Sentence examples for voting measures from inspiring English sources

"In the midst of the recent assault on voter access, the Voting Rights Act is playing a pivotal role beating back discriminatory voting measures," said Debo P. Adegbile, the acting president of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund.

As soon as the Supreme Court released its ruling, states were free to move forward with suppressive voting measures, including those that had previously been barred as racially discriminatory under the Voting Rights Act.

Since 2009, there has been a wave of regressive voting measures across the country.

It also eliminated same-day registration, out-of-precinct voting, preregistration for sixteen- and seventeen-year-olds, and a week of early voting — measures that fall hardest on communities of color.

Then, last month, to the astonishment of Republicans who had sponsored some voting measures, Mr. Snyder vetoed several of them, including one that called for requiring photo identification to get an absentee ballot.

— George Tsinias (@Gtsinias) November 6, 2012 The move to more sophisticated voting measures inspired at least one voter to suggest we return to simpler times: @michaelpaulson Can't we just go back to a #No2pencil please?

The veto of the voting measure, Mr. Castillo said, was based on logistical and security concerns.

Hasen described the bill as "probably the most suppressive voting measure passed in the United States in decades".

Appropriately tuned NNN can be applied as the compound voting measure while classifying new cases on the basis of approximate decision reducts extracted from the training data.

The voting measure is part of a larger ongoing effort by North Carolina Republicans to restrict access to the polls.

Cameron said: "What you'd get under Labour is a weak prime minister propped up by SNP vote by vote, measure by measure, issue by issue.