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326 examples of Ballot in a sentence

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?
Basically they went to the ballot boxes to tell that they have nobody to vote for.
Gay marriage was on the ballot in the form of Proposition 8, and as the election returns started to come in, it became clear that the right for same sex couples to marry, which had recently been granted by the California courts, was going to be taken away.
But the word is often used more loosely, to mean simply 'to read.'... Further extension of the word to mean 'to glance over, skim,' has traditionally been considered an error, but our ballot results suggest that it is becoming somewhat more acceptable.
About once a year, I get a ballot that asks me about whether new uses, new pronunciations, new meanings, are acceptable.
Now here's what I do to fill out the ballot.
Well, Xcel fought back, and Xcel has now put in play a ballot measure that would undermine or undo this municipalization.
Their citizens have access to the ballot boxes.
But in any year, you can look up and down the ballot and find plenty to be uninspired about.
We also adopted by ballot referendum the Office of Immigrant Affairs for the City of New York.
We know what a ballot paper is.
So we used a lot of images, and when it came to the actual ballot, we had problems, because so many people wanted to take part, we had 300 candidates for 52 seats in the Wolesi Jirga, which is the parliamentary elections.
So talking about ballot design, this is what the ballot looked like.
Because here's the critical thing: the one place women and men are absolutely equal is at the ballot box.
We live in a time of moral choices everywhere we turn: at the border, at the ballot box, in our workplaces, right in our homes, full of moral choices.
This is the joke I did when the Florida ballot was going around.
But democracy should not only be about elites competing at the ballot box.
So for example, you come to the polling station, and a poll station worker asks for your ID before giving you a ballot form and asking you to go into a voting booth to fill out your vote.
When you come back out, you get to drop your vote into the ballot box where it mixes with all the other votes, so that no one knows how you voted.
Well, what I want us to think about for a moment is what happens after that, after you drop your vote into the ballot box.
The ballot boxes go to counting places.
And the secret is the ballot form.
And if you look closely at these ballot forms, you'll notice that the candidate list is in a different order on each one.
And on each ballot form there is this encrypted value in the form of this 2D barcode on the right.
You get one of these ballot forms at random, and then you go into the voting booth, and you mark your choices, and you tear along a perforation.
It looks like people involved with this movie are stuffing the ballot box to boost its ratings.
That ballot box was stuffed better than a Christmas turkey!
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