Sentence examples for clean ballot from inspiring English sources

Likewise, if a voter accidentally votes for two candidates for the same job, such as president, and fails to ask for a clean ballot, the vote counts for neither of the candidates.

The government of President Alberto K. Fujimori said today that a runoff presidential election would be held on Sunday as scheduled despite nationwide protests and calls from Washington and other allies that it be postponed to ensure a clean ballot count.

The Independent National Electoral Commission (Inec) has promised a clean ballot.

While all other politicians (except for those whom he has supported) have had to rush around stuffing ballot boxes, altering counts and paying for votes, Mr. Aristide has twice been elected in clean balloting.

"We don't touch those chads," said Sharon Beringson, chief deputy registrar of voters in San Bernardino County, Calif. "We instruct the voters to clean the ballot -- they can turn it over and pick it off.

The tiny pieces of paper that are punched through on a clean vote will be automatically counted if they remain attached to the ballot by one or two corners.

While analysts applauded an election largely free of the fraud, ballot-stealing and violence that have plagued elections since the country's return to democracy 12 years ago, the mostly clean vote on Saturday was clouded by what has happened since then.

Thousands of voters failed to punch a hole clean through the ballot, turning the recount into a torturous argument over "voter intent".

While they are at it, Mr. Pataki and the Legislature should clean up the ballot access rules for state and local races, too.

Maybe he still doesn't count as "serious" enough to clean up the ballots, but going by his Golden Globes appearance and his thanks-by-fax at the Baftas, a Bill Murray Oscar acceptance speech would be one for the ages.

He worked to help pass the state's Clean Elections Act, a ballot initiative that eliminates corporate donations to political campaigns.