Sentence examples for bar election from inspiring English sources

The legislation, for example, would bar election supervisors from placing anything on the envelope of absentee ballots that lists a voter's party affiliation.

David Firestone THE WEST PRIMARY CLEARED IN CALIFORNIA The California Supreme Court has denied a request for an injunction to bar election officials from reporting party votes in Tuesday's presidential primary there.

Originally, lay status did not bar election to the Bishop of Rome.

The president has barred election observers from the United States and the European Union.

The advocates have turned to Section 2, which bars election procedures that discriminate on the basis of race, to combat these strict new voter identification laws, cutbacks to early voting and elimination of same-day registration.

In the past, even with a majority of votes, Democrats in Congress have let all voting reform measures languish, from fixing unreliable voting machines to barring election-day dirty tricks.

TUESDAY, February 5th, was as exciting as it gets in American politics, bar presidential election day itself.

Mr. Mugabe's government had already announced that it planned to bar Western election observers from monitoring the vote.

The changes eliminate presidential term limits and lower the bar for election by naming the candidate with the most votes as the winner.

An Obama supporter, cornered in a Cleveland bar on Election Night by the BBC, asked why America could not be more like, say, Switzerland, with three or even four parties.

Sawant won in November with more than 93,000 votes, socialist views, strong denunciations of capitalism and the occasional quoting of Karl Marx evidently no longer an immediate bar to election in the US.