Sentence examples for ballot commission from inspiring English sources

But the ballot commission has historically been lenient in interpreting residency, and the Democrats could end up looking petty.

One is the contradictions between the "technical and legal" assertions — both in the S.E.C. filings and before the Massachusetts ballot commission — and the plain language of what Romney has said on the campaign trail about having no connection at all to Bain.

"He did not participate in the investment or management decisions on any of these or any other investments during this period, as has been said repeatedly by Bain Capital and as was unanimously determined by the bipartisan Massachusetts ballot commission in 2002".

The state ballot law commission ruled yesterday that 153 of the 10,139 signatures Mr. Robinson turned in on June 6 were invalid, leaving him 14 short of the 10,000 signatures he needed to secure a spot on the ballot.

Mr. Robinson, an entrepreneur, yesterday appealed a decision by the state ballot law commission last week that he lacked the 10,000 qualifying signatures he needed to run because some of those he submitted had been forged and some were printed upside down.

Whatever the merits of its larger case for nonpartisan balloting, the commission needs to make sure it doesn't sabotage the work of the board -- widely considered the nation's best since its inception in 1988.

Also approved directly by voters, in two separate ballot measures, this commission consists of 14 members, chosen in a complex but rigorous process, partly by lottery.

Mr. Yavlinsky, left, submitted the 2 million signatures required to qualify for the ballot, but the commission ruled that over a quarter of the 600,000 signatures randomly selected for verification were invalid.

Every night includes a specially commissioned Ballot Box Ballad written by a local writer, which will play alongside that night's main show.

Who else stuffs the ballot boxes?" Kachubei, the commission chair, grabbed part of the stack out of her hand.

With 8percentt of the ballots counted, the electoral commission had Mr. Gbagbo ahead with 11 percentage points.