Sentence examples for cumbersome voting from inspiring English sources

After the father of the Commons, 84-year-old Sir Edward Heath, had rejected pleas for a straightforward ballot to choose from the 12 contenders, it took more than six hours of cumbersome voting to complete the election as even no-hopers took their turn - to the dismay of Westminster modernisers.

But the quirky ways of the state's independent voters combined with the cumbersome process for voting in the primary may make them far less relevant than expected.

The state has one of the worst voter turnout records in the country, not least because the act of voting is cumbersome and uninviting.

And in Florida -- where holding an election itself seems to be a Herculean task fraught with peril -- the state legislature is doing all it could to throw every road block it could think of in the way of voters, from new regulations for registering voters all the way to actually making more cumbersome the act of voting.

"Early Voting Means Easier Voting" (editorial, May 4) correctly notes that voting in New York is "cumbersome and uninviting," and that early voting would be a good start toward making the process less frustrating and increasing the abysmally low turnout rate of New York voters.

The possibility of fraud has always been a worry in a cumbersome electoral process where votes are tallied by hand.

Florida also has some of the toughest restrictions on the rights of ex-felons to vote, a cumbersome, complicated process that some have called punitive.

Participating in AGMs and casting votes is costly: Italian voting procedures are cumbersome.

In addition, absentee voting is a cumbersome process in New York, which requires snail-mail exchanges between the voter and the local Board of Elections.

For months, the Bush administration has resisted Iraqi calls for direct elections by June 30, citing the need for a census to compile voter rolls and other measures to ensure fair voting but too cumbersome to complete in time.

That would be hard in almost any city in this country, but casting a write-in vote is so cumbersome in New York that the city's Board of Elections has posted a video on its Web site demonstrating how it is done.