Sentence examples for proper polls from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

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.

"This is the first time that we feel like we are looking at a fair election, so we want to vote .The high hopes are mostly based on Mr Jega, a respected academic who has repeatedly vowed to oversee proper polls since his appointment last year.

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

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

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.

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.

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.