Sentence examples for proper poll from inspiring English sources

Eventually, as even some League politicians concede, a proper poll will have to be held.

A proper poll would take months to organise: nobody has a decent census of the country.

Increasingly, the world's poorest are able to chime in with their thoughts – so let's make sure they are asked about the new MDGs through a proper poll.

But now a proper poll has revealed exactly what you'd like to do! Or, rather, what you'd not like to do.

But it has dented the optimism of voters hoping at last to see a proper poll in Africa's most populous country, which has lurched between military coups and flawed or annulled elections during half a century of independence.

It is several years since the last proper poll on the Iraq war, but by 2007, when the last surveys were done, opinion had hardened into the same sort of anti-war majority confirmed by the latest ICM survey.

The main African body meant to ensure a fair poll is the Southern African Development Community (SADC), a club of 14 countries (including Zimbabwe), some of whose members rarely have proper polls of their own.

Run by a nonprofit group called e-the People, the site is intended to encourage voting by letting voters check their registrations, find the proper polling place, or download a voter registration form.

The voter will then be given a provisional ballot — special ballots that can be counted only after the voter's eligibility is verified — at the proper polling place, the directive said.

Few pro-democracy campaigners think it will be done by January, but they hope such steps may lead to cleaner polls in the future.But many Nigerians say that if the president really wants to hold proper polls, he should be out campaigning among the masses instead of schmoozing behind closed doors.

But the goal to compile a new, high-tech voters' list for Africa's most populous country—is seen as crucial to preventing rigging during presidential, parliamentary and state governorship elections due in early April.Goodluck Jonathan, Nigeria's president, has made the $580m list the costly centrepiece of his pledge to oversee proper polls this spring.