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  • Au lieu de le féliciter comme tout opposant se revendiquant démocrate, Monsieur Hossein Moussavi, candidat favori des pays occidentaux, arrivé deuxième avec 33% réclame l'annulation du scrutin.

    Global Voices in English » Maghreb: Views on Iran 2009

  • My favorite thing that comes up is the issue of the electoral college vs. scrutin universel.

    Chucking my ambassador pin 2006

  • The system of scrutin d'arrondissement restored for the elections.

    1927, July 13 2001

  • A new electoral law introduced the scrutin de liste and a measure of proportional representation.

    7. France 2001

  • A new electoral law introduced universal suffrage and the French system of scrutin de liste (election by departmental lists) and proportional representation.

    9. Italy and the Papacy 2001

  • In France, where from 1840 to 1845 the ballot, or _scrutin_, had been used for deliberative voting in the chamber of deputies, its use in elections to the Corps Législatif was carefully regulated at the beginning of the Second Empire by the Organic Decree of the 2nd of February 1852.

    Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various

  • The long familiarity of the Belgian electors with the _scrutin de liste_ also paved the way for the adoption of the list system of proportional representation, but there is an additional reason why list systems have found favour on the Continent.

    Proportional Representation A Study in Methods of Election John H. Humphreys

  • Council elections, when the _scrutin de liste_ in its simple form is used, and when, as in the list system proposed by the committee of the

    Proportional Representation A Study in Methods of Election John H. Humphreys

  • A legislative corps, discussing and voting the laws, named by universal suffrage, without the _scrutin de liste_ which falsifies the election; 6.

    The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II Various

  • Regarding then these differences, the wisdom of our forefathers has ruled, not that the county of Oxford, the city, the University, and the boroughs of Woodstock and Banbury, should join to elect nine members after the principle of _scrutin de liste_, but that the nine members should be distributed among them according to their local divisions, after the principle of _scrutin d'arrondissement_.

    The Contemporary Review, January 1883 Vol 43, No. 1 Various

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