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Re:Donald Trump’s Contract with the American Voter [pdf] by dllthomas on Wednesday November 09, 2016 @10:15PM (#12917412)
That's definitely not true, unless in some special context.
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Re:Donald Trump’s Contract with the American Voter [pdf] by kazga on Thursday November 10, 2016 @05:59AM (#12919379)
I'm not sure about English, but "simple majority" and "absolute majority" are commonly used to refer to a plurality and >50% respectively in German.

Wikipedia [0] also recognizes this meaning.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_majority

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Re:Donald Trump’s Contract with the American Voter [pdf] by grzm on Thursday November 10, 2016 @07:30AM (#12919827)
The Wikipedia article indicates that simple majority may refer to majority, plurality, FPTP, or super majority, indicating no preference as to which might might be the most commonly understood.
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