Sentence examples for valid election from inspiring English sources

"Is an election with 5 percent turnout a valid election?" asked a Western diplomat in Kabul.

"The only scenario which calls for the Florida Legislature to insert itself in the electoral process is if there is no valid election or no currently certified winner.

Secessionists, after all, left the Union precisely because they rejected a constitutionally valid election that placed slavery, as Lincoln put it, "in the path of ultimate extinction".

Their numbers comfortably exceed the 96 seats that the Democrats won in the last valid election, in 2005 (compared with TRT's 375).

"If there has not been a valid election for more than 13 months," Mr. Shmulewitz said, "as few as 10percentt of the shareholders can trigger the mandatory calling of such a meeting".

A valid election and smooth transition to a new government are seen as pivotal events for the legacy of the American war here, as the United States military plans to remove all combat troops by the end of August, leaving 50,000 troops in an advisory role through 2011.

"A valid elections cannot be held amidst such major issues," he told the local Haveeru newspaper.

Last week, Washington and its appointees on the Iraqi Governing Council asked U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan to authorize a mission that would go to Iraq in the coming days and try to determine if valid elections can be held before the transfer date, and, if not, whether a more democratic method of selecting the interim government can be devised that would satisfy Ayatollah Sistani.

At the event, Obama was asked how to guarantee valid elections.

The video shows Obama, then a candidate, joking on the campaign trail after a question about guaranteeing valid elections.

Also, the top American civilian official in Iraq said American troops would leave as soon as the government ratified a new constitution and held valid national elections, though he gave no timetable.