The combination of these rules, housing counselors said, disqualified a large number of people who had gone through their savings and fallen behind on mortgage payments.
War Reports: Afghanistan The international audit of election results disqualified a significant number of votes so as to necessitate a run-off between incumbent Hamid Karzai and his chief rival Abdullah Abdullah.
A rider may be disqualified for a number of offences, such as pushing or interfering (jersey-pulling) with another rider, obtaining non-regulation assistance, committing acts of violence, going outside the race course boundaries, and in doing so gains an advantage or using radio links or other remote means of communication.
Mr Chávez has turned Venezuela's courts into a tool of the executive and used them to jail, harass or disqualify a growing number of his opponents.
Some states' rules for provisional ballots — used when election officials cannot find a voter's name on the rolls — are clearly designed to disqualify a large number of ballots from eligible voters.
On Sunday, as Iranians woke up to a first day without sanctions in years, hardliners in Iran struck the first blow against Rouhani by disqualifying a significant number of moderate and reformist candidates in the vetting process.
They are raising the spectre of imaginary voter fraud to further their efforts to disqualify a large number of those registrations through cumbersome requirements that elections boards cannot complete by November 4 to fix a problem that does not exist.
(The old law, if enforced impartially, would also have disqualified a number large but hard to estimate of older white men and women who had been on the rolls since they were twenty-one but were not Ph.Ds. Needless to say, the bill's proponents did not expect enforcement to be impartial).
