They voted not for symbols but for issues.

What he wants, it votes for.

Egyptians are voting in the country's first free presidential election.

People vote for the families and individuals whose hands are clean and had no role in war crimes.

Voter chose to vote for Batman instead of Morsi or Shafik.

Not a single Republican voted for the Affordable Care Act in the House of Representatives.

I hate Ahmadinajhad but I like democracy and when people vote, their opinion needs to be respected.

We would then be voting for a world in stasis.

For the first time, an Arab parliament had voted a head of state out of office and asserted its will in choosing the successor.

After Augustus, the first Roman princeps, the Senate could vote deceased emperors into divine status.

This is why the European Parliament voted across party and national lines in November against lifting the ban until the EU Code of Conduct is made binding.

More often, however, the cleansing is a pretext to change political direction after the people have voted in a way that magistrates oppose.

In some places it is usual for a man the head of the household to decide who to vote for, which women mostly obey.

Haitians will vote in local elections on 6 November 2005.

He was quickly told off by German Chancellor Angela Merkel and former French President Nicolas Sarkozy, and Greeks never voted on it.

The only winner when Germans vote on September 27 will most likely be the party of non voters.

Under this system, voters can only vote for political parties as a whole, and thus have no influence on the order in which candidates are elected.

How Australians vote in their coming election may be a harbinger of things to come.

At the end of the period, the people of southern Sudan would vote in an internationally monitored referendum to confirm the unity of the Sudan or to vote for secession.

But, if voting was influenced by the financial sector, the supposed party of the plutocrats, the Republicans, should have voted in unison for the bill.

The reason for this are open lists where every voter chooses who to vote for (in our case, voters choose men candidates).

In any such case, each elector may vote, both in the first ballot and in any subsequent ballot, for 27 candidates.

In any such case, each elector may vote, both in the first ballot and in any subsequent ballot, for 27 candidates.

The Swiss people vote their own taxes, have a high degree of control over how tax revenues are spent, and believe their tax system to be fair, transparent, and comprehensible.

If two or more proposals, other than amendments, relate to the same question, they shall, unless the Conference decides otherwise, be voted on in the order in which they were submitted.

Egyptians are voting in parliamentary elections on November 28 and 29, 2011, and despite calls for a boycott, it seems that most people have chosen to participate.

The draft recodification has already been discussed by relevant parliamentary committees and the Parliament is expected to vote on it in January or February 2005.

They devised an electoral system whereby Poles would not vote for candidates of their choice, but would cross out those they did not want which is to say, each and every communist.

No Chinese citizen, regardless of whether he or she is Han, Tibetan, Uighur, or Mongolian, can vote the ruling party out of power.

In May, the Illinois legislature passed a highly restrictive bill governing marijuana use for therapeutic purposes, which the governor has not yet decided whether to sign.

I propose a four step path out of the Greek crisis. First, I recommend that the Greek people give a resounding No to the creditors in the referendum on their demands this weekend.

The first principle of democracy is that government must be based on popular consent, even if the government is made up of parties for which many people did not vote.

These include, for example, an old legislative requirement that payments to physicians in the government s Medicare program be reduced sharply in future years, a requirement that Congress has voted each year to postpone.

Thus, in a direct run off between a Front candidate and a Socialist or UMP candidate, the Socialists and the UMP usually vote for each other.

In most U.S. states, each elector is committed to voting for a specified candidate determined by the popular vote in each state, so that the people, in voting for each elector, are in effect voting for the candidate.

It is theoretically possible that the six Executive Board members plus France, Germany, and Italy, representing 65 percent of the eurozone s GDP, could be outvoted by a coalition of small countries.

The United States Virgin Islands is represented in the House of Representatives of the United States Congress by a popularly elected delegate who may vote in the committees in which he or she is a member, but not in floor votes.

But Russia and China vetoed the proposal anyway, and only nine members of the Security Council voted in favor, with Brazil, India, South Africa, and Lebanon abstaining.

In the South African general election, 1948, in which only whites were permitted to vote, the Afrikaner dominated Herenigde Nasionale Party under Daniel François Malan took power, soon uniting with the Afrikaner Party to form the National Party.

The country s ruling generals will twist what is meant to be a democratic process, whereby the people get to express their will, into a mockery of free expression in which people vote in fear and without hope.

The government of Boyko Borisov fell on Feb. 20, 2013 after a month of incessant protests, and in less than five days, on May 12, Bulgarian citizens will elect a new parliament (an in depth GV text is here).

Sometime this year, the United States Congress is likely to vote on the US India Civil Nuclear Cooperation Initiative, signed when President Bush visited New Delhi in March.

Indeed, in the very week that Putin was meddling in Ukraine s presidential election, he was threatening to blockade one of those statelets, Georgia s Abkhazia region, after it had the temerity to vote for a president the Kremlin did not like.

Each elector may vote for not more than five candidates on the first ballot and, on subsequent ballots, if any, for five less the number of candidates who have already obtained absolute majorities.

Except as provided in rule 42, the Conference shall normally vote by show of hands, but any representative may request a roll call, which shall then be taken in alphabetical order of the names of the States participating in the Conference, beginning with the delegation whose name is drawn by lot by the President.