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	Electoral Systems (BP334E) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The subject of electoral systems, though dry-as-dust to some and arcane to many, is --- or ought to be --- of central interest to anyone concerned with the operation of democratic systems of government.
		In electoral districts represented by one member in an elected assembly, simple rather than absolute majorities suffice to determine the winner of an electoral contest.
		A majoritarian electoral system may thus be viewed as a divisive factor in a country with distinct regions, since parties have incentives (in terms of electoral rewards) to make strong regional appeals.
	www.parl.gc.ca /information/library/PRBpubs/bp334-e.htm (7242 words)

	Estate Administration Act -- OFFICIAL ADMINISTRATORS DESIGNATION REGULATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		That portion of the County of Kootenay embraced in the Cranbrook Electoral District
		That portion of the County of Kootenay embraced in the Fernie Electoral District
		That portion of the County of Yale embraced in the Kamloops Electoral District
	www.qp.gov.bc.ca /statreg/reg/E/24_58.htm (606 words)

	electoralCollege073100.html
		If a candidate wins a slim majority in California and grabs its 54 electoral votes, he or she is one-fifth of the way to the 270 electoral votes needed to capture the presidency.
		There are 538 electors, with each state getting one elector for each representative and senator it has (there are three more electors for the District of Columbia).
		Critics also argue that because the Constitution allows electors to use their discretion, there is a possibility of a "faithless" elector not casting his vote for the people's choice but for his own preference.
	www.globalexchange.org /democracy/electoralCollege073100.html (1180 words)

	CRS Report: RL30804 - The Electoral College: An Overview and Analysis of Reform Proposals - NLE
		Indeed, critics of the electoral college system caution that the presence of viable and well funded third-party or independent presidential candidates, who may be able to garner electoral votes by carrying a plurality of the votes in statewide elections, increase the likelihood of contingent election.
		As a result of this distribution of electoral votes among the states, it is arguable that there is a small state advantage over large states with regard to electoral vote allocation relative to the states' populations.
		Specifically, the Court found that excluding a candidate for elector because he or she refuses to pledge support for the party's nominees is a legitimate method of securing party candidates who are pledged to that party's philosophy and leadership.
	www.ncseonline.org /nle/crsreports/government/gov-39.cfm (8754 words)

	Yale Daily News - Activists made great strides in past year
		A coalition of groups led by the Yale College Democrats and Students for a New American Politics PAC registered hundreds of students to vote and coordinated efforts that achieved record on-campus turnout.
		Or the work STAND did to convince Yale to divest from companies that may be linked to the genocide in Sudan.
		My yearlong term as president of the Yale College Democrats has now come to a close, and it is no longer my responsibility to exhort students to political action, participate in lobbying trips or urge my friends to take up a cause.
	www.yaledailynews.com /articles/view/19361 (891 words)

	Robert G. Moser - Electoral Systems and the Number of Parties in Postcommunist States - World Politics 51:3
		District magnitude (the number of representatives elected from each district) was found to be the decisive influence on disproportionality and multipartism.
		Although the effective number of electoral parties was quite similar in the PR and majoritarian tiers in the 1990 and 1994 elections, the effective number of parliamentary parties produced in the single-member districts was less than half of that in the PR tier.
		Only 338 of the 450 district elections were declared valid after the first run-off because the other districts failed to fulfill the required criteria of both 50 percent participation and 50 percent support for the winning candidate.
	www.la.utexas.edu /~seant/moser.html (9640 words)

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		The Federal District shall embrace its present territory, and in the event of the removal of the federal branches to some other place, it shall be erected into the State of Valle de México, with such boundaries and area as the General Congress shall assign to it.
		To appoint magistrates of the Superior Court of Justice of the Federal District and of the Territories and submit the appointments to the approval of the Chamber of Deputies, or to the Permanent Committee, as the case may be.
		The regulations, decrees, and orders of the President relating to the government of the Federal District and to the administrative departments, shall be sent directly by the President to the governor of the District and to the chief of the respective department.
	www.law.yale.edu /rcw/rcw/jurisdictions/amc/mexico/mex_constitution_1917.htm (11769 words)

	The Electoral College — Infoplease.com
		For the 2000 election, the total electors were 538, based on 100 senators and 435 representatives, plus 3 electoral votes from the District of Columbia as a result of the 23rd Amendment to the Constitution.
		The votes of the electors, certified by the states, are sent to Congress, where the president of the Senate opens the certificates and has them counted in the presence of both houses on Jan. 6.
		On the Electoral College; On Reeligibility of the President - By an anonymous writer "REPUBLICUS," appearing in The Kentucky Gazette on March 1, 1788.
	www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0101087.html (556 words)

	Electoral College
		The Electoral College is a clumsy device that never would be imitated by a state for electing its governor -- or by a town electing its dogcatcher.
		Justification for the Electoral College is rooted "in racism and sexism," Amar says, noting no other political bodies (whether foreign nations or our own states and cities) think enough of the Electoral College system to use it for their elections.
		The winner-take-all system (except in Maine and Nebraska where electors can split the state's votes) is unfair to third-party candidates such as Ross Perot, whose 18.9 percent of the 1996 vote was rewarded with 0.0 percent of the Electoral College vote.
	www.fairvote.org /op_eds/electoral_college.htm (3472 words)

	Electoral College (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The fact that the district plan would not prevent the possibility of a minority President is of far less importance to its advocates than the preservation of the federal system, which the district plan would achieve, in their opinion.
		Critics of the district plan insist it would increase the influrence of small states far out of proportion to the size of their populations while drastically reducing the influence of large states in which the votes are usually balanced rather evenly between the parties.
		Electoral votes of the state are allocated to candidates according to the proportion in which the popular vote was cast for slates of electors (if the office is maintained) or for the actual candidates (if office of elector is abolished).
	home.pacbell.net /barbward/two1-6.htm (14643 words)

	The Yale Herald - November 16, 2006 - A coalition of the willing turns Yalies out for change
		The Yale Herald is an undergraduate publication at Yale University.
		Stollwerk, who was president of the Yale College Democrats last year, remembers the mood when she arrived on campus.
		Democrat Joe Courtney’s victory in the second Congressional district was decided by less than one half of a percent.
	www.yaleherald.com /article.php?Article=5060 (1530 words)

	Yale Daily News - The left, the right and in between
		Putting Yale's history as a bastion for the wealthy and conservative into the past, the current undergraduate population falls strongly on the leftward end of the political spectrum, say students.
		With registered Democrats in Ward 1, the electoral district which includes Old Campus and eight of the residential colleges, outnumbering Republicans seven to one, students say Yale's liberal leanings are not difficult to discern.
		While the Yale College Democrats and Republicans tend to focus more on registering voters and working on national or local campaigns, YPU members say their organization is involved with debates and hosting speakers.
	www.yaledailynews.com /Article.aspx?ArticleID=15857 (706 words)

	yale - OneLook Dictionary Search
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	www.onelook.com /?w=yale&ls=a (229 words)

	Bennion 2005 - Student-based canvassing in Indiana \| Get Out The Vote
		While the nonpartisan mobilization campaign did little to increase the likelihood of voting among older voters, it had a strong effect on voters younger than thirty-the voters least likely to be contacted by partisan campaigns.
		Electoral Context: This experiment was conducted during the weekend before the November 2002 election for Indiana's Second Congressional District in South Bend, Indiana.
		The election was very competitive and characterized by many overlapping door-to-door partisan canvassing, phone drive and mail mobilization initiatives by interest groups, political parties and candidate campaigns.
	research.yale.edu /GOTV/?q=node/35 (676 words)

	BC-EBC.ca
		We recommend the use of 19 districts, with average district magnitudes varying from 2.5 in Northern BC to approximately 5.5 in the Lower Mainland.
		The name “Yale” is no longer recognizable to the citizens of the riding as most think of the community of Yale on the Fraser River, not the historic county of Yale.
		Summary: The District of Hope formally asks the British Columbia Electoral Boundaries Commission for a realignment of its provincial electoral district boundaries to shift the community from the current Yale-Lillooet electoral district to an eastern Fraser Valley electoral district.
	www.bc-ebc.ca /submissions/list?offset=60 (1367 words)

	Globalization and Self-Determination Database
		All electoral systems involve at least one partition of the national territory in electoral districts.
		If there is a second partition, then there is a second set of districts (larger or smaller than the first partition) in which votes are obtained and seats are allocated.
		Please note that total electoral results are obtained by the sum of results in partitions one and two.
	research.yale.edu /gd/queries.html (437 words)

	History News Network
		Another untoward effect of the Electoral College is the emphasis placed upon so-called swing states, which leads to the neglect of the voters in the majority of states where one party or the other holds sway.
		Madison was present at the Constitutional Convention, yet he was dissatisfied with the compromise between the large states and the small states that gave rise to the Electoral College system and as early as 1792 went on record as favoring the direct election of presidents.
		Judith Best, a defender of the Electoral College, believes that people identify with their states and would be upset to lose the advantage many states derive under the current system.
	hnn.us /articles/printfriendly/8163.html (1281 words)

	The Electoral College: Enlightened Democracy
		The election process was seen as a clever solution to the seemingly unsolvable problem facing the Convention--finding a fair method of selecting the Executive for a nation composed of both large and small states that have ceded some, but not all, of their sovereignty to a central government.
		The Electoral College minimizes the impact of fraud, isolating it to the one or two states where the vote was close, disputed, and relevant to the Electoral College balance.
		Despite these arguments against the District Plan, the current system allows a state to switch to the District Plan if it decides that doing so would be beneficial within its borders--and it may do so without the necessity of passing a constitutional amendment.
	www.heritage.org /Research/LegalIssues/lm15.cfm (7324 words)

	In the electoral vote, complications abound - Tom Curry - MSNBC.com
		In those two states, one elector is awarded to the candidate receiving the most votes in each of the congressional districts, and the remaining two electoral votes are awarded to whoever gets the most votes statewide.
		In some states the penalty for electors who do not vote for the candidate to whom they are pledged is severe: in North Carolina for example, an elector who breaks his pledge can be fined $10,000.
		If the electors have not been appointed by noon on the day they are to meet, the law says the governor shall appoint them.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/6327343 (1918 words)

	Elections Expand Voting Rights for Foreigners, Younger Citizens
		"Changes in the electoral system and expansion of the franchise is evidence of how the nation is moving forward to develop a fairer and more balanced democracy," said Lee Nam-young, political science professor at Sookmyung Women's University in Seoul.
		The May 31 elections are expected to reflect the party preferences of voters more accurately through the introduction of a proportional representation voting system for the election of local council members at lower levels.
		The proportional system was introduced in 2001 when the Constitutional Court ruled the electoral system unconstitutional because voters might not necessarily support the political party that has fielded their favorite candidate.
	yaleglobal.yale.edu /display.article?id=7572 (1252 words)

	Yale First Nation - Aboriginal Relations and Reconciliation
		The Yale First Nation AIP was approved by the Yale community in a series of meetings held in the fall of 2005, by BC's Cabinet on February 6th, 2006, and by the federal Cabinet June 23, 2005.
		A ceremony was held in Vancouver on March 9, 2006, where the AIP was officially signed by Yale First Nation Chief Robert Hope, the provincial Minister of Aboriginal Relations and Reconciliation Tom Christensen, and federal Minister of Indian and Northern Affairs Jim Prentice on behalf of their governments.
		At the same time, it was announced that Yale First Nation, the District of Hope, the Fraser Valley Regional District, Electoral Area 'B' were invited to apply for a probationary community forest agreement, providing up to 34,300 cubic metres of timber annually in the Fraser timber supply area.
	www.gov.bc.ca /arr/firstnation/yale/default.html (329 words)

	yale - Ask.com Web Search
		Yale University is a private university in New Haven, Connecticut.
		Founded in 1701 as the Collegiate School, Yale is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and a member of the Ivy League.
		Yale University comprises three major academic components: Yale College (the undergraduate program), the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences,...
	www.ask.com /web?q=yale (289 words)

	ipedia.com: Washington, DC Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Land for the district was given to the federal government by the states of Virginia and Maryland and the city was named after George Washington.
		The towns of Georgetown and Alexandria already existed at the time the district was founded; the remainder of the territory was subdivided into Washington City and Washington County (on the Maryland side of the Potomac) and Arlington County(on the Virginia side).
		The Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified on March 29, 1961 which allows residents of Washington, DC to vote for President (popular election) and have their votes count in the Electoral College the same as the least populous state, which currently is three (3).
	www.ipedia.com /washington__dc.html (3106 words)

	Electoral College Dropouts
		The remaining electors are chosen based on the popular vote totals within each Congressional district.
		Clinton, who won the only Congressional district in which the majority of voters are African-American, would have received one electoral vote.
		Perhaps the simplest and most logical method is to allocate the electors in rough proportion to the statewide vote.
	www.thenation.com /doc/19990705/19990617hoffman (531 words)

	FVRD Yale
		The Yale water system service area was established in 1979 by the Regional District of Fraser-Cheam and was converted to a Fraser Valley Regional District service area in 1999.
		The water system serves the townsite of Yale, in Electoral Area B. There are approximately 80 customer accounts on this water service.
		These plans identify roles and responsibilities of the regional district in the event of an emergency that affects the water supply.
	www.fvrd.bc.ca /FVRD/Services/Water/Systems/Yale.htm (125 words)

	B.C. Voters List 1898 - Districts
		Shall comprise all the land in the Westminster Electoral District which lies to the south of the Fraser River and to the east of the western boundary of the Municipality of Matsqui.
		Shall comprise all the lands within the Electoral District of West- minster which are not included in any other Riding.
		All the remaining portion of Lillooet Electoral District which is not embraced by the East Riding of said district as above constituted and defined.
	www.rootsweb.com /~canbc/vote1898/votedist.htm (201 words)

	Boundary Delimitation End Notes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The single-transferable vote is also used in Australia to elect members to its upper house, but each state is considered a district for election purposes, and therefore districts are not redrawn.
		According to Taagepera and Shugart, the term "magnitude" is preferable to "size," because size usually refers to the number of voters in an electoral district or the geographic extent of a district.
		The discussion of the role of the courts in Canadian redistribution draws heavily from a paper by Jennifer Smith entitled "Drawing Electoral Boundaries in Canada: Current Representation Dilemmas." This paper was presented at a conference hosted by the National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis in Buffalo, New York, October 24-26, 1997.
	www.aceproject.org /main/english/bd/bdz_001.htm (385 words)

	Electoral College Dropouts
		Since presidential electors operate behind the scenes and rarely exercise independent judgment, voters don't tend to think of them as elected officials.
		A change in the all-or-nothing allocation of electors probably would not have altered the end result of any of the past three elections.
		Jackson could, for example, instruct his electors to vote for either Clinton or Dole in exchange for a Cabinet post or a promise to pursue a particular legislative agenda, and thus at least exercise some political power on behalf of his supporters.
	www.thenation.com /doc/19990617/19990617hoffman/2 (788 words)

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