Sentence examples for voter role from inspiring English sources

Our new report, "Presidential Election Inequality," shows how the number of African-Americans in a classic "swing voter" role has dropped from nearly three in four in 1976 to just one in six in 2004, while a white person is more than twice as likely to live in a battleground state than an Asian-American.

In Virginia, the state constitution even required a voter role in selecting the rule for apportioning the state into legislative districts.

Some of the opposition you mention reflects not principle but power: each student added to the voter roles dilutes the power of every nonstudent resident.

The two men are considered notorious in voting-rights circles for their zealous attempts to establish the existence of non-existent voter fraud and throw people off the voter roles – a practice known to disproportionately affect minority and elderly voters who tend to vote Democratic.

But that is not the voters' role.

The voters' role has been limited to ratifying their (often mediocre) choices.

Mitchell was also the man behind the removal of convicted felons from the Florida voters' role in 2000 which led to many innocent people with similar names being deprived of the right to vote.

Universal suffrage on a common voters' role in a united democratic and non-racial South Africa is the only way to peace and racial harmony... 'We can proclaim from the rooftops: "Free at last!"' EXTRACTS FROM A SPEECH IN JOHANNESBURG TO MARK THE ANC'S ELECTION VICTORY, 2 MAY 1994 My fellow South Africans - the people of South Africa.

A voter's role began and ended on election day, and he or she was otherwise mostly just a target — of direct mail, pre-recorded phone calls, and an endless array of repetitive TV commercials.

It should set out the EU's mission in simple language, clarify for befuddled voters the role and responsibilities of its institutions, and draw a clear distinction between supranational and national competencies.

In the Japanese system, politicians chiefly act as mediators between the bureaucrats and the voters, a role they perform mainly by delivering goodies back to their districts.The main vehicle for doing this is the LDP, which has ruled, for all but a few months in 1993-94, since 1955.