Sentence examples for ballot passed from inspiring English sources

On Tuesday, the deadline for Akin to get off the ballot passed.

Last week, with Mr. Newsom still withholding his support, the deadline to place the affordable-housing measure on the November ballot passed quietly -- with the public unaware of the potential deal.

In a reference to the Republicans' contention that the deadline for replacing candidates on the ballot passed more than two weeks ago, Mr. Genova said that the right to a clear choice "should not be compromised by legal niceties in our law".

A bill that would have limited the penalty in some cases of cover-sheet error - it would have allowed the court to disqualify a percentage of petition signatures instead of throwing a candidate off the ballot - passed both houses of the Legislature this year.

On Friday, the city clerk's office also confirmed that Measure U, the only other question on the ballot, passed easily.

The referendum question proposing independence of Croatia, presented on the blue ballot, passed with 93.24% in favor, 4.15% against, and 1.18% of invalid or blank votes.

Last year fewer than 10percentt of registered voters cast a ballot, passing the budget 1,282 to 1,015.

Whether or not this ballot passes could have a significant impact on how our food system is organized, favoring small, local organic food producers (if it passes), or allowing for the increased expansion of large, corporate agribusiness (if it fails).

Coal proponents desperately tried to knock the measure off the ballot, passing a special bill through the legislature to deny citizens the right to vote.

"Seven" is the number of casinos that could be built in New York State if a proposal on today's ballot passes voter approval.

Except for the basketball hoops, much about how I'll vote this November, about how most Americans will vote, was laid out in an Act to Provide for Printing and Distributing Ballots, passed in Massachusetts, my home state, in 1888.