Sentence examples for electoral qualifications from inspiring English sources

Just as Southern states used electoral qualifications to exclude blacks for decades, Mr. Henderson said, civil rights advocates feared "selective application of the ID requirements".

The outgoing Parliament defined the electoral qualifications so as to ensure, as they thought, the return of a Presbyterian majority.

The Front ranged from former UFP men, including Smith, who advocated gradual transition and a government based on merit and electoral qualifications, to the Dominion Party's more right-wing members, some of whom held segregationist views not dissimilar to those of South Africa's National Party.

Because of the system of electoral property qualifications, the working class did not have the right to vote until after the legislature revised the constitution in 1890; in 1893 universal suffrage was adopted for men age 25 and over.

But even with these qualifications, the electoral map is worth looking at — if only to convey the scale of the challenge facing Romney and Paul Ryan.

The 1969 constitution introduced a President as head of state, a multiracial senate, separate black and white electoral rolls (each with qualifications) and a mechanism whereby the number of black MPs would increase in line with the proportion of income tax revenues paid by black citizens.

The change in law affected women over the age of 30 who met certain property qualifications, but full electoral equality didn't follow for another decade.

Why? Perhaps the most important barrier that tends to preclude women's candidate emergence is that they doubt their qualifications to enter the electoral arena.

The Southern Rhodesian electoral system allowed only those who met certain financial and educational qualifications to vote.

The rise of the Afrikaner Bond and new laws affecting franchise qualifications and taxes also stimulated more-vigorous black participation in electoral politics after 1884.

The franchise was non-racial and in theory open to all, contingent on meeting financial and educational qualifications, but in practice very few blacks were on the electoral roll.