11. Convention rules require all delegates to vote for Dole on the first two ballots. 12. Delegates voted to keep the gay ordination ban. 13. Delegates will vote on the candidates and their platform at the AFL-CIO convention in New York this fall. 14. Delegates voted down an amendment that called for retaining the Southern Baptist Historical Commission as a separate agency instead of transferring its duties to the six Southern Baptist seminaries. 15. Delegates vote on the party platform and party rules and hear speeches from elected officials and internationally known activists. 16. During the assembly, delegates voted to begin a major study of how the church should relate to its gay and lesbian members. 17. Here, however, delegates vote with their forks. 18. If that were to happen, Khorram said, the delegates would vote on the passages in question, with a two-thirds majority needed for approval. 19. In the end, delegates voted to create a three-member secretariat comprised of the U.S., Venezuela and the Latin American Energy Organization. 20. Jacob Selebi, president of the Oslo treaty conference, urged that delegates vote on the treaty without including any exceptions proposed by the United States. |