You must be able to pay a £500 deposit and if you wish to stand for a specific party you must have their permission and have a certificate of authorisation, the only way to get your money back is by receiving 5% of the votes. There are also reasons why you can't stand as a candidate and these are: if you're going to be bankrupt or in debt, if you're serving more than 12 sentence or if you're entitled to vote in the House of Lords. It also depends on the type of election, for a general election where 646 UK parties are fighting for re-election or just a by-election for one constituency. For a local election you must be a citizen of a nation in the EU. You cannot stand for local election if you’re an employee of the local authority, if you’re subject to bankruptcy or if you’re serving a three months or more prison sentence.
Colleges restrict young people’s lives because after college they have debt of $50,000 or more to repay due to student loans. Furthermore college graduates are not getting jobs so paying off their loans is difficult if not impossible. A student by the name of Trina Thomas sued Monroe College because after graduation she could not get a job although she had her degree. These problems are part of why many teenagers ask the question, what sense does it make if when we graduate we cannot get a job to repay school loans? Based on an article by Financial Contributor, Ray Martin, he asserts that a myth buster is going around for students, for instance it easy to get over-borrow money.
Before this bill can pass it will have to earn 2/3 majority vote from both houses of Congress. This is difficult to do. After Congress is no longer in session, the president can use another passive form of disagreement for ten days called pocket veto. However, in this situation the bill will not pass. In what ways can Congress excercise control over the federal bureaucracy?
Should the UK reform its electoral system for general elections? Electoral reform is a change in the rules for governing elections. It usually involves the replacement of one electoral system with another. As it stands the UK currently uses the first-past-the-post system, in 2010, the coalition held a referendum about the change from FPTP (first past the post) to the AV (alternative vote) system. FPTP is an electoral system where the voters select a single candidate by marking an ‘X’ next to his/her name.
This determines who becomes President-elect. • How do the following factors relate to candidate selection and campaign strategy? o Candidate experience and background o Candidate home state o Raising and spending money o Time spend campaigning in various states Electoral College • What are the origins and rationale behind the Electoral College? o Citizens couldn’t read/ uneducated o Citizens didn’t have easy access to polling places • What percentage of the electoral vote does a presidential candidate need to be elected? 50% + 1 = 270 votes • What if no candidate has a majority?
Electoral systems are systems of voting, in which people are given a choice and vote for what they want. Electoral systems are mainly judged on whether they are representative, and therefore democratic and fair, whether they form strong governments, so manifesto pledges can be delivered, and whether they retain the MP-constituency link, which is necessary for the redress of grievances, clear representation and accountability. The UK consistently used First Past The Post up until a Labour government was elected in 1997 with an ideology that included modernising the constitution. However, some argue that Labour did this for political gain, so they would maintain strength. Due to this, some alternatives to First Past The Post are already used in the UK; Party List is used in UK European parliamentary elections, Single Transferable Vote (STV) is used in local, regional and European elections in Northern Ireland and for local elections in Scotland, and Additional Member System (AMS) is used in elections for the Scottish Parliament, the Welsh Assembly and the London Assembly.
Levels of government and their responsibilities European parliament: the European parliament has three main roles, debating and passing European laws, with the council. Scrutinising other EU institutions to make sure they are working as they should. Debating and adopting the EU’s budget, with the council. The European parliament is the only directly elected body of the European Union. It has 736 members called MEPs.
In Ohio, for instance, Republicans won 12 out of 16 House races “despite voters casting only 52 percent of their vote for Republican congressional candidates. reform in the Electoral College so that each Congressional district votes for its elector directly. As you can see, such a rule change would allow redistricting to influence the fairness of the Electoral College. Winner-take-all state races occasionally cause a problem, but which party gains is somewhat variable. It seems that there are worse things than the status
This process transferred varying levels of power from the UK Parliament to the UK's nations but kept authority over the devolved institutions in the UK Parliament. Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland all held successful referendums on devolution in the late 1990s. This led to the establishment of separate Parliaments or Assemblies and the democratic election of officials. Devolved powers are decisions that Parliament used to control, but are now taken by the separate bodies, E.G. the Scottish Parliament.
The Electoral College is not a place, it is a process in choosing the President of the United States of American. “The Electoral College is the body which actually choose the President of the United States in December of the election year.” (education.com) This essay will talk about the structure and functions of the Electoral College, the differences between popular voting and electoral voting and why this process is still use today. The founding fathers decided on the Electoral College during the Constitutional Convention in 1787. The Constitution went into effect in 1789 but we had already been a country since 1781. Before the Constitution we were ruled by Articles of Confederation and when the Constitution came into effect it replaced the Articles.