Sentence examples for ballots to protest from inspiring English sources

One uncertainty is whether an unusual number of Cubans might use their ballots to protest.

The pro-democracy Civic Party, usually a Democratic Party ally, had urged electors to cast blank ballots to protest the lack of broader democracy.

But before the election, a liberal group had called on voters to void their ballots to protest a lack of attention to the poor during the campaign.

He also had a falling out with his campaign adviser Álvaro Vargas Llosa (son of the novelist Mario Vargas Llosa, who lost the 1990 presidential race to Fujimori), who began to advocate blank ballots to protest the candidacies of both Toledo and former president Alan García Pérez.

"We want to make sure that we have an opportunity to exercise every right every candidate has, to not only observe the canvassing of ballots but to protest or challenge ballots," Mr. Connor said.

At a rally Tuesday in front of the Garnier opera house here, Ms. Le Pen said she would not vote, but would instead leave her ballot blank to protest a political system she dismissed as too elitist and internationalist to represent the concerns of the French working class.

Vice President Al Gore received 266, one fewer than expected, because a District of Columbia elector left her ballot blank to protest Washington's lack of a voting representative in Congress.

A faithless elector from the District of Columbia left her ballot blank to protest Washington's lack of a voting representative in Congress, an abstention that left Mr. Gore with 266 electoral votes, one fewer than he had expected.

Mr. Gore had 266, one less than he had expected, because a District of Columbia elector left her ballot blank to protest Washington's lack of a voting representative in Congress.

Backers of one leader of the party interrupted the vote count, occupying party headquarters and seizing ballot boxes to protest what they said was an attempt by party leaders to steal the election.

Mr. Bush got 271 electoral votes, one more than he needed for a majority and five more than Mr. Gore, who lost one vote in the Electoral College when a Washington, D.C., elector left her ballot blank to protest the District of Columbia's lack of voting power in Congress.