Sentence examples for electoral rule from inspiring English sources

And Karnataka proved an old electoral rule: when anti-Congress votes split, the ruling party flourishes.

Once again, we are in the world of electoral rule books, judicial appeals and absentee ballots.Even in the home state of television's Tony Soprano, the snuffing out of "the Torch" has been a dramatic piece of political brutality.

IN THE run-up to a general election due on March 7th, Iraq's authorities seem to be taking a page out of Iran's illiberal electoral rule book by barring candidates they dislike.

So Congress included a temporary emergency provision, Section 5, requiring districts with a history of discrimination to win approval from the federal Justice Department before changing even the smallest electoral rule, such as moving a polling station.

Mr. Abram was a young lawyer in Atlanta specializing in railroad cases in 1949 when he began a 14-year struggle to overturn a Georgia electoral rule that gave disproportionate weight in primary elections to ballots cast in predominantly white rural areas at the expense of those cast by urban blacks.

We share their goal of ensuring that political advertising is fair and transparent and agree that electoral rule changes are needed.

Lots of electoral rules are being changed.

The disqualifications underscore the unintended consequences of Egypt's byzantine electoral rules.

Under new electoral rules, this would bar them from the next election.

Arcane and dubious eligibility criteria feature in many countries' constitutions and electoral rules.

Unfair electoral rules and subtle state promotion of Sunni candidates are not the only reasons.