Sentence examples for elections to use from inspiring English sources

EU elections remain second-order elections, to use a phrase from political science.

Ms. Oliphant oversaw the first elections to use a new voting system, in the September 2002 primary and November 2002 general elections.

State legislators were apparently close to a deal on Wednesday afternoon to allow New York City's clueless board of elections to use the old mechanical machines for the city's September 10 primary.

Fouad al-Farhan, once jailed briefly for his blog critical of the monarchy, led a slate of young Saudis from the cosmopolitan commercial capital of Jidda, determined to run in this year's municipal elections to use whatever democratic openings they might afford for change.

Last fall, when she supervised the first elections to use a new voting system meant to fix problems associated with the 2000 presidential election, polls in Broward County opened late, machines malfunctioned, ballots had to be recounted and some absentee ballots were never counted.

Northern Ireland's chief electoral officer has called for future elections to use an electronic counting system.

It was the nation's first legally binding public election to use the Internet.

With the many issues in the current election, to use that incident and to use Chris's death as a political point is not appropriate.

For example, the commission approved by a 4-to-2 vote a rule that, advocates of the McCain-Feingold law say, would allow state political parties more time before an election to use soft money to help pay for activities like voter identification and get-out-the-vote efforts.

The Times is performing a public service by continuing to sound the alarm about the dangers of electronic voting ("Insurance for Electronic Votes," editorial, July 23), but at this point in time, the only realistic means of avoiding these dangers is a federal law requiring all polling places that are using equipment without a paper trail in the fall election to use paper ballots instead.

Or, conversely, the Republicans may have let it sail through to the floor, to force Democrats to vote on it (probably about a month before a congressional election), to use against them in campaign ads.