Sentence examples for ballots recorded from inspiring English sources

More than 18,000 of its ballots recorded no vote for Mr Buchanan or the Democrat, Christine Jennings.

In one polling station, he said, there were 30 more ballots recorded than the number of registered voters.

And he accused Mr Eide of suppressing evidence collected by UN staff on polling day, showing a huge discrepancy between the trickle of people who voted and the large numbers of ballots recorded as cast.

Currently, if the number of cast ballots recorded by the DREs exceeds the number of voters who signed the poll books, the DREs are assumed to be correct (emphasis added).

McCollough, and somewhat similar determinations by courts throughout the nation, the Florida Supreme Court concluded that the term "legal vote" means a vote recorded on a ballot that clearly reflects what the voter intended.

The court read that objective of looking to the voter's intent as indicating that the Legislature probably meant "legal vote" to mean a vote recorded on a ballot indicating what the voter intended.

In a bid to allay some fears about email voting, New Jersey officials said anyone who votes electronically must also send in a paper ballot recording their preference.

County officials tried to discern voter intent through a cloud of "hanging chads" (incompletely punched paper ballots) and "pregnant chads" (paper ballots that were dimpled, but not pierced, during the voting process), as well as "overvotes" (ballots that recorded multiple votes for the same office) and "undervotes" (ballots that recorded no vote for a given office).

The question was whether this meant a majority of the votes for those offices, or a majority of all the ballots cast in the general election, even those ballots that recorded votes for other offices but left the governor's line blank.

In Palm Beach County alone, as many 10,000 ballots were recorded as having no choice for president.

The presidential election last year was marred by numerous cases in which hundreds of ballots were recorded for a single candidate — usually Mr. Karzai — in places where no one had actually voted.