Sentence examples for voting tradition from inspiring English sources

With its strong Republican voting tradition and the near certainty that it will go for Mr. Bush, Kansas might as well be in the South Pacific as in the middle of the country, for all the attention paid to it.

In the 2016 election, the proximity of Dixville Notch and Millsfield, and the latter's revival of the early voting tradition, has led to lighthearted competition between the two towns.

The core case for a Yes vote on 5 May is that up to one-third of voters now repudiate the binary voting tradition – Tory or Labour (formerly Liberal/Whig - of the past. They seek greater pluralism and choice. To deny this is "unfair" and a "wasted vote". That's a powerful claim which impresses me. Systems are designed to meet human needs.

It's also that the Republican win in a state with a strong Democrat voting tradition and Brown's wide margin of victory have done much to encourage Senators on both sides of the aisle to be more leery of tax increases.

But when it comes to the general elections in November, our state-by-state patchwork of voting traditions and procedures shares more with the Kenyan process than we'd perhaps like to admit.

More than any roadblocks imposed by the center-left opposition, Mr. Berlusconi's difficulty in imposing reform lies within his own center-right coalition, an amalgam of the powerful Northern League, which is fighting to keep tax revenue local, and Southern politicians from a more jobs-for-votes tradition.

The haggling went on well into the night — the vote came at 9 45 p.m. — because by tradition votes to support peacekeeping forces are unanimous.

But Vermont is a political crazy-quilt, where crossover voting is a tradition and the fiercely independent electorate hews to candidates more than to parties.

But Carter and his so-called Peanut Brigade had a plan: to spend a lot of time in Iowa, a state with a curious tradition — voting in highly personal caucuses — where George McGovern had, four years earlier, almost defeated the front-runner, Edmund Muskie.

America has a long and proud tradition of voting with our feet and voting with our wallets.

The vote was meant to be held on Wednesday but the SNP's decision to break with tradition by voting on an English-only matter meant No 10 was no longer confident it would win.