Sentence examples for purpose of election from inspiring English sources

Last night's decision by the Florida Supreme Court was a broad reaffirmation that the purpose of election law is to try to record the will of voters, election law specialists said.

Courts must not lose sight of the fundamental purpose of election laws: The laws are intended to facilitate and safeguard the right of each voter to express his or her will in the context of our representative democracy.

The college itself casts its votes on December 18th.On the key question of allowing the recounts to continue, the court declared that "courts must not lose sight of the fundamental purpose of election laws: The laws are intended to facilitate and safeguard the right of each voter to express his or her will in the context of our representative democracy".

"Courts must not lose sight of the fundamental purpose of election laws: The laws are intended to facilitate and safeguard the right of each voter to express his or her will in the context of our representative democracy," the court held in a 42-page opinion that amounted to a substantial legal victory for Vice President Al Gore.

I thought the purpose of elections is to have those who are elected represent those who voted for them.

Perhaps Latin Americans and Africans have a thing or two to teach Europeans about the purpose of elections, monitored or not.

Lurgan is part of the Upper Bann constituency for the purpose of elections to the UK Parliament at Westminster.

If a potential war, homeland security or the future of American foreign policy are not the issues that are meant to be decided in the light of an election, what is the purpose of an election?

Second, we must insist on a similar pledge from both national and state legislative candidates that they will vote for a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United and to declare that only voters with beating hearts constitute people for the purposes of elections — even if it takes having stethoscopes at every polling station to make sure no corporation tries to slip in as a person.

This court has recognized that the purpose of the election contest statute is "to afford a simple and speedy means of contesting election to stated offices".

Now it is trying to explain the purpose of the election.