Sentence examples for governing election from inspiring English sources

(ii) State governments are subject to laws governing election or other appointment to and tenure and rotation of office, and the jurisdiction of particular offices.

The second matter here goes to the State Supreme Court's interpretation of certain terms in the state statute governing election "contests;" there is no question here about the state court' s interpretation of the related provisions dealing with the antecedent process of "protesting" particular vote counts, which was involved in the previous case, Bush v. Palm Beach County Canvassing Board.

Despite Clegg offering to hold another debate with Farage, Ukip believes that broadcasting rules governing election coverage would prevent such an event taking place now that the campaign is fully under way unless other party leaders were willing to take part.

"Those efforts are backwards, wrong, and they must be stopped cold," said Schumer, the top Democrat on the Senate Rules Committee, which oversees laws governing election administration.

This reflects the proper interaction of section 102.166 governing protests and manual recounts and section 102.168 governing election contests.

So they may at last be starting to focus on passing long-delayed bits of important nation-building legislation, such as an oil-and-gas law, constitutional amendments, and even a law governing elections.

A. The multiple ways in which the Florida Supreme Court's decision has cast aside provisions of the statutory scheme governing elections also constitute violations of Article II, Section 1 because they usurp the Legislature's exclusive authority.

At the weekend, he rejected the idea of reforming electoral laws along lines set out by Mr Yushchenko, claiming that the opposition leader had reneged on promises to allow a number of constitutional reforms in return for changes to the rules governing elections.

It ought to go without saying that a rush to change the fundamental laws governing elections — and to do so not only in the middle of a campaign but after the voting has already begun, solely for the sake of retaining a leader of supposedly irreplaceable strength — is more than a little redolent of a banana republic.

A judicial decision that has the effect of adopting a new rule of law to govern election disputes cannot, consistent with Section 5, be applied retroactively to affect the appointment of presidential electors at an already conducted election.

Working with the Baseball Writers Association of America, whose members govern election to the game's holiest of holies, the commissioner should inform Rose that he will be reinstated to the game, and will become eligible for election into the Hall.