Sentence examples for ballots started from inspiring English sources

But when late-arriving mail ballots started to be counted, the trend was clearly for Peters.

He has complained that the hand-count of the write-in ballots started too early to give him enough time to train his volunteers to monitor the outcome.

William Cowles, the elections supervisor, said elections employees would inspect those ballots starting Saturday morning.

Here in Des Moines, the line slowed to a trickle after a few hours on Thursday morning, but the real burst of voting will come when absentee ballots start arriving by mail as early as Friday in voters' mailboxes.

If a majority of the voters here say yes to a referendum known as Proposition 1 when their mail-in ballots start arriving this week, a minimum wage of $15 an hour would be required for many businesses in SeaTac, more than twice the federal minimum of $7.25.

The Republican official in charge of elections, after arguing in this court case that he legally needed to print the ballots starting today, is now saying he's going to wait a week so that the Democrats can call a convention and name a replacement to the ballot.

The ballot started with numbers '3' and '5.' What is that all about?" Ms. Cooper added: "I hope I voted for Gore, but because of the misleading nature of the ballot, I cannot be sure I did".

Now 31, she recalls how voting in that local election — though she cannot remember what was on the ballot — started her on a journey that has included leading the bruising but successful recent campaigns of two state senators and a state representative.

Once balloting started, the votes deadlocked.

Proposition B's passage means two individual developments, Forest City and a new San Francisco Giants project, containing around 2,500 housing units, will have to go and be placed on the ballot starting in November.

But citywide elections are only three weeks away -- and you can already cast your ballot, starting today.