eligibility requirement

Examples of eligibility requirement in the following topics:

• Eligibility

  • Eligibility requirements restrict who can run for a given public office.
  • Different voting jurisdictions set different eligibility requirements for candidates to run for office.
  • Virtually all electoral systems, whether partisan or non-partisan, have some minimum eligibility requirements to run for office.
  • Over the years, multiple presidential candidates have been born in foreign countries or U.S. territories, but have met the natural born citizenship eligibility requirement because they were born to American citizens.
  • In offices other than that of the President, eligibility requirements tend to be less stringent.

• Voting as Political Participation

  • Voting is the most quintessential form of political participation, although many eligible voters do not vote in elections.
  • To register, citizens must meet eligibility requirements and have filed the necessary paperwork that permits them to vote in a given locality.
  • Eligibility requirements require voters to be eighteen years of age, and states can enforce residency requirements that mandate the number of years a person must live in a place before being eligible to vote.
  • Over time, residency requirements were relaxed.
  • In 2010, only about 23 percent of eligible eighteen- to twenty-nine-year-olds cast a ballot.

• The Purpose of Elections

  • However, in the European Union, one can vote in municipal elections if one lives in the municipality and is an EU citizen; the nationality of the country of residence is not required.
  • Citizens become eligible to vote after reaching the voting age, which is typically eighteen years old as of 2012 in the United States.
  • However, in the European Union, one can vote in municipal elections if one lives in the municipality and is an EU citizen; the nationality of the country of residence is not required.
  • In some countries, voting is required by law.
  • If an eligible voter does not cast a vote, he or she may be subject to punitive measures such as a small fine.

• Regulating Campaign Finance

  • Eligibility requirements must be fulfilled to qualify for a government subsidy, and those that do accept government funding are usually subject to spending limits.
  • During the primaries, in exchange for agreeing to limit his or her spending according to a statutory formula, eligible candidates receive matching payments for the first $250 of each individual contribution (up to half of the spending limit).
  • In addition to primary matching funds, the public funding program also assists with financing the major parties' (and eligible minor parties') presidential nominating conventions and funding the major party (and eligible minor party) nominees' general election campaigns.
  • In 2012, each major party is entitled to $18.2 million in public funds for their conventions, and the parties' general election nominees are eligible to receive $91.2 million in public funds.

• Income Security Policy and Policy Making

  • While assistance is often in the form of financial payments, those eligible for social welfare can usually access health and educational services free of charge.
  • The amount of support is enough to cover basic needs and eligibility is often subject to a comprehensive and complex assessment of an applicant's social and financial situation.
  • Several countries have special schemes, administered with no requirement for contributions and no means test, for people in certain categories of need (for example, veterans of armed forces, people with disabilities, and very old people).

• Democratic Governments

  • Democracy is a form of government in which all eligible citizens have an equal say in the decisions that affect their lives.
  • Democracy is a form of government in which all eligible citizens have an equal say in the decisions that affect their lives.
  • Currently in Switzerland, single majorities are sufficient at the town, city, and canton level, but at the national level, double majorities are required on constitutional matters.

• Electing Candidates

  • The electorate, or the group of people who are eligible to vote, does not generally include the entire population.
  • For example, many countries prohibit those judged mentally incompetent from voting, and all jurisdictions require a minimum age for voting.
  • Most national elections require that voters are citizens, and many local elections require proof of local residency to vote.
  • Many electoral systems require voters to cast ballots at official, regulated polling places.

• Medicaid and Medicare

  • Core eligibility groups of poor children and parents are most likely to be enrolled in managed care, while the elderly and disabled eligibility groups more often remain in traditional "fee for service" Medicaid.
  • Medicare Advantage plans are required to offer coverage that meets or exceeds the standards set by the original Medicare program, but they do not have to cover every benefit in the same way.

• Strict Scrutiny

  • For example, even if the court found that states had a compelling governmental interest in incorporating minority students, the state would have to demonstrate that its program only incorporated eligible candidates.
  • The Supreme Court has consistently found that classification based on race, national origin, and alienage require strict scrutiny review.

• Labor Interest Groups

  • Also, legislation such as the 1947 Taft-Hartley Act made it harder to organize by allowing individual states to ban "closed-shops. " These are workplaces in which all new employees are required to join a union.
  • Many of these workers are high-skilled or creative workers who are not eligible for workplace related benefits.