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English translation: Closed party list ballot
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| 22:09 Oct 23, 2007 |
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|  Selected response from: mariana24 Uruguay Local time: 20:04 | ||||||
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| 4 +4 | straight ticket |
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| 5 | slate |
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| 3 | Closed party list ballot |
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Closed party list ballot Explanation: Está en un glosario de Proz.com. Por alguna razón no muestra la explicación, pero te dejo el vínculo, no sé si será lo que estás buscando. Suerte. Reference: http://ksearch.proz.com/search/?toolbar=firefox&from=esl&to=... |
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peer agreement (net): +4straight ticket Explanation: straight-ticket voting A voter who votes for all candidates of one party rather than choosing from candidates of different parties in each race on the ballot is a straight ticket voter. Many states, like Texas, make it relatively easy to vote a straight ticket by offering voters the option to check just a single box to select all candidates running under a single party label. http://texaspolitics.laits.utexas.edu/glossary/index.php?ter... Straight-Ticket Voting Straight-ticket voting (also called straight-party voting) allows voters to choose a party’s entire slate of candidates. Voters make one punch or mark on the ballot in order to vote for every candidate of that party for each office on the ballot. http://www.ncsl.org/programs/legismgt/elect/straight_ticket.... At the moment I feel like voting a straight independent ticket. If more people would do that maybe both major parties would have to show their differences. ... In some instances the voters asked how to vote a straight democratic ticket. In others, the judge was the first to mention such an option. ... I am not suggesting that you should vote the straight Democratic ticket even if you have to hold your nose. I am insisting that you should vote that ... I am a registered Libertarian, but I am voting a straight Republican ticket. My landlady is an MD and an Independent, but she is voting a straight ... espero que te ayude :) -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 1 hr (2007-10-24 00:02:57 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- After further research, it seems that "closed list" is a better option. (Thanks Mariana!) The main difference is that voting a straight ticket is the voter's choice (i.e. it is an option available to the voter) whereas with closed lists you have to choose a party list, all-or-nothing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed_list |
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