Nomination by acclamation is an oral vote using cheers, claps, and shouts to nominate someone for political office. It is useful when almost everyone will vote the same way. It was used in the 2008 Democratic primary election to show party unity behind Senator Barack Obama. Vice presidential candidates are usually nominated by acclamation at their party’s convention.
“By acclamation” can be described as an oral vote, where instead of people proclaiming their vote by traditional ballot or raising their hand, all sorts of noises, claps, cheers or shouts of “hurray” become substitutes. To acclaim is also to use the voice in an expression of goodwill or approval. Appointment is nominating someone and usually refers to the act of appointing someone to political office (or running for political office). When taken together, nomination by acclamation refers to nominating someone to run for political office through non-traditional methods as described above.
From small elections in parent/school organizations for board positions to very large ones such as nominating a candidate for president, nomination by acclamation can be used as an alternative method to balloting or manual vote counting. It’s especially useful when almost everyone is going to vote a certain way anyway. If a contest, such as one between two people running for president of the parent/school organization, is controversial, you wouldn’t choose this method because not all people would vote for the same candidate, even though everyone might cheer two people’s right to vote. be named as potential candidates for acclaim. For the actual election, one would want to have a fair contest with ballots or hand counting to determine the winning candidate.
Obviously if the race has already been decided, showing a full vote is just a matter of form. This was the case in the 2008 Democratic primary election in which Senator Barack Obama was the de facto candidate for president. Everyone knew the outcome in advance, and this allowed the Democratic Party, and Senator Hillary Clinton (Senator Obama’s opposition in the primaries) to do something that showed the party unity behind their candidate.
After a number of votes from various states’ delegates were counted, proving that Senator Obama had a clear majority, Senator Clinton cut the vote, prompting Senator Obama to receive the nomination by acclamation. This kind suggestion was met with cheers and spelled the end of what had been a closely contested and bitter primary election between the two Senators. The nomination by acclamation was also deemed necessary, as it recognized the extraordinary merit of Senator Clinton’s historic campaign, but propelled the party toward reunification, with Senator Clinton demonstrating full support for Senator Obama’s candidacy.
Nomination by acclamation is not so unusual at the end of the presidential primaries. Vice presidential candidates are usually nominated by acclamation at their party’s convention. A related term is election by acclamation, used in Canada to express what happens when a person runs for office without opposition.
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