Sentence examples for small elections from inspiring English sources

SOMETIMES small elections are markers of major political change.

Mike Edelman, a lawyer and political commentator who lives in Hastings, says bad behavior in small elections is partly a function of candidates' amateurism.

The reason is that this isn't one election but a series of small elections scattered across the country, appealing to a fractured electorate.

In Thurston County, Washington (home to Olympia, the state capital), voting by mail has tripled turnout for small elections like bond issues, according to Sam Reed, Washington's secretary of state.

But when it happens it's typically happening in very small elections where you have a chance to make a difference.

"Frankly I think it boils down to a candidate who is not terribly effective connecting with voters, and that's Alex Sink... Just doesn't have a real gift for retail politics and that's needed in these small elections," Smith said.

Briefly, competent leaders are selected based on merit and popular support through a vigorous process of screening, opinion surveys, internal evaluations and various small-scale elections.

We might call these small election districts communities, with community representatives being the elected officials.

A SMALL election in Taiwan on March 14th just might have big consequences.

And they want to return," Kami´nski told a small election meeting of mainly elderly voters in a Warsaw suburb.

"The election business is shifting into the mark-sense and the electronic [D.R.E.] stuff," according to Richard J. Stephens, the president of a small election company in Escondido, California, who has been in the field since 1966.