Sentence examples for open polls from inspiring English sources

Last week, a senior Republican state senator in Georgia, Fran Millar, sparked controversy by complaining about a decision by a predominantly black county, DeKalb, to open polls on a Sunday at a shopping mall to allow more people to vote.

A Democratic state legislator, in a complaint to the Justice Department and yesterday in a lawsuit, accused the Republicans of violating the Voting Rights Act by failing to open polls in black areas.

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Having Lyft available to help those voters who would be impacted by the closures (some of whom would have to walk three hours to get to the nearest open polls) could certainly be a boon.

According to recent polls, roughly 70percentt of Americans back the president's decision to ignore his pledge and keep the prison open; polls taken at the start of his 2012 term put support for Guantanamo's closure at a tepid 53percentt.

After a week of open polls, members of the Writers Guild of America have voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike, should a new contract agreement with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers not be reached before the current one expires May 1. .

Australia was the first of 14 countries to open polling stations to its Iraqi population.

Instead, the government will open polling stations for just seven hours daily.

"To open polling stations but continue to open fire on the civilians of the country has no credibility in the eyes of the world," Mr. Hague said.

It was an open poll among self-declared left-wing supporters to select the Socialist candidate to run for mayor of France's second city next March.

A quilt of thick, dark clouds hung over Kinshasa, the capital, at dawn on Monday as election officials stumbled to open polling places on time.