Sentence examples for election was extended from inspiring English sources

Last year's presidential election was extended for a third day in order to boost turnout, with pro-government media pushing Egyptians to show up.

Voting in Saturday's election was extended into Sunday at a relatively small number of polling stations after technical glitches hit voter ID machines.

The suit also asks that the Oct. 6 registration deadline to participate in the November general election be extended for people who have been convicted of felony offenses and are uncertain about their voting qualifications.

Plurality voting, which had previously been enacted legislatively to apply to federal elections, was extended to state elections.

Measures taken: On election day itself voting was extended in many areas in order to give officials time to bring in new supplies of ballot papers.

His second term expired in 2013 but was extended without elections being held as Islamic State militants swept across vast swathes of territory in Iraq and Syria.

It turns out that the constitution has nothing to say about voting day, either: largely for reasons of nineteenth-century horse travel (which also lies at the origin of the senatorial "hold"), in 1845 Congress made Tuesday the day that Americans vote for the President; Tuesday was legislated for House elections in 1875; in 1914 it was extended to the Senate.

His four-year term was extended by one year so that the mayoral elections would coincide with the unitary elections which take place once every four years.

Polling in Egypt's presidential election has been extended, in an effort to effort to encourage a high turnout on the final day of voting.

Sinn Féin has regularly called for voting rights in the presidential election to be extended to Irish citizens in Northern Ireland.

Zhu Rongji, Mr Wen's predecessor, said that competitive elections should be extended to higher levels, "the sooner the better".