Sentence examples for ballots in the second from inspiring English sources

A1 Governor's Race Goes to Court Republicans went to court to seek a restraining order that would halt the counting of 573 newly discovered ballots in the second recount in the race for Washington State governor.

Mr Sincic called on his backers to spoil their ballots in the second round and over 60,000 did (almost twice Ms Grabar-Kitrovic's winning margin).Mr Josipovic lost largely because the Social Democratic-led government had failed to drag Croatia out of recession.

Emboldened by the unexpectedly smooth and generally credible results of the first round of elections last week, a different set of voters, casting ballots in the second round, expressed a new certainty that their votes would elect a legitimate Parliament with authority to stand up to the military council.

And how the voters on the so-called fringe choose to cast their ballots in the second-round runoff on May 6 is likely to decide the race.

How the voters at the fringes cast their ballots in the second-round runoff next month — and whether they turn out at all — is likely to decide who will be the next president of France.

In the morning chill, voters stood in orderly lines outside stone schoolhouses and canvas tents to cast ballots in the first election under the new system.

General Musharraf said that at most 10percentt of voters cast ballots in the first round on Sept. 16; India says 47.5percentt voted.

IN A CHINESE VILLAGE Less than two months after staging a bold protest against official corruption, the people of the Chinese village of Wukan cast ostensibly independent ballots in the first step to determine the leadership of their village.

The Muslim Brotherhood, the Islamist group that supports Mr. Morsi, said that around 57 percent of those who cast ballots in the first round on Saturday voted in favor of the proposed constitution, whose drafting was dominated by Islamists.

Now negotiations between the government and the opposition to improve election monitoring have collapsed over the government's refusal to replace poll watchers who reportedly took part in the tampering of ballots in the first vote.

In a scathing report on Peru's election, the group's own monitors denounced the harassment of opposition candidates, government control of the media, arrests of would-be voters and the mutilation of ballots in the first round.