Sentence examples for ballot making from inspiring English sources

The barrier for electing the president is lowered to a simple majority of 276 in the 550-seat assembly in tomorrow's ballot, making Mr. Sezer almost certain to be elected.

Mary L. Schapiro, the former Securities and Exchange Commission chairwoman, championed a proxy access rule that would have allowed shareholders to nominate their own candidates and required companies to put them on the ballot, making it easier to remove incumbent directors.

The ballot makes secret voting possible.

None of the people using the conventional one-column ballot made a mistake.

The constant state of flux, as illustrated by this year's ballot, makes it all the more complicated.

The secret electronic ballot makes it impossible to publicly identify the dissenters, despite the avid curiosity voiced by some Chinese online.

The same Ifop poll in November, taken before the UMP leadership ballot, made Mr Juppé the favourite among French voters as a whole, centrists and leftists included.

After the ruling that opened the ballot, made on Monday, 24 candidates, including a newspaper columnist, filed paperwork to run for office.

They also ship birds to Mexico and parts of Asia.If Arkansas makes cockfighting a felony in November, and if neighbouring Oklahoma (which also has the issue on the ballot) makes it illegal, both states could lose a lot of money.

Two former cabinet ministers who failed to win seats in the Shadow Cabinet ballot made a swift comeback as Mr Miliband exercised his right to appoint some extra members.

The Scher episode mentions the flawed format of the Florida "butterfly ballot," made infamous by the 2000 Presidential-election debacle, as an example of the consequences of design gone wrong.