Ms. ROSEMARY RODRIGUEZ (Commissioner, Election Assistance Commission): The commission realized that we needed to go beyond one single election and look at an entire cycle, especially in light of the fact that many states have passed new ID laws since 2004.
All would be elected in a single general election after the panel concluded that the chance to pass judgement on a government outweighed the benefits of staggered elections, which the island operated before 2011.
Today, Zimbabweans were faced with a single-candidate election in a land with seven-digit inflation where most people eat a single meal each day.
For many voters, this is a single-issue election that drives them to favor one candidate or another, but all voters are driven by one factor more powerful than all the others: their gut feelings.
Televised presidential debates have often included a single moment determining the election's outcome, swaying critical swing voters toward one candidate or another.
EMU. The current position is that the Conservatives will oppose British membership of the single currency at the next election.
The Labour government of 1945-51 did not lose a single seat at a by-election.
When the 1997 election arrived, Sir Peter Tapsell was one of the many sceptics who said he would publish a personal election address opposing a single currency regardless of the party's official manifesto policy.
The Tories lost every single seat in Scotland in the general election on May 1st.
Obama slalomed through the entire election season with barely a single new idea.
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They took only 11 of the region's 32 seats in the 1997 federal election (and not a single seat in Nova Scotia).
In particular, Nate Silver at his New York Times blog, FiveThirtyEight, came out on top by picking presidential election results correctly in every single state.
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Traditional Unionist Voice leader Jim Allister has called for a single unionist candidate to contest the by-election.
Sunday's election makes New Democracy the largest single party in the Greek parliament.
The two parties formed an electoral alliance and fielded joint candidates in the general election but failed to gain a single MP.
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Meanwhile, in the UK, Mr Blair was facing renewed pressure to mount a campaign for British entry into the single currency in the wake of his landslide election victory.
Kerry caught up to Bush in the polls before Election Day and led by a single point, 48 percent to 47 percent, in a similar poll conducted October 28 through October 31.
The SNP was the biggest single party in Aberdeenshire after last year's election, with 28 councillors.
But a single vote almost never decides the outcome of an election.
Mateela is one of 564 out of the 64, 000 polling districts across Pakistan where not a single woman voted in the country's 2008 election.
It was driven by workers who were tired of seeing their jobs shipped overseas, their health care costs go up, their dreams slip out of reach. (Applause.) It was grounded in a sense of unity and common purpose with every single American, whether they voted for me on Election Day or voted for somebody else.
The election in the end takes place on a single day when Americans across the country cast their ballots.
On paper, the parties are committed to a primary election in late May, to choose a single candidate for the presidency.
Mr. Obama built his re-election majority with minorities, young people, single women and affluent whites and college-education women who are culturally liberal.
The pair resigned from the UUP earlier this month after the party agreed to a single unionist candidate to contest the Mid Ulster by-election on 7 March.
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But, then, that is the nature of a referendum in which a single proposition is being tested, by contrast with an election which subjects competing manifesto packages to scrutiny.
Apparently the leaders of the Eurozone are not ready to do what is nececcessary to keep the Euro together, and as long as the ECB does not function as a true central bank dictating monetry policy, but it is left at the hands of politicians and the politics of re-election, there is no salvation for the single currency.
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Tony Blair has rejected criticism of Labour's Euro election campaign, accusing the Tories of becoming a single-issue party.
Unless an agreement is reached soon, the election will have to be conducted under the present single-vote system.
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