Sentence examples for offices of election from inspiring English sources

Strikingly, his example of such a regime is Sparta: presented as a case of a characteristically democratic distribution of education (among citizens only, of course) coupled with the characteristically aristocratic principle (but also a practice widely used in Greek democracies for some offices) of election to offices rather than selection by lot (IV.9).

The UKIP leader was due to cut a ribbon at the office of election candidate Jane Collins but his team said he was not coming out on police advice.

Armed police today raided the headquarters of Zimbabwe's main opposition party and offices of independent election observers, as Robert Mugabe's government clamped down on its opponents.

Saturday, did not get under way until 2 p.m., while the acrimony and mistrust that has marked this extraordinary week here was palpable outside the offices of the election supervisor, Theresa LePore.

Outside the office of the election supervisor, where the board had planned to do the partial tabulation, outside of public view, protesters pounded on a desk, pumped fists in the air, surged toward the door anytime it appeared poised to open and yelled "voter fraud" and "let us in".

MOSCOW, Nov. 24 — Garry Kasparov, the former chess champion and opposition leader, was arrested Saturday and sentenced to five days in jail after trying to lead a march to the offices of the federal election authorities.

At the same time, a smaller contingent of police investigators raided the offices of the Zimbabwe Election Support Network, an alliance of civic groups that enraged the government by analyzing polling data and projecting that the opposition had won the March 29 election, perhaps by enough to avoid a runoff in the race for president.

Voters outside the city can go to https://voterlookup.elections.state.ny.us/votersearch.aspx to find the location of their local polling place, and call their county Board of Election offices if they need any additional information.

The attacks have forced it to close dozens of election offices in recent weeks.

On the basis of a survey of election offices in 66 of the state's 67 counties, The Associated Press reported tonight that Mr. Bush's lead had shrunk to 229 votes out of nearly six million cast.

In Rivers, independent monitors said the voting on Saturday was marked by widespread theft of ballot boxes and gun-battles between rival party supporters in front of election offices.