Sentence examples for ballot required from inspiring English sources
In the formal arithmetic of German parliamentary democracy, the most obvious point about the Alternatives' showing was that they lost, failing by a hair's breadth to secure the five percent of the ballot required under German law to enter Parliament.
Voting by absentee ballot requires some doing, however, including registering and requesting ballots.
Colorado has one of the lowest thresholds for the number of signatures needed to get a measure on the ballot, requiring 86,000 compared to 385,000 in Ohio.
A successful ballot requires a majority of parents at any private or state feeder primary which has sent at least five children to the school in the past three years.
(Actually getting one on the ballot requires more than four hundred thousand signatures, and the outfits that collect them usually charge a dollar or two per signature).
Illinois has some of the toughest ballot access laws in the country, and qualifying for the ballot requires gathering a different number of signatures in each of the state's 18 congressional districts.
The changes include reducing the number of signatures required to get on the ballot, requiring disclosure of campaign contributions by independent groups and raising the maximum fine for violating conflicts of interest law.
New York is infamous for having the most complicated system for qualifying for the Republican primary ballot, requiring candidates to collect a certain amount of signatures of registered voters from each of the state's 31 Congressional districts.
So much for Arnold Schwarzenegger's typically expressive support for Proposition 73, a constitutional amendment on the November 8th ballot requiring doctors to give parents 48 hours' notice before carrying out an abortion on a girl under 18.Will the voters agree with the governor?
Making the ballot requires a three-fifths vote of each chamber.
