proxy voting - The practice of allowing a Senator to cast a vote in committee for an absent Senator. Senate Rule XXVI provides that proxies may not be voted when the absent Senator has not been informed of the matter on which he is being recorded and has not requested that he be so recorded.
Source: http://www.senate.gov/reference/glossary_term/proxy_voting.htm
Thomas was confirmed by a vote of 52-48, with Biden again voting nay.
Filibuster is when a senator(s) speak about anything they want so that a bill cannot get pased. This can make it so that they cannot pass the bill because the senator has the floor and they can't vote on it, or people begin to get annoyed and vote 'no' just to get it over with. Cloture is when 3/5 of the senate votes to limit each senator to only 1 hour of debate whoch thus kills a filibuster and allows everyone to get a say and to be able to vote.
A senator holds town hall meetings to find out how citizens think she should vote on gun control legislation
The vote was 60-39-1, strictly along party lines (ie 60 Democrats, 39 Republicans). The "1" was Senator Jim Bunning (R-KY) who was absent for family reasons and did not vote.
United States Senators have always been elected by popular vote. Each state votes for their own Senator. Each state has two Senators.
The highest vote senator must be the next president
My son will be my proxy. Whatever he says is like I said it. At the stockholders' meeting I will have my mom's proxy vote.
If they could not be present at the meeting, they were allowed vote by proxy. Proxy can be a computing term. Proxy is a hard language. The guy had a good proxy for his bad habit.
I couldn't attend the Annual General Meeting to vote my shares personally, so I sent my proxy with a friend so he could vote my shares for me.
A Senator Predarius in the times of ancient Rome was a Senator who cannot vote. This Senator was recognized by his white robes.
Voters vote a new person in with a special election.
Generally, association members may assign their votes to whomever they choose, and this may be a board member. It is possible that a member assigns an open proxy, or may assign a chosen proxy, usually by vote-able action. With an open proxy, the proxy holder can choose how to vote; with an assigned proxy -- with choices clearly voted on by the member -- then the proxy holder is required to vote according to the member's directive. One caveat is this, however: commonly, board members may not assign proxies to other board members for board votes. Read your governing documents to determine the exact voting procedure in place in your association, and if they are silent, locate the state law governing the type of association involved, or the type of corporation involved, where your answer may be dictated.
Read your governing documents to learn more about how proxies can be used in board elections in your association. Usually, an owner receives a document which can serve as either a ballot or a proxy. So long as the owner's signature is on the document, and it can be identified as a proxy, it can be used as such. However, it can only be used for one or the other purpose, not both.
A proxy ballot is used.
When a person fills out a proxy form he is basically giving to another person the right to vote for him. A proxy is not a ballot. The person carrying the proxy should be given a ballot for himself and one for the proxy that he is carrying for another.
the popular vote is by everybody. the electoral vote is by electoral colleges, which not everyone is in
All registered US voters.