How is voting power distributed in the United Nations?
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In the General Assembly, each country is entitled to one vote on any issue.\n\nIn the Security Council, things are about different.  Only 15 countries sit on the Council, and 5 of them are permanent.  The five permanent members (China, Britain, France, the United States, and Russia) still all have one vote, as do the 10 others.  The permanent members, however, all have the power to veto any legislation.  So if just one of the permanent members disagrees with the resolution, it will fail.
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Single meMber district? This might help...\n\nThe plurality voting system (also known as first past the post) is a voting system used to elect a single winner in a given election. In political science, the use of the plurality voting system alongside multiple, single-winner constituencies to elect a multi-member body is often referred to as single-member district plurality or SMDP. Plurality voting is also variously referred to as winner-take-all or relative majority voting; however, these terms can also refer to elections for multiple winners in a particular constituency using bloc voting.\n\nThe term first past the post (abbreviated FPTP or FPP) was coined in an analogy to horse racing, where the winner of the race is the first to pass a particular point on the track (in this case a plurality of votes), after which all other runners automatically and completely lose (that is, the payoff is "winner-take-all"). There is, however, no "post" that the winning candidate must pass in order to win, as they are only required to receive the largest number of votes in their favor. This sometimes results in the alternate name "furthest past the post". It also tends to magnify the winning party's victory--that is the winning party tends to get a larger percentage of the seats than of the popular vote, as estimated by the cube rule.\n\nPlurality voting is used in some former British colonies [1] and is used in 43 of the 191 countries in the United Nations.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-member_district_plurality
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Make as stronger UNO with all participants having equal voting powers.\nNo specialveto power previlidges.
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The answer varies, depending on whether and which territories are included, and whose count you are using.  The most usual answers are from 189 to 194.  The United Nations has 189 members.  There are 192 independent states according to US calculations, but that count does not include Greenland, Palestine, Taiwan, East Timor, and Western Sahara.  The World Factbook shows 259 world flags.\n\nI hope this helps.
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United Nations basically is made up of 5 countries only, right? The rest are just bystandsers, who are always ignored by the most powerful 5....
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Here in India we have EVMs, the electronic voting machines which have been used successfully in several general elections.\n\nThe voter has option to vote in by pressing one of  several buttons meant for different candidates. After each press of botton the machine gets locked which can be operated again by the presiding officer to be used for the next voter.\n\nAfter the voting is complete the EVMs are sealed in a particular manner and sent to a dsignated place wich is protected by the administration till the counting is done.\n\nOn a designated date the machines are brought and the seal is opened before the designated political agents of different parties.\n\nThe macine shows all the votes which wrere given to each  candidate.And after collecting information from all centres a candidate who gets most number of the votes, is declared winner.
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You can scatter your votes, I usually do.  I vote by issue, being middle class, and not a globalist.  We don't have a party of our own.   \n\nYet.
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Yes, it is.  (It's also a republic, capitalist, etc.)  It's not a "direct" democracy in the sense of submitting everything to a direct vote of the people, but the people do have ultimate power.  As a practical matter, the people frequently don't exercise the power they have -- they often don't bother voting, or don't educate themselves on issues -- but the power is there if they choose.
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When the United Nations was created many Arab nations were waring or just didn't want in. Now that the UN has expanded its the original members that are permanent, but thats only in terms of veto power. Now that there are so many countries with different agendas there are rotating positions that have veto power to ensure others have that power at times. But it wasn't because they wanted to screw other countries, it was simply timing. Wilson wanted a UN of sorts but it took till after WWII to finally do it.
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everyone certified in america votes for anyone who's running, every other week they ttake off the canidate who has the lowest amount of votes. This is how it is supposed to work, for an exception of the Bush Regime.
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Jesi has the right answer...\n\nIf there were ten, how would they reach decisions without the possibility of a tie vote? There are nine.
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Wel thats democracy for u...the system works in such a way..but u have a point..one person cant do much..its always collective force that needs to act..remember united we stand..
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There are presently 191 member States of the United Nations
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Yes it is a public vote, the person who tells them what the votes are is just a representative from that country. It goes all around to each represented country, they take the scores from each one and add them together, it normally ends up with 'Norway nil points'. Although I believe Great Britain got 'nil points' last time.
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There are 191 Nations included in the General Assembly including virtually every recognized independent state in the world. \n\nThyere are 15 Nations on the security council. 5 Permanent Members (France, US, UK, China, Russia) and 10 Elected Nations who are elected by the General Assembly for 2 year terms.
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The United Nations is a very necessary organization on many levels.  Any place that attempts to foster communication between so many diverse member states is necessary.  Their other works like UNICEF, UNDP, UNIFEM etc. do much to improve the living of millions of people around the world.