Sentence examples for on state elections from inspiring English sources

First, to delete the racial clause on state elections.

Its eyes are on state elections due next year in West Bengal (whose capital is Kolkata) and Kerala, the two biggest states where the Communists are strong.

In Montana, though, a century-old law banning corporate spending on state elections was upheld by the state Supreme Court last year.

Throughout 2005, West Bengal's Communists, vital "outside supporters" of the Congress coalition, will have their eyes on state elections due in 2006.

In 2010, Pope, his family, and groups he's involved in spent $2.2 million on state elections: "not that much, by national standards," Mayer wrote, "but enough to exert crucial influence within the confines of one state".

"That will have a huge impact down the line," said Ed Gillespie, a former chairman of the Republican Party who now runs a 527 organization called the Republican State Leadership Committee that expects to spend $18 million this year on state elections.

Such a decision would uphold the right of Florida's Supreme Court to rule on state election laws.

"Around the primary, Bill is very easy to deal with," said Peter Hoe Burling, a Democratic state senator who has tangled with Mr. Gardner on state election law.

These predictions probably overstate the ruling's direct impact on state election rules, which can still be challenged under other provisions of the Voting Rights Act and other state and federal laws.

The Democrats gave no hint of their legal strategy today, and the state attorney general's office did not return repeated telephone calls requesting guidance on state election law, but instead simply faxed copies of the election statutes to reporters.

He said in an interview that both the quick recourse to federal court and the attack on state election law as giving local officials too much discretion over recounts convey the message that "we can't trust state officials".