Sentence examples for Popular ballot from inspiring English sources

Democrats actually won the popular ballot for the House by 1.4 million votes.

Emmen voters agreed last June that becoming Swiss would be decided by popular ballot.

Prime Minister George A. Papandreou of Greece said he would put a new European debt deal to a popular ballot.

Lawmakers in Maine signed gay marriage into law only to see it overturned by a popular ballot in November.

Legislating through popular ballot initiatives has been shown to be a blunt instrument in many states, most famously California.

Most other states don't have the power to change voting rules by popular ballot, meaning that legislatures will, in effect, have to vote to disempower themselves.

At 5% of the popular vote, ballot access issues go away for the Libertarian Party.

The decision to proceed to popular ballots among Greek and Turkish Cypriots averted a total breakdown in Mr. Annan's efforts to reunite the island.

In Trump's case, this ability has allowed him to insist, and possibly believe, that Hillary Clinton did not win the popular balloting in the recent election, even though, in the undistorted world, her lead is not far from three million votes.

Direct democracy, ie rule by referendums and popular ballots, is actually pretty awful.

Indeed, Bush led the nationwide popular balloting by 3.5 million votes, capturing 51% to Kerry's 48%.