Sentence examples for election legislation from inspiring English sources

A second piece of election legislation provided for two special MLAs to be elected by the 38,000 Albertans serving overseas; the Conservatives protested that two MLAs was not sufficient for such a large number of voters, especially since Clearwater by this time had only 116 eligible voters.

Earlier this month, Parliament passed new security and election legislation, and the press bill was expected to follow last week, but with each delay, its fate becomes increasingly clouded.

This new election legislation disenfranchises the large expatriate South African community as well as the predominantly white five million voters who hold old identification documents lacking the bar code that is now required for voting.

In 2008, in the aftermath of the disputed December 2007 presidential election, legislation was passed that provided for the creation of a coalition government and amended the constitution to alter the structure of the executive branch, allowing for the re-creation of the prime minister post and the creation of two deputy minister posts.

Behan examined the voting experience of Ireland's incarcerated men in the 2007 national election (legislation was passed in 2006 enabling inmates to vote by postal ballot).

"We do not have an election legislation yet, but we do hope to draft and adopt it by that date," Donetsk's first deputy prime minister Andrey Purgin told Itar-Tass news agency.

However, for this to be in force for the 1999 Euro-elections, legislation is needed in this parliamentary session.When the legislative programme came to be debated, neither the Home Office nor the Foreign Office pushed this bill hard enough.

The only other significant post-election legislation was a bill to make it harder to declare bankruptcy, which Mr. Clinton has promised to veto.

Plus, other pressing questions for the year ahead in elections, legislation, and infighting.

Also on Tuesday, an Iraqi panel led by President Jalal Talabani approved the provincial elections legislation passed by Parliament late last month.

That's why part of the legislative response to Citizens United ought to include putting elections into the hands of voters through citizen-financed elections like the bipartisan Fair Elections legislation now advancing in Congress.