If one candidate for an office rejects public financing, his opponents will still receive public funds but will have no restrictions on their fund-raising or expenditures.

Indirect election is a process in which voters in an election do not choose between candidates for an office but rather elect persons who will then make the choice.

This - or any attempt to limit the number of candidates for an office to two, by whatever method they are nominated - is an unfortunate practice and should be avoided.

Mr. Cruz was animated when discussing Nicaraguan politics, and at one point mentioned that after returning to Nicaragua, he might become a candidate for an office other than president.

The client had to ransom the patron if the patron was taken prisoner, and to vote for the patron if the patron was a candidate for an office.

The right of présentation (the ability to present a candidate for an office, who could only be rejected if his appointment would break a law) was held by the cathedral chapter of Lausanne.

Since 1977 state elections in Louisiana have used a jungle primary system, which in Louisiana has become known as "open" primary, where all the candidates for an office run together in one election.

In New York State electoral politics, the state allows Electoral fusion, with numerous minor parties at various points on the political spectrum that typically endorse either the Republican or Democratic candidate for an office.

In Louisiana, all candidates for an office compete in a single primary, and if no candidate wins a majority of the vote, the top two candidates, regardless of party, meet in a runoff on Election Day in November.

If used to select candidates for an office, or for continuation to a next round of voting or play, it is either single- or multi-winner, as everyone who is not disapproved of is in effect a winner, for that round.

Those ideas, contained in the law review articles that brought down her nomination, suggest that areas with proven abuses of the Voting Rights Act consider a system of proportional representation, under which voters can vote for more than one candidate for an office, or combine multiple votes for a single candidate.