Sentence examples for extra electoral from inspiring English sources

Under the proposed plan, the Republican nominee for 2008 would have gained some twenty extra electoral votes.

The remaining votes, reflecting the extra electoral votes every state gets regardless of population, go to the winner of the statewide popular vote.

On the day voters will head to one of the 2,608 polling stations across the country, with extra electoral staff being drafted in to reduce the risk of queues.

So I scouted for simulations in which the vice-presidential candidate swung his state to Mr. Romney when Mr. Romney otherwise would have lost it — and, moreover, in which the extra electoral votes that Mr. Romney gained from this state were enough to win him the Electoral College when he did not win it originally.

Here in the big coastal cities, we have reason to fear for the immediate safety of our lives and our families — more reason, it must be said, than have the residents of the "heartland," to which the per-capita bulk of "homeland security" resources, along with extra electoral votes, are distributed.

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And once you have delegitimized an election result, or an elected leader, you can justify all sorts of extra-electoral, and indeed anti-democratic, actions.

Sanders' campaign looks more like an extension of the extra-electoral politics of phenomena like the Occupy, Black Lives Matter, Fight for $15 and Dreamer movements, small-d democratic citizen activism bypassing political institutions beholden to narrow, moneyed interests.

An extra layer of electoral deliberation, he thought, would also insulate the American system from a hostile hack from abroad — "the desire in foreign powers to gain an improper ascendant in our councils".

If Congress does retain power in the election, which will run until May 13th, many would expect him to take over as prime minister within a year or so from Mr Singh, who is 76 and frail.Given that Congress stood to gain only a dozen or so extra seats from electoral tie-ups in UP and Bihar, its gamble looks reasonable.

"There is only one candidate who will win, and it's the current president – the rest of the candidates are extras to legitimise the electoral process".