Second, most of the parties have never fought each other, or anyone else, in anything close to an open vote.
This will not prevent it from living forever, but to make it do so will then require an explicit, open vote.
In an open vote, Niphon (who runs Chuan's office) could have taken the first deputy spot, but he, too, has bolder goals - namely replacing secretary-general Sanan Kachornprasart (the official No. 2 in the party).
The whole thing happens at breakneck speed, with the vice president of the Parliament calling out the different amendments ("vote is open, has everyone voted? vote is closed"), which flashed up on a giant screen as they scrolled through.
Once the Democrats settle on a candidate, the Catholic vote seems wide open in November.
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If these items are truly worth funding, the Congress should debate them in the open and hold a public vote.
With the first serious Hispanic candidate for president out of the race, Russert said that it meant that the Hispanic vote is wide open.
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And there is talk of open primaries in which people vote irrespective of their party affiliation, and then elect a candidate in a run-off between the top two vote-getters, whether from the same party or not.
The SCHSL has twice voted to toss Goose Creek over its use of an ineligible player, the second vote coming after Goose Creek got a judge to order the league to hold another, open-door hearing and take a vote.
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Instead of putting up barriers for people who want to vote, we should be the most open society when it comes to giving our citizens as many options as possible to vote, and moving Election Day from a weekday to a weekend makes a lot of sense.
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The forthcoming MUD primary is open to all Venezuelans registered to vote.
The Sunday Independent carried four of five opinion pieces, all sceptical about the McGuinness candidacy, under the sub-heading "you need to vote with your eyes open".
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At its recent meeting, the Federal Open Market Committee, by a vote of 11 to 1, announced a third round of quantitative easing (QE3), which unlike the earlier rounds is open-ended and will continue even after the economy picks up steam.
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In Coventry, Hull, Plymouth and parts of London some polling stations will be open before Thursday, so people can vote early.
The Hispanic vote has always been wide open.
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Think about that. (Applause.) That path is open only if you take it through your vote.
Thousands of workers paraded out of the main gate to celebrate the vote that will keep their shipyard open.
But because of Haitians' enthusiasm to vote, some polling places stayed open late, even by candlelight, to accommodate them.
In January eight million Iraqis had gone to the polls to vote in the first free and open elections in that country's history.
"The families of Oak Creek, and Tucson, and Blacksburg, and the countless other communities ripped open by gun violence - they deserve a simple vote, " he said.
Its executive council in February briefly considered letting troops develop their own gay-member policies, but decided to open the decision to longer public deliberation and a vote at the Annual meeting.
To many of the defeated lobbyists, the latest vote on women bishops leaves the Church open to ridicule, as they claim it puts the Church at odds with wider society in terms of equal opportunities for women.
India's government has won a crucial vote in parliament on its controversial plans to open the retail sector to foreign competition.
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Day-trading speculators in the pits who depend on open outcry for their livelihood aren't about to vote themselves out of a job.
In the Defence area, unprecedented queues of voters were seen that day, partly because polling stations didn't open on time but also because of the enthusiasm to vote.
Tuesday's open primary also will allow voters to cross over and vote for any candidate regardless of party, with the top vote-getter in each party advancing to the general election.
Though Asian Americans make up only 6% of the state's registered voters, they could be a deciding factor in a close race with low turnout--if they vote as they did in June's open primary, when Fong took 3 out of 4 Asian voters, many of them "crossover" Democrats motivated more by ethnic pride than ideology.
Former President Laszlo Solyom - who helped to draft the 1989 constitution and served as the head of the Hungarian Constitutional Court from 1990 to 1998 - said in an open letter to the press on the day of the vote that the only way to stop the changes becoming irrevocable would be for President Janos Ader to refuse to sign the constitutional amendments into law.
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