Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
A party-line vote in a deliberative assembly (such as a constituent assembly, parliament, or legislature) is a vote in which a substantial majority of members of a political party vote the same way (usually in opposition to the other political party(ies) whose members vote the opposite way).
In Texas, a vote for a straight-party ticket cast votes for all party candidates in all races where the party was fielding a candidate and the voter was eligible to cast a vote, from the President/Vice President (or Governor) to the county constable or justice of the peace.
The party structure pushing its representatives in parliament to vote along the line is referred to as party discipline, and efforts to enforce it are referred to as "whipping". Likewise, a party-line vote is one in which most or all of the legislators from each political party voted in accordance with that party's policies.
SAVANNAH, Ga. (WSAV) — With early voting underway and rules changes left and right, it may be hard to keep track the ins and outs of voting in Georgia. Election day in Georgia is Nov. 5, 2024 ...
Senate Bill 189 and House Bill 1207 have drawn the most criticism from legislative Democrats and voting-rights advocates, so much so that the American Civil Liberties Union of Georgia has ...
Georgia judges are picking apart controversial new election rules in the state as its early-voting turnout breaks records. The rules, imposed by Georgia’s Republican-led State Election Board ...
Georgia is one of seven states that require a run-off election if no candidate receives a majority of the vote in a primary election and one of only two states (the other being Mississippi) that require a run-off election for state and congressional offices if no candidate wins a majority of the vote in a general election; Louisiana has a ...
Passed in the Georgia State Senate on February 23, 2021, in a nearly party-line vote, Senate Bill 67 would have require a photo ID when requesting an absentee ballot. Concurrently, a broader elections bill, House Bill 531, was being considered in the Georgia House of Representatives. [143]