Sentence examples for voting critics from inspiring English sources

In the early days of electronic voting, critics who warned that it was unreliable were dismissed as alarmist.

He says that electronic voting critics have forced the electorate to become much more cynical and jaded about elections and especially about the integrity of elections officials.

Ever since the awards were established, there has been a debate among voting critics about how to keep the number of categories within manageable and affordable limits while still representing as wide a spectrum of talent as possible.

An Atlanta Journal-Constitution story, entitled "Georgia Puts Trust in Electronic Voting, Critics Fret about Absence of Paper Trails,"5 is not atypical of coverage at the time, which generally reported criticism by computer engineers, but conveyed an overall soothing message about the efficacy of the machines and about efforts by officials and companies to make sure that all would be well.

But even before that bill was put to a vote, critics said political bargaining had turned it into a "paper tiger" with too many loopholes and exceptions.

Although the domestic phone data dragnet has not thwarted any terrorist attacks, in the lead-up to the vote critics savaged the bill as a gift to terrorists.

Over the hisses of the decidedly pro-101A crowd that watched yesterday's vote, critics also expressed concern that the bill would cost too much money and would leave landlords vulnerable to frivolous lawsuits from greedy trial lawyers.

The day before his scheduled vote, critics launched a last-minute campaign to discredit him, in part by pointing out that he helped start an organization for young gay people whose Web site linked to pornography.

Can you pay somebody enough to take this kind of pressure?" Though Florida passed laws and bought voting machines after the 2000 recount that ended in George W. Bush's winning the state by 537 votes, critics still predict problems with the accuracy of the voters' rolls and election machinery.

CARACAS (Reuters) - The U.S. government ordered family members of employees at its embassy in Venezuela to leave on Thursday as a political crisis deepened ahead of a controversial vote critics contend will end democracy in the oil-rich country.

In the lead-up to the vote, critics warned that such a majority would give Orbán free rein to impose restrictive laws against NGOs and undermine Hungary's democratic institutions.