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    Vote or lose (Russian: Голосуй, или проиграешь, romanized: Golosuy, ili proigrayesh') was a campaign during Boris Yeltsin's 1996 presidential campaign...
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  • popular votes cast. In only one election (1876) did a candidate win a majority (not just a plurality) of the popular vote but lose the electoral vote. Of...
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    United States presidential election, the popular vote is the total number or the percentage of votes cast for a candidate by voters in the 50 states and...
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    Voting is a method by which a group, such as a meeting or an electorate, convenes together for the purpose of making a collective decision or expressing...
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    candidate to win the Presidency while losing the popular vote, an outcome seen as counter to the one person, one vote principle of democracy. This happened...
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  • motion or vote of no confidence (or the inverse, a motion of confidence and corresponding vote of confidence) is a motion and corresponding vote thereon...
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    Suffrage (redirect from Right to vote)
    the United States a felon might lose the right to vote. As of 2022[update], Florida felons with court debts may not vote. In some countries being under...
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  • Instant-runoff voting (IRV), also known as ranked-choice voting or the alternative vote (AV), combines ranked voting (in which voters rank candidates...
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    be one of the top two, and thus lose votes to tactical voting; The method may promote votes against as opposed to votes for. For example, in the UK (and...
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  • legislators attend voting sessions and vote according to their party's official policy. Members who vote against party policy may "lose the whip", being...
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    2000 United States presidential election (category Elections using electoral votes)
    vote, he received 543,895 more popular votes than Bush, making him the first person since Grover Cleveland in 1888 to win the popular vote but lose in...
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    Electoral College votes. It is possible for a candidate to win the electoral vote, and lose the (nationwide) popular vote (receive fewer votes nationwide than...
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    the lowest vote share of a party that would go on to form government, winning 32.6 per cent of the popular vote, while losing the popular vote to the Conservatives...
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  • incumbent Barack Obama against challenger Mitt Romney, or that Obama would win the popular vote but lose via the Electoral College. However, incumbent Barack...
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    losing a candidate in the early stage who might be elected later through transfers. When surplus votes are transferred under some systems, the vote is...
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    organized the vote or lose campaign. Vote or lose was a $10 million series of television programs and rock concerts in the style of Rock the Vote. It was a...
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  • cross over to vote for an opposing candidate they would prefer over other options in the opposing party, should their own party's candidate lose in the general...
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    2020 United States presidential election in Michigan (category Elections using electoral votes)
    time any of them voted against the winning candidate was 2004, when all three voted for losing Democrat John Kerry. Michigan's overall vote in for this election...
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    2004 United States presidential election in Ohio (category Elections using electoral votes)
    state, he would have won the presidency with 272 electoral votes despite losing the popular vote, and would have been the first Democrat to achieve this...
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    Compulsory voting, also called universal civic duty voting or mandatory voting, is the requirement that registered voters participate in an election....
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    hold a statewide or district-wide popular vote on Election Day in November to choose electors based upon how they have pledged to vote for president and...
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    strategically bullet-vote to hide their support for additional candidates; this strategy works because such systems can cause candidates to lose when they receive...
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    original on September 23, 2018. Retrieved July 29, 2018. "Electoral Vote Challenge Loses". St. Petersburg Times. January 7, 1969. pp. 1, 6. Retrieved July...
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    2020 United States presidential election in Wisconsin (category Elections using electoral votes)
    time any of them voted against the winning candidate was 2004, when all three voted for losing Democrat John Kerry. Wisconsin voted 3.77% more Republican...
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    negotiate a new Union Treaty are deadlocked, and Gorbachev finally began to lose control levers, which are gradually retreating to Yeltsin and heads of other...
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    Bullet voting occurs when a voter approves only candidate "a" instead of both "a" and "b" for the reason that voting for "b" can cause "a" to lose. The...
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  • spoiler effect or Arrow's paradox refers to a situation where a losing (that is, irrelevant) candidate affects the results of an election. A voting system that...
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    predict whether the presidential candidate of the incumbent party will win or lose the next election. Using this model, Lichtman has accurately predicted...
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  • Strategic or tactical voting is voting in consideration of possible ballots cast by other voters in order to maximize one's satisfaction with the election's...
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  • Vote swapping, also called co-voting or vote pairing, occurs when a voter in one district agrees to vote tactically for a less-preferred candidate or...
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