Sentence examples for ballot challenging from inspiring English sources

Last month, Mr. Parker sued Mr. Sharpe and the city's Board of Elections, seeking to have the board reject Mr. Sharpe's effort to place his name on the ballot, challenging the validity of Mr. Sharpe's voter petitions.

Of the five candidates on the ballot challenging him, four are Democrats, including Mr. De Jesus and I. Charles Mathews, a former deputy mayor who came in second to Perez in the party's primary election in September.

In September 2005, the company's Brooklyn employees voted 15 to 5 to unionize, with one ballot challenged.

In an attempt to have Charles James Fox removed as an MP he had Fox's ballot challenged; while this backfired, he was awarded with a baronetcy for the effective sacrifice of his political career.

Two years ago, Mr. Spano won a race against Andrea Stewart-Cousins, a Democratic Westchester County legislator, by 18 votes after months of courtroom wrangling and ballot-challenging.

A year ago, the workers voted 124 to1199 against joining, with 14 ballots challenged.

The ballots challenged by either side are being examined one by one to decide if each will count.

Sometimes, as she is assessing ballots challenged by observers for Mr. Miller, she pulls ballots close to her face and peers over her glasses.

Unofficial election results showed Ms. Murkowski ahead by 10,328 votes, or 2,169 votes when ballots challenged by Mr. Miller's campaign were excluded.

They said many of the ballots challenged by observers for Mr. Miller were determined to be valid by Ms. Fenumiai, including those with the first and last name reversed.

The Murkowski campaign largely expressed confidence and satisfaction with the process and said the vast majority of ballots challenged by the Miller campaign were for minor spelling or legibility issues they believed would not ultimately cause them to be discounted.