Sentence examples for balloting and monitoring from inspiring English sources
This election is unlike Afghanistan's first presidential contest five years ago in that most balloting and monitoring is being run by Afghans, with only a small number of international advisers and observers, most prominently the 120-member mission from the European Union.
Voters also used the technology to their advantage, creating online groups to discuss the candidates, to urge young people to cast ballots — and to monitor polling stations.
At 9 p.m., the polls closed and ballot counting started in each polling place, in the presence of observers from the campaigns and monitoring groups.
Rather than clinging to an inefficient, corrupted system, I welcome the movement to expose outdated procedures, rotten ballots and inept election monitors.
Mr. Ibrahim's "crime" was that his institute at the American University in Cairo was helping to teach Egyptians how to register to vote, how to fill out a ballot and how to monitor elections.
The Illinois attorney general's office last week warned voters that if they filled out vote-by-mail ballot applications, they should "stay alert and monitor whether they then receive a ballot in the mail".
An American election observer who was expelled from Mexico in April has been allowed to return and monitor the presidential balloting on July 2. The observer, Ted Lewis, who directs the Mexico program of Global Exchange, a human rights group in San Francisco, arrived here on Monday.
A poll worker removed ballots from a balloting box without monitoring.
About 48percentt of Montenegro's 456,000 eligible voters cast ballots, the monitoring center said.
Balloting, the monitors said in a statement, "took place in an atmosphere which seriously limited political competition and with frequent abuse of administrative resources, media coverage strongly in favor of the ruling party, and an election code whose cumulative effect hindered political pluralism".
