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They also have a student secretary, elected by the students themselves through direct voting (secret ballot), done on non-party lines.

His career as a national representative begin in 1955 when he was elected by direct voting for the Argentine Senate.

One of the most confusing election-related issues, he said, is the difference between direct voting and cumulative voting.

The election on Monday is the last round in the first direct voting for president here in the world's most populous Muslim nation.

Generally speaking, he said, a co-op's bylaws determine whether board members are elected by direct voting or cumulative voting.

With direct voting, Mr. Brett said, each shareholder is permitted to vote his total number of shares for each open seat on the board.

But the bishops stopped short of making a direct voting recommendation on the three polls expected to be held on November 25, the day of the general election.

The elections were conducted via secret direct voting and was subject to unprecedented security, political, legal scrutiny, all over the country generally and in Kirkuk in particular.

BASIS is run by a nine member Board of Directors (elected by direct voting of the members for a two-year term).

The governor of Ottensheim is Ms. Ulrike Böker from the citizen's group "Pro O", who won the direct voting.

In this election, half of the 132 members of Parliament were elected by a national vote on party lists, and half by direct voting for candidates in 16 districts.

We should reform our electoral system by requiring party neutrality until the primary, while also instituting minimal public campaign financing, instant runoff voting, direct voting, and proportional representation.

In February 2002, during an Extraordinary General Assembly, FESI decided to allow sports manufacturers a direct voting right in its main decision bodies.

He said that the new system of direct voting had broad support among black and Hispanic legislators, and had been passed unanimously in both the Senate and the Assembly.

Mr. McNulty, echoing comments by Mrs. Clinton, said he hoped the new attention to the Electoral College would finally lead to its replacement by direct voting.

In the Kingdom of Hungary, the voting rights were kept to the upper classes, while in Austria universal, equal and direct voting of all men was established in 1907.

At the time most of China's territory was under the control of the Government of the Republic of China, using a direct voting system elected 759 Legislative Representatives.

Charles University political scientist Zdeněk Zbořil, for instance, intimated that direct voting could result in a president and prime minister who were hostile to each other's goals, leading to bitter deadlock.

Though she had made a point of not directing voting preferences in her four election campaigns in the Legislative Assembly, Moore decided to support a team of independents for the council race.

In Grand Rapids, Michigan, former President Theodore Roosevelt came out in favor of direct voting for U.S. Senators and for the Presidency.

Since there was no heir apparent to the throne, it also established a system of royal succession based on direct voting in popular elections by the nobility, who would all come to Warsaw to vote.

Wednesday, May 26 - Interim Afghan president Hamid Karzai enacted an election law that requires both presidential and parliamentary elections to be held through free, general, secret and direct voting.

For Indonesian activists who pushed hard for democratic reforms since the collapse of General Suharto's authoritarian rule in 1998, the very fact that there was direct voting for president was a victory.

Having initially voted in favour of the report in the direct voting in plenary, I then withdrew my vote in writing, as noted in the parliamentary records of 25 October 2007.

The Member States must adopt all possible measures to ensure that there is greater participation in the European elections, including procedures for ensuring people are registered on the electoral rolls and for the use of direct voting.