| With no actual paper trail, votes could be tallied and lost, or not even counted at all. |
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| Each person will have their own unique polling number which will give them access to each service, ensuring that fraudulent votes cannot be cast. |
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| These and other votes which could be cited, indicate that the General Court acted on the Fundamental Orders as if they originated with that body. |
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| Republicans have failed to muster the 60 votes needed to force a vote on the bill, which has passed the House of Representatives three times. |
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| He went on to reject the proposal made earlier that evening by Vice President Gore for a state-wide manual recount of the votes in Florida. |
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| The bill is silent on how votes will be cast, including the possibility of postal ballots. |
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| If the Government is reduced to grubbing the votes of its most backward-looking, antediluvian backbenchers, then what is it in office for? |
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| Six of the sixty-four nay votes had come from border state representatives, and fifty-eight from Northern Democrats. |
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| The amendment would prevent any form of disciplinary action against an MP who votes contrary to party lines. |
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| I condemn this Government for its cynical ploy to try to buy the votes of students. |
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| He polled a magnificent 195 votes on the first count and completely blew his rivals out of the water. |
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| A swing of three million votes is gigantic in our society where party allegiances are formed in childhood and reinforced by an omnipresent media. |
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| The committee agreed by five votes to four not to grant permission for siting the plaque on the kirkyard wall. |
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| The votes have been cast and the winners of the Croydon Champion Art Challenge have been chosen. |
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| It is a small union and it does not take many votes to defeat an incumbent official. |
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| That's why he's willing to use them as an election-year football in order to grub votes from rednecks. |
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| This is because these votes may well change the political dynamics within the conservative and liberal movements. |
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| The three-fifths compromise ensured Southern states enough votes in the House to stave off attempts to regulate or abolish slavery. |
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| Besides, you want to know what's happening while it's happening, not in a lazy summing-up a week after the votes have been counted. |
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| In the end it doesn't matter who you or I vote for because our votes don't matter, we just keep their pockets swole. |
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| How can this guy be such a blatant fabulator and still get even one fourth of the votes that he has? |
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| The basic plot line concerns a woman and a soldier, who are told to visit an island and round up votes there. |
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| Some got merely dozens of votes but very many were serious heavyweight contenders with a wide range of experience. |
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| The 18-year-old from Tarbert, a young man of few words, polled 60 per cent of eviction votes last Wednesday. |
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| Yeah, it has more electoral votes than every state except New York and California. |
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| Texas casts all its votes for her favorite son and the best father in America. |
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| The member states choose their own voting systems and polling days, but no votes are counted until all the countries have voted. |
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| The motion was then put to the meeting and carried by fifteen votes to three with five abstentions. |
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| Following an amount of bickering a vote was taken on the amendment and was carried by five votes to one. |
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| Green Party candidate David Cobb and Libertarian Party candidate Michael Badnarik have sought a recount of the votes in Ohio. |
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| Looking battered but unbowed, he technically needs to win just a simple majority of the votes cast today. |
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| Our method of recording votes and presenting the results may be crude, but it works, and it's accurate. |
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| Assuming the total vote tally does not change, a party needs 30,750 votes to win a National Assembly seat. |
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| Christy secured votes all over the electoral area and was only 46 behind O'Malley at the time of his elimination. |
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| You're diluting the votes of some persons who are treated differently than others and you're completely disenfranchising other voters. |
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| It takes 60 votes to bring the spun-out debate known as a filibuster to an end, and a simple majority for final passage. |
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| The lines of men and women outside polling stations were expatriates casting early votes for a new government. |
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| I pounded my beat in the halls of Congress in my role as a trade union lobbyist, trying to win votes to hold back the antilabor tide. |
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| They need two candidates for every seat, and a simple majority of votes cast should decide the election. |
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| Phil Gallie, the voice of social conservatism, believes a hard line on the clause will deliver votes in the Ayr by-election. |
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| Boone Country has only 19,000 registered voters, but when the software tallied up the chits, it claimed that 144,000 votes had been cast. |
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| But higher standards are unlikely to win votes in Michigan, a key swing state. |
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| Elections happen on time and votes are accurately counted and peaceable changes of government occur as a matter of unremarkable course. |
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| The fast track bill will be called in the Senate only when the White House knows it has the 60 votes necessary to invoke cloture. |
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| The in-form striker polled 1,024 votes from non-League fans constituting some 15 per cent of the 6,599 total. |
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| An e-voting system like this is an invitation for fraud, and sure to be a point of contention when the votes are counted. |
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| Furthermore, the 216 votes include those of the Netherlands and of Germany against the will of the national parliaments of those countries. |
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| On September 28 Denmark votes on whether to abolish its currency, the krone, in favour of the euro currently used by 12 European countries. |
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| There were concerns that some votes weren't tallied, that people didn't know how to use the machines. |
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| The predictions on the votes about saviour siblings and the hybrid stem cells were largely right. |
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| But in Broward County tonight there was an attempt to stop those votes from counting once the polls closed. |
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| Others who tried to use that as a means to gain electoral votes failed miserably. |
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| It further asserted that he would have won by 225 votes if recounts had been completed in the four Florida counties where Gore was seeking them. |
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| Under the closed list system, the number of MEPs elected from each party should reflect the proportion of votes polled by each party. |
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| However, he has repeatedly said he would allow free votes on private members' bills on any issue. |
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| I say it's nothing more than desperate attempts for votes this election year season. |
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| He knows that he can cruise up on stage, croon out any old rubbish, flutter his eyelashes at the camera and get ten billion votes as a result. |
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| Deputy Mayor is to be Apu Bagchi, a likeable and genuine man who though he only polled some four thousand votes has a big following locally. |
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| The Conservatives have won a majority of seats and votes in a Scottish general election. |
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| Alas, in Britain our politicians continue to mine such differences for votes and foster as much inter-class hostility as they can. |
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| The last-minute negotiations for Republican votes resembled the wheeling and dealing on a car lot. |
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| It is the classic adversary system which overlaps with a two-party system, and the arguments and votes are often predictable. |
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| Amendments were lost and the motion that all negotiations be broken off was carried with nine votes for and three against. |
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| A strong family member, for example, might coerce the votes of weaker members of the family. |
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| Still others sold their votes to wealthy patricians, thus giving up one of the key features of their citizenship. |
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| Will he get enough votes outside the town to keep him in the race and in contention for a seat? |
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| Even counting votes by a mishmash of different standards would produce a fairer and more accurate result than not counting them at all. |
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| Since local farmers preferred keeping all unplowed land in grass, absentee landowners votes were needed to allow Kriss to expand his operations. |
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| From the beginning in 1789 down through the unforgettable election of 2000, it has been the electors who cast the votes that really matter. |
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| Many hope that the majority of the electorate votes for more than a pretty face. |
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| Campaign contributions and the votes of the diaspora are crucially important in home country politics. |
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| They had contributed in votes to Narendra Modi and were flush with his thumping victory. |
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| At school, Carrie had tallied up the number of votes and posted a huge Bristol board outside the cafeteria. |
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| George Bush took 19 votes to John Kerry's 7, leaving Ralph Nader with bupkis. |
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| What remains important at this late stage is that everyone exercises their rights and votes on Thursday. |
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| Unfortunately, their votes spell certain doom for other countries, other innocent people. |
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| All this makes for a very close finish with hundreds, if not dozens of votes deciding the third seat. |
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| Rain, hail or shine there are households to be canvassed and votes to be won. |
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| The amendment was approved with 65 votes for, 13 votes against and 22 abstentions. |
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| Furthermore, they argue, times like our own, when the popular and electoral votes roughly coincide in their closeness, very rarely occur. |
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| I find it outrageous that they think it is permissible to canvass for votes in such a way. |
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| Do they start politicking, if you will, start talking to each other, campaigning for votes or helping others that they want? |
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| But those who understand this issue will recognise that this measure is nothing more than a barefaced attempt at buying votes into the future. |
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| The idea of running around pestering my friends for votes is quite distasteful. |
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| My votes will go to the candidates that can intellectually knock the others out cold. |
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| The contest now hots up and votes are vital over the next few weeks as the contestants are whittled down to just two finalists. |
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| The growing tide of abstentions and protest votes for the extreme right and the extreme left are other signs of disarray and dismay. |
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| He doesn't know that the bar owner has paid off the cops, and the bartender is a henchman who hustled votes for the judge. |
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| And with more than 11,000 electoral jurisdictions designing their own ballots and voting systems, all of our votes are in danger. |
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| The paper ballots will be checked at election offices while votes recorded in the machines will be examined at an army base. |
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| The Conservatives were confident of victory but the line of red votes inched out in front and Miss Ellison conceded defeat graciously. |
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| It is much easier for minor or new parties to gain votes in parliamentary systems, where voters elect individual members in constituencies. |
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| There are plenty of Kildare votes on offer for the man who can effectively encourage more punters in to their local turf accountants. |
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| The poll was run from the council's website and votes could be cast either by computer or a mobile phone. |
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| In the eyes of the public, they only care for the votes and they have their own ambitions and prejudice. |
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| Euro opponents are being urged to force local votes in parishes or towns on the issue by the Campaign Alliance for Referendums in Parishes. |
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| This is apart from the government's and opposition's cynical calculation that its simple-minded stance will win it votes in the coming election. |
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| California is in danger of becoming a parody of itself, and The Black Table regrets that the state has so many votes in the electoral college. |
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| Mr Matson was elected as an alderman by 54 votes to 13 in the first stage of a two-stage process. |
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| By 316 votes to 311, the government's education bill passed its second reading in parliament. |
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| About 1.6 million votes recommended the red-crowned crane to be national bird. |
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| They were getting returns with up to 25 per cent of the votes invalid in some booths. |
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| Seven celebrities with the most votes are guaranteed a place in the Academy. |
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| The underfinanced, little-publicized campaign of Mr. Kennedy, 38, is not likely to get many votes on Tuesday. |
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| They took or votes and our hopes and bargained them away to the enemy for the political equivalent of nylons, smokes and chocolate bars. |
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| And he has been able to work out what is good, and what results in a harvest of votes at the other end. |
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| Leong yesterday secured a majority of votes to be elected as the company's new chairman. |
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| If it votes as a bloc, it will be capable of imposing its concept of the good society on all the other groups. |
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| He called the advertising a blatant attempt to buy votes for the coming election. |
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| Voting machines recorded no votes for James Cashman at all in one precinct, but in others he says he polled plenty of votes. |
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| Time and again, the legislation has sailed through congressional votes only to encounter choppy seas as it neared the safe harbor of enactment. |
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| If that is the case, then there certainly aren't enough votes to pass civil unions legislation. |
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| Among them was whether a judge votes in lockstep with other judges nominated by the same political party. |
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| He finished 510,315 votes ahead of the Democrat, Hubert Humphrey, in the popular vote. |
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| There have already been huge votes for strike action in local government and elsewhere. |
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| Citizens throughout the region will increasingly demand that their votes carry weight, and that elected representatives be given real authority. |
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| The candidate with the lowest number of votes will drop out, before another vote reduces the race down to a straight head-to-head. |
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| Their public revelation of the deal's contents even before the votes were cast looked very much like a bid to sink a free and open election. |
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| This incident demonstrates just where the Alliance stands on free votes in Parliament. |
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| He secured votes all over the area and, in the process, helped to transform the political landscape of the region. |
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| A few uncounted votes or a few thousand voters turned away can be the difference between a national victory or not. |
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| The runner-up received 2973 votes from the public and was a really good loser on the day. |
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| In a system based on plurality, the party that comes out on top needn't win a majority of the total votes cast. |
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| Postal votes can be cast any time until and including June 10, providing they are received by 10 pm at the address on the return envelope. |
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| In what was described as a knife-edge decision, the members of the board voted by four votes to two in favour of the transfer. |
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| While so many people have second-class votes that do not count towards any result, millions are deprived of the means to make their voice heard. |
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| He has demanded that U.S. Trade Representative Robert B. Zoellick apply tighter restrictions to them before Congress votes yea or nay. |
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| For Standard Life, the next few weeks will be testing ones as it counts its votes and plans its date with destiny. |
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| Why would any right-minded reader pay attention to the outcome of what this pornographer votes for? |
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| They also tend to waste more of their votes piling up majorities in safe seats instead of capturing marginal ones. |
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| This was a plurality opinion, but on this point she commanded a majority of votes on the court. |
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| The time-lapse was necessary to count the votes sent in by servicemen overseas. |
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| Of the ten ideas suggested, five attracted significantly more votes than the rest. |
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| The Senate formally debated the measure this week, but, yesterday, failed to muster sufficient votes to bring it to the floor for a vote. |
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| I can think of several social issues where you can swing some electoral votes away from the party. |
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| Under Utah law, tie votes must be decided by drawing lots, which can mean anything from flipping a coin to drawing a name out of a hat. |
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| After a one-hour booze-up whilst the votes were counted, all the directors mingled with the angry shareholders and it wasn't pretty. |
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| The systems treat all votes equally and provide representation for virtually every voter. |
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| Students from classes four to 10 cast their votes to elect their student leaders. |
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| The turnout is crucial and both sides were canvassing frantically on Friday night to get electors to use their votes on the EU's Nice treaty. |
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| Do the electors have to vote for the candidate who received the most votes in their state? |
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| The number of electoral votes each state gets depends on the size of its population. |
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| Still, thousands or even hundreds of votes in a battleground state can be significant. |
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| Even if this House were to muster enough votes to put the committee together on this basis, we will not be there. |
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| The comments came ahead of votes to re-elect the directors who authorised the payment to Mr Green. |
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| If we can muster 61 votes in this House, we can oust a judge, under the present system. |
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| Once the phone calls, text messages and posted votes had been counted, trophies and framed portraits were dished out to the winners. |
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| Boxer Karunaratne topped the polls receiving 66,412 votes, obtaining a majority of over 14,000 votes over his closest rival. |
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| Well, any time you disqualify military votes you should be very, very careful about it, because they certainly deserve to be counted. |
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| The system of proportional representation used meant candidates were elected from a ranked list depending how many votes their party got. |
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| Only candidates who secure more than 50 per cent of the votes alone must be declared elected. |
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| With hundreds of thousands of troops overseas, how will those votes be tallied and collected? |
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| With 11 candidates, the Ballymote Electoral area is sure to be one to watch out for when the votes are being tallied up. |
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| The votes are tallied separately, but count together to determine the winner. |
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| The task of the tallyman is to get a tally of the votes for each candidate from each polling station. |
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| So, with all the votes in, which iconic vehicle have you crowned as your all-time favourite movie car? |
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| It was ever a lame duck, and throwing money at it to save votes and curry favour with trade unions was never going to work. |
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| Our votes will be canvassed Monday and Tuesday of next week and the tabulations will be made at that time and our vote will be completed. |
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| Every question determined by the members of the court martial shall be decided by a majority of the votes of the members. |
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| However, the by-elections involved real votes and real people, and the results are no less dismal for them. |
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| An electoral system includes procedures for translating individual votes into seats in the legislature. |
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| These are votes on issues that have no real consequence to Canadian society. |
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| With an election only five months away, Labour cannot afford to be haemorrhaging votes like this in supposedly safe seats. |
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| The balance of voting in the Council of Ministers had, up to this point, meant that a 'blocking minority' of 23 votes was required. |
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| The secretary has pointed out repeatedly that all it takes is nine votes to pass a resolution, and he is sure that he has them. |
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| To pass, the resolution will need nine votes without a veto from any of the permanent members of the Security Council. |
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| The US will therefore be able to find a majority of positive votes with a few abstentions. |
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| In the past the Liberals had made breakthroughs at by-elections and in gaining a large number of votes in general elections. |
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| But the votes polled by these two political parties in the state do not seem to suggest this. |
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| But just a hair above a majority of his votes came from a secularized portion of society. |
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| Your votes are flooding in every day in their hundreds but, with many categories still too close to call, every vote really does count. |
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| Following several hours of debates, a council vote to accept the plan was passed by 29 in favour with four votes against and 20 abstentions. |
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| These parties may win many of their votes on the race issue, but they win very few votes. |
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| A motion passed overwhelmingly with no votes against and two abstentions was proposed jointly by Labour and the Conservatives. |
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| Voters in the ward are being invited to the town hall to pick up fresh papers and cast their votes in a private booth. |
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| Then again, telling the truth about this idea is not exactly going to bring the votes pouring in. |
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| The accuracy of electronic voting can be tested by comparing paper records to digital votes but not to recount an entire election. |
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| One returning officer in the marginal seat of Dorset South said hundreds of voters had rung up to cancel postal votes owing to fears of fraud. |
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| The Higher Education Bill scraped through the Commons at second reading by just five votes in January. |
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| The fact that he picked up votes right across the constituency and across the political divide is testimony to his popularity. |
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| Debs won 897,000 votes on election day, 6 percent of the ballot before women had the right to vote. |
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| Instead, his vote dropped by over a million votes and in the first round of voting he gained just 34.9 percent of the ballot. |
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| Punch cards, the other paper-based system, loses at least 50 percent more votes than optically-scanned paper ballots. |
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| The compilation of such a list culled from thousands of votes is also valuable in a historical sense. |
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| Blood lines have a beguiling authority not conferrable by votes of the city council. |
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| If the consentient votes achieve 3, it may be deemed as a pass, while if the consentient votes are less than 3, it will be deemed as a failure. |
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| His prescription also falls short by not addressing how our current electoral rules waste votes and suppress potential participation. |
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| There is a slow stirring of revolt that goes far beyond fuel protests and maverick votes for television presenters. |
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| Under the council's standing orders, a candidate needs a two-thirds majority or, in this case, five votes out of eight to be co-opted. |
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| In a traditional capitalist joint-stock company, votes on questions of the company's direction are allotted by shares of ownership. |
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| Switzerland, with its generally slower pace and its thorough political debates before votes are held, may be the exception. |
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| There were far fewer votes cast in the referendum than in the arts regular councillor race even though arts regular is a subset of arts. |
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| But the juryman votes for acquittal anyway, reflecting that philosophers sometimes err. |
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| When they proceeded to the count, it turned out that there were 970 votes for Mr. Yushchenko and 383 votes for Yanukovych. |
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| Kelly polled a magnificent 195 votes on the first count to complete one of the most comprehensive ever election successes at congress. |
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| But many of her opinions and votes have had a dramatic impact on the American legal system. |
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| The voting was 85, 945 in favour and 125, 870 against, with most of the votes being cast by proxy. |
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| A Presidential veto may be overruled by Parliament, provided there are 160 votes in support of such a motion. |
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| The winner with the most votes gets to spend an hour in the stocks for their humility. |
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| The committee meeting was open to all 44 clubs, with two votes available per club, but was poorly attended. |
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| Latham's message potentially appeals to traditional Labor votes who've stuck with Labor, and the aspirational battlers who've gone to Howard. |
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| Now, sources say that votes could come as early as next Wednesday in the House and Thursday in the Senate, when all the details are hammered out. |
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| That means we need to retain policies to tally the votes at the polls, in front of observers. |
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| Some 12 British MPs and a small number of international observers will monitor the votes as they are cast across the North and South Islands. |
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| Even if the 60 votes are not achieved, debate stops and the Senate proceeds with other business. |
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| Pundits say he stole most of his votes from dissatisfied separatists who believe their party lost its leftist ideals. |
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| The votes will be counted up to Monday, July 28 and the election is being overseen by the Electoral Reform Society. |
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| With a 20 quid bet at 20-1 on him polling 500 votes or more, he was quietly confident of making a killing. |
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| The counting of postal votes shows 6,000 votes already cast with our vote holding up well. |
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| The closeness of voting in marginal seats in both state and federal elections demonstrates that our individual votes do matter. |
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| It was killed by five votes in a filibuster in the Senate, so we came very close just 35 years ago. |
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| Also, the proportional representation system used in the Assembly elections means that votes do not translate directly into seats. |
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| The electorate votes on whether to secede from an existing nation and claim its independence for the entire world to see. |
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| It's that time again and bar person of November award goes to Tommy, next month the bar person of 2002 will be announced so get your votes in. |
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| The votes were counted up fairly quickly, and by a slim majority one of the three choices had been passed. |
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| The votes were reasonably predictable with a majority plumping for favourites France. |
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| At the last general election in 2001 he had a majority of 4,275 votes over the Conservative candidate. |
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| We filter all the e-mails in the evening to verify whether any bogus votes are cast. |
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| Those who had already pledged him their votes spent last week looking at their shoes. |
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| Was such a party bound to desert its essential core of supporters, they working class, in its attempt to secure the votes and support of others? |
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| Supporters of that amendment admit they are still well short of the votes needed for approval. |
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| He said that probable candidates were obviously canvassing for votes from affiliates. |
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| The non-party councillor got 1790 votes and was elected on the first count having exceeded the quota by 690 votes. |
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| A quota is established as the number of votes a candidate requires to be elected. |
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| Postal votes have been available in the town before, but voters had to apply in advance. |
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| Both votes surpassed the three-fifths majority necessary for a veto override. |
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| This could see a number of candidates being elected without achieving the quota of votes that has been required in the past. |
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| Opposition parties may chase votes by dividing communities for their own political ends. |
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| In Geneva County, Graves and Black both won pluralities, receiving 927 and 980 first-choice votes respectively. |
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| To keep things fun your votes will be published for all to shake their fist at. |
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| Despite all these, Jim gained 541 first-preference votes and reached the quota when his running mate, Roberts, dropped out of contention. |
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| If those second choice candidates reach the required quota, any surplus votes they may have are re-distributed in the same manner. |
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| Part of the aim was to contain worthy claims being made by popular movements, to mollify demands for bread and votes with food for the spirit. |
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| The two states that apportion electoral votes by district still gave all their votes to one of the two major-party candidates last year. |
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| That final count saw Behan, Clear, Callaghan, Scully and Power elected without having reached the quota of 691 votes on Sunday evening. |
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| People who write in votes for nonexistent candidates such as Mickey Mouse are often cited approvingly in media outlets. |
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| It has the most votes and the most candidates, so it takes the most work to analyse. |
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| At the end of the week these votes were being counted and the case with the most votes would win the contest. |
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| The south today has forty percent that votes with the blue states in national elections. |
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| They have a non-voting delegate in the House, but making deals for votes is often how the House does business. |
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| In Chicago, for instance, 7 percent of votes cast went uncounted due to ballot errors. |
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| The jury whose votes ultimately decide what's art and what's artifice are, after all, human. |
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| Parliament has voted and we all know that when parliament votes that is democracy in action isn't it? |
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| In 1964, the city got to cast electoral votes in the presidential race for the first time. |
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| The message emerging from Hamilton South and Ayr is that protest and tactical votes are shifting voters dramatically. |
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| He remembers, in his first run for office, being promised more votes from the area than was actuarily possible. |
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| And so when all the votes are counted, if he's got a plurality or a majority, he wins the state we all ought to rally behind him. |
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| On an unseasonally nippy May Tuesday, two women, a man and a young girl wheeling a baby's buggy, set about cracking open the votes in Kinsealy. |
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| Machine operatives would often outright purchase citizens votes or promise some form of patronage. |
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| A total of 11,417 votes were cast in favour of a strike and 4,316 were cast against. |
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| The Senate majority will be finalised when six seats are decided by votes by Italians living abroad. |
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| He is collecting votes for the worst turkey film of all time. |
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| The 488 voters cast 2,226 votes for 454 different books about Montana. |
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| British suffragists and suffragettes discovered that renewed though it was, the Liberal Party that returned to office in 1906 in no sense had votes for women on the agenda. |
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| Party sources believe the campaign is aimed at scaring people away from transferring votes to the party and harming their chances of success just weeks before the election. |
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| The CPP received 1.08 percent of the total votes in the National Assembly elections, tailing behind the alliance led by political science professor Chang Ya-chung. |
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| You know, our side would have gotten more votes this go-round, but I want people to have to fight to win the whole state. |
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| An unnamed whistleblower outlined in detail to Ireland On Sunday how he took part in such fixing, at times casting as many as four votes in the same election. |
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| The motion was passed by 555 votes in favour and 4 against, 48 abstained. |
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| These protests have been about salving the consciences of many whose votes splintered the left and humiliated Prime Minister Lionel Jospin's candidacy. |
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| Voters could cast unlimited votes without being detected by mechanisms within the voting terminal, they reported, and votes could be overwritten in the system's logs. |
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| If all of those votes had been counted statewide, the consortium determined that Al Gore would have won. |
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| When the numbers were announced for the second ballot, the once and future national chief had five more votes than he needed to bring the election to an end. |
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| Willard and the WCTU also embraced the women's suffrage movement, advocating votes for women as a means of protecting the home and strengthening family values. |
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| Our country is a representative republic, and that means we, the people, the little people, cast our votes for those people we want to send to DC to represent us. |
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| In the initial tally, fleck had 3,398 votes, while a total of 3,700 votes were given to write-in candidates. |
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| This year, Hongkongers participated in PopVote, a mock referendum that gathered nearly 800,000 votes via smartphone ballots. |
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| Professor Black, who has been clinical vice president of the college for the past three years, took 1803 of the 4193 votes cast by single transferable vote for 11 candidates. |
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| Randall Parker has a post suggesting that the President's weak-kneed attitude to illegal immigration is losing him conservative votes without gaining him any Latino votes. |
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| Then was seen the unprecedented sight of a party agent challenging the votes on his own side with a captiousness that his opponents would have hesitated to display. |
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| The right has never understood that you run in states, and the underclass votes in critical states. |
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| The framers of the law established safeguards to prevent unscrupulous partisans from using soldiers' votes to manipulate the outcome of elections. |
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| It is common to see politicians articulating issues to do with the youth and women during campaigns in an effort to canvass votes from these sections of society. |
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| With votes in from more than half the Swiss cantons by mid-afternoon, the proposal had been formally rejected though the majority was not yet known. |
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| Great efforts were made by the corruptionists of the district to prevent his re-nomination, but when the convention met he received the votes of all but two counties. |
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| The rebels though seemed somewhat chastened by the result despite more than doubling the anti-Boehner votes from two years ago. |
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| The no votes had just nosed past the yeses by a few tenths of a percent. |
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| But they fell three votes short of the supermajority required to send the package to Congress. |
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| Don't forget to send your votes in for the man of the match, as these votes decide who wins the Evening Press-sponsored Player of the Month award. |
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| They reckon that the Greeks will use their votes to demand a return to the drachma and trigger a stampede on the banks. |
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| Even if people switch their votes from party to party, election by election it does not follow that they do so at the behest of their daily paper. |
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| I am doubly sure, between Levy and Sylvia, something will be done to that effect, which could just produce a bumper harvest of votes for both, next year. |
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| But despite his conservative beginnings, D' Amato turned out to be ever the trimmer, lurching toward the center whenever he thought that it would win votes or money. |
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| He could also claim a legitimacy built on a succession of victories in irreproachably clean popular votes in referendums and multi-party elections. |
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| The senator also is curt on the subject of the D.C. political magazine that scores the votes of every member of Congress. |
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| In the end, Abbas could not even get enough Security Council votes to force the U.S. to use its veto and he tabled the motion. |
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| After one of his typically brilliant campaign speeches, someone shouted out to Stevenson from the crowd that he had the votes of all thinking Americans. |
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| He was a loyal supporter when Labour were reckoned to be unelectable, when a party leader would have lost his deposit if he had tried to muster showbiz votes for the cause. |
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| Across the country thousands upon thousands of polling stations are closing and votes are beginning to be counted to determine the new rulers of the country. |
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| The entrant which gets the highest number of text votes will walk away with the trophy, while one of the voters will be picked at random to win a prize. |
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| For this reason, parties seek to ensure that their own voters follow the party ticket and transfer their votes to another candidate of the same party. |
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| The separatist Party in Quebec won a lot of seats not because people are voting vote separation but as a place to park their votes and not vote for the Liberals. |
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| Each member has one vote, and decisions are usually taken by consensus, but when that is not possible, a simple majority of votes cast is normally sufficient. |
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| Still, ISS correctly points out that Democrats get more votes down South than electoral outcomes suggest. |
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| There will be side deals and efforts to contort platforms to draw new votes that make predictions hazardous. |
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| Canvassing as an act to solicit votes has been in existence for about 450 years, and only a historian can tell who was elected at that time by popular vote. |
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| No doubt on each occasion stating that he would be a good person to elect, but once the election is over and he has not gained enough votes he is off looking for pastures new. |
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| Whether an analyst points to the 27.6 percent of first-choice votes or the 28.4 percent of the total vote, the meagerness of his plurality is obvious. |
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| We are balloting members, and those votes will be counted tomorrow. |
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| Around 60 election staff were there to work through the ballots but they were held up at one point when a box of last-minute postal votes went astray. |
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