Sentence examples for electoral mechanism from inspiring English sources

That's also an understandable sentiment but not a good basis for defending an ineffective electoral mechanism.

It altered the electoral mechanism established in Article I, Section 3 of the Constitution, which had provided for the appointment of senators by the state legislatures.

But facing a severe crisis of legitimacy, the PRI had no choice but to accept loosening its control over the electoral mechanism and from this, the IFE was born in 1990.

Burke's Peerage & Baronetage suggests that if this fact had been foremost, Lord Wilberforce's arguments relating to the removal of the electoral mechanism for the election could be rebutted, as the Lord Chancellor of Ireland and the Clerk of the Crown in Ireland did have replacements in Northern Ireland.

Through the electoral mechanisms already available to us, we can price externalities such as social impacts – and environmental ones – into the cost of doing business.

The huge turnout over 90% of eligible voters appeared to have cast their ballots reflected their faith in the new electoral mechanisms that Mr Habibie had agreed to.

"Our international friends have promised us that by using any means and using any opportunity, the election outcome must turn in favor of this team, even if these opportunities, even if these means are against electoral mechanisms," the voice said.

The electoral mechanisms to replace the officials among the 96 people killed on the plane were functioning according to plan, and senior Polish officials reassured the public that the government would continue to operate normally.

A process that ends with regional governments either too weak or too anti-Western in their orientation to lend support to these outcomes, and in which U.S. partnerships are no longer welcomed, must evoke U.S. strategic concerns — regardless of the electoral mechanisms by which these governments come to power.

Increasingly, theorists of global democratic reform envisage the need to develop new institutions and practices of representation and accountability rather than merely to extend traditional constitutional models and electoral mechanisms of domestic democratic governance (Archibugi 2008; Macdonald 2008; Marchetti 2008).

It has previously expressed openness to some electoral mechanisms (within an Islamic system) but has rejected "democracy" per se.