On the nine-member board, there is now a bloc of four potential votes for keeping the honors classes.
And no one is ever asked whether he or she is a constituent, with a real or potential vote.
On all committees where voting is involved, students always have a larger number of potential votes than staff or parents.
The challenge for Democrats is to expand the electorate and get their potential vote to the polls.
An early poll had indicated that the potential vote was split three ways, with one third undecided.
As much as 20 percent of the potential vote may already have been cast by absentee ballot.
The basic campaign strategy was the maximum mobilization of potential votes.
With their 15 potential votes it was because of them that it was not adopted.
But the convention lost a potential vote from Harold Bauer, a 53-year-old psychologist.
Only that those 50% actually mean one fourth of total potential vote, as western-thinktank-sponsored author correctly notes above.