Sentence examples for vote franchise from inspiring English sources
In April 1969, protesting opposition to the timing of the introduction of the "one man, one vote" franchise (the local government electorate was composed of ratepayers) - but not the reform itself - he resigned from the government precipitating O'Neill's own resignation.
The voting franchise was based on property and income qualifications rather than on skin colour.
The law balances Democrats' desire to expand the voting franchise with Republicans' determination to prevent fraud at the polls.
Nor was the Cape Province's comparatively liberal voting franchise copied by the other provinces, which continued to deny any voting rights whatsoever to nonwhite South Africans.
Clause VIII left the question of a voting franchise for nonwhites to be settled after the defeated Boers had been granted self-government.
It established a bicameral parliament, called the Diet in full Imperial Diet (Teikoku Gikai to be elected through a limited voting franchise.
The Oscars, in which the voting franchise is limited to the 6,000 members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, are not exactly a democratic process.
However, the Republican-dominated legislatures in many states, including mine, will surely reject this initiative because it makes the voting franchise too widely available to the sort of voters they don't want to participate.
A1 N.A.A.C.P. Convention Starts The chairman of the N.A.A.C.P. urged delegates to the group's convention to use their voting franchise in November, saying one more conservative vote on the Supreme Court could bring a setback for civil rights advocacy.
Saying one more conservative vote on the Supreme Court could bring a setback for civil rights advocacy, the chairman of the N.A.A.C.P. urged delegates to the group's convention tonight to use their voting franchise in November.
No, not election observers from the African country, but tiny bits of cellulose that, under the pressure of a citizen wielding his voting franchise and a metal stylus, are supposed to detach sharply from a punch-card ballot.
