Sentence examples for expansion of voting from inspiring English sources

That the option existed at all was the result of what had been a slow expansion of voting access in the state over the last hundred years.

After years of preclearance and expansion of voting access, by 2013 African American registration and turnout rates had finally reached near-parity with white registration and turnout rates.

Reform should also include an expansion of voting by allowing universal mail-in balloting, early voting and the use of the Internet.

This rhetorical stance, coupled with the expansion of voting rights to white men without property, gave him the political muscle to veto the national bank and stand up to Congress in the name of the common men who had voted for him.

One party fights for expansion of voting rights.

The last expansion of voting rights was in 1971, the 26th amendment, giving the vote to 18 year olds.

Despite the changing winds of politics, the expansion of the voting franchise has been one of our most consistent trends since the birth of the Republic.

Marion County, the state's most populous, is also facing a lawsuit for repeatedly blocking the expansion of early voting. .

Richardson said it's difficult to compare the expansion of early voting opportunities in her county to the lack of a similar expansion in Marion.

Some of these polls were fielded before the expansion of early voting polling locations, which Republicans appear to have capitalized on more than the Democrats.

Lueger was a slippery, pragmatic, un-Hitler-like politician; the so-called liberals, for their part, undermined democracy by opposing an expansion of the vote.