Sentence examples for an empty ballot from inspiring English sources

The candidates wrote their names on slips of paper and placed them in an empty ballot box.

Your ability to "express yourself" by not voting not just submitting an empty ballot, damn it might not be a form of free expression many romanticize, but it's arguably just another weird part of the American experiment, and a freedom these other countries lack.

In the previous round of voting in August, several empty ballot boxes were lost over the side of a cliff.

From the Chartists marching on the town centre to the empty ballot box in Bettws.

A woman supervising the scanning told me that many people fed empty ballots into the scanner, but she couldn't check them — that would have been a violation of the voters' "privacy".

If voters do not want to support any given choice, they may cast empty ballots, rather than not voting at all and reinforcing apathy for the whole process.

By afternoon, poll workers were seen dozing, some laying their heads on tables next to near-empty ballot boxes.

The measure -- backed by both -- passed easily, but 70percentt of voters abstained, and nearly two million who did go to the polls returned either an empty envelope or a ripped-up ballot to register their disdain for a question that many saw as tailored more to the politicians' needs than to voters' daily lives.

They would happily vote for an empty lectern over Mr Obama, but as an empty lectern is not on the ballot, Mr Romney will have to do.(Photo credit: AFP).

The crowd began to fill out pink paper ballots, which they placed inside an empty Blue Bunny ice cream bucket.

"It was an empty room," said one voter who emerged from a polling place where he said he had spoiled his ballot in protest.