Sentence examples for candidates to request from inspiring English sources

Party rules permit candidates to request ballots for supporters but require that nonparty members initiate the requests.

Mr. Bopp and Mr. Olson had argued that the ability of Florida candidates to request recounts only in counties where they performed well served to dilute the value of votes in counties where recounts were not conducted.

Elections officials in Michigan, where Trump won by more than 11,000 votes, certified results Monday, triggering a deadline for candidates to request a recount within 48 hours.

Wisconsin has no threshold for triggering an automatic recount, leaving it up to individual candidates to request, and pay for, any re-tallying of the votes.

Unlike Michigan and Wisconsin, where Donald Trump's transition team is presenting the greatest obstacles to Stein-led recount efforts, Pennsylvania law does not automatically entitle candidates to request a statewide recount.

As the Washington Post reports, "State election law provides for the trailing candidate to request a recount if the margin of victory is less than 1percentt of the total vote.

Those two, the secretary of state and the chief justice of the State Supreme Court, said it was now up to the candidates themselves to request recounts if they suspected problems.

"It's a decision the candidate has to request," a Secret Service spokesman, Tom Mazur, said.

No Republican candidates responded to requests for comment.

But as Wharton notes, "broadcasters will do their darndest to work with candidates to accommodate their requests for ad time" during the election's critical final moments, to prevent the candidates from being drowned out.

Albert J. Lama, director of the civil division of the state attorney general's office, said yesterday that while losing candidates are entitled to request a recount in any county, the authorization must be made by the local canvassing board, not the state.