Sentence examples for voters block from inspiring English sources

In the years the Republicans controlled the Senate, former Senator Guy Velella, a Bronx Republican, had his own war room to choose voters block by block.

The groups also deployed more unconventional strategies, such as holding a text-athon, an effort that sent about 100,000 text messages to local black voters, block parties, youth nights, game nights and ladies' brunches.

In 2005, French and Dutch voters blocked progress toward a European constitution.

Ohio voters blocked a constitutional amendment to legalize marijuana for both medical and recreational use.

The wide range of suppression tactics implemented in Georgia included the mass purging of voters, blocked voter registrations, faulty election machines and uncounted provisional and absentee ballots.

Such testimonials don't tell us much about the scale of voters blocked from voting by ID laws.

And what if voters blocked structural reforms, such as the labour-market changes against which they are protesting in the streets?

The ruling paves the way for the restoration of gay marriage in California, which was permitted before a majority of voters blocked it under the 2008 ballot challenge.

The bad news was that the election was sufficiently disrupted to end with a lower-than-usual turnout, and millions of voters blocked from voting by the anti-government PDRC movement.

Ironically, the base of voters blocked from Sanders is also the lifeblood of the DNC.

HuffPost collected a handful of reports of Election Day voter intimidation —incidents that included women in hijabs being pulled out of line, voters blocked from entering their polling place, and poll workers demanding to see unnecessary identification.