In the first round vote on the 19th article, 337 MPs
voted in favor, 69
voted against it.
At the same time, the body that so lopsidedly
voted for the PATRIOT Act in 2001 is bucking pressure from the Bush administration by voting to scale it back.
But newly enfranchised women
voted in much smaller numbers than men.
The board believes that if it is doing a good job for its shareholders, then it will continue to be
voted back year after year, thus providing the continuity and experience it wanted to retain in the first place.
The Republicans claimed that they had evidence that some people there had
voted up to four times under different names.
In the final vote, which was taken by orders, 11 clergy
voted against the move, and eight
voted in favour.
The vote tabulation shows 21 states
voted to continue the check-off, but negative votes in 15 other states -- most of which are in the western Corn Belt -- were enough to swing the pendulum the other way.
From 1980 on, they have always
voted the same way -- for the national winner.
The tallies show that 479 members in the 480-member House of Representatives
voted, with 240 votes constituting a majority.
In fact, the Alumax board often
voted by class on various matters, although other matters were determined using the weighted voting structure.
Thus, the voter in Amman's second District cast three ballots for the three designated seats in that district, while a voter in the Irbid governorate
voted for nine candidates corresponding to its nine designated seats.
The parliament debated and
voted the 14th, 15th, 16th and 17th articles of the bill on Wednesday.