| They disenfranchised poor people by making property ownership a requirement for registering to vote. |
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| Since I wouldn't be available to vote, I nominated him to act as my proxy. |
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| The country's constitution was amended to allow women to vote. |
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| Congress will vote on whether or not to impeach the President. |
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| There were 10 ayes, 6 nays, and 2 abstentions when the vote was taken. |
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| You must meet the town's residency requirement in order to vote. |
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| Sometimes a member nominates a chairman and no vote is taken, the assembly signifying their approval by acclamation. |
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| Suddenly, in 1988, a vote was taken to legalise real beer in a year's time, and on 1 March 1989 the amber fluid finally flowed again. |
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| In a 3-to-2 vote, town officials in Brattleboro passed an emergency antinudity ordinance for main roads and near schools and places of worship. |
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| During the postal vote phase, Police Scotland arrested a man from Glasgow on suspicion of selling his vote on eBay. |
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| The wording of the ballot paper loaded the vote in favour of the Conservative candidate. |
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| After tough negotiations, a referendum was held on 8 March 2003, which resulted in a favourable vote. |
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| Councillors are elected every four years through the single transferable vote. |
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| Participants can nominate up to 30 universities but are not able to vote for their own. |
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| A vote of censure was moved against Burke, however, for noticing the affairs of France, which was moved by Lord Sheffield and seconded by Fox. |
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| In December Samuel Whitbread MP introduced a bill giving magistrates the power to fix minimum wages and Fox said he would vote for it. |
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| In Athens, for instance, women could not vote or hold office and were legally and socially dependent on a male relative. |
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| Each national football association has one vote, regardless of its size or footballing strength. |
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| A minimum of six of the eight seat IFAB board needs to vote to accept a rule change. |
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| Each club is a shareholder, with one vote each on issues such as rule changes and contracts. |
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| The IOC Session is the general meeting of the members of the IOC, held once a year in which each member has one vote. |
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| In March 1946 the IOC, through a postal vote, gave the summer Games to London and the winter competition to St Moritz. |
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| All members are given an opportunity to vote for the players they consider are deserving of awards in various categories. |
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| The Albert Goldthorpe Medal is an award voted for be members of the press who cast a vote after every game of the regular season. |
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| To be eligible for a vote, a player must not have been suspended from the competition at any stage during the season. |
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| In cases of technical modifications, the MSMA can unilaterally enact or veto changes by unanimous vote among its members. |
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| Taylor was voted the 2007 Fans' Player of the Year following a vote conducted on the website Planet Darts. |
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| The exiting challenger of record was replaced by a challenger committee, where decisions are made by popular vote. |
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| In 2004 the Arbor Day Foundation held a vote for the official National Tree of the United States of America. |
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| The Assembly consisted of representatives of all members of the League, with each state allowed up to three representatives and one vote. |
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| On a vote of no confidence, the Folketing may force a single minister or the entire government to resign. |
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| However, on 25 October 2007, changes were made such that the entire country is one electoral district, giving each vote equal weight. |
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| Residents of these three islands are also able to vote in Dutch national and European elections. |
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| The special municipalities will be represented in the affairs of the Kingdom by the Netherlands, as they can vote for the Dutch parliament. |
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| A vote clerk sits in front of the Presiding Officer and operates the electronic voting equipment and chamber clocks. |
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| As such the Law Officers may attend and speak in the plenary meetings of the Parliament but, as they are not elected MSPs, cannot vote. |
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| Each MSP has a unique access card with a microchip which, when inserted into the console, identifies them and allows them to vote. |
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| The outcome of most votes can be predicted beforehand since political parties normally instruct members which way to vote. |
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| Parties entrust some MSPs, known as whips, with the task of ensuring that party members vote according to the party line. |
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| Any member can put their name forward to be First Minister, and a vote is taken by all members of Parliament. |
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| As with all elections in the UK, Irish and qualifying Commonwealth citizens are entitled to vote. |
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| Overseas electors on Scottish electoral registers are not allowed to vote in Scottish Parliament elections. |
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| Both the Presiding Officer and the Deputy Presiding Officer are expected not to vote. |
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| It was amended again in 2016 as a reaction to the 2014 Scottish Independence vote. |
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| In January 2013, the Government lost a vote on this timetable, which effectively ended the entire process. |
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| It passed by one vote on 28 March 1979, forcing the May 1979 general election, which was won by the Conservatives led by Margaret Thatcher. |
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| The Sunday Herald was the only publication to endorse a Yes vote in the referendum. |
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| Since the referendum, opinion polls have asked how people would vote in a hypothetical second referendum. |
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| Jeff this is serious awesome sauce. You get my vote if you can make this happen. |
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| His vote demonstrates that the people of Philadelphia are not asleep at the switch, are not indifferent to their political duties. |
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| Bernard Cosman found that in Georgia, it was the black belt whites who gave Goldwater his largest percentage of the vote. |
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| The freemen signified their approbation by an inscribed vote, and their dissent by a blank. |
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| Yesterday, I shamelessly blegged people to vote for my son in a Parents magazine cutest kid contest. |
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| In the UK it is customary to hold a vote every few years on whether to bring back the death penalty. |
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| German businesses wonder what Otto Normalverbraucher will buy, while US politicians fret over who Bubba will vote for in the next US election. |
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| That large body of the working men who were not counted as citizens and had not so much as a vote to serve as an anodyne to their stomachs. |
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| The final vote between Hollande and Sarkozy now depends on a delicate balance of how France's total of rightwing and leftwing voters line up. |
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| The IOC members gathered in the Session have the final vote on the host city. |
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| Also coming home for the weekend was his eighteen-year-old Greenpeacer, who was threatening not to vote for him. |
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| Few ordinary workers had the vote, and they created their own organisations in the form of trade unions. |
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| Local government in Northern Ireland has since 1973 been organised into 26 district councils, each elected by single transferable vote. |
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| A vote in 2002 nominated various wildflowers to represent specific counties. |
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| Canada and the United States decided to attend the meeting but without exercising their right to vote. |
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| This must be someone who could command a majority in a confidence vote in the House of Commons. |
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| Peers who hold high judicial office are no longer allowed to vote or speak in the Lords until they retire as Justices. |
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| In 1832, the Reform Act extended the vote in Britain but did not grant universal suffrage. |
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| The 28 Commissioners as a single body are subject to a vote of approval by the European Parliament. |
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| Bernard Jenkin, the Conservative spokesman for the regions, said the vote would mean the end of plans for a North East Assembly. |
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| Chartism emerged after the 1832 Reform Bill failed to give the vote to the working class. |
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| The Representation of the People Act 1918 gave women householders the vote, but it would not be until 1928 that full equal suffrage was achieved. |
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| Their poverty usually led them to vote for the candidate who offered them the most. |
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| The centuries would vote, one at a time, until a measure received support from a majority of the centuries. |
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| He had the power to call and dissolve Parliaments but obliged under the Instrument to seek the majority vote of the Council of State. |
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| British citizens living abroad are allowed to vote for 15 years after moving from the United Kingdom. |
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| In the case of grave disorder, the Speaker may adjourn the House without taking a vote. |
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| When the debate concludes, or when the Closure is invoked, the motion in question is put to a vote. |
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| The presiding officer, if he or she believes that the result of the voice vote is clear, may reject the challenge. |
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| A member who wishes to pointedly abstain from a vote may do so by entering both lobbies, casting one vote for and one against. |
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| If there is an equality of votes, the Speaker or Deputy Speaker has a casting vote. |
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| The quorum of the House of Commons is 40 members for any vote, including the Speaker and four tellers. |
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| The outcome of most votes is largely known beforehand, since political parties normally instruct members on how to vote. |
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| A party normally entrusts some members of parliament, known as whips, with the task of ensuring that all party members vote as desired. |
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| Ministers, junior ministers and parliamentary private secretaries who vote against the whips' instructions usually resign. |
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| A State Opening may take place at other times of the year if an election is held early due to a vote of no confidence in the government. |
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| Joe Clark returned as leader, but the schism with the Reformers effectively watered down the combined Blue and Red Tory vote in Canada. |
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| Great legal wranglings ensued, including the examination of every single vote cast, which dragged on for more than a year. |
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| In any case, where universal suffrage exists, the right to vote is not restricted by race, sex, belief, wealth, or social status. |
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| In all modern democracies, the number of people who could vote has increased progressively with time. |
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| The concept of universal suffrage requires the right to vote to be granted to all its residents. |
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| All countries, however, do not allow certain categories of citizens to vote. |
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| Citizens of an EU Member State are allowed to vote in EU parliamentary elections, as well as some local elections. |
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| But, only British, Irish and Commonwealth citizens are allowed to vote for the British House of Commons. |
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| Black males in the Northern states could vote, but the majority of African Americans lived in the South. |
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| After the election the seven Constitutionalist candidates, including Churchill, who were elected did not act or vote as a group. |
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| In fact, the business vote was recently extended in the City to cover more companies. |
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| Other EU nationals may only vote in local and European Parliament elections while resident in either the UK or Ireland. |
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| Britain and several others, mostly in the Caribbean, grant the right to vote to Commonwealth citizens who reside in those countries. |
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| In Northern Ireland, a smaller percentage vote for Irish nationalist parties. |
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| In practice, members of parliament of all major parties are strictly controlled by whips who try to ensure they vote according to party policy. |
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| A government is not formed by a vote of the House of Commons, it is a commission from the monarch. |
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| In 1987, an Assembly of Representatives was created, by constitutional decree, whose members were elected by popular vote. |
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| The devolution of the executive power was not granted until 1997 when the first head government was elected by popular vote. |
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| With this law, elected representatives lose their seats in parliament if they vote contrary to the directions of their party. |
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| This period also saw the introduction of a franchise which limited the number of people who could vote in elections for the House of Commons. |
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| All British, Irish and Commonwealth citizens over the age of 18 on the date of the election were permitted to vote. |
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| It was a vote, Woodfoot thought, tasting the pleasant bitterness of the kinnekinnic, a vote on what happened to the Indian. |
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| Another theory was the issue of 'shy Tories' not wanting to openly declare their intention to vote Conservative to pollsters. |
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| One result of the 2015 general election was that a different political party won the popular vote in each of the countries of the United Kingdom. |
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| In the 1920s, the Liberal vote greatly diminished and the Labour Party became the Conservatives' main rivals. |
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| With a narrow win in the 1951 general election, despite losing the popular vote, Churchill was back. |
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| The new owners were more likely to vote Conservative, as Thatcher had hoped. |
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| The House continues to vote, for several rounds if necessary, until one member receives the requisite majority. |
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| In the House, the Speaker does not vote on any motion, except in order to resolve ties. |
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| At the same time, however, the Speaker is charged with protecting the interests of the minority by ensuring sufficient debate before a vote. |
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| The Speaker does not vote in the division, except when the Ayes and Noes are tied, in which case he or she must use the casting vote. |
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| Since the House of Commons is a very large body, Speakers are rarely called upon to use the casting vote. |
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| If a Deputy Speaker is presiding, then he or she holds the casting vote instead of the Speaker. |
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| The next stage of the election process, between Davis and Cameron, was a vote open to the entire party membership. |
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| On 24 September 2016 Corbyn retained leadership of the party with an increased share of the vote. |
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| Though he was not yet an MP at the time of the 2003 vote, Miliband was a strong critic of the Iraq War. |
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| On the constituency vote the SNP gained 11 seats from Labour but lost the Edinburgh Southern constituency to the party. |
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| Observers may attend debates and take part by invitation, but they may not vote or exercise other official duties. |
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| Further, the system encouraged tactical voting, with many UKIP supporters believing that a vote for the party would be a wasted vote. |
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| Without being able to vote, blacks were excluded from juries and running for any political office. |
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| While jurors voted on oath or affirmation, a Lord could vote upon his honour. |
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| The Lord High Steward merely presided at trials, and the whole House could vote. |
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| This convention was followed only before the final vote on guilt and not on procedural questions arising during the trial. |
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| Out there are legions of women who don't own computers or want one.... What they do is labrish endlessly on their cellphones and vote. |
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| This overwhelmingly negative vote was seen as an insurmountable obstacle to elected regional assemblies elsewhere in England outside London. |
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| In elections, both the businesses based in the City and the residents of the City vote. |
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| In 2009, the business vote was about 24,000, greatly exceeding residential voters. |
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| By contrast, opponents of the retention of the business vote argue that it is a cause of institutional inertia. |
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| A vote to choose the new Basque leader, or lehendakari, is expected this week. |
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| Each member has one vote of equal weight, for which they can be held publicly accountable. |
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| The Governor chairs the meeting and is the last to cast his vote, acting as a casting vote in event of a tie. |
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| They say a decision will be made in 2018 and that parliament could still vote against the selected aircraft. |
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| According to Whitehurst, who wrote to congratulate Boulton, not a single vote was cast against him. |
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| In fact, the 1997 proposal was a binding bylaw amendment prompted by Fleming's refusal to redeem its poison pill despite a 65 percent antipill vote the previous year. |
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| They were the largest simultaneous transnational elections ever held anywhere in the world, since nearly 500 million citizens were eligible to vote. |
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| This proposal was rejected in a vote at a UEFA Strategy Council meeting. |
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| In 2008, Torbay Council finally permitted the film to be shown after it won an online vote for the English Riviera International Comedy Film Festival. |
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| The House of Lords is the upper house and although it can vote to amend proposed laws, the House of Commons can usually vote to overrule its amendments. |
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| Members of Parliament do not tend to vote against such instructions, since those who do so jeopardise promotion, or may be deselected as party candidates for future elections. |
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| Neither is he worthy who bribes a man to vote against his conscience. |
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| Had there been a vote by English MPs only on tuition fees in January 2004, the government would have lost because of a rebellion on their own benches. |
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| A bisque is permission from the Whips given to a member to miss a vote or debate in the House to attend to constituency business or other matters. |
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| The Liberal Democrats manifesto proposed that England only legislation be considered by a committee of MPs with membership based on share of the vote in England. |
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| Committees of the Assembly take decisions by a simple majority vote. |
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| One is the donkey vote, which is thought to account for three per cent. of all votes cast. Donkey voters mark their papers one-two-three straight down the ticket. |
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| We doorbelled the whole district in an effort to get out the vote. |
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| They sought skilled jobs in the defense industry in California, better education for their children, and living opportunities in communities where they could vote. |
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| But to offend the poster child of the newly ascendant right-wing would offend Ford Nation, its multitudes signed up and ready to go, go, go and vote, vote, vote. |
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| I also wish to forthput my vote to ban permanently anyone that does this. |
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| The total number of seats in the Parliament are allocated to parties proportionally to the number of votes received in the second vote of the ballot using the d'Hondt method. |
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| The term active suffrage is sometimes used for the right to vote, passive suffrage for the right to run for office, and full suffrage for the combination of both. |
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| In the first modern democracies, governments restricted the vote to those with property and wealth, which almost always meant a minority of the male population. |
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| People who are eligible to vote in the election of the Maltese House of Representatives as well as resident citizens of the EU are eligible to vote. |
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| Women shared some basic rights with their male counterparts, but were not fully regarded as citizens and were thus not allowed to vote or take part in politics. |
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| The Holy See, which is distinct from Vatican City State, has permanent observer status with all the rights of a full member except for a vote in the UN General Assembly. |
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| Legislative Consent Motions enables the UK Parliament to vote on issues normally devolved to Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland, as part of United Kingdom legislation. |
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| Saudi Arabia was the last major country that did not allow women to vote, but admitted women both to voting and candidacy in the 2015 municipal elections. |
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| The vote again went down party lines, and Morrison was elected. |
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| Historically, the most significant difference between a national and a citizen is that the citizen has the right to vote for elected officials, and to be elected. |
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| After the American Revolution, the Constitution did not originally define who was eligible to vote, allowing each state to determine who was eligible. |
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| However, QS state that no survey participant, academic or employer, is offered a financial incentive to respond, while no academic is able to vote for their own institution. |
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| Democratic schools practice and support universal suffrage in school, which allows a vote to every member of the school, including students and staff. |
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| The chairman of the council is the Lord Mayor, who has a casting vote. |
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| The business vote was abolished for other parts of the country in 1969, but due to the low resident population of the City this was thought impractical. |
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| As Protector, he had the power to call and dissolve parliaments but was obliged under the Instrument to seek the majority vote of a Council of State. |
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| In 1946, the EFOs became an overseas territory under the constitution of the French Fourth Republic, and Polynesians were granted the right to vote through citizenship. |
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| The term of office of a parish councillor is four years, and council seats are elected en bloc through multiple non transferable vote, by secret ballot. |
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| Gaston Tong Sang was elected president of French Polynesia as a result of this constructive vote of no confidence, but his majority in the territorial assembly is very narrow. |
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| If at least one tenth of those entitled to vote in Bundestag elections were in favour of a revision, the federal government had to include the proposal into its legislation. |
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| In May 2016, Miliband appeared on BBC Question Time, arguing in favour of remain in the UK's EU referendum and subsequently campaigned for a remain vote. |
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| In 1866, Mill became the first person in the history of Parliament to call for women to be given the right to vote, vigorously defending this position in subsequent debate. |
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| In October 2015 Lloyd Webber was involved in a controversial House of Lords vote over proposed cuts to tax credits, voting with the Government in favour of the plan. |
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