The phrase "a lot of ballots" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a large quantity of ballots, typically in the context of elections or voting.
Example: "During the election, there were a lot of ballots cast by the voters."
Alternatives: "many ballots" or "a large number of ballots".
But in several other states, there are a lot of ballots still to count and, as in Florida, significant races hanging in the balance.
Without an obvious pick like the N.L.'s Bonds, Rodriguez may be a high choice on a lot of ballots and that might be enough to snare the M.V.P. award.
There's a lot of ballots to be processed.
"It's a good thing that you can look at a lot of ballots," Stark points out, "but it doesn't answer the right question.
So we know there's going to be a lot of provisional ballots in California.
"I was a little bit afraid that we'd have a lot of invalid ballots," Carpenter says.
In Sarasota County, the supervisor of elections, Marilyn Gerkin, a Republican, said the county had always had a lot of unvoted ballots with its punch-card system, which has been in use for more than 20 years.
In Pennsylvania, the gap between Clinton's and Trump's votes narrowed dramatically even before the recount, as officials got around to actually counting all the ballots (according to Decision Desk HQ, on the day after the election Trump was reported to be ahead in Pennsylvania by 126,091 votes, but that lead had narrowed to 44,321 this week, after officials actually counted a lot of the ballots).
I don't anticipate this debate having any real effect on the polls as the novelty has worn off this campaign now, and a lot of postal ballots have already been cast.
"The proof is we had a lot of provisional ballots issued," although the office hadn't finished counting them by the middle of last week.
The Obama campaign made a big effort this week to encourage debate-and-vote parties like the one at Ms. Marshall's home here in Larimer County, another pivotal county with a lot of mail-balloting.
