Sentence examples for voting franchise from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

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.

Universally, however, the Gulf's voting franchises remain restricted, and the bodies to which elections are held wield little real power.The least cheering vote came, unsurprisingly, in Bahrain.

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.

In the early stages of that transition, only elites could vote; the franchise gradually widened to include a broader share of the electorate.

The Observer understands that a powerful group of peers, which includes former ambassadors and senior figures from the three major parties in the Lords, are determined to prevent Eurosceptics from dictating the terms of the referendum, including the issues of who is eligible to vote (the franchise) and how the question is phrased.

It got voted worse franchise in business right before a bought it.