nonvoting

Examples

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• In 2005, the 79th Texas Legislature authorized the Governor to appoint a nonvoting student regent for each university or university system.

  Blog text (6)

• From its start, the HA has been a multistakeholder group with its board consisting of public officials from all three levels of government, who now sit as nonvoting "advisors," business representatives, educators, and community representatives.

  Academic text (2005)

• There are five national officers (the "officers"), ten regional vice presidents (the "RVPs"), and the executive director, who is a nonvoting member of the board.

  Academic text (2008)

• Vela said Thursday that Posadas' role as nonvoting chair of the Student Activity Fee Committee was an added duty to his role as student life director.

  Blog text (16)

• According to district Procedure F.2.3.1, "The Director of Student Activities or comparable assignee appointed by the President shall serve as a nonvoting member and chair the committee."

  Blog text (16)

• "The problems in the Penn State board are so deep that it would be less than fully truthful to say they don't affect everything the board does," says John Hanger, who represents the state's governor as a nonvoting member of the board.

  Academic text (2016)

• The following session, the 80th Texas Legislature authorized the Governor to appoint a nonvoting student representative to the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB).

  Blog text (6)

• At Upper Skagit, another tribe acknowledged in the 1970s, women provided valuable leadership during the difficult period before acknowledgment, but were limited to roles as nonvoting secretaries and treasurers on the Tribal Council (Miller 1989).

  Academic text (1992)

• "The achievements of Judge A. Leon Higginbotham originate from complicated sources," declares Eleanor Holmes Norton, his first law clerk and now the nonvoting delegate from Washington, D.C., to the House of Representatives.

  Academic text (1996)

• The nonvoting members of the committee attended the meeting but could not cast their votes.

Synonyms

V

voteless

vsnonvoting

8.6

A person who cannot vote because they lack citizenship or legal qualifications

is the general state of not having the right or ability to vote

D

disenfranchised

vsnonvoting

7.8

People who lack the right to vote and have little power in society

is limited to lacking the vote without implying wider loss of rights

How Eligible

eligible

265 3.9

nonvoting

1 3.9

disenfranchised

7.8

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