Sentence examples for ballot conducted from inspiring English sources

Any supposedly democratic ballot conducted in this way would be considered a farce.

Junior doctors voted by a huge majority to go on strike in a ballot conducted in November.

One candidate denounced the secret ballot, conducted behind a curtain and with a locked ballot box, because he said it had allowed bribery.

The parliamentary election required them to vote using a cross, while the council ballot, conducted under the single transferable vote method of proportional representation, asked voters to list their first three votes in order of preference.

But in each of his first years on the ballot, conducted among the country's leading baseball writers, he has barely amassed a third of the 75 per cent of votes required for election.

What's more, the notion of an election under siege, a ballot conducted under the gaze of armed men, also gives these pathetic young men — men so frightened of life that they make a target of little girls — far too much respect.

Marshall Faulk's record-setting ride for the St. Louis Rams earned him the National Football League's Most Valuable Player Award in balloting conducted by The Associated Press and announced yesterday.

Greg Norman and the late Payne Stewart were elected to the World Golf Hall of Fame in St. Augustine, Fla., in balloting conducted by the PGA Tour and will be inducted on Nov. 11.

Cameron attacked the low turnout thresholds in union strike ballots and challenged the validity of mandates to take industrial action derived from ballots conducted more than a year ago in some cases.

And that prospect has the Republicans angry and frightened, saying that there are no uniform standards in Florida to govern hand recounts of the ballots conducted by local canvassing boards.

Unsurprisingly, the government has attacked the strikes as "irresponsible" and pointed out that they were based on ballots conducted years ago that saw low turnouts from union members – basically saying that they were whipped up by a cabal of ultra-left trade union blowhards with no real democratic mandate.