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Re:Nvidia prepares to fire CEO Jensen Huang, WSJ reports by computerex on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @09:38PM (#50462387)
I am not making this up, majority vote and popular vote are literal phrases used to describe the results. Please look it up. I agree it’s confusing.
Re:Nvidia prepares to fire CEO Jensen Huang, WSJ reports by jefftk on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @09:52PM (#50462461)
I know you're not making it up, "plurality" is a real word and in a technical context "majority" can be contrasted with "plurality". But even then you really wouldn't say "lost the majority vote" for someone who won an election (try searching for that phrase: none of the hits are people using it like you are).
Re:Nvidia prepares to fire CEO Jensen Huang, WSJ reports by bdangubic on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @11:03PM (#50462946)
The majority vote is being used often to indicate whether or not majority actually voted in a given President. In the USA however, majority vote win happens infrequently nowadays, only 4 out of last 9 elections with winner won a majority vote. so perhaps unfair to bring that up, the 2024 was an absolute blowout by USA's standards