But beyond that are practical values to electoral voting.
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Republicans, who have lost four of the last six presidential elections, are moving in key battleground states to change electoral voting from winner-takes-all to a distribution of votes depending on the popular vote.
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Proponents of the bill would really like to do away with electoral voting altogether but, realizing how difficult it is to gain the two-thirds vote of both houses of Congress to approve and three-fourths of state legislatures to ratify a Constitutional amendment, have instead devised this clever end-run.
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Mr Kane's parents said they wanted to ensure their son was kept on the electoral register because voting was a matter of citizenship.
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The Electoral Commission said the voting system was still open to abuse despite measures to prevent it.
On February 22nd, the lower house of Congress voted overwhelmingly to amend the federal electoral code to allow voting to take place abroad.
And yes, for all the talk of principle, many Tories might just be voting for electoral self-interest rather than an enthusiasm for improving democracy.
The NRA, which frequently weighs in on congressional races with endorsements and support of a national grassroots network, also warned of electoral consequences for anyone voting against the contempt measure.
After a decade of virtual legislative standstill, for example, Kuwait's government is promoting educational reform, a redrawing of electoral districts to make voting fairer, and a removal of barriers to foreign investment.
The bench could also examine Section 5 of the 1965 Voting Rights Act - a provision that forces nine US states with a history of electoral discrimination to have all changes to voting rules first approved in Washington.
During the last eight years Venezuelan electoral authorities developed a truly reliable voting system.
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The debate also touched upon the role of the Electoral Commission and eligibility criteria for voting in the referendum.
Andy O'Neil, of the Head of Office for the Electoral Commission, told BBC Scotland voting had to move with the times.
There has been major improvement in running Scottish Parliament elections in the wake of the 2007 voting fiasco, the electoral watchdog has ruled.
The Electoral Reform Society Scotland has said a voting system causing Highland Independent councillors concern gives people more choice.
To prevent fraud and ensure security, the UN persuaded local electoral officials to cut the number of voting centres by half, to 803.
Mr. MAX MATHURIN (President, Haiti's Provisional Electoral Council): (Through Translator) The Provisional Electoral Council guarantees that all those who have their electoral card will have the possibility of voting today.
The Council of Europe - which oversees the ECHR - has said the UK is obliged "to introduce legislative proposals to amend the electoral law imposing a blanket restriction on voting rights of convicted prisoners in prison and achieve compliance with the court's judgement".
Israel today is governed by a proportional electoral system that treats the entire country as a unitary voting district.
The Guardian Council, which oversees the electoral process, said it had found some evidence of voting irregularities but the number had "no effect on the result of the elections".
While the U.S. mid-term elections are going full steam ahead with a myriad of maybe-reliable and not-so-reliable electronic voting systems in place, Quebec is pulling back from its adventures in e-voting, after the province's chief electoral officer Marcel Blanchet delivered a harsh report on the 2005 municipal elections.
Goldberg said their purpose at high schools is to psych the students up for voting by helping them realize that participation in the electoral process determines their fate.
C. elector Barbara Lett-Simmons abstained from casting her electoral vote as a protest against the District's lack of voting representation in Congress.
Most obviously, the action was triggered by the electoral success of the BNP which, coupled with talk in Westminster about voting reform likely to benefit small parties, has made it harder to dismiss as a sideshow.
Georgia's Central Electoral Commission (CEC) said there had been no grave violations during the voting.
The Rev Lennox Yearwood, who runs an outfit called the Hip-Hop Caucus, argues that minorities, having tasted electoral success with Mr Obama's election, are now less sceptical about voting.
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The Electoral Commission said that the process needs to be tightened even though it believes postal voting should remain in place.
The measures follow allegations of widespread electoral fraud, including vote-rigging, in the UK since postal and proxy voting were greatly extended in 2001.
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There were fears that the electoral reform poll would overshadow the other elections and concerns over so-called "voting fatigue" if they were held on the same day.
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In the Lords (from 3pm) peers bid a less than fond farewell to the Electoral Registration and Administration Bill - the measure which had Conservative and Lib Dem ministers voting in opposing lobbies for the first time, last week.
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