Sentence examples for scope of the voting from inspiring English sources

Add to the mix the technical challenges of conducting an election online, plus the global scope of the voting, and the fact that an organization that has been criticized for a lack of openness conducted a direct election at all is a feat in itself.

Page A30 NARROWING THE VOTING RIGHTS ACT The Supreme Court narrowed the scope of the Voting Rights Act this week when it ruled that it does not require states to create so-called crossover districts.

The Supreme Court narrowed the scope of the Voting Rights Act this week when it ruled that it does not require states to create so-called crossover districts.

Just four years after the VRA's enactment, these changed statutes left the proper scope of the Voting Rights Act open and highly debated.

The circuit court that ruled on the stay found "Because the government is unlikely to succeed on the merits of its appeal of the injunction, we deny the motion for stay and request to narrow the scope of the injunction," voting 2-1.

Beard presents a plausible picture of gradual development from a community of warlords to an urban centre with complex political institutions, institutions which systematically favoured the interests of the upper classes yet allowed scope for the votes of the poor to carry weight.

Several commissioners angrily disputed the contention that they were narrowing the scope of the law, saying the vote on the issue-ad provision demonstrated that they were willing to write rules in keeping with what the lawmakers intended.

The antitrust agency of Brazil made a surprising move on Wednesday, ruling that Telecom Italia could regain a controlling stake in Brasil Telecom Participações, the country's third-largest fixed-line telephone company, but imposed some restrictions on the scope of the Italian group's voting power on the board.

Nevertheless, the Electoral College can serve as a way to demonstrate to scope of the difference in how men and women vote.

"It is clear, a traditional Likely Voter Model based only on self-described interest and self-described likelihood to vote missed the scope of the turnout of 18-29 year olds and Latinos in 2012," McInturff wrote.

The 5-to-4 decision was a narrow one not only in the vote margin but also in the scope of the holding.