Sentence examples for half vote from inspiring English sources
Officials said that the delegates would be seated but with a half vote, not a full vote.
The Democratic National Committee's Rules Committee later restored Michigan's delegates and split them 69 for Clinton and 63 for Obama; each delegate would receive only a half vote at the national convention.
The Democratic National Committee's Rules Committee later restored Florida's delegates and split them 105 for Clinton and 69 for Obama; each delegate would receive only a half vote at the national convention.
He gained endorsements on Monday that will give him 5.5 more superdelegate votes (the half vote is from Florida), and Mr. Obama's advisers said they would spend Tuesday rushing more superdelegates — the elected Democrats and party leaders who get berths at the convention — onto his train.
Sturgeon says no threshold will be set for turnout in the referendum; if only half the electorate bother to vote, and only 51% of that half vote yes to independence, then Scotland will leave the UK through the wishes of a quarter of its population aged 16 and over.
With approval Saturday by the Democratic Party's rules committee to seat Florida's and Michigan's delegates, though with a half vote each, Mr. Obama had secured 2,047.5 delegates, according to a count by The New York Times, leaving him 70.5 delegates short of what he needs to win the nomination.
Of that low number, well over half voted for pro-democracy candidates, broadly defined.
Labour enjoyed its best result among 18 to 24 year-olds in May, though fewer than half voted.
Colts quarterback Peyton Manning, the league's most valuable player, received one and a half votes, and Chargers quarterback Philip Rivers got one.
Hundreds of people turned out in recent weeks at six public hearings held by local community boards; half of the boards voted in favor of the project, and half voted against.
In 1997, more than half voted for Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, even though four years earlier the majority of them had flatly rejected him.
