Sentence examples for arcane election from inspiring English sources
To make it possible for the Conservatives to hand Mr. Paladino their nomination, arcane election rules require that Mr. Lazio accept the party's nomination for a judgeship.
The Republican candidate is not the only candidate likely to be hurt by New York's unique combination of a closed primary and arcane election rules.
They point to provisions in the country's new Constitution and arcane election rules introduced in October that they say will reduce political pluralism to support their contention.
The mixup, involving the election of state committee members for the Green Party, began amid confusion over New York's arcane election laws.
D' Amato has sewn up the Republican nomination in NY state for him, through use of the arcane election laws; In March, Dole announced that D'Amato would be the chairman of his Presidential-campaign steering committee.
Mr. Cuomo made his demand at a meeting with Working Families officials on Tuesday and suggested that he would not even consider accepting the party's endorsement unless they agreed to using placeholders, who under the state's arcane election laws could be swapped for new candidates after the primary.
He had agreed, with trepidation, to watch tapes of his many television appearances in recent weeks, when he went from being an academic expert on the arcane subject of election law to a talking head in such demand that NBC gave him a contract.
Don't count on it -- unless far more concerned citizens get involved in the often arcane issues of election reform.
As court challenges were issued over the legality of hand recounts in select counties, news stories were filled with the arcane vocabulary of the election judge.
Instead, Ms. Canfield finds herself right back in her cubicle at Bush campaign headquarters, poring over law books and searching the Internet, quickly coming up to speed on arcane aspects of Florida election statutes.
He is the same judge who ruled in favor of Steve Forbes in 1996, when Mr. Forbes sued while battling with state Republicans to get on the ballot, and his ruling pressured the Legislature to eliminate some of the more arcane requirements in the election law.
