Sentence examples for broadening ballot from inspiring English sources

Mr. Bond's proposal runs contrary to both the spirit of democracy and federal law, which in recent years has moved increasingly toward broadening ballot access.

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg strongly defended his support of nonpartisan elections yesterday, insisting that removing party labels from the ballot broadens political opportunity.

Although fewer Republicans have moved toward the ideological center, they too know winning one of only two spots on a general-election ballot often means broadening their sights beyond the party faithful.

For those of us in politics who care about broadening representative democracy, focusing on mobile voting (both by creating a platform that ensures that you're you and preserves secrecy of your ballot and then convincing jurisdictions to adopt it) is the only way to generate the actual outcome of a better, truer government for and by the people.

In 1982, a ballot initiative broadened prosecution evidence and narrowed the insanity defense.

Travel can be broadening.

That means broadening our audience".

"The problems are broadening out".

Last year anti-gay activists promoted Act 1, a ballot referendum that broadened the ban to include unmarried heterosexual couples.

States that allow early voting and absentee ballots have not performed well: in years of high turnout they show the smallest increases, while in bad years they show the biggest decreases.Nor does early voting broaden the electorate.

The others, which restrict declarations to what are deemed "recognized political parties" under their state laws, are New York, Iowa and Kansas, said Richard Winger, publisher of Ballot Access, which tracks efforts to broaden political participation.