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In 2000, the 2.9 million
votes
that were cast for the Green Party’s candidate, Ralph Nader, cost Democratic candidate Al Gore the election.
Had Nader supporters cast their vote for a major party candidate, they would have delivered Gore more than enough
votes
to secure his victory – he lost Florida by only 537
votes
– and ended up with a president whose values were much more closely aligned with their own.
In the upcoming election, another Green Party candidate, Jill Stein, threatens to draw
votes
from Clinton, in favor of Trump.
Yet protest votes, together with protest non-votes, could produce a decidedly brown outcome.
When it emerged that 52% of the
votes
were for “Leave,” many young people were furious; almost 75% of 18-24-year-olds wanted to remain part of the EU.
Many others, particularly in the US, follow the news and care about national politics, but stay home on Election Day because they believe their
votes
don’t matter.
But the truth is that their
votes
will determine the outcome of the election.
If a large share of the Macedonian electorate turns out and
votes
in support of the name change and related matters, the required constitutional amendments will be more likely to pass in Macedonia’s parliament.
On the contrary: the threshold for a qualified majority has been raised from 71.26% (68 of 87 votes) to 74.79% ( 258 out of 345 votes).
Today, European governments appear willing to allow Putin to buy the
votes
with which he will destroy the EU.
Unlike last year’s
votes
for Brexit in the United Kingdom and Donald Trump in the United States, which were driven by middle-class, middle-aged voters, in France, the young led the way in rejecting the establishment.
With voters unconvinced that European Parliament elections have any concrete impact, domestic political calculations dominate, with citizens using their
votes
– when they bother to vote at all – to send signals to national parties and punish incumbents.
The IMF’s managing director has always been a European, and European countries enjoy a disproportionate share of the
votes
on the IMF’s board.
Egypt’s voters overwhelmingly chose the revolution over the old regime, and shattered the myth that the push for change is an urban, middle-class, Cairo-based phenomenon: the eight revolutionary candidates received more than 16.4 million
votes.
But their failure to unite on a single platform directly benefited Shafiq, who unexpectedly won 5.9 million
votes
(assuming no election-rigging).
In Sharqiya, a bastion of hardcore MB support with 3.5 million voters, Shafiq defeated Morsi by more than 90,000
votes.
In Gharbiya governorate, another MB stronghold, he beat Morsi by more than 200,000
votes.
Assuming no foul play, Shafiq received around two million
votes
from four Delta governorates: Sharqiya, Gharbiya, Munufiya, and Daqahliyya.
Their
votes
went to Hamadi Sabbahi, from the left-leaning Nasserist camp, who surprised observers by winning 5.4 million
votes.
Morsi, who finished first, with six million votes, had the MB’s disciplined, dedicated, and experienced machine fully behind him.
They can’t compete for
votes
with the MB ladies.”
If no leftist candidate makes it to the second round, voters on the left could cast their
votes
for “Republican unity,” as they did in 2002, when they handed Chirac a landslide victory over Le Pen’s father, Jean-Marie Le Pen.
Fillon, for his part, can probably muster the same level of support, and he may even be able to skim
votes
from Le Pen, given that around 8% of primary voters described themselves as National Front backers.
Given pollsters’ massive predictive failures elsewhere this year, no one should count on them to turn out until the
votes
themselves are counted.
Another perversion of democracy is the fact that the supra-national body that is to administer the "united economic space" grants Ukraine and its 49 million people only 9.9% of votes, while it gives Russia and its 140 million people 83%.
Competitive elections for lower-level party posts have already been held, with
votes
for provincial and national party congresses showing electoral slates with 15-30% more candidates than positions.
Incumbent directors typically nominate themselves, and the company pays their election expenses (for soliciting
votes
from distant and dispersed shareholders, producing voting materials, submitting legal filings, and, when an election is contested, paying for high-priced US litigation).
Conserving a democratic system, although damaged, has been possible thanks to the efforts of Venezuelan civil society, which helped the opposition receive two million
votes.
The Democrats had argued that the increase in the debt ceiling and extension of appropriations should last for only three months, thus forcing the Republicans to take electorally risky
votes
before the 2018 elections.
But, instead of raising revenue by auctioning the emission permits, Obama has agreed to distribute them without charge to favored industries in order to attract enough congressional
votes.
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