Sentence examples for alter ballots from inspiring English sources

He was charged in 1999 with ordering subordinates to alter ballots to win ratification of a five-year contract being negotiated with the city.

The software that runs many high-tech voting machines contains serious flaws that would allow voters to cast extra votes and permit poll workers to alter ballots without being detected, computer security researchers said yesterday.

"We have extreme concerns about the way King County conducted this election," Mr. Vance said, citing what the party claimed were illegally altered ballots and changing standards for evaluating voter intent.

"I have been fair and impartial," she said, speaking of her decision-making, but Republicans have vilified her, and even accused her of poking, twisting and otherwise altering ballots during recounts last week of four precincts.

Since then, Mr. Zimmer and his lawyers have repeatedly accused Democrats of an assortment of electoral abuses, from misreading voting machine tallies and altering paper ballots to soliciting votes from psychiatric patients.

With his wife, Evelyn, Mr. Turner was cleared of voter fraud in the 1980's, when prosecutors charged them with altering absentee ballots collected from rural blacks.

It's also worrisome that the handling during manual recounts tends to alter punch-card ballots and that there are no clear objective standards for interpreting chads.

The last time they altered their ballot was in 2005, when the categories for costume, set and lighting design were split into separate races for plays and musicals.

Mr. Glasgow, who is the half-brother of a far less obscure crusader based in New York, the Rev. Al Sharpton, believes that not only do inmates and former convicts want to vote, but also that their ballots could alter the political landscape in this Republican-leaning state, adding that his group has registered more than 500 people by visiting a handful of county jails.

They claim that the county's elections supervisor incorrectly let Republicans alter the signed absentee ballot request forms by inserting voter identification numbers.

John Holub, Mr. Zimmer's campaign manager, said witnesses had told them that election officials in Middlesex County had altered 400 paper ballots.