Sentence examples for ballot like from inspiring English sources

Devices that once blocked minorities' access to the ballot, like the voter fees known as poll taxes, had been outlawed for more than forty years.

It took a while, but on Tuesday morning, I finally found a ballot like the one I would cast, by Tim Kurkjian of ESPN.

Players on the Hall of Fame ballot like Rafael Palmeiro and Mark McGwire have clearly been hurt by their association with performance-enhancing drugs and continue to be left out.

"We thought it was some kind of mock ballot, like the kind schoolchildren fill out, but then we learned it was real," said Ms. Kraft, a retired secretary and registered Democrat from Bethlehem Township.

Their regional board voted to put him in the general ballot, along with all the other candidates, instead of giving him the sitting MEP's privilege of appearing at the top of the ballot like fellow MEPs Vicky Ford and Geoffrey Van Orden.

He's on the ballot, like 135 others.

Other celebrity ballots (like those of Martha Stewart, Al Roker and Randy Jackson) are at oscars.nytimes.com/ballot, where you can make your own choices.

Believe it or not, there is a lot of controversy about how to pick a winner from ballots like this.

Thousands of ballots like this may not have been counted in Palm Beach County.

"Ballots like this didn't have any business being counted," Mr. Hutchinson said.

"We've got people fanning these ballots like cards," said Tucker Eskew, a spokesman for the Republican Party.