Sentence examples for measuring election from inspiring English sources

"The United States is unique both in its requirement that voters re-register each time they move and in the high mobility of the population," Professor Persily and Stephen Ansolabehere, a professor of government at Harvard, wrote in a 2010 article, "Measuring Election System Performance," in The New York University Journal of Legislation and Public Policy.

That doesn't mean their results are always wrong: Landline-only samples can be accurate in measuring elections such as Republican primaries, where the voters themselves are skewed older and whiter.

The opponents have raised a total of $7.8 million to defeat the ballot measure, election records show.

And the influence of Super Pacs should not be measured in election results alone.

Looking back, an election measuring support for the conservative agenda was too much to hope for.

In his speech in Phoenix, Trump doubled-down on his hard-line immigration plans in a fiery address reminiscent of his crowd-pleasing rallies during the primary season, instead of a more measured general-election appeal to swing voters.

The success of a party leader in those days was not measured principally in election results: "Governments were made and unmade, not at elections, but on the floor of the House of Commons".

Those decisions can be significant, like two competing measures this election season involving city employees' pensions and benefits; or seemingly petty, like the 1998 measure to settle an interdepartmental dispute over City Hall office space.

Bruce also unsuccessfully contested both the editing of statements of support for the measures in ballot summaries mailed to voters, and what he claimed was deceptive wording in other taxation measures that election.

Proponents said Congress would feel pressure to pass such a measure this election year.

On a variety of measures, the election left America more polarised than ever.