Sentence examples for ballot standard from inspiring English sources

And again, they evolved from the standard that the chad had to be punched through, to this so-called dimpled ballot standard -- indentations on the ballot.

Joe the Plumber, who found his name repeated again and again by Barack Obama and John McCain during one of the 2008 presidential debates, has somehow bubbled up, like some kind of backflow, into the debate over Proposition B, the ballot measure to bring commonsense standards to large-scale dog breeding operations in the largest of the puppy mill states.

As Robert Murray notes in "The 103rd Ballot," the standard history of the Convention, the Klan was then in the midst of a major revival, and McAdoo wanted its support.

According to a statement by Mr. Feeney and Mr. McKay, irregularities included "failure to count overseas ballots; inconsistent standards used by counties; and changes in standards and manual recount procedures adopted after the election".

It also instructed local officials to count ballots using the standard established by the Florida Legislature: "A vote shall be counted where there is a clear indication of the intent of the voter".

All that paper in standard ballots may seem old fashioned, but it leaves a trail that votes cast from PCs and phones don't, agreed other experts.

There are no world standards for ballot design, he said, but there are "best practice" standards and guidelines for ballots.

"There's no nice, neat, bright-line test," he said of standards for ballot evaluation.

Under Ms. Hollarn's modified standards, his ballot would have been counted had it arrived in Okaloosa County.

"But what I do not intend to do is take any lectures from those who have set new standards in ballot rigging".

Then they got into the process of evaluating these ballots and changed the standard from moment to moment during the first day.