Sentence examples for archaic election from inspiring English sources

Japan's archaic election rules seemed designed to keep things that way.

But it will also set off a profound debate about our chaotic, archaic election procedures and what some consider our antiquated Electoral College.

Despite this, there's been no talk about permanently altering how we vote by eliminating our archaic Election Day practices and instead allowing 21st-century Americans to vote by various means over a uniform period of time.

Then there is the recent decision by a Federal judge telling the State Legislature that he is blocking parts of our new, yet archaic, election law because he thinks it is "harsh and impractical" to charge a $1,000/day fine to people registering Floridians to vote because they turned in registration forms a little late.

She's been the Daily Show's "senior women's issues correspondent" since the 2008 election (the archaic euphemism "women's issues" is classic Schaal) and will soon be heard in Fox TV's new animated show Bob's Burgers.

CONVENTIONAL wisdom holds that party platforms are only slightly less archaic than torchlight parades on election eve -- a grab bag of dogma for true believers at a time when nearly every candidate wants to run as a centrist, wooing the swing voters of the suburbs.

There's something almost poignant in the way the Vatican has had to resort to chemistry to get its archaic method of communicating the papal election results to work properly: science helping to sustain a tradition from a distant age.

More importantly, they claim superdelegates, closed primaries, and archaic voting processes have "fixed" the election for Clinton.

It is too late for the Legislature to change these archaic rules before this year's city elections, especially given the anarchy in Albany.

The Japanese political system seemed corrupt, opaque, archaic; the American one, especially with the election of a vigorous young president in 1992, seemed fresh, transparent, energetic.

The multi-racial, multi-cultural coalition that President-elect Obama achieved in this election -- his truly American coalition -- has succeeded in further marginalizing the ridiculous and archaic fear-mongers and fire-eaters who feed upon the exploitation of our original, founding sins.