The phrase "a vote of half" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to express a situation where a decision or agreement requires a majority or a specific fraction, but it lacks clarity.
Example: "The proposal failed to pass as it only received a vote of half from the committee members."
Alternatives: "a majority vote" or "a split decision".
In any event, he says, Labour cannot serve under a prime minister as incompetent as Mr Netanyahu.Against this backdrop, a groundswell is building, both in Labour and among the coalition dissenters, to amend the constitution so that Mr Netanyahu could be removed by a vote of half of the Knesset (parliament), without the Knesset itself being dissolved.
It requires a vote of one-half of the State House and two-thirds of the State Senate.
Their reply would have relegated me without a vote for half of my career.
The current proposal, differing slightly from the version offered in 1989, 1990 and 1995, passed the House of Representatives a year ago by a vote of 310 to 114, with nearly half the Democratic members voting in favor.
The televised debatges seem to have helped Mr. Clinton, who won the vote of half of those who said the debates were important.
Steven Calabresi, a professor of law at Northwestern University and a co-founder of the Federalist Society, a conservative lawyers' group, proposed to me that half the Justices on the Supreme Court be selected by the current method of Presidential appointment and Senate confirmation, and the other half by a vote of the fifty state governors.
Because of a peculiarity of Greek electoral law, in which 50 bonus seats go to the front-runner, a pro-bailout government will emerge from a vote in which half of Greeks actually voted for parties that are opposed to the bailout or its conditions.
Put plainly, if the Speaker brought the immigration bill to a vote, at least half of the people in his party would hate him.
The same old leaking and briefing happens and politicians get tied up, in 'not not' answers: 'There is not not a reshuffle'; 'I don't not support the leader'; 'it's not, not a free vote, it's a sort of half free vote, but not free in terms of no costs or consequences, you know the other sort of free'.
Mr. Turnbull dissolved both houses of Parliament in May, calling a double dissolution election, in which all Senate seats were open for a vote, instead of the usual half.
We will post updates to this blog as the election results roll out during the day.An estimated turnout of 66.4% of voters was a record high, translating into well over half-a-billion votes (of a potential 815m).
