Definition: In this task, a passage will be given and the goal is to identify an event from the passage. An event is defined as a single word representing something that happened, is happening, or may happen. An event can be factual or hypothetical, positive or negative, certain or uncertain. While most events are based on verbs, an event can also be based on a noun (ex. storm, snow, rainfall) or a copula verb (is, was, been, etc.). The event must not be a pronoun or an adjective. For noun events with multiple words, use the last word in the phrase as event.
Input: Passage: The committee responsible, however, for purging the state of Saddam loyalists called on voters not to elect roughly 130 Baathist candidates standing in the election among a total 7,000. The body urged electors to reject such candidates "in the name of the victims of the mass graves and out of loyalty for the blood of the martyrs."

election