Sentence examples for ballot is valid from inspiring English sources

Two inspectors at the election board -- one Republican and one Democrat -- typically decide whether a paper ballot is valid, and the courts do not get involved unless the inspectors cannot agree.

He said a variety of proposals had been put forward, including on threshold levels, strike bans for essential services, and whether there should be a limit on how long a ballot is valid for.

The decision late on Tuesday by a judge appointed by the president has blocked the creation of the committee until Brazil's top court can meet on December 16 to decide whether the unprecedented secret ballot was valid.

How could anyone be sure that the ballots were valid?

Election officials would later determine whether the ballots were valid.

It said that Republican political consultants worked in the "war room" to help shape post-election instructions on which absentee ballots were valid.

The board, whose 10 members are nominated by Democratic and Republican organizations in each of the boroughs, says its inspectors, all hired through patronage, should continue to decide whether absentee and other paper ballots are valid.

(It had not even been determined which provisional ballots were valid and would be counted). These claims were then picked up by such purveyors of false facts as Infowars.com, a conspiracy-minded website, even though Phillips declined to provide any evidence to back it up.

On Thursday, the registrar determined which of the ballots were valid and the vote totals were subsequently changed.

"Southern Arizonans deserve to know that all procedures are being followed to ensure ballots are valid and that rules aren't simply being decided on a whim," McSally spokesman Patrick Ptak said.

First, more than 50% of a union's members must vote in order for the ballot to be valid, and second, at least 40% of those entitled to vote must be in favour of the strike.