Outvote Outvote is a friend-to-friend texting app for political campaigns.
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Outvote said they'll update us if the partnership is finalized.
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Founders can now outvote the preferred stock holders — the investors.
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For the midterm elections, OutVote is also working with Vote.
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That said, boomers are still expected to outvote millennials this year.
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The boys might be able to outvote from here 'til kingdom come.
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In addition to YC backing, Outvote has raised $300,000 in seed funding.
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Outvote hopes to flip elections by getting Democrats to text their friends
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The VoteWithMe and OutVote apps simply automate that surveillance and social pressure.
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Outvote aims to be around 2 to 5 cents per text, it says.
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" But he added, "It just looks like Democrats are trying to outvote them.
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"Do you guys know that we outvote white women," she recalled telling the group.
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However, many of the pilot customers are using Outvote for free at this time.
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OutVote marks voters who missed elections with a sad-faced emoji dripping a tear.
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But Naseem Makiya, the chief executive of Outvote, an app that worked with MoveOn.
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On that decision, Roberts joined four other Republican appointees to outvote the four Democratic appointees.
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This would help them outvote their rivals at the polling stations in case of disputes.
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Young people may completely surprise us this cycle and outvote a lot of different demographics.
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She wants to flush the drugs down the toilet but her siblings and father outvote her.
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If Mary benefits from the park and Raymond is harmed by it, then Mary will outvote Raymond.
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Users give the app permission to upload their phone's contacts, which Outvote matches up with registered voter databases.
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Campaigns will be charged a low monthly fee for using Outvote that will vary depending on their size.
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And here's the good news: We can't outspend the fossil fuel industry, but we can certainly outvote it.
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OutVote received seed funding from YCombinator, and it accepts fees from political groups to use its app in campaigns.
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At the present pace the top three institutional investors will, together, be able to outvote him by late 2018.
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The team began working on the technology for Outvote last summer, and officially founded the company early this year.
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"This November, reminding your friends is your new civic duty," Outvote co-founder Naseem Makiya said in a statement.
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He might not consider less influence a problem though, as he and the two other large stakeholders could outvote Paris.
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Other apps, such as VoteWithMe and OutVote, encourage people to pester their contacts about not participating in elections at all.
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VoteWithMe adds a fire emoji next to those with near-perfect records, while OutVote gives them a heart eyes emoji.
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Two new political apps, VoteWithMe and OutVote, will help you see if your friends voted and what their party affiliations are.
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Outvote is different because it's a tool that helps individual voters reach out to their own personal acquaintances, family and friends.
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In addition to the Y Combinator backing, Outvote has raised $300,000 in seed funding from 2enable Partners ahead of Demo Day.
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After queries from The Times, VoteWithMe and OutVote each said they had eliminated some types of data that their apps were harvesting.
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Mr. Makiya of OutVote said the app had stopped collecting social profile data but needed the email addresses to match voter files.
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So, not only did married women outvote single women each year, single women also saw a higher drop-off rate during the midterm.
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To keep things simple, let's imagine a state or locality where a majority of gun control supporters routinely outvote the pro-gun minority.
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Mazen, who has since moved into an advisory role with Outvote, also has more direct political experience, having run for public office himself.
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"The two captains can easily outvote the civilian, particularly if they're concerned about how their ruling may impact their future career prospects," Lally said.
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I found out from VoteWithMe and OutVote, two new political apps that are trying to use peer pressure to get people to vote Tuesday.
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Many Croats want this federation to be divvied up, too, because they argue that the Muslim Bosniaks, who are more numerous, can always outvote them.
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"We'll outlive them," said Sean Monteith, 17, a junior at Lewiston High School, adding that he hoped his peers would be able to outvote them, too.
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Clinton's allies, if they're intent on seeking the typical broad coalition heading into the general election, could simply outvote the Sanders faction and brush aside their viewpoints.
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Outvote wants to make grassroots-style campaigning easier and more personal, with the launch of an app that allows people to text their friends with reminders to vote.
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Outvote makes no apologies about the fact that it is a tool designed to help Democrats win back seats across the U.S., both on local and national levels.
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OutVote harvests personal data, including email addresses, physical addresses, and company names, and you can't control whether your contacts use the app and harvest your information as a result.
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The people in the intense minority will, in contrast, be willing to spend more credits to buy more votes, enabling them to outvote the majority if they care enough.
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When a group of voters who want policy outcome A outvote the group of voters who want policy outcome B, it is assumed that policy choice A will be enacted.
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The staffers will be aided by Outvote, an app that allows users to send pre-written texts, post to social media platforms and then send data back to the campaign.
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Outvote, which was created by a Democratic political tech incubator, also reportedly allows users to see if their friends are registered to vote by cross-referencing their phone contacts with public data.
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Tomorrow is Election Day, and on the eve of voting, peer-pressure apps like OutVote and VoteWithMe are making it easy to instantly snoop on the voting history of friends, family and strangers.
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Outvote, a new Y Combinator-backed startup, wants to make grassroots-style campaigning easier and more personal, with the launch of an app that allows people to text their friends with reminders to vote.
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The case then went to a three-judge panel of the DC Circuit where a Bush appointee and a Reagan appointee joined to outvote a George H.W. Bush appointee and strike down the law.
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And Zuckerberg, like many other recent tech-founder CEOs, including Snap's Evan Spiegel and Slack's Stewart Butterfield, owns special shares that give him the ability to outvote other investors and effectively control his company.
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"Having organized for years, volunteer canvassers were more effective time after time after time," said Betsy Hoover, a cofounder of Higher Ground Labs, a progressive tech incubator that funded Outvote and the Tuesday Company.
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The provision increases white control because "the vast majority of House districts have a majority-white population that can easily outvote the smaller number of highly concentrated African-American majority districts," the complaint said.
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If the worry is that immigrants will outvote the locals and impose an uncongenial government on them, one solution would be not to let immigrants vote—for five years, ten years or even a lifetime.
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Supporters upload their personal contacts to an app—in Bloomberg's case, it's called Outvote, used by hundreds of Democratic candidates—and the campaign suggests which of those contacts to reach out to, with what message.
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But OutVote, which received seed funding last summer from Y Combinator, a well-known start-up accelerator, also works with political candidates and groups that pay fees to use the app as part of their campaigns.
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The goal is to make Outvote far more affordable than the existing mass-texting services that charge as much as 30 cents per person per month, which can cost campaigns hundreds of thousands of dollars at scale.
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If someone in your contacts list has a perfect voting record, OutVote identifies him or her as a "super voter" and displays an emoji of a smiley face with red hearts for eyes next to the name.
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These platforms, with names like Team and Outvote, first sprung up from the wreckage of the Democrats' loss in 2016, as tech-minded liberals, horrified by Donald Trump's win, sought ways to turn his massive unpopularity into votes for Democratic candidates.
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Black was a Democratic senator from Alabama, a populist and ardent supporter of the New Deal who had backed the president's failed plan to add additional justices to the Supreme Court who could outvote the conservatives who were invalidating major New Deal programs.
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The provision requiring that a candidate win a majority of state House districts increases white control because "the vast majority of House districts have a majority-white population that can easily outvote the smaller number of highly concentrated African-American majority districts," the complaint said.
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Boehringer has played down expectations of what he can do in the new job, telling Reuters on Tuesday the AfD would not be able to thwart government plans to spend on refugees or possible euro zone bailouts as mainstream parties have a majority in the committee and so would outvote it.
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She interviews one man who couldn't help but negate his own paid support of Bloomberg in real time: "Sam Donaldson just nailed it: Mike Bloomberg is the president we need to unite our country!" he texted one of his friends Monday through Outvote — the app organizers use to reach out to their personal networks.
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"He is desperate to turn the conversation away from his failures, from his refusal to honor his commitments and from the fact that he's part of a nationwide system of voter suppression that will not work in this election because we're going to outwork him, we're going to outvote him and we're going to win," she told CNN.
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If they can cooperate with major developing country shareholders like China, India, and Brazil, as well as any number of smaller African shareholders, they can very plausibly outvote the US and put in a candidate like Rajan or Okonjo-Iweala or even threaten to in a way that forces Malpass to withdraw his candidacy and requires Trump to get behind a consensus candidate.
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In addition, women tend to outvote men at higher rates in congressional than presidential elections.
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Somerset, 98."There were no less than ten sees unrepresented through death or illness and the carelessness of 'the accursed cardinal' [Pole]". Black, 10. This enabled supporters amongst peers to outvote the bishops and conservative peers.
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A golden share is a nominal share which is able to outvote all other shares in certain specified circumstances, often held by a government organization, in a government company undergoing the process of privatization and transformation into a stock-company.
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McGonnigal lives in Washington, D.C. with his husband. For four years, McGonnigal served as the Community Director for the New Organizing Institute, where he led RootsCamp, an annual progressive political conference. He is currently the Vice President of Sales for Outvote.
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By the time of the plebiscite of 1941 the Native Americans could not outvote the US immigrants, and Sequoyah stayed with the US. However, certain Native Americans continue to wage a guerrilla war against the US, even into the Second Great War.
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Delors faced mutiny from commissioners led by Andriessen and Brittan, who resolved to outvote him on GATT, if necessary forcing his resignation. He backed off, and McSharry returned. On 20 November 1992, Andriessen and his fellow negotiators finally concluded the GATT agreement on agriculture; the Commission ratified it despite French resistance.
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Rapporteur was Jan Simonsen from the Progress Party. The majority's justification to outvote the proposal was, according to Simonsen, that in 1995, there were 725 applications for compensation ex gratia ("Billighetserstatning") from people who "feel unreasonably treated by the public service" and that they couldn't "pick out a single case of one individual".
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Ron (Matt Lewis) is a senior member of the All Valley Committee. Despite Daniel's vehement objections to lifting the lifetime ban on Cobra Kai from competing at the All-Valley Tournament, Ron opts to let Johnny make his case and put the matter to a vote. He, Daryl, and Sue ultimately outvote Daniel and George to lift the ban.
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Zakrzewska soon after applied for the honor. Even with the encouragement from the colleagues, they were unable to outvote her opponents. She was rejected from the professional medical society based on her gender. Hoping to open medical schools to women, Zakrzewska, along with Emily Blackwell, Lucy Sewell, Helen Morton, Mary Putnam Jacobi, and many other women, sent a letter to Harvard University.
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Weaver's path to victory, already unlikely, was made more difficult by his refusal to run a fusion ticket in states where Democratic and Greenbacker strength might have combined to outvote the Republicans. His party's message of racial inclusion also presaged difficulty in the South, as the Greenbackers would face the same obstacles the Republicans did in the face of increasing black disenfranchisement.
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Under the Act's most important provision, a governing Council composed of five members was created in Calcutta. The three members nominated by Parliament and representing the government's interest could, and invariably would, outvote the two Company members. The council was headed by Warren Hastings, the incumbent governor, who became the first governor-general of Bengal, with an ill-defined authority over the Bombay and Madras Presidencies.Keay, John (1991).
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The Trautmann faction was able to rally enough to support to outvote Sherman and his supporters, and were able to take control of the IWW. With an even greater leadership role in the union Trautmann was soon seen as being out of his depth. He was replaced as an administrator by St. John. This allowed Trautmann to be a field organizer, a job that suited him much better.
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In theory the side judges, who are generally not attorneys, have input only on matters of fact, with matters of law left to the presiding judge, but the vote of a side judge has the same weight as that of the judge, so two side judges can outvote the judge. If there is only one side judge and the side judge and the judge disagree on a matter of fact, a mistrial is declared.
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A second ballot was then taken, and the Republicans took Callicot's hint, and voted for Dix who was nominated by the Assembly. Thus Callicot kept his part of the bargain, knowing that, on joint ballot, the Republican State Senate majority will outvote the Democrats, and elect their candidate. It was just necessary that the Assembly nominate somebody, so that it became possible to proceed to a joint ballot. In the State Senate, Edwin D. Morgan was nominated.
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Phobos 2 started to develop problems during the interplanetary flight phase of the mission. By the time the probe reached Mars orbit, two of its three computers were not working properly. One of the computers was completely dead, and the second was starting to malfunction. Since the probe worked on a system of its computers voting on any decision, the one healthy computer would not be able to control the craft because it would be unable to outvote two dead computers.
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She becomes convinced that, rather than establish a republic governed by representatives from each District, Coin intends to take Snow's place and maintain the status quo. Coin hosts a referendum for the remaining Victors to decide whether to host another Hunger Games for the Capitol children. Although three, including Peeta, are against the plan, Katniss, Haymitch and two others outvote them. Set to execute Snow, Katniss instead shoots Coin and immediately attempts suicide, but Peeta stops her, and she is arrested in the ensuing riot.
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In 1927, India representation was increased to five members, of whom four were nominated, compared with eleven members elected by Europeans. There was also one nominated Arab member' and African interests on the Legislative Council were represented by a single nominated Europeans. Up to twenty official Legislative Council members, all but one European, could outvote the 18 communal representatives. There were then no Africans in the council, and the representatives of both the European and Indian immigrant communities opposed both their admission and any increase in African representation there.
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Servicing high levels of state debt led to tax increases, borne disproportionately by the lower classes, who were already suffering from a collapse in real wages. Exacerbated by an unusually cold winter in 1788/1789, widespread social distress led to the convocation of the Estates General in May 1789. The Estates were split into three separate houses, which allowed the Nobility and Clergy to outvote the Third Estate representing the vast majority of the population. In June, the Commons invited the other two Estates to join them in the National Assembly; initially led by moderates like Lafayette, it became increasingly radical.
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On 24 September 1922, the "Majority" SPD and the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USDP) merged, thus boosting the SPD's number of seats in the Reichstag. Nevertheless, in October the "bourgeois" parties joined together to outvote the strongest party, the SPD, on the issue of the Getreideumlage (agricultural policy). On 14 November 1922, Vice-Chancellor Bauer announced that the SPD refused to agree to include the DVP in the coalition as desired by Zentrum and DDP. As a result, the cabinet resigned and was replaced on 22 November 1922 by the Cuno cabinet, a Kabinett der Persönlichkeiten ("cabinet of personages").
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The incumbent U.S. Senator John Smith ran for re-election as the candidate of the Democratic-Republican Party. At this time the Democratic- Republican Party was split in two factions: the "Lewisites" (allies of Governor Morgan Lewis), and the "Clintonians" (allies of Mayor of New York DeWitt Clinton). The Federalist Party which had only small minorities in both houses of the State Legislature was allied in State politics with the Lewisites, the smaller faction, thus forming a bloc large enough to outvote the Clintonians. Nevertheless, for the election of a U.S. Senator both Democratic-Republican factions united supporting Smith.
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That campaign was marked by violence; 19 Republican and Union League activists were killed in South Carolina's 3rd congressional district alone. Martin Witherspoon Gary In 1873, two Edgefield lawyers and former Confederate generals, Martin Gary and Matthew C. Butler, began to advocate what became known as the "Edgefield Plan" or "Straightout Plan". They believed that the previous five years had shown it was not possible to outvote African Americans. Gary and Butler deemed compromises with black leaders to be misguided; they believed that white men must be restored to their antebellum position of preeminent political power in the state.
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The Professor, Adam-One, and the Emperor favored secrecy for supervillains in order to get "the loot without the leg- breaking" and avoid gaining the attention of the larger multiverse, and have always managed to outvote Rictus and the Future. Though it seems that the Emperor is about to switch sides, the Professor subtly manipulates him to vote in favor of secrecy yet again. After the meeting, the Professor leaves in a limo hoping to pick up a child prostitute. However, his driver is actually being impersonated by Shithead, Rictus's right-hand man, and the Professor is murdered by him.
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5026 The Estates General convened on 5 May 1789; debate began on whether the delegates should vote by head or by Estate. If by Estate, then the nobility and clergy would be able to outvote the commons; if by head, then the larger Third Estate could dominate. Before the meeting, as a member of the "Committee of Thirty", Lafayette agitated for voting by head, rather than estate.Doyle, pp. 74, 90 He could not get a majority of his own Estate to agree, but the clergy was willing to join with the commons, and on the 17th, the group declared itself the National Assembly.
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The B&SCC; had a proportional representation system of delegate voting that meant that the representatives from just two English counties, Lancashire and Yorkshire, could outvote the rest of the world. A World Billiards and Snooker Council (WB≻) was established in 1971, following a meeting of a number of national associations at a hotel in Malta during the IBSF World Billiards Championship. The associations were dissatisfied that the B&SCC; was controlling both the UK and international games. Player and journalist Clive Everton served as the first secretary, and his office served as the first office of the WB&SC.
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For half a century the duties of returning officer were transferred to the High Sheriff of Essex. However, the Sheriff could not assume the corporation's function of swearing in new freemen, and Strutt's influence was thus entirely secured against any possibility of new voters being created to outvote him. However, there was a problem: by the time of the general election of 1807 the number of remaining qualified voters had dwindled to 58, and the constituency was in imminent danger of quite literally dying out. Yet there were more than 800 new freemen who were only barred from voting because there was nobody to swear them in.
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The CDD framework in the first six years allows developers to control the decision-making process because they are the primary property owner, and one vote is allocated for each acre (0.4 hectare) owned in the district. The developer can elect supervisors who are their employees, associates or friends, who then can make decisions for the benefit of the developer. Until the residents own property greater than 33% of total votes, they may not have a single representative on the BoS. Only when the residents own property greater than 50% of total votes will they have an opportunity to outvote the supervisors chosen by the developer.
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The Republicans dominated state politics after 1896, and had a lock on the legislature where the one-town, one representative rule guaranteed that small rural towns could easily outvote the growing cities. While the Republicans developed factions over personalities, they drew together for elections. The Democrats had more internal dissension over issues, particularly the liberalism of William Jennings Bryan, and they were weakened in general elections. The rural Yankee Democrats battled the urban Irish for control of the state party.Albert E. Van Dusen, Connecticut (1961) p 261 Most of the factory workers voted Republican, except the Irish Catholics who were Democrats, so most of the industrial cities voted Republican.
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During the preceding autumn the Parlement of Paris, an aristocratic advisory body to the King, had decided that the organization of the convention would be the same as in 1614, the last time the Estates had met. As 175 years had gone by since then it is clear the Estates were not a functional institution in French society. By reviving them as much as possible like they had been the King and the Parlement intended to control the authority of the people. The previous Estates had voted by order; that is, the Nobles and the Clergy could together outvote the Commons by 2 to 1.
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Tag-along right (TAR) is a legal concept in corporate law. Under the concept, if the majority shareholder(s) of an entity sells their stake, the remaining minority shareholders have the right to join the deal and to sell their shares at the same terms and conditions as the majority shareholder(s), and the new owner must purchase those interests as well. This right protects minority shareholders from being potentially forced to sell their shares for less than the majority shareholder(s) (as, after the deal, they likely would have no ability to outvote the new owner(s) who would have majority control).Tag-Along Rights Tag-along rights are fairly standard terms in shareholders agreements.
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When Dublin proposed that the ban on hockey players be removed in 1939 a special delegate conference was called. Ulster Council wanted a single delegate per county at this conference, in effect enabling them to outvote Dublin, which had three quarters of the members and half the registered clubs of the association at the time.Agnes O'Farrelly: Address to Camogie Convention March 14, 1939, reported in Irish Independent March 15 Ulster Council then organised a boycott of the special delegate conference at which the Dublin and Kildare delegates unanimously removed the ban on hockey players. The rest of the affiliated counties seceded en masse as did the Central Council of the Camogie Association, but not, crucially the president Máire Gill or the secretary Esther Ryan.
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When Mary I died in 1558 and her sister Elizabeth came to the throne, Catholic clergy sought to block her wish to make reforms that would turn the Church in England back in the direction of Protestantism. Elizabeth was fortunate in that many of the bishoprics of the country were vacant, which meant that the remaining bishops could not outvote the lay members of the House of Lords who supported reform. A new Act of Uniformity was passed in 1559; Mary I's heresy laws were also repealed, in order to make punishments for violating the Act less severe. The Church of England then started to use the 1552 Book of Common Prayer with a few more traditional modifications (notably the omission of the "Black Rubric)".
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John Armstrong had been re-elected in January 1801 to a full term (1801–1807), but resigned on February 5, 1802. At the last state election, George Clinton had been elected Governor again, serving now his seventh term, and his Democratic-Republican Party had managed to win a large majority to the Assembly which could outvote the small Federalist Senate majority in a joint ballot. Aaron Burr accused the Clintons later to have hatched a scheme to seat DeWitt Clinton, the governor's nephew, in the U.S. Senate. Burr affirmed that Thomas Tillotson, a brother-in-law of Chancellor Robert R. Livingston like Armstrong, was appointed Secretary of State of New York in 1801 as part of a deal which required Tillotson to procure Armstrong's resignation.
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During the grand assessment day of 1910 (Xuantong 2), Li Wudian had created another class of shares known as the konggu (literally translated as "empty shares") and awarded himself 1.7 of these. The new konggu had full voting rights during grand assessment days and unlike the capital shares did not require any investments in silver. By creating these new voting shares, Li Wudian had made himself the absolute leader of the Rishengchang and could outvote all the other shareholders. Using his newly created konggu, Li Wudian was able to vote himself into the position of vice-president of the Rishengchang and gave himself 1 expertise share; this move gave him a position equal to that of general manager and during the expertise shareholder meetings he had equal voting rights.
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The Adams-Clintonians called a caucus of all Adams supporting State legislators which was held on January 26, 1827, but was attended by only two Adams-Bucktails. Since the U.S. Senator would be active in federal politics, the Adams-Clintonians thought it possible to form an Adams majority in the State Legislature across Clintonian-Bucktail party lines, to outvote the Bucktail majority. However, the Bucktails were unwilling to cross the line, and the incumbent U.S. Senator Van Buren, although behind the scenes maneuvering on behalf of Jackson, had not made public his choice, contending that he was neither for nor against the Adams administration. The caucus nominated Congressman and Canal Commissioner Stephen van Rensselaer, the man who was said to have cast the deciding vote for Adams in the presidential election of 1824 which had been referred to a vote in the U.S. House of Representatives.
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The poll was preceded by the 2010 General Election, which was marred by a widespread boycott and allegations of systematic fraud by the victorious Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP). The NLD won a sweeping victory, taking 86 percent of the seats in the Assembly of the Union (235 in the House of Representatives and 135 in the House of Nationalities), well more than the 67 percent supermajority needed to ensure that its preferred candidates will be elected president and second vice president in the Presidential Electoral College. While the NLD only needed a simple majority to carry on the normal business of government, it needed at least 67 percent to outvote the combined pro-military bloc in the Presidential Electoral College (the USDP and the appointed legislators representing the military). Although NLD leader Aung San Suu Kyi is constitutionally barred from the presidency (as both her late husband and her children are foreign citizens), she is the de facto head of government, after being appointed to a newly created office, the State Counsellor of Myanmar.
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On 5 November 2012, at the session of the HSP BiH of the Herzegovina-Neretva Canton, Budimir said that the HSP BiH will not leave the government until HSP BiH's goals are accomplished, namely a law on lustration and implementing inability to outvote Croat ministers in the government. On 10 December, the Federal Prime Minister Nikšić made a request to Budimir to dismiss eight federal ministers, including the deputy prime minister. Those ministers are members of the Party of Democratic Action, the People's Party Work for Betterment and the Croatian Party of Rights. Nikšić explained his move by claiming that certain ministers do not have support in the Parliament of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and that their presence in the government is damaging its function. However, Budimir decided to listen arguments of the 8 ministers, and meanwhile the Deputy Prime Minister Jerko Ivanković-Lijanović that was supposed to be removed from the office, complained to the Constitutional Court of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina that the Prime Minister Nikšić illegally proposed voting in the Federal Parliament for the 2013 budget.
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Rowen (1990), p. 73 Frederick Henry's influence was lessening with the growth of strongly republican sentiment among the ruling class, and he could not involve the Netherlands in direct support for Charles I, particularly as his country was still at war with Spain.Rowen (1990), p. 74Godwin (1827), p. 371 After the death of Frederick Henry in March 1647, his son, the Stadtholder William II of Orange, attempted to extend the power of the stadtholderate particularly through maintaining the size of the army, which he commanded and using his supporters in six provinces to outvote Holland, the most prosperous province, in the States General.Coward (2002), pp.125-6Godwin (1827), p. 371 Following the end of the Eighty Years' War and the execution of his father-in-law, Charles I, William attempted to support the English Royalist cause to an extent that gave concern to even his own followers, and which involved him in disputes with the more committed republicans, particularly those in Holland.Rowen (1990), p. 81 The execution of Charles outraged the Orangists, and the Dutch republicans that had attempted to save Charles's life,Rowen (1990), p.
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The ÖVP declared as the main reasons for the snap elections the change in the SPÖ's position on Europe and the planned dual leadership in the SPÖ, which the ÖVP claimed would make agreement on difficult issues even harder. The snap election was officially called in a parliamentary session on 9 July 2008 through a joint resolution by SPÖ, ÖVP and Greens, which FPÖ and BZÖ supported; the election date of 28 September 2008 was confirmed by the government and the main committee on 10 July 2008. The term of the legislature was the third-shortest in Austrian history (after 1970–1971 and 1994–1995). SPÖ and ÖVP agreed to a so-called Stillhalteabkommen, an agreement according to which neither of the two parties would try to outvote the other with the votes of the opposition parties, although this agreement was revoked by Faymann on 25 August 2008. The age required to have the right to vote had been reduced from 18 to 16 prior to the election in an electoral law reform enacted in 2007, which also had reduced the age required to stand in the election from 19 to 18, had introduced easier access to postal balloting and had lengthened the legislative term from four to five years.
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The prior elections in 2015 were only the second considered at least semi-democratic in the country since 1960 (the first being in 1990, which the military invalidated), as for a majority of its independent history it was either controlled by a totalitarian dictatorship or a military junta. The National League for Democracy, led by Aung San Suu Kyi, won a majority of seats and votes, taking 86 percent of the seats in the Assembly of the Union (235 in the House of Representatives and 135 in the House of Nationalities), well more than the 67 percent supermajority needed to ensure that its preferred candidates would be elected president and second vice president in the Presidential Electoral College. The party technically also needed at least 67 percent to outvote the combined pro-military bloc in the Presidential Electoral College (the Union Solidarity and Development Party and the appointed legislators representing the military). Although NLD leader Aung San Suu Kyi is constitutionally barred from the presidency (as both her late husband and her children are foreign citizens), she is currently the de facto head of government, after being appointed to a newly created office, the State Counsellor of Myanmar, a position akin to a Prime Minister.
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