Ballot Papers in a sentence

The boxes are there but there are no ballot papers, where are the ballot papers for special votes in some parts of the Free State, they are not there.

They also claimed that people were improperly granted ballot papers while a person entitled to them was improperly refused ballot papers by presiding officers at polling centres.

Ballot papers for this bi-election were printed in the country; ballot papers are usually printed overseas.

After the count, all ballot papers and their counterfoils have to be sealed in the Supreme Court vault for six months, after which all the ballot papers and other election documents are destroyed.

The elections held over several days last week were marred by some chaotic scenes, mainly due to the late delivery of ballot papers and the absence of some candidates’ names on the voting papers.

It also indicted some of the officials for thumb-printing ballot papers for some of the voters and proceeding to drop these in the ballot boxes themselves.

Voters located within their province of residence will receive two ballot papers while those outside their province will receive only one – the national ballot paper.

In a multiple member plurality election the counting of the ballot uses an exhaustive iteration process using the same ballot papers to elect one person each iteration for each vacant position.

After voting, the president showed everyone his ballot papers to indicate that he voted for the All Progressives Congress.

But the Tribunal deducted 165,663 votes from Governor Yusuf’s total as invalid votes, stating that the ballot papers were not stamped or signed and therefore declared them invalid, thereby returning Gawuna as the rightful winner of the election.

He said that aside a violence free election, the campaign also focused on the need to shun hate speech and fake news, know how to tomb print on ballot papers and the logos of various political parties.

The protesters who gathered at Ward 4, Epie 1, which has 47 units, covering Agudama-Epie and Akenpai communities, insisted that balloting would not be held in the area unless the missing ballot papers were replaced.

The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission blamed the problem on delays in the printing of ballot papers “arising from numerous court challenges”.

However, the ballot papers in the US presidential elections will have only four other languages apart from English.

Justice Okoro also held that contrary to the position of the lower courts, a total of 146,292 of the ballot papers were confirmed to have been signed and stamped, only that they did not have any date.

Last week, the Commission suspended the printing of presidential ballot papers, following the death of Madam Akua Donkor, flag bearer of the Ghana Freedom Party on October 28, 2024.

One danger, particularly when you have very long ballot papers where you could have 20 plus candidates, is that you might end up unwittingly giving equal weighting to some people that you sort of feel okay about, and some people that you don’t.

Overally, Zec say it spent approximately US$21 million on items such as canvas tents, ballot papers, solar lights and indelible ink marking pens for the 2023 polls.

She was reported to be under investigation following a number of complaints and, although it was too late to alter ballot papers listing her as Labour's candidate, she was set to sit as an independent councillor if elected.

The BJP swept the Chandigarh mayoral polls January 30, retaining all three posts, in a setback to the Congress-AAP alliance that alleged tampering with ballot papers by the presiding officer.