Sentence examples for a valid ballot from inspiring English sources

The justices questioned the decision to change the counting rules, and also asked what constituted a valid ballot.

The tally of overseas absentee ballots by county officials across Florida today yielded rampant confusion, partisan wrangling over which votes to count and which to discard, and widespread uncertainty about the rules on what makes for a valid ballot.

More recently, the recount in a special election for Congress in New York dragged on for more than three weeks amid legal arguments over what did and did not constitute a valid ballot.

In all 24 elections well over 99% of voters have cast a valid ballot.

who thought they cast a valid vote had their ballots rejected," said Allan Lichtman, an American University historian who prepared the analysis.

They decided, one by one, whether a ballot was a valid vote based on whether they could see a "hanging chad," which is a hole punched partly through a ballot, or a "pregnant chad," which is only an indentation created when the voter failed to pierce the ballot.

The number of voters who backed him more than doubled from the first round, to 4.5 million, or 56% of all valid ballots.

Ghani was said to have received more than double the votes from the first round, 4.5 million, or 56% of all valid ballots.

So far, officials have found clerical errors and one example of a voter who cast a valid absentee ballot and then died before election day.

The dispute centres on what will count as a valid provisional ballot: the Democrats want voters in the correct county but not the correct precinct to be counted as eligible.

California's counties had submitted to the state more than 1.3 million valid ballot petition signatures needed to secure the recall question a spot on a fall special election ballot, state and local officials said.