Sentence examples for electoral duties from inspiring English sources

Nonetheless, the 143 million eligible voters appear to have carried out their electoral duties peacefully – if not enthusiastically.

Most of them approach their electoral duties with admirable earnestness, but they are likely to consider investing in new voting infrastructure a wasteful extravagance when compared with such daily challenges as garbage collection or pest control.

After all, if the major purpose of a legislative body is to legislate, what use is a politician who prefers to canvas his district rather than perform his electoral duties?

A word in the ears of those staging the sit-in in Tahrir Square: sit as long you like, but go and do your electoral duty.

Nader is more responsible than Al Gore, who, in 2000, put himself in the clear by persuading more of his fellow-citizens to vote for him than for anybody else, which normally in thirty-nine of the forty-two Presidentialsidelectionsectiors, or ninety-three per cent had been considered adequate to fulfill the candidate's electoral duty.

After 1250 the representatives of imperial and episcopal cities were recognized as members of the Diet, and at this time the electoral princes, whose duty it was to elect the emperor, began to meet separately, a division formally confirmed in the Golden Bull of Charles IV (1356), which established the number of the electoral princes as seven.

You could see that the posters setting out the duties of electoral officers had been used before.

If passed, the Bill will give electoral registration officers a duty to collect information and compile regional registers.

As Myanmar's electoral fervor settles, governments around the world have a duty to confront the whole truth about the elections, stand up against ongoing human rights abuses, and call for immediate remedies.

Between the constitution and Federalist 68 – Alexander Hamilton's treatise that sets out the purpose of the electoral college – it is clear that we have the duty to block anyone who is unfit for the presidency.

With his direct electoral mandate, Mr. Soong said, he felt it was his duty to carry local complaints of government mismanagement directly to the top.