Sentence examples for because of absentee from inspiring English sources

Voting is already under way in several states because of absentee and early voting.

In a contest of a Miami mayoral race in 1997, it took an appeals court months to decide that, because of absentee ballot fraud, the candidate who had already been sworn in as mayor had not won.

Because the proper use of absentee voting facilities is related to literacy, in countries where illiteracy is fairly widespread, absentee voting is either not allowed, as in Congo (Kinshsa) and Burkina Faso, or allowed only with restrictions, as in India, Malaysia, and Jamaica.

Though felons were found to have voted illegally, the result was overturned because of fraudulent absentee ballots.

In the cases, Democratic lawyers ask for the invalidation of absentee ballots because Republican Party workers were allowed to correct absentee ballot applications.

Curtis Gans, director of the Committee for the Study of the American Electorate, said that his research showed that the wide use of absentee voting hurt turnout because many voters, with the best of intentions, request absentee ballots and then fail to turn them in.

The implications of absentee ownership are not clearly understood, perhaps because the absentee concept is ambiguously defined and inconsistently specified.

The growing popularity of absentee voting is also contributing to possible delays because the ballots take more time to process and often arrive at the last minute.

Both had large numbers of absentee ballots, which could not be counted immediately, and, because absentee votes generally do not vary sharply from election night returns, it was predictable that the absentees would widen the vice president's lead.

* Ensuring the integrity of absentee ballots.

Another problem will be the counting of absentee ballots.