Sentence examples for standard of election from inspiring English sources

Senator Ron Wyden, for instance, recently introduced The Protecting American Votes and Elections Act of 2018, which would require every state to use election machines with paper ballots and mandate risk-limiting post-election audits (the "gold standard" of election auditing).

Her bill aimed at fixing the mechanics of voting set the standard for election reform legislation.

It was a relatively tame exchange by the standards of an election campaign that has seen left and right trade fierce insults and even racist slurs.

Judge Sauls cited the First District Court of Appeal's decision in Smith v. Tynes, as establishing this standard for election contests.

An exhaustive and convincing report by the International Coalition of Independent Observers concluded that "fair and peaceful elections were held" in 2000, and by the standard of the presidential elections held in the US that same year they were positively exemplary.

Still, even with the margin suggested by this poll -- which would be considered wide by the standard of recent New York elections -- the results suggest abundant reasons for concern by Mrs. Clinton and hope for Mr. Lazio as they enter the last eight days of their contest.

By the standards of federal elections, those numbers may seem small.

Talks are to start later this year on a stabilisation and association pact with the EU, a sort of beginners' agreement for Balkan countries (Macedonia and Croatia have already signed up) that aspire to be admitted in the next intake but one of EU enlargement.The result, unsurprisingly, was a solid victory for Mr Meta and his Socialists; and by the standards of Balkan elections, a fairly clean one.

That's long by the standards of recent elections, even though for most of us it seems to have been full-on for an age already.

In a dramatic departure from past voting practices, the board of directors of baseball's Hall of Fame paved the way yesterday for more players to be elected while saying it acted in the interest of maintaining its high standards for election.

Cox said courts must attempt to apply a nonpartisan standard of "doubt" to the election.