Sentence examples for electors out from inspiring English sources

The country-wide campaign of intimidation that has followed, with dozens killed and thousands injured and persecuted, made it impossible for the winner of the first round, Morgan Tsvangirai, to send his electors out to vote when they feared they would be punished for doing so.

In central Germany the margraves of Meissen of the Wettin dynasty thrust steadily eastward and received the electorate of Saxony in 1423, when the Ascanian line of electors died out; in the west they obtained Thuringia (1263) and clung to it tenaciously despite repeated royal attempts to oust them by claiming it as a vacant fief.

As they emerged from the secretive confines of conclave, some of the cardinal electors spoke out about the voting process that had led to the first ever pontiff named after Saint Francis of Assisi.

With little doubt that Davis will win the poll, commentators are focussing on how many of the 70,100 electors turn out to vote and the size of his majority.

A debate is also brewing over what happens if Florida's 25 electors are thrown out or not appointed in time because of the presidential dispute.

Introducing an obligation for new electors to turn out once would thus go a significant way toward breaking the habit of non-voting that often gets passed from generation to generation, and could have a substantial and lasting impact on turnout.

Labour's Mr Mitchell argued that the "awful" polling day weather deterred all but the most committed electors from turning out.

Madison, at least, believed that allowing the judiciary to choose the presidential electors "was out of the question".

But Constitutional scholars and election experts disagree over whether that means a majority of all electors (270 out of the total 538) or, if Congress is unable to resolve the Florida situation, a majority of the votes not counting Florida's 25 (257 out of 513).

At the 2010 general election all the contending parties fought campaigns based on published manifestos that set out for electors the policies they intended to pursue in government.

The Labour leader said the prime minister had broken a promise to reduce net migration, and reminded him of a 2010 general election pledge asking electors to vote them out if they failed to meet a target.