Tarpley received 67 of a possible 80 votes from the news media in the 23 franchise cities.
Nebiolo received 19 of a possible 25 votes at a meeting in Budapest.
No one will ever be able to say you did not have the opportunity to gain every possible vote.
The events of the last 10 days would inevitably alter any possible second vote.
At the appointment in parliament though, he got 37 of 69 possible votes.
So they were even more disappointed to hear that he had actually run a distant third with just 24 out of 149 possible votes.
In the primary election he won 123 of the possible 141 primary votes.
The civilization with a majority of the possible votes wins the election, and therefore the game.
Some important decisions need two-thirds of all of the possible votes.
Naturally, the only possible vote in this instance is a positive one.