Malaysia's ruling coalition has won a simple majority in the country's election, extending its 56-year rule.
Article 96 would be changed to a simple majority vote within each Diet chamber.
In the U.S., a merger needs only a simple majority of shareholders to be approved.
So this time, they stuck it in a budget bill, which only needs a simple majority.
He already has a simple majority in Parliament, which is sufficient for a presidential re-election.
Final passage of the bill would then require only a simple majority of 51.
In reality, it takes a simple majority to pass legislation but 60 votes to break a filibuster.
The plans they prepare will have legal force if passed by a simple majority in a referendum.
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It's a type of budget maneuver that requires a simple majority -- 51 votes -- to pass.
Like the GOP-led House, only a simple majority in the Senate is needed to override a veto.
Now, they will only need a simple majority, in line with what many other corporate boards already follow.
To make the legislature's main task passing a budget easier, voters also lowered the required margin to a simple majority.
After all, the Republicans can use their simple majority to force a vote on the findings of fact.
The procedural agreement meant that amendments by both parties required 60 votes to advance, rather than a simple majority.
Steps needed include the naming of conferees, a House-Senate conference, and final passage (a simple majority) in both Houses.
Each senator has a single vote, and the next vice president would be chosen by a simple majority vote.
So why shouldn't the normal democratic rule, that a simple majority is all that's needed for legitimacy, apply here?
But the bill requires the votes of only a simple majority in Congress.
But Republicans, who have 55 seats in the chamber, could attempt to change Senate rules with a simple majority.
The House, by a simple majority vote, must approve the articles of impeachment and convey them to the Senate.
It says it will seek consensus, but calls for decision by simple majority.
If the result holds, Kenyatta would win the election without a runoff, as the victor needs only a simple majority.
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Although it takes two-thirds of legislators to pass a tax increase, fees could be increased by a simple majority vote.
But Mr. Obama used a procedural gambit known as reconciliation to gain Senate approval of ObamaCare by a simple majority vote.
The motion would require only a simple majority to pass, rather than the two-thirds vote needed to approve the impeachment articles.
And he stressed that the existing threshold for a no-confidence vote would remain as a simple majority of 50% plus one.
Regulation proponents only need to secure a simple majority of the 193 member states to codify their radical and counterproductive agenda.
While it secured a simple majority, it failed to regain the two-thirds parliamentary majority it lost for the first time in 2008.
If no candidate wins a simple majority in the first round, a second election round is held between the two leading candidates.
Napolitano easily surpassed the simple majority required to be elected Saturday afternoon.
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