Sentence examples for ballot means from inspiring English sources

The red ballot means the voter wants to go back and make a correction.

The caucus ballot means Labor has almost double the female representation as the government's frontbench.

The timing of the ballot means Labour will also delay the election for its candidate for London mayor until September.

Then again, long-time Olympics officials warn that such vote counts can be misleading, since the secret ballot means there is no assurance that members are not promising to vote for more than one city.

A secret ballot means that loyalties to family and friends can be maintained in public, but political arguments can still win out in the real privacy of the voting booth.

No matter what, the fact that the opposition leader, Yulia Tymoshenko, and her ally, Yuriy Lutsenko, are imprisoned and were barred from the ballot means "there will be an asterisk" after the election, says a Western diplomat.Although Ms Tymoshenko is viewed with more scepticism than trust by much of the electorate, she is a skilled campaigner with a knack for political manoeuvring.

According to the law in California, placing this initiative on the ballot meant gathering 346,119 signatures on petitions calling for a referendum.

Then, voters turned out in such numbers that by late afternoon casting a ballot meant having to queue for as long as four hours.

The Greek government insisted on Tuesday the ballot meant Athens remained at the negotiating table, while rejecting the terms on offer.

In an astonishing statement, one member of the NEC, Johanna Baxter, said the fact Corbyn voted against a secret ballot meant he openly endorsed the intimidation of MPs.

But the decision to bring up all the ballots means that they will not be assembled in Tallahassee until late Friday, a day later than planned.