Other GOP-controlled state legislatures reportedly contemplating changes to their electoral vote allocation include Pennsylvania, Ohio and Michigan.

CNN: Some GOP-led states look at electoral vote changes

The commission recommends that the second vote determining the allocation of top-up members should allow the voter the choice of either a vote for a party or for an individual candidate from the lists put forward by parties.

BBC: The Jenkins Report: What it says

Santorum needed the Texas primary on May 29, with 154 delegates at stake, to be winner-take-all instead of the proportional allocation system based on vote results now in place.

CNN: Santorum suspends campaign, clearing Romney's path

In Congress, it should be the largest party in the lower house (despite the electronic vote, the Electoral Tribunal takes several days to confirm the allocation of seats under Brazil's complicated proportional representation system).

ECONOMIST: Brazil's presidential election

Einhorn has been trying to rally Wall Street to vote against the Apple proposal as a way of showing their displeasure with the company's capital-allocation policies.

WSJ: Judge blocks shareholder vote on Apple proposal

Iain Chalmers, a founder of both the Campbell Collaboration and its older and better established medical sibling, the Cochrane Collaboration, identifies an apparent example of random allocation in a study carried out in 1927 of how to persuade people to turn out to vote in elections.

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