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VOTE. Suffrage; the voice of an individual in making a choice by many. The
total number of voices given at an election; as, the presidential vote.
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In mid-November, the House of Commons gave him his first-ever defeat, when Labour Party backbenchers defected to vote down Blair's proposal to lock up suspected terrorists for 90 days without charge. If a lawmaker objects to certain spending, the only recourse is to vote down the entire bill, which often also includes vital military funding or other important items. To their considerable credit, the state's voters ignored the pleas of Republican leaders such as Arizona Senator John McCain, and the state's Democratic Governor, Janet Napolitano, urging them to vote down the measure. |
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