So,he says Americans must use their votes to elect officials for whom the environment is important.

VOA: special.2010.04.21

On November second, voters are expected to elect Vincent Gray, now the city council chairman.

VOA: special.2010.10.21

He told his son-in-law in December: "I will not say I would not serve if the good people were to be so unwise as to elect me."

VOA: special.2009.03.05

"That is why I ran for president. That is why you worked so hard to elect a Democratic Congress.

VOA: standard.2010.02.06

Lawmakers have voted twice to elect a prime minister.

VOA: standard.2010.07.29

It's that progress that made it possible for me to be here today, for the good people of this country to elect an African-American the 44th President of the United States of America,".

VOA: standard.2010.01.17

Aides to President-elect Barack Obama have been negotiating with Congress on a 2-year recovery plan for the world's largest economy.

VOA: special.2009.01.16

Massey's chairman had spent three million dollars to help elect him to the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals.

VOA: special.2009.06.12

On January 4th, the president-elect left his house in Chicago to join his family in Washington and prepare to take office.

VOA: special.2009.01.12

President-elect Obama has chosen the chief executive officer of the Chicago schools, Arne Duncan, to become his education secretary.

VOA: special.2009.01.12

During hard times, the grange organized political action groups to help elect officials who were friendly to farmers.

VOA: special.2010.06.03

President-elect Barack Obama is calling on Congress to pass an economic recovery plan in the next few weeks.

VOA: special.2009.01.09

In the past, this expression was used as an argument to re-elect a president, especially during a time when the country was at war.

VOA: special.2009.07.12

President-elect Obama is the first black man to be elected president of the United States.

VOA: special.2009.01.03

Four years earlier, President-elect Lincoln had traveled by train from Illinois to Washington.

VOA: special.2010.01.07

President-elect Lincoln traveled by train from his home in Illinois to Washington,D.C.

VOA: special.2009.07.30

And they continued to re-elect him. In this way, the conservative Republican policies of the nineteen twenties changed to the more progressive policies of Roosevelt in the nineteen thirties.

VOA: special.2011.05.19

President-elect Lincoln rode to the ceremony with outgoing President James Buchanan.

VOA: special.2009.07.30

In addition to the races for governor and Congress, voters will elect mayors in several large U.S.cities, including New York,Atlanta, Houston,Boston,Detroit and Pittsburgh.

VOA: standard.2009.11.02

Voters in Virginia and New Jersey will elect governors on Tuesday, and Republicans appear poised to take back the governor's mansion in Virginia after a streak of Democratic governors in recent years.

VOA: standard.2009.11.02

And faced with the high tuition costs at private Islamic schools, many Muslim parents elect,in the end, to home school their children - a choice,Haddad notes, often made as well by families of other religious faiths.

VOA: standard.2010.07.12

Clinton urged candidates and their supporters to act responsibly before and after the voting and said the United States looks forward to working with whomever the Afghan people elect as their leader for the next five years.

VOA: standard.2009.08.17