Nowadays, leaders are achieving the same end at the ballot box.

288 of the 300 seats are determined by constituency voting, and voters may select the candidate or candidates of their choice by marking their name on the party ballot.

Votes may be cast only for the candidate whose name appears on the ballot papers.

By 47 votes to 27, with 25 abstentions, the Assembly decided that the rule did not apply to elections to the Court and proceeded to elect the requisite number of candidates by a series of unrestricted ballots.

The future of Iraq will be decided by the people of Iraq, but with bullets, not ballots.

The Working Group recommends that States promote educational programmes within primary and secondary schools on the mechanics of voting within their territories (such as providing instruction on the use of a polling machine or voting via absentee ballot) to encourage voting by a greater number of people of African descent.

Maryland now offers both early voting in person and absentee voting by mail.

The Election Law of BiH stipulates that election of members of all government bodies shall be performed on the basis of general and equal voting rights by direct and secret voting.

The women's rights movement succeeded in gaining for many women the right to vote.

The Board usually makes decisions by consensus, but in a rare non consensus decision it adopted this resolution by vote, with 12 abstentions.

Electronic voting, used at 10 of polling stations, also caused problems.

That moment a woman casts her vote in a ballot box is an historic moment and don't ever give up on your right to vote and participate.

In Arizona, citizens can, by gathering a sufficient number of signatures, put a proposed law to a direct popular vote.

If consensus is not possible, adoption by voting requires a three quarters majority of the Parties present and voting.

As the Trinidad and Tobago electorate go to the polls, Jeremy Taylor wonders about the legitimacy of conventional voting .

But everyone can vote during the last week at an early polling station, anywhere in the country.

The electors will indicate the candidates for whom they wish to vote by placing crosses against their names on the ballot papers.

Moreover, Sheikh Hasina has gained political power at the polls in an Islamic country, which is no mean feat for a woman.

Unable to vote the general out of office, the public took to the streets.

3. Further notes the inauguration in 1999 of a national Government based on village elections by universal adult suffrage

3. Further notes the inauguration in 1999 of a national Government based on village elections by universal adult suffrage

The Reichstag delegates were elected by direct and equal male suffrage (and not the three class electoral system prevailing in Prussia until 1918).

She is educating the indigenous people of her country about what it means to be a democracy, about how you bring democracy to the country, about educating, about how to vote but that democracy is not just about voting it's about being an active citizen.

Our founder was a great constitutionalist, and Pakistan came into being through the vote.

In my view, to pretend that such a vote is divisive or undemocratic reveals a strange understanding of democracy, because taking decisions through a vote is the daily business of all democratic parliaments.

If the second ballot is inconclusive and a majority vote of members is required, a third ballot shall be taken in which votes may be cast for any eligible candidate.

The electors in the General Assembly and in the Security Council will indicate the candidates for whom they wish to vote by placing crosses against their names on the ballot papers.

Conducted a series of workshops seminars for church leaders, NGOs and the public on the The Secrecy of the Ballot and Universal Suffrage .

If the second ballot is inconclusive and a majority vote of members present is required, a third ballot shall be taken in which votes may be cast for any eligible candidate.

If the second ballot is inconclusive and a majority vote of members present is required, a third ballot shall be taken in which votes may be cast for any eligible candidate.

The electors in the General Assembly and in the Security Council will indicate the candidate for whom they wish to vote by placing a cross against the name on the ballot paper.

 corruption can be used to persuade the election administrators to interfere in a partisan manner with, for instance, the registration of voters, the ballot papers, the ballot box, and the final protocol from polling stations .

And the trickery began long before voting day, with nine opposition parties prevented from even appearing on the ballot.

Their function is only to inform of elections, time of voting and location of the polling station, and more often than not contain only text without any images.

Those forces secured all 5,200 polling places with multiple rings of security, protected voters and polling centres from over 100 attacks and reportedly detained more than 200 suspected insurgents.

This allows an error in any one of the three samples to be corrected by majority vote or democratic voting .

If the second ballot is inconclusive and a two thirds majority is required, the balloting shall be continued until one candidate secures the necessary two thirds majority. In the next three ballots, votes may be cast for any eligible candidate.

Representatives are requested to use only the ballot papers that are now being distributed and to place a cross to the left of the name of the candidate for whom they wish to vote.

The top 10 short and feature finalists will be chosen through online voting.

The Assembly decided that the rule did not apply to elections to the Court and it proceeded to elect the requisite number of candidates by a series of unrestricted ballots.

The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government this will shall be expressed in periodic and genuine elections which shall be by universal and equal suffrage and shall be held by secret vote or by equivalent free voting procedures.

The vote ended in a standoff between the incumbent, Mwai Kibaki, who declared himself the winner, and the opposition candidate, Raila Odinga, who dismissed the vote as rigged.

Despite this democratic endorsement, most Western governments have been reluctant to engage with these parties or to prepare for Islamists coming to power through the ballot box.

Faced with a new EU initiative, our traditional response has often been to oppose it, vote against it, lose the vote, then sulkily to adopt it while blaming everyone else.

44th meeting 12 April 2005 Adopted by a recorded vote of 48 to 2, with 2 abstentions.