Sentence examples for year for voting from inspiring English sources

The audience was then treated to a well-intentioned lecture from Lady Meacher and Lady Hollis, who were awarded their gongs as Peers of the Year for voting down the chancellor's tax cuts.

Indeed, California is having a banner year for voting, with three election days in 2008, the first time that has occurred since 1940.

This year, barring delays and cancellations, a score of sub-Saharan Africa's 48 countries will have held multi-party elections, making it potentially the biggest year for voting in the continent's history (see article).Yet, if Africa's recent history is any guide, many of those elections will fail to live up to the name.

This may have been an "off" year for voting, without a national election, but state politicians kept busy in 2013 with attempts to make it harder to vote.

In Texas last year, a jury sentenced Rosa Ortega, a permanent resident originally from Mexico, to eight years for voting illegally in state elections in 2012 and 2014 — including for Ken Paxton, the Republican attorney general who prosecuted her case.

Yet, there has been a rise in popularity over the years for voting in elections (and referendums) by post.

After years of voting for Meretz and for parties even further left on the spectrum, I have sobered up.

721 (D.C.Md.1964), which upheld a one-year residency requirement for voting in a presidential election.

573, 48 L.Ed. 817 (1904), upheld a one-year residency requirement for voting in state elections.

In 1972, it ruled that Tennessee's one-year residency requirement for voting violated the Constitution.

In Texas, one woman who was a legal permanent resident was sentenced to eight years in prison for voting.