Sentence examples for ballot open from inspiring English sources

The towns of Bedford and Pound Ridge recently placed on the November ballot open space referendums that would increase property taxes to create a fund to acquire land.

Local businesswoman Kelly Tolhurst has been selected as the Conservative candidate in the Rochester and Strood byelection after narrowly topping a postal ballot open to all voters in the constituency.

Pretend that the fight over redistricting somehow required keeping the primary ballot open long enough to parachute Mr. Franks into Mr. DiFrancesco's spot at the head of the ticket.

The super PAC understood that it could not take out Mr. Rohrabacher, but it needed to make sure the badly divided Democratic candidates would not leave the November ballot open for him.

The GMB's strike ballot opened around four weeks ago.

A ballot opened on Tuesday morning for British residents to apply for 10,000 free tickets for the show.

The strategy collapsed when a judge ordered the ballot opened up to Mr. McCain and other Republican challengers.

On Monday, after the Legislature failed to act, Judge Dorsey ordered the ballot opened to anyone who had a Connecticut address and party registration by Aug. 16.

"Each ballot opens up and we slice it apart at various folds, making little ballots out of each master," explains Frank Johnson, who was one of Pricewaterhouse's chief counters from 1976 to 1997.

When the ballot opened last year for potential runners to register, the maximum number of 120,000 applicants was reached in under three days, beating the previous record by more than 15 days.

The new ballot opens up voter choices to candidates in or out of the voter's registered political party, and requires that the top two vote-getters in any race face off against one another in the general election, regardless of their party affiliation.