Malaysia's ruling coalition has won a simple majority in the country's election, extending its 56-year rule.
Article 96 would be changed to a simple majority vote within each Diet chamber.
In the U.S., a merger needs only a simple majority of shareholders to be approved.
So this time, they stuck it in a budget bill, which only needs a simple majority.
Final passage of the bill would then require only a simple majority of 51.
In reality, it takes a simple majority to pass legislation but 60 votes to break a filibuster.
The plans they prepare will have legal force if passed by a simple majority in a referendum.
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It's a type of budget maneuver that requires a simple majority -- 51 votes -- to pass.
Like the GOP-led House, only a simple majority in the Senate is needed to override a veto.
Now, they will only need a simple majority, in line with what many other corporate boards already follow.
The procedural agreement meant that amendments by both parties required 60 votes to advance, rather than a simple majority.
Steps needed include the naming of conferees, a House-Senate conference, and final passage (a simple majority) in both Houses.
Each senator has a single vote, and the next vice president would be chosen by a simple majority vote.
But the bill requires the votes of only a simple majority in Congress.
But Republicans, who have 55 seats in the chamber, could attempt to change Senate rules with a simple majority.
The House, by a simple majority vote, must approve the articles of impeachment and convey them to the Senate.
If the result holds, Kenyatta would win the election without a runoff, as the victor needs only a simple majority.
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Although it takes two-thirds of legislators to pass a tax increase, fees could be increased by a simple majority vote.
But Mr. Obama used a procedural gambit known as reconciliation to gain Senate approval of ObamaCare by a simple majority vote.
The motion would require only a simple majority to pass, rather than the two-thirds vote needed to approve the impeachment articles.
And he stressed that the existing threshold for a no-confidence vote would remain as a simple majority of 50% plus one.
While it secured a simple majority, it failed to regain the two-thirds parliamentary majority it lost for the first time in 2008.
If no candidate wins a simple majority in the first round, a second election round is held between the two leading candidates.
But, as Mr Netanyahu points out, that was under the old system, when even a simple majority could depose a prime minister.
With only a simple majority of 51 senators needed, that sounds achievable.
The United States is made up of single-member districts where a simple majority wins a congressional seat and the loser gets nothing.
Glasenberg would only need a simple majority for if he goes hostile.
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The center-left Congress party won 121 seats, more than the 113 required for a simple majority, the Election Commission of India's website showed.
Washingtonians passed another initiative that requires a supermajority, as opposed to a simple majority, in the legislature to raise any tax at all.
Is this the reason that it is being offered as an executive agreement, which requires a simple majority vote of both houses of Congress?
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