Sentence examples for case of election from inspiring English sources

This is a clear-cut case of election rigging.

It was the country's worst case of election bloodletting, but hardly a week goes by without news of a candidate or his supporters being attacked.

Since a number of races could turn on just a few thousand votes, the parties are preparing teams of lawyers in case of Election Day controversies over who can vote, for possible recounts and legal challenges.

The Williams camp is appealing the ruling while launching a write-in campaign, but activists are still calling the ballot botch "the largest case of election fraud" in Washington history.

SALMAN, the Philippines — As the toll in what is now considered the Philippines' worst case of election violence rose to 57, the authorities on Wednesday focused their suspicions on a powerful clan allied with President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo.

A Pennsylvania court struck Ralph Nader's name from the state's ballot yesterday, declaring that nearly two-thirds of the signatures on his nominating petitions were invalid or had been forged in what the court called an unparalleled case of election fraud.

MANILA — The head of a powerful political clan in the Philippines pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to charges that he oversaw a 2009 massacre that claimed at least 57 lives, the country's worst case of election-related violence and what watchdog groups call the worst single attack on journalists.

They see a government unable to accept the rulings of its own institutions in the case of elections and a dangerous standoff with the International Monetary Fund over how to overcome the paralyzing fraud at Kabul Bank, the nation's largest financial institution.

"But there will always be points of tension, too," Ms. Evans said, especially when the broad ideals that blacks and women have typically shared — in their fight for the vote, non-discrimination and economic equality — give way to the nitty-gritty of reaching consensus, setting policy, passing legislation and, in the case of elections, making choices.

"The only cases of election fraud have been in absentee ballots".

The comments by the ambassador in Washington, Said Tayeb Jawad, were the first in which Mr. Karzai's government conceded that a runoff was likely, after weeks of investigation into stark cases of election fraud.