voting system

collocation in English

meaningsofvotingandsystem

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voting
noun[U]
uk
/ˈvəʊ.tɪŋ/us
/ˈvoʊ.t̬ɪŋ/
the activity of choosing someone or something in ...
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system
noun
uk
/ˈsɪs.təm/us
/ˈsɪs.təm/
a set of connected things or devices that ...
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(Definition ofvotingandsystemfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofvoting system

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Thevotingsystem, in which the people decided on the candidate's competence, weakened the necessity for these prerequisites.
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Avotingsystemthat induces such insincere voting behaviour cannot be expected to reliably return the socially most preferable candidate as a winner.
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Adjusting the number of seats to reflect the population of districts would eliminate the disproportionality of the presentvotingsystem.
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The first concerns thevotingsystem.
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Avotingsystemwas devised whereby each participant had three 'votes' which they could distribute as they saw fit between the themes identified from the earlier stages of the study.
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It is clear that only avotingsystembased on double majority can command a consensus.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
I personally favour a majoritarian first-past-the-postvotingsystem.
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It is obvious that some presidents do not look at the hands, so to speak, but go straight to the electronicvotingsystem.
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We are not at all worried about thevotingsystemthat we should use.
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Accordingly, they have designed avotingsystemthat enforces consensus.
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The independent commission on thevotingsystemhas begun its work and has been asked to report within a year.
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It is possible to devise avotingsystemwhere the seats won are proportional to the votes cast— but there follows a serious conundrum.
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Our amendment is designed to combine the newvotingsystem—which we do not like—with a constituency system.
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It is fundamentally important that anyvotingsystemis appropriate to the nature and functions of the body which is being elected.
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Thevotingsystemrequires that the parties shall work together to produce consensus.
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Is he still opposed personally to a change in ourvotingsystem?
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Reform of thevotingsystemfor all elections in this country is an imperative need.
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Any allegations of malpractice regarding the absentvotingsystemshould be reported to the police, whose job it is to investigate.
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