Sentence examples for vote cleaning from inspiring English sources

In the US, the "public housekeeping" aspect of the Progressive movement of the 1890s through early 1900s advocated that women bring the positive values associated with motherhood into the public sphere — by obtaining the vote, cleaning out corruption in politics, creating settlement houses to educate and support immigrants, and forming the women's peace movement, etc. (cf. Jane Addams 1914).

This week campaign finance reform finally comes before the House for the most important vote on cleaning up the nation's scandalous and corrupt political fund-raising system in more than 25 years.

We're giving people the chance to change our voting system, cleaning up party funding and finally, a century after it should have happened, we are going to establish an elected House of Lords.

Emanuel presided nonchalantly over the vote -- at times cleaning his fingernails -- while the noise from the raucous crowd echoed into the City Council chambers.

Clean what needs cleaning.

Recognizing election proceedings that look "eerily familiar," analyst van Bijlert notes: "The processes that are aimed at cleaning up the vote and dismissing fraudulent ballots have become so murky that they themselves are now widely seen as simply the next phase of manipulation".

United's 13,000 mechanics and cleaning crew workers voted by 59percenttoto ratify the new contract, union officials said.

It was supposed to be a way of modernising and cleaning up the voting process, after successive elections saw damaging evidence of corruption made easier by the old system where the head of the household could sign up as many names as they wanted.

Polls suggest they will vote no.In this section Treading carefully Cleaning up Latin American democracy More tax, less traffic?

And those who work for them — driving cars, cleaning rooms, and so on — are voting Republican.

Lawmakers need to drop their hypocritical aversion to cleaning up the system and get a vote right away.