Sentence examples for ballot helps from inspiring English sources

(See chart)."The generic ballot helps reflect the terrain that individual campaigns are being fought on," said Glen Bolger, a prominent Republican pollster.

If nothing else, having Collins on the ballot helps Democrats make their national case that the reigning GOP is beset by ethics issues.

Whether the ease with which Oregonians can cast a ballot helps explain why their turnout is higher than other states is worth considering.

After all, voters had had weeks to mull their two-page ballot, helped by a two-volume, 400-page voter guide.

The presence of a couple of unknown competitors on the ballot helped Mr Rakhmon make it look like a legitimate poll (except when they praised him), but the serious opposition candidates were either in jail, had fled abroad, or were barred from participating.

Those hand-counted ballots helped give Mr. Bush a lead in the state of four votes out of nearly 600,000 cast.

Many people still believe that putting gay marriage on state ballots helped George Bush eke out a win in key states in 2004.

This extraordinary political reversal, combined that week with new Republican lawsuits that asked 14 counties to reconsider rejected ballots, helped open the door for Mr. Bush to win still more absentee votes.

And another voter who arrived to find that he had already cast a ballot told investigators that "Tina Johnson had brought him a ballot and helped him vote because he didn't understand it".

A large-print ballot would help some.

He called repeal a "big mistake" and mocked the notion that placing the proposition on the ballot would help Democrats.