Sentence examples for vote picked from inspiring English sources

If the popular vote picked the president, the Bush camp would be demanding recounts everywhere.

But what was more important is simply that a higher share of the minorities who did turn out to vote picked Mr. Obama as their candidate.

Support for a no vote picked up 2%, increasing to 45% in the July survey, which was carried out for the Scotland on Sunday.

The pro-immigration Green party, which came in second in the vote, picked up thousands of CSU voters who rejected Seehofer's platform.

"The argument is that a good citizen should have to make an effort to vote, picking up a postcard posted to them weeks before and dragging themselves down to an empty community hall or primary school on a wet Thursday to put a cross on a tiny piece of paper," he said.

Critical of the Recording Academy, King said, "Realistically, I think people on the academy who vote pick the household name.

We discuss and vote, picking three (in a recent week, the top stories were Syria, the death penalty, and Miley Cyrus's twerk moment).

Brown finished third in the Wisconsin primary -- with 12percentt of the vote, picking up his only national convention delegate of the campaign -- and ended his candidacy.

Recently, in this newspaper, columnist Chris Erskine informed millennials that they are not really adults until they pledge to vote, pick their battles, drive without texting and hug their mothers, among other requirements.

Late in the campaign, there was some speculation that Fisher may have been a closer contest than commentators initially expected, but Such comfortably defeated Labor's Amanda Rishworth and the Liberals' Andy Minnis with an independent candidate election best 45.2 percent of the primary vote, picking up a 4.6 percent two candidate preferred swing.

After three hours, the barrage subsided, and voting picked up as the country's politicians implored Iraqis to cast their ballots.