Sentence examples for ballot up for from inspiring English sources

As a technical matter, the largest inhibition to a negative vote appeared to be the voters' habit of holding their marked ballot up for inspection, but even that gesture was not universal, with some voters folding their ballots before they reached the box.

As an Independent, I pride myself on having my ballot completely up for grabs in every election.

Ballot measures up for a vote in 2005 generated $466 million in spending to support or oppose these measures, up from just $24 million in 2003, says the non-partisan Institute on Money in State Politics.

Ballot by ballot, the three board members worked through envelopes of disputed ballots, holding the ballots up to the light.

More than 150,000 coveted tickets for the London Olympics were sent overseas after foreign bidders hijacked the ballot set up for British sports fans.

Players can remain on the ballot for up to 15 years as long as they are on at least 5percentt of the ballots each year.

As a Canadian who used to live in the UK and is now Californian, the notion of pages and pages of ballot initiatives and judges up for (re- election — judges!

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Twenty-four of them were up for balloting in the voting that ended this month.

Garson chalked that up more to bad weather than power problems, and said he was confident that an increase in absentee ballots made up for the shortfall.

Appeals are pending in the courts, and it is likely that there will be yet another ballot initiative putting same-sex marriage up for a vote again in 2010 or 2012.