He stressed that hard work was necessary to ensure that the election was held before the constitutional deadline.

Nevada is drowning in red ink, and legislators face a constitutional deadline to balance the books by July 1.

For the 17th time in the past 25 years, California's Legislature failed to pass a budget by the constitutional deadline of June 30.

The constitutional deadline is at midnight at the end of the fiscal year, June 30.

The caretaker government struggled to hold elections within the constitutional 90-day deadline.

The constitutional deadline for passage of a state budget is less than a week away.

The approval of the budget came 11 days before the constitutional deadline, July 1.

A three-month constitutional deadline to find a new President passed in July because of bickering among the 15 political parties.

That would lead to an election well before the constitutional deadline of mid-2002.

The opposition movement accepted a Communist demand to extend the constitutional deadline of 14 days for choosing a president to 45 days.