Sentence examples for extra election from inspiring English sources

Daniel DeFrancesco, the executive director of the board, said yesterday that he had asked Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani to provide five more optical ballot scanners, higher salaries for the 30,000 ballot workers needed on Election Day, and 218 extra election workers to help the 312 on staff.

The Brooklyn Republican chairman, Craig A. Eaton, had urged Mr. Cuomo to set the special election for April 24, the date of New York's presidential primary election, saying such a move would save taxpayers the cost of an extra election.

But instead he plans to call an "extra" election on March 22nd.Such high political drama is rare in Sweden, where advance negotiations before parliamentary votes normally mean the budget passes with little fuss.

But it would also open Mr. Christie to accusations that he was wasting some $24 million in taxpayer money by holding those two extra elections ahead of the regular November balloting for self-interested political reasons.

Wesson ruled out a special election last month, in part to spare taxpayers the extra cost.

Weekly newspapers carry extra pages of election coverage.

An extra hour of election coverage at 11 p.m. drew 2.6 million viewers, up from the time period's average of 1.5 million.

He didn't seem to care a hoot who got elected, for he sat in his seat all evening & didn't even go out between acts to buy an election extra.

News executives budgeted for extra hours of election coverage on TV and on their sites in part because of the prospect of a change in the Congressional balance of power — a Republican "tidal wave," as one Fox anchor put it.

The treasurer, Scott Morrison, said the money saved in the crackdown would offset the extra $1.2bn in election spending it has announced over the past few weeks for things such as tennis courts, CCTV cameras and community grants – principally in Liberal and National electorates.

Trump's talk has put extra pressure on election officials to make sure the voting is free and fair, and the tally is accurate and reliable.