However, one of the three proposals that Apple had put up for shareholder voting required that shareholder approval be necessary to issue preferred stock in the future.
The four not-dead plaintiffs argue that there is no state-law authority for the purge and that because Texas has a history of voting-rights violations (not against the undead, but still), it was required by the federal Voting Rights Act to get pre-approval for the relevant rule change.
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Texas is required under the 1965 Voting Rights Act to secure federal approval of changes in its voting procedures.
And indeed, rather than back radical alternatives, 19% of the electorate cast blank or spoilt ballots, or, though voting is required by law, simply stayed at home.
The Arizona voting law was part of a package that also denied some government benefits to illegal immigrants and required Arizonans to show identification before voting.
Its main argument is that, as a share of the voting population, the required number of signatures has dropped from 10% back in 1848 to 2.2% today, thanks to the enfranchisement of women at federal level, which took place only in 1971, and a swelling population.
At inception, most states required property ownership or similar prerequisites prior to voting.
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Previous rules required cardinals to wait at least 15 days to begin voting.
When voting fails to produce the two-thirds majority required for a new pontiff, the smoke is black.
The speaker's election required a two-thirds majority for the first two rounds and a simple majority in the voting reaches a third round, said analyst Macharia Munene, an international relations professor at Nairobi's United States International University.
He fell well short of the 75% of the vote required for induction last year, with his name appearing on just 62.1% of ballots cast by voting members of the Baseball Writers' Association of America.
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