Sentence examples for election statute from inspiring English sources

The McCain-Feingold law is the first election statute to include sentencing guidelines.

The Supreme Court says no, the purpose of the Florida election statute is to count every vote".

Mr. Hattaway said Florida's election statute did not say whether mistakes on absentee applications could be corrected.

New Jersey's election statute also allows the governor to postpone an election to the United States Senate if the candidacy becomes vacant within 30 days of Election Day.

"But there is a statement often repeated by the courts that their mission is to interpret the election statute to express the will of the people".

"In a circumstance where there is uncertainty" about the interpretation of an election statute, Mark D. Rosen, a professor at the Chicago-Kent College of Law said, "basic democratic principles would suggest you would construe the uncertain statute to expand voter choices rather than contract them".

Other justices were troubled by the possibility that the Florida court's decisions had violated federal law by changing the state's election statutes after Election Day.

The issue in Nassau is complicated by murky election statutes.

"Judicial review and interpretation of Florida's election statutes is a necessary legislative assumption," it added.

In his ruling on Tuesday, the judge, Franklin D. Burgess, equated an injunction against the primary with rewriting election statutes.

The Democrats gave no hint of their legal strategy today, and the state attorney general's office did not return repeated telephone calls requesting guidance on state election law, but instead simply faxed copies of the election statutes to reporters.