Sentence examples for ballot contests from inspiring English sources

There was no right to a secret ballot, contests were regularly rigged by local political machines, and rival factions would fight one another in the street.

Given present conditions, does anyone expect the coming ballot contest in Iraq to be anything but a Potemkin election?

No citizen of the United States who has reached the age of 18 may be denied the right to vote in any election for local office or any referendum, initiative or similar ballot contest conducted in a local jurisdiction of which he or she is a duly registered domiciliary.

Sec. 3. No citizen of the United States who has reached the age of 18 may be denied the right to vote in any election for state or federal office or any referendum, initiative or similar ballot contest conducted in the state of which he or she is a duly registered domiciliary.

That and comptroller are down-ballot contests, and because those offices have little or nothing to do with state policy on family planning and abortion, Ms. Combs's views on those matters didn't really come into play during those campaigns.

The race got ugly and, as it often does in down-ballot contests, it got personal.

Excluding the U.S. Senate race,  27 of 153 down-ballot contests across California will have candidates from the same political party.

Its donations have gone not only to tight congressional races across the country, but to down-ballot contests in Kentucky, all the way to lowly statehouse challengers.

This Democratic wave will then spill over into down-ballot contests, imperiling vulnerable republican congressmen and governorships, and would put liberals in control of the Supreme Court for a generation.

The Cruz campaign has been clever about making sure as many delegates as possible would support him in that kind of second-ballot contest.

"It is true that in 2000 and 2008 the L.G.B.T. community, gays and lesbians, lost ballot measure contests" over same-sex marriage, Dr. Miller said.