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In the Spartan assemblies of ancient Greece,
votes
were cast by acclamation.
All classes were given equal
votes
(albeit only males).
Surely, the hurdle should have been a lot higher; for example, Brexit should have required, say, two popular
votes
spaced out over at least two years, followed by a 60% vote in the House of Commons.
Choi also declared that even if the irregularities alleged by Gbagbo were confirmed, Ouattara still would have won enough
votes
to carry the election.
It is vital that Africa and the international community take a stand against such strategies – not only to defend the
votes
of Ivorians, but as a signal to others in the future that legitimate electoral results must be respected.
As the party’s narrative became an endless litany of the good social things it had done (or was about to do), Poles came to view the campaign as a cynical attempt to buy their
votes
– and to do so with their own money.
Switzerland, with its generally slower pace and its thorough political debates before
votes
are held, may be the exception.
If and when Britain
votes
on joining the Euro, the result will most likely tell us all sorts of things about Tony Blair and about the European Union, but little about the merits of the common currency.
During the Cold War it was still possible in America to win
votes
with foreign policy; now that it is over, voters are, understandably, primarily if not exclusively concerned with matters at home.
You have the votes.”
Thanks to America’s Electoral College, it’s not who wins the most
votes
nationwide that matters in the end, but who wins in which states.
Each state is awarded a certain number of
votes
in the Electoral College, depending on the size of its population.
The candidate who crosses the threshold of 270 electoral
votes
wins the presidency.
In almost every state, a candidate who wins 50.1% of the popular vote is awarded 100% of its electoral
votes.
As a result, the
votes
of millions of people who cast their ballot end up not counting.
Congress convenes and “counts” the electoral votes; but this, too, is a mere formality.
Now, here’s where it can get convoluted, and possibilities for mischief arise: if no one wins 270 Electoral College votes, the election goes to the House of Representatives, where each state delegation casts a single vote, regardless of how many voters the delegation represents.
And the delegations aren’t bound to vote for the candidate who won the most
votes
in their state.
So Donald Trump is widely believed to have more limited options for accumulating 270
votes.
Parliamentary debates are often a charade; parliamentary
votes
an invitation to obstruction.
Still, keep in mind that
votes
are democratic devices; they are not democracy itself.
Electoral pacts are thus vital to secure the withdrawal and support of less popular candidates who might draw
votes
away from En Marche !
Tunisia’s interim government has announced that elections to a Constituent Assembly will be held on July 24, 2011, and, crucially, that as soon as the
votes
are counted, it will step down.
Worse is what has happened in the Labour Party, whose traditional supporters provided the impetus behind the big “Leave”
votes
in many working-class areas.
Faced with meeting the constitutional requirement of getting
votes
from each state in the Federation, the candidates and their handlers have gone out of their way to avoid taking positions that ruffle feathers.
(It is, after all, unlikely that a candidate would win over the P-5 but fail to win a majority in the Security Council, given the option of casting unlimited votes.)
More intriguing, constituents will be able to delegate their
votes
to others, perhaps friends with more expertise on particular issues.
And democracies do not allow citizens to sell their votes, because that would debase elections.
The drawback is that it would require a change in the European treaties, which in turn requires a unanimous decision by 27 countries, and positive
votes
in referendums in some of them, including the United Kingdom if David Cameron’s Conservatives win the upcoming general election there.
In the aftermath of the negative referendum
votes
in France, the Netherlands, and Ireland on European constitutional reform, it is close to inconceivable that EU heads of government would agree to set off down that path again.
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