Sentence examples for number of voting from inspiring English sources

In rejecting the district, the Supreme Court effectively reduced the number of voting districts in which the Voting Rights Act will mandate that minorities play a dominant role.

"We increased the number of voting places in minority areas," he said.

Some struggled to get to the reduced number of voting stations.

The commission had moved on Sunday to carry out precautions intended to catch a number of voting irregularities.

Late last night, the number of voting districts reporting results was still too small to call the election.

The judicial order came on Election Day, after the Stewart-Cousins campaign complained of a number of voting irregularities.

The idea, said Anthony G. Piscionere, a lawyer representing the village, is to prevent a compartmentalization of Hispanic voting power that would ultimately diminish voters' rights because of the disparity in the number of voting-age citizens within each district.

The number of voting-age Latinos, whites and Asians has increased, according to the census, while the number of blacks has decreased.

But the village contends that such a breakdown unfairly divides the number of voting-age citizens, sometimes varying by as much as 77percentt from one district to another.

Republicans say they are trying to prevent people from voting twice in states like Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania, where in Philadelphia the number of registered voters is almost as high as the number of voting-age residents.

Judicial Watch, a conservative organization aimed at reducing voter fraud, says it has found that voter rolls last year in 12 states seemed to contain an ineligible number of voting-age residents when compared with 2010 census data.