Sentence examples for designated election from inspiring English sources

And in 2017, then-Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson designated election systems as critical infrastructure, giving the agency a greater role in helping states shore up election security.

The other defendants, one of whom is joined in each action, to-wit, Arthur Pratt, John S. Lindsay, Harmel Pratt, and James T. Little, were respectively deputy registration officers in designated election precincts in which the plaintiffs in the actions severally claimed the right to be registered as voters.

The Department of Homeland Security just last month even designated election systems as "critical infrastructure" and will be helping secure them — mainly in a physical sense, though.

The officer sought to be recalled may submit to the designated election official a statement of three hundred words or fewer justifying the officer's course of conduct.

Correction: A previous version of this article incorrectly described a National Association of Secretaries of State resolution opposing designating election systems critical infrastructure.

Jeh Johnson's decision to designate election systems as critical infrastructure – a move they saw as a power grab aimed at imposing federal authority over state-run elections.

The fetes are the first step toward the group's ultimate goal, which is to designate Election Day as a national holiday.

According to Amy Cohen, executive director of the National Association of State Election Directors, an organization that brings together election officials in all 50 states, states have made "great strides" since the former DHS secretary designated all election systems as critical infrastructure in January of 2017.

Under early voting, which is allowed in 32 states and the District of Columbia, voters can cast their ballots in person at election officials' offices during a designated pre-election period.

On Tuesday he told reporters that he's considering designating the election system "critical infrastructure," a move that would require cybersecurity protections for voting machines to be beefed up.

Soon after the designated time, an election official began laboriously reading results, but only of six parliamentary races.