In advance of elections, a District Electoral Officer ( DEO ) and a Deputy District Electoral Officer ( DDEO ) represent Elections BC in each electoral district and establish a temporary office to conduct the election, often shortly before the writ of election is dropped by the government.
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The returning officer issues a notice stating that the writ of election has been issued by the President and stipulating the date, time and places for nomination of candidates, the documents that candidates must submit on nomination day, and the amount of the deposit that must be lodged.
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It concerned section 41 of the Australian Constitution, and the question of whether four people eligible to vote in New South Wales could be prevented from voting at the federal level by a federal law which closed registration to vote on the day that the writs of election were issued.
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Unless someone here objects, I'll say explicitly that this was a special election . ( Which is rather odd, since Article 1, Section 2 of the Constitution says that vacancies in the House shall be filled by " writ of election " of the governor of the state affected.
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In addition, between the date of the writ of election and 12 : 00 noon on nomination day, candidates are required to lodge with the returning officer a deposit equal to 8 % of the total allowances payable to an MP in the preceding calendar year, rounded to the nearest $ 500.
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If the commission is satisfied that all requirements have been meet, it must issue a writ of election for an election to occur within ten days . If a majority of the qualified voters of the area to be incorporated approve of the incorporation, the community is declared incorporated and assumes the appropriate municipal government.
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When vacancies happen in the representation of any State in the Senate, the executive authority of such State shall issue writs of election to fill such vacancies : Provided, That the legislature of any State may empower the executive thereof to make temporary appointments until the people fill the vacancies by election as the legislature may direct.
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They kept their relationship relatively private, and Lekhtman did not participate in the Time and Chance ", most notably revealing that she had spent the day of September 4, 1993 the Saturday before she issued the writ of election frolicking with Lekhtman and other friends in Exerlopers on the lawn at Harrington Lake.
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On 9 May 2012, the President, acting on the advice of the Prime Minister, issued a writ of election for a by-election in Hougang SMC . The by-election was held on 26 May 2012, and Png Eng Huat of the Workers'Party was returned to the seat for the constituency.
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Under the Fixed-term Parliaments Act, writs of election are now despached to the returning officers of each constituency automatically, by virtue of a provision contained in the statute ( in concert with the fact that the Royal Proclamation no longer summons the holding of the election, but only the meeting of the new Parliament ).
