He called the vote an "important step forward" as the Afghan people seek to control their future.

VOA: special.2009.08.22

"I think that there are,already, concerns that the interim government will use their control of the local governments to stuff the ballots and rig the vote."

VOA: standard.2010.06.22

But the military government is set to maintain tight control over the vote amid calls by Burmese political activists for the international community to boycott the election result.

VOA: standard.2010.07.27

Lindsey Graham, a leading Republican and tough Obama critic, told CNN's Jim Acosta that he would not block a vote on gun control in the Senate.

CNN: Obama's emotional plea might lead to vote on guns

Judicial administrators use their powers to call a meeting of shareholders immediately, and vote the shares they control to replace old directors with new ones.

ECONOMIST: Management change the Sicilian way

As a bipartisan group of fifteen former senators recently observed, never before in the history of the U.S. Senate has the deliberation and vote on an arms control agreement been truncated by their being conducted during a lame-duck session.

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