Sentence examples for a ballot design from inspiring English sources

The Post also concluded, in a report for its Sunday editions, that a ballot design that confused some voters into choosing two presidential candidates might have cost Mr. Gore as many as 6,000 votes, thousands more than the number of so-called overvotes lost by Mr. Bush.

Given our interest in comparing maternal and paternal age deadlines, a split ballot design was implemented in which a random sample of about half of the respondents was asked to answer the question about women and the other half about men (the word 'woman' was substituted with 'man').

He also said studies have shown that a confusing ballot design could drive voters away from a polling place without voting, citing in particular the same butterfly-ballot design used in Palm Beach County that Democrats have cited as a reason that people voted incorrectly.

"It's a bad ballot design," said Dean Logan, the acting registrar for the county, who took the job last month.

In Jacksonville, for example, apparently because of a confusing ballot design, more than twenty-five thousanineotes — nine per cent of all ballots cast — were rendered invalid.

In Jacksonville, for example, apparently because of a confusing ballot design, more than twenty-five thousand votes—nine per cent of all ballots cast were rendered invalid.

Sarasota's low vote may have been because of a bad ballot design, which made the Buchanan-Jennings race hard to find.

Many are blaming a poor ballot design in Sarasota that squeezed the House race onto the same screen as the governor's race.At least one question got a clear answer on election day.

The Supreme Court arguments came hours after a circuit court judge in Palm Beach County ruled this morning that he lacked the authority to order a new election there, even if a potentially confusing ballot design might have cost Mr. Gore thousands of votes by leading voters there to mistakenly vote for the Reform Party candidate, Patrick J. Buchanan.

In early April, a team of ballot design experts joined elections officials in Santa Cruz County to test a variety of side-by-side options for arranging the Senate candidates' names.

In the 2000 presidential election, a deadlock over ballot design and tallying in parts of Florida led the Supreme Court, in a 5-4 voto, to stop a recount of ballots, which led to George W. Bush defeating Al Gore.