Sentence examples for moving election from inspiring English sources

These include moving Election Day to the weekend; allowing all voters to cast ballots in primaries; matching small campaign donations with public funds; having nonpartisan commissions draw up congressional districts; and making voting mandatory, as it is in Australia.

The draft, by Bryan H. Wildenthal, an associate professor at Thomas Jefferson School of Law in San Diego, and posted in an electronic discussion group for constitutional law professors, attracted special attention because it included unusual suggestions, including moving Election Day to the summer.

Activists believe this is due in part to the fact that workers can't leave their jobs to go to the polls, and that moving Election Day to a weekend or making it a holiday would improve turnout.

The Saturday night event will be Obama's first public gathering in the city since his moving Election Night speech in Grant Park two years ago.

This year I've crisscrossed the country with the help of Participant Media's TakePart.com to find out what the GOP presidential candidates think about moving Election Day to the weekend.

They are keen to help more people to vote, by making regsitration easier and moving elections from Tuesday to Saturday and Sunday.

Why Tuesday?, a national non-profit working to increase voting rates by moving elections to weekends, bemoans that the Unites States ranks dead last in voter participation among G8 nations.

With that concern aside, Republicans must either believe moving elections to non-work days will fail to increase turnout or, more likely, they are afraid of hearing from a larger section of the American people.

It takes only an act of Congress, not a constitutional amendment, to move Election Day to the weekend.

One of them is to move Election Day from Tuesday to the weekend, when more Americans would have time to get to the polls.

-- L.A. City Council candidates criticize plans to move election dates.