The phrase "a good ballot" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the quality or effectiveness of a voting option or a voting process.
Example: "In order to ensure a fair election, it is essential to provide voters with a good ballot that clearly presents their choices."
Alternatives: "an effective ballot" or "a quality ballot".
Robustness: A good voting system should facilitate straightforward ballot designs with instructions that can be easily followed.
In a state with 26 million people, it's difficult to get past the standard of "That's a pretty good ballot name".
But for a Democratic primary voter looking to cast a feel-good ballot, which is the more compelling narrative: a Rhodes scholar, Ivy-educated former college football player managing a deep-blue northeastern city..
All of the candidates wanted good ballot position, and James Treffinger, the Essex County Executive, won 10 county endorsements and therefore the fight for the best ballot positions in those counties.
6. Clinton's drug czar actively spoke out against good ballot initiatives in 1996, 1998, and 2000.
The real puzzle is why it's so hard to sort good balloting ideas from bad ones and, consequently, why we don't see the sort of incremental progress we're used to in the rest of society.
The voting process had worked, Mr. Ritchie said, and while mistakes had been found by some local elections officials in throwing out perfectly good ballots, no evidence turned up of widespread fraud or malfeasance.
The Obama campaign, anticipating a reduction of in-person early voting due to a change that year, encouraged their supporters to vote a mail ballot; a good number automatically received a mail ballot in 2014.
First, Congress should provide time-sensitive matching funds to states to upgrade voting technologies, and, in particular, replace paperless DRE voting machines with systems that include a good old-fashioned paper ballot — that is to say, a physical record of the vote that's out of reach from cyberattacks.
If there's not a good fight on the ballot, civic responsibility is the only motivation to vote.
