Also known as: votes · voted · voting · ballot · suffrage
Written by attorneys · grounded in primary & secondary sources — see below
2 senses
An expression of choice or preference registered by an authorized participant in a collective decision-making process that constitutes the constitutional entitlement of citizens to participate in public elections.
An expression of choice or preference registered by an authorized participant in a collective decision-making process that constitutes the procedural mechanism by which partners, shareholders, directors, or jurors record their positions on matters requiring collective action.
An expression of choice or preference registered by an authorized participant in a collective decision-making process that constitutes the constitutional entitlement of citizens to participate in public elections.
Valerie Viera presents identification at the county clerk's office to register for an upcoming state election. The clerk refuses her application solely because she is a woman. The Nineteenth Amendment bars the state from denying or abridging her right to register and cast a vote on account of sex, so the clerk must accept the registration and allow her to participate.
An expression of choice or preference registered by an authorized participant in a collective decision-making process that constitutes the procedural mechanism by which partners, shareholders, directors, or jurors record their positions on matters requiring collective action.
Vance Vogel and eleven other state senators vote against a bill. The lieutenant governor casts a tie-breaking vote in favor, causing the bill to pass. Because the executive action nullifies the senators' votes and produces a concrete legislative outcome, the senators suffer a personal injury sufficient to support standing in their challenge to the procedure.
Each sense below has its own examples, sources, and questions.
The amendment forbids the United States or any state from denying or abridging the right of citizens to vote on account of sex. Congress may enforce the provision by appropriate legislation.
Vera Vu seeks admission as a limited partner in an existing limited partnership. The partnership agreement is silent on the point. Admission requires the affirmative vote or consent of all existing partners, so the general partners must obtain unanimous approval before Vera can join and acquire rights under the agreement.
Vincent Valdez wishes to become a general partner in an existing general partnership. The partnership agreement contains no contrary provision. Admission occurs only with the affirmative vote or consent of all current partners, so every partner must approve before Vincent acquires partner status and the associated rights and liabilities.
Vivian Velez, an investigator, attempts to remain in the grand-jury room while the jurors deliberate and vote on an indictment. Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 6(d)(2) prohibits any person other than the jurors and any needed interpreter from being present during deliberation or voting, so the foreperson must direct Vivian to leave before the vote proceeds.
Valentina Vasquez, president of Volta Electric, proposes that the corporation acquire voting shares in a supplier. The board authorizes the purchase under the corporation's statutory power to acquire, own, hold, and vote shares or other interests in another entity, allowing Volta Electric to complete the transaction and exercise the voting rights attached to the shares.
Legislators have standing when an executive action such as a tie-breaking vote by a lieutenant governor effectively nullifies their votes and causes a specific legislative outcome, inflicting a concrete personal injury on those who voted the other way.
A person may become a limited partner with the affirmative vote or consent of all the partners when the partnership agreement is silent on the point.
No person other than the jurors and any interpreter needed to assist a hearing-impaired or speech-impaired juror may be present while the grand jury is deliberating or voting.
A corporation may purchase, receive, subscribe for, or otherwise acquire, own, hold, vote, use, sell, mortgage, lend, pledge, or otherwise dispose of shares or other interests in any other entity.
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