Sentence examples for ballots passed from inspiring English sources

Except for the basketball hoops, much about how I'll vote this November, about how most Americans will vote, was laid out in an Act to Provide for Printing and Distributing Ballots, passed in Massachusetts, my home state, in 1888.

Such ballots, passed by what is called constitutional majority, are binding and enter into force with immediate effect, the BBC's Ukraine analyst Olexiy Solohubenko reports.

The next 34 ballots passed with no one near victory, and still no votes for Pierce.

Johnson's support was mostly from the South, and fell away as the ballots passed.

The initial deadline to print San Luis' ballots passed last week but was extended through Tuesday to await the ruling.

Pierce, whose support had been slowly declining as the ballots passed, directed his supporters to break for Douglas, withdrawing his name in a last-ditch effort to defeat Buchanan.

Absentee ballots pass through more hands with less supervision than any other ballots.

By the end of their shift, they had watched 1,592 ballots pass before them, challenging none.

African democracy appears to have flourished and the holding of elections has become commonplace, but not all ballots pass the test of being "free and fair" and many have been charades held by regimes clinging on to power.

On Tuesday, the deadline for Akin to get off the ballot passed.

Last week, with Mr. Newsom still withholding his support, the deadline to place the affordable-housing measure on the November ballot passed quietly -- with the public unaware of the potential deal.