Sentence examples for ballots were held from inspiring English sources
Ninety-one percent of the ballots were held valid.
University employers have played down the potential impact of any industrial action, claiming that the number of UCU members voting in favour of strike action represents an estimated 16% of academic staff at those institutions where ballots were held and 12% of active USS members across universities.
Thus, although some state courts said that voting by ballot was meant to be more secret than the public act of viva voce voting; and although some state constitutional requirements of ballot voting were held to guarantee ballot secrecy, thus prohibiting the numbering of ballots for voter identification purposes, see Williams v. Stein, 38 Ind. 89 (1871); Brisbin v. Cleary, 26 Minn.
From the second day, two ballots are held in the morning and two in the afternoon.
If a ballot takes place on the afternoon of the first day and no-one is elected, or no ballot had taken place, four ballots are held on each successive day: two in each morning and two in each afternoon.
The ballot was held after Alpha refused to sign a trade recognition agreement.
The ballot was held after talks at which Alpha would not sign a trade recognition agreement.
Another round of balloting was held on June 29 in 15 precincts where the June 1 and June 15 rounds were invalidated.
The last convention to require a second ballot was held in 1952, before the advent of the primary system.
