Sentence examples for direct votes from inspiring English sources

The chief executive is chosen not by direct votes of residents but by a committee, most of whose 1,200 members represent interests like financial services and tourism.

Looks to me like Senator Clinton favors "do overs" but Senator Obama wants to avoid direct votes in big states, favoring elitist caucuses.

Before postal votes were counted, they were neck and neck, with Van der Bellen on 48.1% of direct votes and Hofer on 51.9%.

In recent years these have widened state health-insurance to cover alternative medicine; enforced deportation of foreigners guilty of serious crimes and benefit fraud; and banned the building of mosques with minarets.Helvetian zeal for direct votes skews global statistics.

Ministers and Assembly will in turn reflect importance on each other, until in time national electorates may even wish to exercise a better control over them through direct votes.

They are still struggling to work out why and to stop the rot.If, as seems likely, Mr Yudhoyono becomes the first Indonesian president to be democratically re-elected, he might also end up depending on the size of the turnout and margin as the president with the largest number of direct votes in the world (that position is now held by Barack Obama, with 66.9m votes).

Their message is simple and direct: vote for John Kerry.

Or the part where ordinary citizens do not actually get a direct vote for their senator.

In that case, neither company would have any direct voting rights in the other.

"It's past time that Americans should elect their president by direct vote of the people".

The elections will be the first direct vote by Indonesians for their president.