revote
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Vance showed up to cast a tiebreaker on a subsequent vote to ensure the resolution couldn’t get a revote later on.
From Slate ● May 3, 2025
Baswedan and Pranowo argued that Raka, 37, should have been disqualified because the minimum age for candidates is 40, and they asked the court to bar him from a revote.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 22, 2024
Nonetheless, the original victory in Staten Island — and a revote in Alabama — triggered outreach from hundreds of new workers interested in unionizing some of the company’s warehouses, according to the unions.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 13, 2022
The labor board later ordered a revote after it concluded that Amazon had violated election rules, but unions tend to lose in so-called rerun elections.
From New York Times ● Mar. 24, 2022
People can even change their mind if they’ve already voted provided they let the election officials know they want to revote within the time frame required.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 12, 2020
The losing candidate might wish to contest the result in Indonesia’s Constitutional Court, which has the power to order recounts and even revotes.
From Economist ● Jul. 10, 2014
And it has the power to impose almost any kind of remedy it wants, from ordering recounts and revotes to interpreting individual ballots that are in dispute.
From Time Magazine Archive
On May 8, Armenia’s parliament revoted, and this time, with the grudging support of several Republican MPs, Pashinyan was elected prime minister.
From Slate ● May 10, 2018
Many of the subsidies lapsed through failure to begin construction, but usually they were revoted.
From The Railway Builders A Chronicle of Overland Highways by Skelton, Oscar Douglas
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