Sentence examples for Electoral device from inspiring English sources

The candidate in 2008 was a brilliant electoral device.

The report indicates not all or a majority of these factors need to exist for an electoral device to result in discrimination, and it also indicates that this list is not exhaustive, allowing courts to consider additional evidence at their discretion.

"We believed that racial gerrymandering and various types of electoral devices intended to guarantee a certain number of seats was not good public policy," Mr. Cooper said.

In 1898 South Dakota became the first state to adopt the referendum and initiative as electoral devices through which voters could express their wishes regarding government policy or proposed legislation.

Speaking as one "profoundly and even passionately opposed" to P.R., Mr. Chamberlain fairly startled his old friends by the vehemence with which he denounced, not only such iniquitous electoral devices, but also their title champions - "legislators with no elections of their own to face and with no constituents to woo".

The electoral college is a device that balances nationalism with states' rights and leavens democracy's passions with deliberation and reason.

The states, left to their own devices, adopted electoral methods best described as higgledy-piggledy, except that everyone agreed that Election Day ought to be a public holiday, involving plenty of stumping, debating, and parading.

Paid for by a political group officially acting separately from the campaign of George H. W. Bush, it was the political equivalent of an improvised explosive device, demolishing the electoral hopes of Dukakis, then the governor of Massachusetts.

But the fact that such assurances are necessary demonstrates the concern among Democrats facing stiff challenges that they may be left to their own devices against a Republican electoral wave.

Disclosure rules intended to substitute for meaningful regulation becomes the unwitting device by which our genuine electoral sentiments are auctioned off.

The integrity of the electoral process can be maintained by a variety of devices and practices, including a permanent and up-to-date register of voters and procedures designed to make the registration process as simple as possible.