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Ballot

Ballot meaning

A small ball placed in a container to cast a vote; now, by extension, a piece of paper or card used for this purpose, or some other means used to signify a vote. | The process of voting, especially in secret; a round of voting. | The total of all the votes cast in an election.

Example sentences (20)

While Trump’s status as a felon won’t keep him off the ballot in Utah, there is a possibility he could be excluded from the ballot in Washingtonhas a law barring convicted felons from appearing on the ballot.

If you can’t even fill out a ballot, send it in with free postage, drop it off in a ballot box, vote early or vote in person or drop your ballot off at the polls on election day (more options than we’ve ever had) you obviously don’t care.

Should they receive a vote-by-mail ballot and decide not to use it, they can surrender their mail ballot at the early voting site or Election Day polling place in exchange for a regular ballot.

Then, when the absentee ballot arrives to the county clerk, the signature on the absentee ballot oath envelope is compared a second time to the signature on the voter registration card to the signature on the absentee-ballot request.

When there is a mistake in filling out a ballot or the envelope used to mail the ballot, election officials attempt to “cure” the ballot by notifying the voter that a signature doesn’t match that on file or that there has been another issue.

While not all voting members will fill in the ballot past their first choice, those down-ballot votes become key should none of the four candidates secure the required 50 per cent of the vote on the first ballot.

The Nov. 5 general election ballot features statewide ballot measures, local ballot measures, county offices and other local offices.

And then voters go right in and they see the ballot, and that's essentially telling them on their ballot, ‘These are the real candidates.

But now we get the worst of all worlds: our voice in the presidential race is meaningless and everyone appearing in down-ballot races has to speed everything up – including qualifying for the ballot, fundraising, and securing endorsements.

Democrats up and down the ballot in Michigan last year benefited, in part, from blowouts at the top of the ticket and a historic abortion rights ballot initiative.

For a small number of first-time voters who vote by mail ballot, in limited circumstances, they will also need to provide a copy of acceptable identification with their ballot.

Furthermore, on the ballot, it is not Mr Nnamani’s name that will be on the ballot, but rather, the logo of the PDP.

He cited paper ballot shortages that he said targeted Republican voting locations and hundreds of other mistakes, including in ballot scanning and with reviewing signatures on mail-in ballots.

He said, “So, in these locations, the target of attacks was actually the BVAS machines, no longer our ballot papers or ballot boxes.

In addition to the ballot shortage, other problems listed include mistakes in ballot scanning and with reviewing signatures on mail-in ballots.

Or, if the person votes early at a polling place, then also casts their mail ballot, their mail ballot will not be accepted for counting.

She also notes that state law requires that the ballot collector fill out their name, relationship to the voter and signature on each ballot envelope.

The construction of the Memorial is currently dependent on passage of LC REBOUND, a tax neutral ballot proposition on the Nov. 18 ballot.

Thuggery, ballot box snatching and ballot stuffing and other forms of irregularities were rife.

Unite conducted a full consultative ballot of its bus worker membership which returned a 98% vote rejecting a zero percent pay offer by Translink management and demanding a ballot on industrial action.