by vote

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Lecornu's centre-right government said last week it would be "impossible" to adopt a 2026 austerity budget by vote.

From Barron's • Jan. 19, 2026

Ballots will be tabulated by vote counting machines.

From New York Times • Jan. 22, 2024

Under law, courts cannot hold hearings on prosecutors’ requests for arrest warrants against lawmakers during active sessions unless the assembly allows them to do so by vote.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 21, 2023

Importantly, the treaty allows for nations to establish MPAs by vote if they can’t reach consensus.

From Scientific American • Mar. 8, 2023

But by enquiry addressed to the Vicar of Newington, it has been ascertained that one of the Registers contains a memorandum of its having been returned by vote of Convocation on the day in question.

From Annals of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, A.D. 1598-A.D. 1867 With a Preliminary Notice of the earlier Library founded in the Fourteenth Century by Macray, William Dunn