up vote in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A vote is a formal method of choosing in an election. Vote(s) or The Vote may also refer to: V.O.T.E., an...

the population chooses representatives by voting. The procedure for identifying the winners based on votes varies depending on both the country and the...

Runoff voting can refer to: Sequential-loser methods based on plurality voting: Two-round system, a voting system where only the top two candidates from...

plurality of the statewide popular vote receives all of that state's electoral votes. In Maine and Nebraska, two electoral votes are assigned in this manner...

a majority of MPs must not vote against the candidate, which renders prime ministerial votes similar to no-confidence votes. That means that a prime ministerial...

"preference votes" are used to express preference for individual candidates instead of party lists. Electoral system Social choice theory Weighted voting Rated...

more votes than the others are elected; the winners are the n candidates with the highest numbers of votes. The rules may allow the voter to vote for one...

Electoral College votes, but can siphon off total votes from the front runners in order to call attention to their causes. In vote-pairing agreements...

the candidate with the fewest votes. If only one candidate remains, elect this candidate and stop. Otherwise, reassign votes held by the eliminated candidate...

of the above" votes. Protest votes can take many different forms: Blank ballots Null ballots Spoiled ballots None of the above votes Votes for a fringe...

federal election, there were 1.2 million postal votes cast, amounting to 8.5 percent of total votes. Postal voting in Australia was introduced for federal elections...

election with 3 candidates A, B, and C has 3 voters. One votes A–C–B, one votes B–A–C, and one votes C–B–A. In this case, no Condorcet winner exists: A cannot...

women's suffrage was introduced after a vote with 10 votes for and eight against, while however eligibility was voted down. Women's eligibility was introduced...

of early voting) gives the fraudulent voter the ability to cast multiple votes in a short period of time (if casting multiple in early votes), or time...

Voting interest (or voting power) in business and accounting means the total number, or percent, of votes entitled to be cast on the issue at the time...

voting, a donkey vote is a cast ballot where the voter ranks the candidates based on the order they appear on the ballot itself. The voter that votes...

That is, the voter has as many votes to cast as the number of seats to fill.[better source needed] The block voting systems are among various election...

self-contained direct-recording electronic voting systems, or DRE). It can also involve transmission of ballots and votes via telephones, private computer networks...

tie-breaking votes in the first year of a vice presidency, casting seven tie-breaking votes in her first six months. She cast a total of 15 tie-breaking votes in...

[clarification needed] Surplus votes belonging to winning candidates (those in excess of an electoral quota) may be thought of as remainder votes – they are transferred...

votes, negative votes or neither for any number of candidates. Missouri In November 2020, St. Louis, Missouri, passed Proposition D with 70% voting to...

Vote counting is the process of counting votes in an election. It can be done manually or by machines. In the United States, the compilation of election...

roll, they must cast a special vote. In the 2011 election, 334,600 advance votes were cast, representing 14.7% of all votes cast. This grew to 48% in the...

A voting machine is a machine used to record votes in an election without paper. The first voting machines were mechanical but it is increasingly more...

different types of wasted votes: Excess votes are votes that a candidate receives above and beyond what was needed. Lost votes are votes that were not enough...

Dollar voting is an analogy that refers to the theoretical impact of consumer choice on producers' actions by means of the flow of consumer payments to...

College votes for this purpose is complicated by the fact that in the earliest elections, the Electoral College did not distinguish between votes for president...

Lett-Simmons, in 2000. There are also two cases where votes were rejected by Congress: In 1864, 17 electoral votes from Louisiana and Tennessee (received by Abraham...

number of votes required to pass a motion. Any integer is a possible choice for the quota as long as it is more than 50% of the total number of votes but is...

Limited voting (also known as partial block voting) is a voting system in which electors have fewer votes than there are positions available. The positions...