Sentence examples for interpretation of election from inspiring English sources
But the Democratic plaintiffs in Seminole and Martin are asserting a different principle based on a mistaken interpretation of election law.
Her office, which includes the Division of Elections, writes election rules, issues binding interpretations of election law and offers informal advice to election supervisors.
This was entirely predictable, given Janet Reno's lazy interpretations of election laws and her failure to order up an unrestricted investigation of the 1996 Clinton-Gore fund-raising.
The president's interpretation of the election underscored the contrasting messages the two parties have taken from the elections.
The legislature has designated the secretary of state as the "chief election officer," with the responsibility to "obtain and maintain uniformity in the application, operation and interpretation of the election laws".
In recent weeks, the US and its proxies have brazenly interfered in the interpretation of this election's first round of results.
In agreeing that the counties must file their returns by tonight, Judge Lewis said he gave "great deference" to Ms. Harris's interpretation of the election law.
Section 97.012 (1) states that it is the secretary's responsibility to "[o] btain and maintain uniformity in the application, operation, and interpretation of the election laws".
But it is disturbingly reminiscent of the court's ruling in Bush v. Gore, in which five justices who had long been extremely deferential to state power suddenly overruled the Florida Supreme Court's interpretation of Florida election law.
But if anything, it would be an extreme case of judicial overreaching for the United States Supreme Court to strike down a state supreme court's reasonable interpretation of state election laws.
He added that he did not share Mr. Golisano's interpretation of state election laws, saying that he thought that the new committee might be restricted in what it could say about candidates in independent advertisements.
