Sentence examples for prominent election from inspiring English sources

And some of the state's most prominent election lawyers are involved in overseeing the vote-tallying process.

There are legal ways to change the date of a presidential election, said Jerry H. Goldfeder, a prominent election lawyer and special counsel at Stroock & Stroock & Lavan.

Golos, Russia's most prominent election monitoring group, documented 45 cases of "carousel voting," in which groups of voters using absentee ballots are shuttled between polling places to vote repeatedly.

"It's time for a comprehensive scrutiny of the way we handle elections in this city and state," said Jerry H. Goldfeder, one of the state's most prominent election lawyers.

New York City has had its share of voting problems, and experts like Lawrence A. Mandelker, a prominent election lawyer who represents Mr. Goodman, viewed the events in Florida with there-but-for-the-grace-of-God amusement.

Before abandoning his stance, Mr. Lazio also deployed his chief strategist, his communications director and two of the nation's most prominent election lawyers to hold a conference call with 30 reporters and explain why the commercials were appropriate.

"But there is data that indicates that it hurts minority empowerment, that it confuses voters, that it causes a drop-off in down-ballot elections," he added, referring to the less prominent elections in the ballot.

Mr. Ginsberg, a prominent elections lawyer, was a senior lawyer for the Bush organization in the Florida recount after the 2000 election and was once general counsel to the Republican National Committee.

MOSCOW, Nov. 26 — President Vladimir V. Putin on Monday accused the United States of trying to taint the legitimacy of next week's Russian parliamentary elections by pressing a group of prominent independent election observers to abandon efforts to monitor the campaign.

The most prominent international election monitors have pulled out of Russia, saying that they were thwarted by Russian officials.

Henry Berger, a prominent Democratic election lawyer in New York City, said enforcing the deal could prove to be its downfall.