The result is that judicial elections around the nation have become much nastier and more expensive.

But in the bare-knuckles battle that this election has become, it is difficult to separate fear from smear.

To be sure, parliament is not the only source of authority: elections have become more and more highly valued as its main source.

He states that "This first general election since George became king takes place and is widely viewed as a referendum on his kingship."

In more recent elections has become safer for Labour.

Everyone knows elections have become too expensive, fueling a fund-raising arms race.

Before balloting June 11, he said, Britain's general election will become a "very close-run thing."

Hadassah leaders were quoted in the Jewish press as saying that the election had become too political.

Otherwise, elections simply become the spark for more conflict.

As a result the 1918 general election has become known as 'the coupon election'.