Each voter has as many votes as there are members to be elected, and may give them all to one candidate. Science - Page 447edited by - 1886Full view - About this book
| 1901 - 744 pages
...London. With regard to the School Board franchise, it must be remembered that each elector is entitled to as many votes as there are members to be elected, and may distribute these votes at pleasure. In the City of London women have not yet established their right to vote.... | |
| Sheldon Amos - 1873 - 112 pages
...the votes are given. 1. As to the value of each vote. The almost universal rule in elections is that each elector has as many votes as there are Members to be elected for his constituency, but an elector need not use more than one of his votes, and must not give more... | |
| S.W. Silver & Co - 1880 - 642 pages
...elected by the House, and Taaa a casting vote. As in the case of the Legislative Council, each voter has as many votes as there are members to be elected, and may distribute them as he pleases. Both Houses of Parliament have adopted certain standing rules and orders for the... | |
| John Michels (Journalist) - 1886 - 778 pages
...incorporated towns from those registered on the borough list, and in the parishes by the rate-payers ; ie, those who pay local taxes. Each elector has as...representation of ecclesiastical minorities ; for, as we have sevn, one of the great problems to be solved in the adoption of the educational system was the reconciliation... | |
| Sheldon Amos - 1883 - 512 pages
...a very limited number of constituencies tentatively submitted to a different system,—every voter has as many votes as there are members to be elected, and he can use as many or as few of his votes as he pleases. Thus when a party issue or other clearly comprehended... | |
| Sir Mackenzie Dalzell Edwin Stewart Chalmers - 1883 - 188 pages
...circumstances, to dissolve a school board. At a school-board election every ratepayer is entitled to vote. He has as many votes as there are members to be elected, and he may distribute his votes as he pleases, — that is to say, if he likes he may give the whole of... | |
| Guglielmo Rapinet - 1883 - 236 pages
...the name of the candidates, for whom he intends to vote, and to drop the card in the ballot box. An elector has as many votes as there are members to be elected. If he give more votes than he is entitled to, or otherwise defaces the card it is useless, but he may... | |
| Sir John Lubbock - 1885 - 126 pages
...VI. PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION. THE CUMULATIVE VOTE. THE Cumulative Vote is that system under which each elector has as many votes as there are members to be elected in his constituency, and may "cumulate" them all on one candidate, or divide them between the different... | |
| 1886 - 592 pages
...vote lor common councilmen in the City oí London, or for vestrymen in other districts. Each voter has as many votes as there are members to be elected, and may give them all to one candidate. Outside the Metropolis the school board must number not less than five,... | |
| Sir Thomas Raleigh - 1886 - 178 pages
...in France as Scrutin cle Kste, by which large districts are created, returning several members each. Each elector has as many votes as there are members to be returned ; so that the majority in each district may return all the members for the district. This... | |
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