Each Member State has one vote, irrespective of its size or the extent of its contribution to the budget.
Each Council Member State may send as many experts or advisers as it deems necessary to the Council session, but it has one vote only.
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But Germany despite making up a third of the eurozone's economy has only one vote on the ECB's board, just like everyone else.
Although Mr Weidmann has just one vote on the 23-strong governing council at the European Central Bank, his voice as Bundesbank president carries great weight among other eurozone policy makers, especially from northern countries.
By an odd symmetry, an unexpected change of one vote has now put the Democrats in charge of Senate business, so giving America something closer to the divided government that in 2000, as so often, it seems to have wanted.
Her People's Alliance, which has a majority of only one vote in parliament, is divided over what policy to follow, and its members will themselves have to face an election next year.
One wag has urged Ghanaians to vote for a "Non-John" in December.
Early last year the Senate passed a bill to give DC a full voting representative in the House of Representatives (it already has one who is not allowed to vote, except in committees).
The EU has said it would investigate claims by one observer of vote-rigging in Cabinda, but other observers have said the vote was transparent.
This continues until one candidate has 50% or more of the vote in that round of counting, or there are no more votes to be distributed.
Bizarrely, that big country could be Britain, which, though not even inside the euro-zone, still has a right to vote on issues such as this one.
One is used to burn the cardinals' ballots after they are cast and the other to send up the smoke signal -- the one that alerts the world that a vote has been taken and whether there's a new pope.
There has been no vote as of yet but there may be one later tonight.
The job of chairman is not a presidential nomination, and Sarkozy fils has to win a council vote, and then a board one.
There's a clear feeling that, given the fresh electoral approach - the way the island's been divvied up is different and the way people have more than one vote to cast is different - that it has a chance of leading to a fresh start.
Mr Capriles is insisting on a vote-by-vote recount and has now submitted a formal request for one.
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However, one major slice of the absentee vote the Republican Party has long been able to rely on are the thousands of US military personnel stationed overseas.
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Like all but one of the main actors, he has come to realise that a vote is not in his interests.
So far only one Lib Dem MP, Bob Russell, has publicly suggested he might vote against the Budget, as the party had campaigned against VAT increases at the election because "the low paid disproportionately pay more".
Specter, one of only three GOP senators to vote for the measure, has been part of a dwindling group of Republican moderates from the northeastern part of the country.
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One of the traditional roles of political parties has been to get out the vote, and in 18 out of 20 rich countries, recent turnout figures have been lower than they were in the 1950s.
Pakistan has a first-past-the-post system, so people vote for one of the mainstream parties that have the best chance of coming to power.
For the last four years, the museum has been inviting visitors to vote with a penny on whether they want to keep the one cent or get rid of it.
As one Turkish columnist has noted, for Turkey to be so touchy about the minutiae of a congressional vote betrays weakness, not strength.
Add one more wireless variety to the list, as FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski has confirmed his agency will vote on a proposal for incentive-based auctions of UHF spectrum.
In his re-election bid, he faces Marlboro County coroner Tim Brown, who has hired one of the state's top-drawer consultants to run ads hammering Jennings for his vote.
At the height of Obama's popularity and in one of the gravest economic crises that the nation has faced, only three Republicans were willing to vote in favor of the stimulus legislation.
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