Sentence examples for votes determined from inspiring English sources

Candidates don't need a majority of votes to be elected, just a known "quota", or share of the votes, determined by the size of the electorate and the number of positions to be filled.

AOL, for example, set off a user revolt in 2006 when it suddenly transformed the Netscape.com portal into a "social" news service, where users' votes determined which articles received top billing.

For each award, the 20 musicians or pieces of music that received the most nominations from the more than 7,500 voting members of the National Academy were submitted to the panel, whose votes determined the final nominations.

Because last time I checked, 500 votes determined the leader of the free world," Walker said, making a reference to the Florida recount in 2000 that led to the election of George W. Bush.

Therefore, an "error in the vote tabulation" includes a discrepancy between the number of votes determined by a voter tabulation system and the number of voters determined by a manual count of a sampling of precincts pursuant to section 102.166(4).

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla., Oct. 16 - Ohio and Pennsylvania and New Mexico and Iowa and a few other states could well be nail-bitingly competitive on Election Day, but four years after a relative handful of votes determined the outcome of the presidential race, the new Florida may turn out to be -- Florida.

Ratings points, not votes, determine his current success.

The monitor node upon inspecting the votes determines the malicious nodes from among the suspected nodes.

The public votes for a party, not individuals, with the proportion of votes determining the number of seats allocated to a party.

And in January, Congress counts these votes, determines if a candidate has achieved a majority — at least 270 votes — and then certifies a winner.

Your votes determine the buzz factor for each city.