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A rare example of a supermajority requirement affecting the Parliament of the United Kingdom is the need for a two-thirds supermajority vote in both the House of Commons and the House of Lords to amend or dissolve the Royal Charter on self-regulation of the press, insofar as it applies in England and Wales. [40] [41]
If rated voting is allowed, a wide variety of rules satisfy May's conditions, including score voting or highest median voting rules. Arrow's theorem does not apply to the case of two candidates (when there are trivially no "independent alternatives"), so this possibility result can be seen as the mirror analogue of that theorem.
Round-up of claims from the campaign trail checked by Full Fact, including what a ‘supermajority’ is, and immigration returns.
Under supermajority rules, a minority needs its own supermajority to overturn a decision. [5] To support the view that majority rule protects minority rights better than supermajority rules, McGann pointed to the cloture rule in the US Senate, which was used to prevent the extension of civil liberties to racial minorities. [5]
Scottish politics also recognises supermajorities constitutionally, with laws that affect the election of MSPs being potentially subject to this restriction. A Scottish supermajority requires two ...
A two-thirds (supermajority) vote of members present—if a quorum exists—in both the Senate and the House of Representatives of the United States Congress; or; A majority vote of state delegations at a national convention called by Congress at the request of the legislatures of at least two-thirds (at present 34) of the states. (This method ...
The main argument for the bond supermajority just doesn’t make sense. So Idaho lawmakers should go with a 50% threshold in high-turnout elections. | Opinion
For example, many motions require a supermajority to pass, and other rules can give certain stakeholders a veto. The United States' electoral college is a well-known example of a non-anonymous voting rule, as the results of the election depend not just on the votes for each candidate, but also on their physical arrangement across space.