Currently, only Nebraska and Maine use a district-based plan for allocating electoral votes.
It could be a big boost to the Pirate Party elsewhere, particularly in countries with proportional representation rather than a single-member, district-based system which favors larger parties.
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In total, more than 5, 300 students entering kindergarten scored at the 90th percentile and above, which makes them eligible for an unspecified number of seats in district-based schools.
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Both Maine and Nebraska adopted their district-based systems before 2000.
Americans for Job Security was among the outside groups that fought among themselves in the Santa Barbara-based district, relegating the candidates to the status of secondary players.
In the rest of Ohio, Democrats are targeting two sophomore Republicans: Steve Chabot in the Cincinnati-based 1st District and Bob Ney in the eastern 18th.
Linder outpolled Barr by an even more striking 2-to-1 margin in the Gwinnett County-based 7th Congressional District.
The U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Florida will decide -- based on the FBI investigation -- whether criminal charges should be filed against Roque.
Representatives from all provincial and district education offices participated in several capacity building trainings on evidence-based analysis and planning with clear priorities, realistic costing, efficient use of existing resource requirements, and mobilization of partnership.
Two years ago Jeremy Hawkins downshifted from London's financial district, where he had worked for 23 years, to a home-based life.
District Judge Ashworth said he would limit the maximum sentence to a community-based penalty and granted Gill-Web conditional bail until the sentencing.
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Every pair of glasses is still designed and produced in the latest Mykita Haus in a quiet residential area of Berlin's Mitte district and much of the company's success is based on word-of-mouth, its founders say.
The New York-based drug giant filed a lawsuit last year in the U.S.District Court inDelaware, alleging both Cialis and Levitra infringe a recent Viagra "method-of-use" patent.
One of the beneficiaries is the Okehampton and District Council for Voluntary Services, which is based five miles from the centre of the foot-and-mouth outbreak in Devon.
Last year, the public defenders' office in the district where Mr Harroun will be tried represented a man who pleaded guilty to spying on US-based Syrian dissidents on behalf of the Assad regime.
Maine and Nebraska already have provisions that award electoral votes based on who wins each congressional district. (And each state's at-large vote-winner receives two additional electoral votes, corresponding to the state's two U.S. senators.) In this instance, Kerry could win Maine, but if he lost in one of the state's congressional districts, Bush would get that electoral vote.
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