Ballot in example sentence

Following decades of Israeli occupation of Palestinian lands captured in the 1967 war, and with peace negotiations stalemated, Hamas defeated Fatah (the Palestine Liberation Organization’s political party) at the ballot box in the 2006 election for the Palestinian parliament.

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There were claims of intimidation at the polling stations, of ballot boxes being stolen.

They typed in, "The Illinois Supreme Court has ruled that Rahm Emanuel is eligible to run for Mayor of Chicago" — see, I tied it in to the last talk — "and ordered him to stay on the ballot."

And when the votes had been counted, three-fourths of the people have voted with a blank ballot.

But what to do about people who are voting with a blank ballot?

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