Sentence examples for ballots in the final from inspiring English sources
Miami-Dade County received about 54,000 absentee ballots in the final days, which slowed the counting process considerably, the local election supervisor said.
But after ballots in the final seven list seats in north-east Scotland were counted, Sturgeon was still denied the 65-seat majority the polls had said she would win, with voters across the country instead boosting the Conservatives, Scottish Greens and Scottish Liberal Democrats.
While traditional paper ballot systems achieve secrecy, each voter has to trust election officials to include his ballot in the final tally.
Eighty percent of the ballots arrived in the final week.
It began on Nov. 8 and concluded on Friday, with two-thirds of the ballots arriving in the final week.
He has said he will remain in the race until Washington, D.C., voters cast their ballots Tuesday in the final primary contest.
Not only were Chirac's comments considered unsportsmanlike where the normal etiquette is not to criticize rival cities, there were two IOC members from Finland who would vote in the final ballot.
That was the nub of Vice President Al Gore's legal argument in asking the Florida Supreme Court today to force the state to include the results of hand ballot recounts in the final tally here -- or at least block a final tally until the recounts now under way can be finished and reviewed.
The Bush campaign was right to complain that almost 40percentt of these late-arriving ballots were disallowed in the final round of counting, and Senator Joseph Lieberman correctly asserted on NBC's "Meet the Press" that the "benefit of the doubt" should be given to military ballots from abroad.
Former Democratic candidate and businessman Jack Davis, who is running on the Tea Party line on the special election ballot, ran third in the final round of polls.
The Florida Supreme Court is to hear arguments on Monday on the inclusion of ballots recounted by hand in the final vote tally before declaring a winner.
