Sentence examples for ballot punch from inspiring English sources

When the hand count began shortly before 2 p.m. Saturday, the elections officials used the "sunshine" rule, meaning they looked to see whether a sliver of light peeked through a ballot punch.

And the strictest standard sought by Republicans -- that only clean ballot punches be counted -- would have given Mr. Gore victory by three votes.

That question included the famous choice between Vice President Al Gore's desire to count "dimpled chads" and other arguable indicia of an intent to vote, and Governor Bush's desire to count only clear ballot punches.

Paper ballots, punch cards, electronic?

Your election protection team will have a list of the types of voting machines (paper ballots, punch cards, touch screens, optical scanners, and so forth) used at each precinct.

When a state examination of the C.E.S. system in Chicago was suddenly scheduled, Fulle said, the chairman of the state board demanded that all possible ballot-punch configurations be tested, but Fulle figured out arithmetically that running through the sixty-seven million-odd test ballots necessary would occupy twenty staff members full time for four hundred and seventy-seven years.

His huge dogs have been fixtures in his campaigns for years, attracting curious children and, more important, their ballot-punching parents.

Ballots punched twice, and therefore invalidated, could be counted in some way.