So they do not have stars,either. Some of the territories, like Puerto Rico and Guam, may vote to become states in the future.

VOA: special.2010.04.02

Senators can threaten a bill with unlimited debate unless sixty senators vote to prevent it.

VOA: special.2010.01.23

A candidate needs more than fifty percent of the vote to avoid a run-off election.

VOA: special.2009.08.22

He was afraid it might vote to secede.

VOA: special.2009.08.20

The director of the Independent Election Commission, Dauod Ali Najafi, announced the vote totals to reporters in Kabul Saturday evening.

VOA: standard.2009.08.29

Kurdistan Prime Minister Barham Saleh stressed the need for the vote to be perceived as open.

VOA: standard.2010.03.07

Mr.Karzai won the presidential election by default after his main challenger, Abdullah Abdullah, withdrew from a runoff, saying it was impossible for the vote to be fair.

VOA: standard.2009.11.27

Members of a far-left minority party surrounded trade committee Chairman Park Jin's podium and tried to physically block a vote to advance the trade deal to a full ratification vote.

VOA: standard.2009.04.22

And it comes after a recent U.N.Security Council vote to impose another round of sanctions against Tehran for its nuclear program and the U.S.Congress's approval of harsher unilateral sanctions against nations that supply Tehran with gasoline.

VOA: standard.2010.06.29

With just days to go before all preliminary vote totals are to be released, Afghan President Hamid Karzai's office is applauding the Independent Election Commission "for its efforts in pursuing the process in an impartial and faithful national spirit."

VOA: standard.2009.09.09

"I want some courage. I want us to do the right thing, Ohio,and with your help we are going to make it happen!" Democrats need every vote to pass Mr.Obama's top domestic priority, and the president did win over one liberal holdout.

VOA: standard.2010.03.18

His main opponent, the controversial mayor of Zagreb Milan Bandic, came in second with nearly The men will face each other in a final election round on January 10th, since they failed to gain the minimum of 50 percent plus one vote to win outright.

VOA: standard.2009.12.28

Since all 40 Republicans were on record as opposing the bill, the Democrats did not have a single vote to spare, needing every Democrat and Independent who normally votes with Democrats to cast their votes for it, or else have the vote dead before it ever reached the floor.

VOA: standard.2009.11.23

Democrats in the Senate have lost their sixty-vote supermajority needed to block any effort by Republicans to kill legislation.

VOA: special.2010.02.27