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

It could help him build a new political party, a party that might elect him president for another four years.

VOA: special.2009.02.05

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

And it can elect the president in the case of an equal number of votes in the electoral college.

VOA: special.2009.08.14

Some supporters of the president-elect deplored his inviting Pastor Warren because he opposes same-sex marriage and abortion rights.

VOA: special.2009.01.19

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

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

VOA: special.2010.04.21

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

On Monday, President-elect Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, will join thousands of people across the United States who will be volunteering in their communities.

VOA: special.2009.01.16

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

VOA: special.2010.10.21

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

VOA: special.2009.01.03

Independent voters helped elect President Obama but have since turned away from the Democrats.

VOA: special.2010.01.30

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

VOA: special.2010.01.07

Thirty-nine of the fifty states elect at least some of their judges.

VOA: special.2009.06.12

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

"They are electing a president and this is good. If they are not satisfied, they will elect another one."

VOA: standard.2010.02.01

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

Lawmakers have voted twice to elect a prime minister.

VOA: standard.2010.07.29

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

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

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