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Based on these factors, one analysis counts 50 likely Democratic “Yes”
votes
and 34 Republican “No” votes, leaving 16
votes
still in play.
Ten of the swing
votes
are Democrats, mainly from coal states; the other six are Republicans who conceivably could vote with the president and the Democratic majority.
The refugee crisis and the Brexit calamity that it spawned have reinforced xenophobic, nationalist movements that will seek to win a series of upcoming votes– including national elections in France, the Netherlands, and Germany in 2017, a referendum in Hungary on the EU refugee policy on October 2, and a rerun of the Austrian presidential election on December 4.Rather than uniting to resist this threat, EU member states have become increasingly unwilling to cooperate with one another.
Contrary to the election in 2000, when President Bush lost the popular vote and barely won the vote in the Electoral College, Bush prevailed this time by 3.5 million
votes.
If 100,000
votes
changed in the red state of Ohio, John Kerry would be the president (albeit with a minority of the popular vote).
Forcing the US to use its veto in the Security Council, or obtaining the support of more than 150 of the UN’s 193 member states in the General Assembly, would be a huge defeat for Israel and the US, which is why the Latin American
votes
are important.
Maduro recently announced that if the regime cannot muster the
votes
needed to stay in power, it will use its weapons instead.
That left the resolution three
votes
short of the required two-thirds majority.
He won the crucial Democratic firewall states of Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania by only 107,000
votes
– 0.09% of all
votes
cast across the country.
They lose
votes
to the populists and demagogues whose promises to shake up the system are more credible.
Many have advocated the use of “double majorities” – which require a majority of
votes
according to two separate criteria, population and economic output – to elicit action from a manageable number of states while enhancing weaker states’ influence in decision-making.
Although the US does not have enough
votes
to block Cuba’s admission on its own, it wields enough influence to derail the process.
After the voting, the authorities of my jurisdiction posted a copy of the certificate of results on the door of the Electoral Board, which registered 155
votes
for the opposition candidate, 76
votes
for the candidate of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) and two
votes
for other candidates.
It has taken months to find this out, but the same thing happened in 660 other local boards: roughly 120,000
votes
– 30% of the total – were never made public.
This month, the new mayors took office without the electoral commission (CSE) having made public 100% of the votes, an open violation of Nicaraguan electoral law.
Given the depth of political polarization in the US, and thus the need for 60 of 100
votes
in the Senate to end a Republican filibuster, there is no sign of it being able to do so.
With their votes, Turkey’s citizens denied the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) the absolute majority that it needed to amend the constitution.
But they ultimately accepted the market economy, and came to lean toward ideological moderation and to compete for
votes
in the political center.
Such a government would be an improvement over the current one, but it might not have the will – or the
votes
in Congress – to pursue economic reforms.
In Estonia, which is widely considered to be a leader in the use of voting technology, almost one-quarter of all
votes
in the 2011 parliamentary election were cast online.
Rising “soft” dictators – what the journalist Bobby Ghosh calls authoritarian democrats – have used these feelings of unease and alienation to attract
votes.
All this has happened before the first
votes
are cast.
But this still does not address the question of when one
votes.
But if Japan’s deepening nationalist mood leads to symbolic and populist positions that win
votes
at home but antagonize its neighbors, both Japan and the world will be worse off.
Nationally, Strength to Israel failed to win enough
votes
to enter the Knesset, and the courts banned some of its campaign material for being racist.
But, until now, no such case had arisen, and there were no procedures for disclosing
votes.
This stands in marked contrast to the United States Federal Reserve, and also the Bank of England, where individual
votes
on the Monetary Policy Committee are routinely revealed.
The argument against transparency has been that, in the unusual circumstances of the ECB, to expose the
votes
of individual members of the Governing Council would put pressure on them as representatives of member states.
So the ratio of central to regional
votes
is 1:0.7.
In fact, the ratio of federal to national
votes
in the ECB is 1:2.5.
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