Example collocations logo

Votes in sentence

987 examples of Votes in a sentence

That market outcomes and democratic voices and battles for votes can end up stifling progress.
And here I must point out, of course, that you are not allowed to use this as an actual method to change people's votes before an election, and we clearly debriefed them afterwards and gave them every opportunity to change back to whatever they thought first.
How can we honestly and genuinely encourage more people to vote when votes don't count in Canada?
Not as many votes.
And when the votes had been counted, three-fourths of the people have voted with a blank ballot.
What we found was that in regions in which people reported high levels of disgust sensitivity, McCain got more votes.
For the last year, we have been working with analysts and political experts to calculate, how much would it cost to win enough votes in the United States Congress to make fundamental reform possible?
He or she votes.
We got 22,000 votes, that's 1.2 percent of the votes, and we came in second for the local options.
The city of L.A., a city of four million people, elected its mayor with just a bit over 200,000 votes.
Right here, in my city of Rio, in spite of mandatory voting, almost 30 percent of the voting population chose to either annul their votes or stay home and pay a fine in the last mayoral elections.
Based on thousands of user votes, then we are able to see where consensus emerges.
Essentially, the Democratic candidate and Republican candidate are each trying to add up the electors in every state so that they surpass 270 electoral votes, or just over half the 538 votes, and win the presidency.
So how do states even get electoral votes?
The census is conducted every 10 years, so every time the census happens, states might gain or lose a few electoral votes.
Let's say you're a voter in California, a state with 55 electoral votes.
If your candidate wins in California, they get all 55 of the state's electoral votes.
If you currently add up the electoral votes of those three states, you would have 96 electoral votes.
Connecticut and West Virginia, they would only gain 31 electoral votes total from those eight states.
On a rare occasion, like in the year 2000, someone can win the popular vote but fail to gain 270 electoral votes.
This means that the winner may have won and collected their electoral votes by small margins, winning just enough states with just enough electoral votes, but the losing candidate may have captured large voter margins in the remaining states.
Therefore, the losing candidate may have gained more than 50% of the ballots cast by voters, but failed to gain 270 of the electoral votes.
Some critics of the electoral college argue the system gives an unfair advantage to states with large numbers of electoral votes.
In the past four election cycles, Ohio and Florida have been swing states, twice providing electoral votes for a Democratic candidate, and twice providing electoral votes for a Republican candidate.
But if the majority votes nay, Amaro must walk the plank and Bart becomes captain.
So when each votes, they won't just be thinking about the current proposal, but about all possible outcomes down the line.
And because the rank order is known in advance, each can accurately predict how the others would vote in any situation and adjust their own votes accordingly.
But on election day, the polls were right, and I only got 19 percent of the vote, and the same papers that said I was a rising political star now said I wasted 1.3 million dollars on 6,321 votes.
Both were ultimately acquitted when the Senate's votes to convict fell short of the required two-thirds majority.
We earned more money, we engaged more volunteers and we earned more votes than any political campaign in history.
Next