Sentence examples for a ballot marked from inspiring English sources
John Cummins, a hotel doorman, came in, got a ballot, marked it and in less than a minute was on his way back to work.
Optical-scan voting is far cheaper, faster in the polling place and produces the best kind of paper trail, a ballot marked by the voter.
It is easier, Mr. Bartlett said, for elections officials doing hand counts to decide whether a ballot marked with a pen should be counted than to decide whether a partially punched card should be.
The board debated at length when a partially punched ballot would be counted as an acceptable vote and when a ballot marking would be considered too ambiguous and therefore invalid.
Mr. Rivera filed a photograph from the Ramirez houses that showed a sample ballot marked with a vote for Ms. Arroyo, which he said was taped to a wall inside the polling place, as well as a photograph of a car parked outside; Mr. Rivera said the car displayed a poster for Ms. Arroyo and blared a message supporting her from loudspeakers.
The only instruction they got was to sign in, pick a ballot, mark it and feed it into the counting machine.
My vote will never again be indecisive, or casual, or so apathetic that I could make a feeble stab at a ballot mark and walk away with a shrug.
Miguel A. DeGrandy, a lawyer for the Republican Party, requested that the board allow his team to view both sides of every ballot during the recounting and have every contested ballot marked and set aside for use as evidence in court proceedings.
Later, the teachers announced the gradewide results: 52 votes for Mr. Obama and 21 for Mrs. Clinton (with one ballot, marked for both, disqualified).
It says something about the nature and force of bigotry in this period, however, that the most impressive demonstration of it has been made in a vote, on ballots marked by individuals.
"For people who have never been able to vote independently before, this is huge," said Eleanor Birrittella, who taught training sessions on the ballot marking device.
