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Abcs Of The Illinois Elections 2014

By Christa Jarvis


It is usual to establish gradations between electors and elected, for example, the US President is elected by the electoral college, and the Westminster system, the Prime Minister is formally appointed by the "head of state" (where actually chosen by the parliament or by his own party). Generally direct elections and those with degrees have similar second election results (Illinois elections 2014).

It is considered that there are free election when the vote is cast in circumstances of freedom, ie, which is not subject to constraints (secret ballot) and not its direction (electoral fraud, rigging) is adulterated; addition to access for all citizens to have equal allowed. Discipline responsible for preventing fraud in the election is the Electoral Observation.

This framework includes in particular the rules that define the major parameters that are the establishment of electoral boundaries and electoral lists. This is to determine the source of "competence" and / or "representativeness" of voters. Faced with a plurality of choices, two questions arise.

Characteristics election in each country are regulated by the electoral law, which defines its unique electoral system, such as the nature of direct election (the all citizens directly elect their vote to elect) or indirect charge (no intermediate body, composed of representatives elected by all citizens, which is the decision-maker). The introduction of innovations in electoral systems is called electoral reform.

A provision may provide that in case of a tie vote, the President is preponderant: To avoid blocking the vote of President shall be deemed to switch the decision. Other methods of organizing election may exist but are used: Single transferable vote, alternative vote, Condorcet method, Borda count, Coombs' method, etc. Voter registration is to register all citizens who are qualified electors, to draw up electoral roll to be used in the polling stations on election day.

Only specialized judges, chosen in large families, are elected. It is then elect the "best" in a specialized area (eg construction of a naval fleet). Greek aristocracy means "the government of best." While the monarchical legitimacy - based on the divine law - has largely replaced the aristocratic conception of election, it lasts for a minority to the modern era: It partly explains the tradition of election of emperor by the princes of Holy Roman Empire.

With the challenge of monarchical legitimacy and particularly that of absolute monarchy, the Enlightenment and the rise of liberalism in its many forms (philosophical, political, economic etc.) leads to reintroduce and reworking the concept of election . These movements of ideas give rise to practices that now form the basis of our democratic institutions.

Given the importance of impact of audio-visual media on the electorate, the question of a balanced distribution of speaking time in favor of each candidate is often asked. Some countries - such as France with CSA - see an independent institution to ensure that the principle of equity. Given the potential inequality in financial candidates, some countries require campaign accounts are maintained and presented to an independent authority. Moreover, the amount of budgets may be limited. Some countries also provide for the granting of public funding to candidates according to (or semi-variable staffing fixed or variable depending on the results obtained by each candidate) variables rules.




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