Sentence examples for ballot wording from inspiring English sources

While ballot wording will remain a complicating factor, it is possible to be more precise about the contours of public opinion in individual states.

And because the Native American languages themselves are oral, not written, translating some of the ballot wording can itself be an adventure.

Unlike a Washington Post poll about a week earlier — which showed that likely voters favored the law 52 percent to 43 percent — the Baltimore Sun poll did not use the ballot's wording, highlighting the challenge of polling on ballot measures, which pollsters sometimes rephrase to make them easier to understand in phone surveys.

(The word ballot comes from the Italian word for ball).

While not opposing its substance, the League of Women Voters had challenged the ballot measure's wording, saying it asks voters to approve two constitutional amendments in a single question.

A North Carolina court on Tuesday blocked questions on two state constitutional amendments that would strip power from the state's governor from appearing on the November ballot, saying the wording of the measures was too misleading.

Only very slowly did voting by paper grow common enough that the word "ballot" came to mean not a ball but a piece of paper.

The word "ballot" comes from the Italian ballotta, or little ball, and a ballot often was a ball, or at least something ballish, like a pea or a pebble, or, not uncommonly, a bullet.

Visitors were ushered inside, where they faced video monitors broadcasting recordings of Fukushima children answering a series of personal and sometimes political questions like "What would you do if you were prime minister?" They were then asked to fill out a similarly worded "ballot" themselves and drop it in a fake ballot box.

The three judges, the only Democratic appointees on Florida's seven-member top court, are being targeted for various rulings that have angered conservatives, among them a 2010 decision that quite rightly struck from the ballot a misleadingly worded constitutional amendment designed to allow the state to opt out of federal health care reform.

Floridians who think they're voting in November to promote the spread of solar panels may actually derail it, thanks to a deceptively worded ballot measure that would change the Sunshine State's constitution.