Helmand Province, September 18, 2005.
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- Voter turnout is the percentage of eligible voters who cast a ballot in an election.
- For the numerator, it is often assumed that the number of voters who went to the polls should equal the number of ballots cast, which in turn should equal the number of votes counted, but this is not the case.
- Not all voters who arrive at the polls necessarily cast ballots.
- Some may be turned away because they are ineligible, some may be turned away improperly, and some who sign the voting register may not actually cast ballots.
- Furthermore, voters who do cast ballots may abstain, deliberately voting for nobody, or they may spoil their votes, either accidentally or as an act of protest.
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- RTV registered over 2 million new voters in 1992, 80% of whom cast a ballot, and signed up over 2.5 million voters in 2008.
- In 2010, only about 23 percent of eligible eighteen- to twenty-nine-year-olds cast a ballot.
- Voter turnout in presidential elections is generally higher than for lower-level contests; usually more than half the eligible voters cast a ballot .
- Forty-nine percent of the voting-age public cast a ballot in the 1924 presidential contest, the same percentage as in 1996.
- There has been a steady increase in turnout since the 2000 presidential election, in which 51 percent of the voting-age public cast a ballot.
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- (as they have been in other democratic countries), including the country's election structure, ballot rules, and debate rules.
- With regards to ballot access, candidates for major elections, such as presidential elections, must meet state-determined criteria to be included on election ballots.
- Ballot access laws often mandate that candidates pay large fees or collect a large number of signatures to be listed, which often restricts the ability of third party candidates to be put on the ballot.
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- Bush (alongside running-mate Dick Cheney) and Al Gore (alongside Joe Lieberman), because it was alleged that Bush and Cheney were both inhabitants of Texas and that the Texas electors therefore violated the Twelfth Amendment in casting their ballots for both.
- The Electors shall meet in their respective states, and vote by ballot for President and Vice-President, one of whom, at least, shall not be an inhabitant of the same state with themselves; they shall name in their ballots the person voted for as President, and in distinct ballots the person voted for as Vice-President, and they shall make distinct lists of all persons voted for as President, and all persons voted for as Vice-President and of the number of votes for each, which lists they shall sign and certify, and transmit sealed to the seat of the government of the United States, directed to the President of the Senate.
- The person having the greatest Number of votes for President, shall be the President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of Electors appointed; and if no person have such majority, then from the persons having the highest numbers not exceeding three on the list of those voted for as President, the House of Representatives shall choose immediately, by ballot, the President.