Sentence examples for control of elections from inspiring English sources

Mr. Schumer, speaking at his New York City office, said he was not advocating that state and local governments give up control of elections.

The Canovite system was artificial in that it required the contrived rotation in office (turno pacífico) of a Liberal and a Conservative party; this in turn demanded governmental control of elections, which were run by caciques, or local political bosses, who controlled votes in their districts and delivered them in return for favours for themselves and their supporters.

Two-party control of elections and government has been detrimental to the entire country for decades and has been truly harmful to black people for centuries.

The Fair Elections Now Act, legislation with the bipartisan and ideologically diverse support of 150 U.S. House members, would alter the way elections are financed in this country--putting the grassroots in control of elections, not big check-writers or political insiders.

She summarized these as: "proof of voter fraud that affects the outcome of the election"; "substantial noncompliance with statutory election procedures"; and "extenuating circumstances" beyond the control of election officials, like power outages.

The problems range from the technical (unreliable electronic touch-screens with insecure software, confusion in a plethora of local systems) to the partisan (questionable purges of registered voters, party control of election operations).

The Republican plan keeps Democrats from taking control of election monitoring by converting boards to equal numbers of members of both parties.

Representative Michael E. Capuano and Senator Christopher J. Dodd have co-sponsored the Fair Elections Now Act, legislation that would end reliance on special-interest cash and put voters in control of our elections.

The government needs to make sure that the tax code — and American control of American elections — is not being violated.

The government, obsessed with the notion that political stability must be maintained, "has taken strict control of the elections," he said.

Ayatollah Montazeri angered the conservative establishment last month in a joint interview with Reuters and London's Guardian newspaper in which he denounced clerical control of the elections and called for limits on the powers of the supreme leader.