Vote in a sentence as a noun

He can't run til 2020, but I'll cast an early vote now.

Once clicked, votes are ignored for that comment. You can vote, or get the social proof, but not both.

This simply isn't a good article, please don't vote it up, and I recommend you don't waste your time.

I lost hope in this President in December, when he failed to stand by us and the vote. I don't have anything left to wait for.

* Switzerland finally allowed women to vote in... drum roll...

Usually it's not a problem, because people only vote up the first version of a story. And when a dup does get upvoted, mods can just **** it.

Moreover, vote for it. Otherwise when some trucker nearly drives you off the road because they have to feed their family, you're just getting what you paid for.

And they were on the tail-end of a civil war before the USA invaded, and now the USA wants them to vote together. What insanity.

The vote count seems to be oscillating up and down very rapidly. I don't want to make this out to be a discussion about Diaspora, so I won't comment further on that point.

The computing world owes a great vote of thanks to Judge Alsup: the cause of interoperability has won a huge victory.

Vote in a sentence as a verb

I wanted to vote no, because it seems so Pyrrhic, maybe a little gimmicky: "See, we shut down a site you don't use!" But if you're asking people to make a sacrifice you're not willing to make yourself, you're a bad leader, period.

Yeah, I'll vote that that's a pretty valid art project. He's calling up the movie image of a giant diamond on a pedestal, one that jewel thieves go to great trouble to steal because it's so incredibly valuable.

I am allowed to vote in municipal elections. And, now as the father of an Argentine citizen, citizenship is also automatic if I want it.

Somehow it's now being argued, that I should stay quiet and vote with my feet/wallet instead? If a company does something clearly distasteful and harmful to others, staying quiet and voting with your feet is not a good idea.

Nobody believes that our vote matters, that the politicians sitting in office will kowtow to anybody who won't pay for a ******* dinner or make a ******* donation. Our government not only doesn't care about us, it schemes to make things worse.

It's very rare for us to actually vote against something, and even proposals being withdrawn are rare; but there are a great many ideas which are changed -- and hopefully improved -- as a result of the criticisms they receive. If jug6ernaut had written "a Hacker News t-shirt?

The problem with vote counts is that two downvotes can start a cascade of reflex downvotes. Or at best, it won't get upvoted. When vote counts where active, this effect caused many instances where an excellent comment was found greyed out at the bottom of the page until a few smart HN folks with high karma voted it back up.

And this is very different from women's suffrage, because nobody's right to vote, or their participation in the democratic process, is being legally affected here. Other things are being affected, but not people's representation as citizens in a democracy.

It allowed him to "split the vote" with audience reactions, getting people who probably have serious misgivings about NSA programs to applaud his calm and graceful handling of shouted insults; many of those people probably applauded simply to protest the hecklers, who after all were making it harder for them to follow what Alexander was trying to say. There was no serious Q&A on offer at the keynote. The questions were pre-screened; all attendees could do was vote on them.

Vote definitions

noun

a choice that is made by counting the number of people in favor of each alternative; "there were only 17 votes in favor of the motion"; "they allowed just one vote per person"

See also: ballot voting balloting

noun

the opinion of a group as determined by voting; "they put the question to a vote"

noun

a legal right guaranteed by the 15th amendment to the US Constitution; guaranteed to women by the 19th amendment; "American women got the vote in 1920"

See also: suffrage

noun

a body of voters who have the same interests; "he failed to get the Black vote"

noun

the total number of voters who participated; "they are expecting a large vote"

verb

express one's preference for a candidate or for a measure or resolution; cast a vote; "He voted for the motion"; "None of the Democrats voted last night"

verb

express one's choice or preference by vote; "vote the Democratic ticket"

verb

express a choice or opinion; "I vote that we all go home"; "She voted for going to the Chinese restaurant"

verb

be guided by in voting; "vote one's conscience"

verb

bring into existence or make available by vote; "They voted aid for the underdeveloped countries in Asia"