Sentence examples for approval vote from inspiring English sources

An idea that has been kicking around for ages, it has never overcome the hurdle of needing a two-thirds approval vote in both houses of Congress.

The list of regulated species could still change before the plenary session of the Cites meeting this week, when it is due for a final approval vote.

At the same time, the producers were reluctant to brag about their achievements in the talks, for fear of making it harder for the union to win an approval vote from its membership.

And while most bylaws require the approval vote of at least 67percentt of the owners of the co-op's shares to amend the proprietary lease, some bylaws require a higher percentage and some require only a simple majority vote.

But by the end of the day yesterday, the potential fourth approval vote, a commissioner, Jonathan S. Adelstein, pulled away in a dispute over News Corporation's initial pledge to provide local television signals to DirecTV satellite subscribers.

While they have 10 days to take action, those 10 days are from the time they receive what is known as a forced consent letter, which is sent after 80 percent of shareholders agree to the offering plan — not 10 days from the time the approval vote reaches that threshold.

Unlike more complex ranking systems, under approval voting, all candidates approved of receive one vote, and the candidate with the most votes wins.

Consider the following voting situation with five voters and four candidates: Of course, approval voting may elect candidate A (for example, if everyone approves of A and all candidates they rank higher than A).

Approval voting involves marking each candidate on the ballot who the voter approves of, whether that is one candidate or many.

Approval voting does not encounter these difficulties.

Each member will cast at least two approval votes.