In the election, Marcos, resorting to vote-rigging, declared himself the victor before all votes were counted.
10.49am BST Over at the Conversation, Philip Cowley is reflecting on the mechanics and significance of the government's defeat last night: Contrary to myth, governments do lose votes in the Commons occasionally without resigning or resorting to votes of confidence.
Like most U.N. agencies, the International Telecommunication Union tries to operate by consensus, resorting to majority vote only when this fails.
But in the past few years, vouchers have been revived by state legislatures in Indiana, Wisconsin, and Louisiana without resorting to a popular vote.
Potentially, eurozone governments could override Finland, or another small country, by resorting to an emergency voting procedure that requires only 85% of eurozone governments to support a bailout.
Opposition lawmakers tried every delaying tactic at their disposal, even resorting to physically blocking a vote in a special committee, but it now looks like all of their options have been exhausted.
Under the Wisconsin scenario, we could see a tie of two hundred and sixty-nine to two hundred and sixty-nine, though the single electoral vote in Maine or New Hampshire would put him over the top without having to resort to a vote in the House of Representatives.
16 Delay on New Iraqi Premier Shiite political leaders postponed a decision on who will be Iraq's new prime minister, saying they would resort to a vote if efforts to pick a candidate by consensus have not succeeded by then.
Resorting to a series of majority votes would be "legally challenging" but may be necessary, said a diplomat who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue.
Failure to pass the budget on a second vote would mean resorting to a contingency budget that would trim $5 million from the original proposition and translate into a tax rate increase of just under 5percentt, he said.
It even survived a presidential election that was decided by an 80-vote margin without resorting to violence.
