election official
collocation in Englishmeaningsofelectionandofficial
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election
noun[C or U]
uk/iˈlek.ʃən/us/iˈlek.ʃən/
a time when people vote in order to choose someone for a political or ...
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official
noun[C]
uk/əˈfɪʃ.əl/us/əˈfɪʃ.əl/
a person who has a position of responsibility in ...
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(Definition ofelectionandofficialfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofelection official
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Under sustained questioning, however, their responses often revealed very serious contextual misunderstandings and fallacies that would have been obvious to anyelectionofficial.
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No electoral rolls were established for these districts, and to vote a miner just presented his miner's licence to theelectionofficial.
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Theelectionofficialthen knows that "n" people voted "for" and "m-n" people voted "against".
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No electoral rolls were established for these districts, and to vote a miner just presented his miners licence to theelectionofficial.
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To vote, a miner just presented his miners licence to theelectionofficial, as there were no electoral rolls for these electorates.
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Anelectionofficialalso said that about five million people voted (out of 9.2 million eligible voters).
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A candidate was also anelectionofficialand got the unusual amount of 181 votes in the polling place where he was working.
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To address the voting window and thus attract the attention of election officials, the voter had to ascend this platform.
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The number and names of election officials, of course, varied from state to state.
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Arroyo admitted to inappropriately speaking to anelectionofficial, but denied allegations of fraud and refused to step down.
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To summarize, the voting window, set in the outside wall of a building, separated election officials from voters.
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Left to their own devices (as they were in this instance), election officials frequently projected estimates favorable to their party's interests.
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The major purpose of this arrangement was to separate the public from the election officials.
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Under the law and almost inevitably in practice, election officials had no authority to maintain order outside the voting window.
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As well, the position is the localelectionofficial, and is responsible for in-person absentee voting, as well as the duties of setting the ballot for all local elections.
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Each one of these distinctions, in turn, compelled party agents and election officials to identify, in some way or another, the category into which a prospective voter fell.
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In some parts of the nation, election officials had to live in a locality for many years before they became familiar with the boundaries of the election district.
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Since government agencies seldom kept records of these things, there were no certificates that could be presented to election officials as demonstrations of a voter's eligibility.
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They will also have access to trained election officials.
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Election officials had sufficient supplies of fuel for the efficient conduct of the election.
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