Sentence examples for collect ballots from inspiring English sources

More than 700 employees were on hand to collect ballots or to answer questions.

Afghans are now hoping for a fast and relatively clean result, though the election will not be formally settled until July 22, to allow time to sift through claims of vote rigging and collect ballots from the remotest areas.

Near the end, Ormea and the other election officials overseeing the polls make a tour of the Cottolengo to collect ballots from those patients unable to leave their beds.

Ugenti-Rita told me she was not aware that children and undocumented immigrants were collecting ballots.

Promise Arizona and other local groups began collecting ballots as a way to help their cause.

The responsibilities of provincial commissioners include selecting polling places, providing and collecting ballots and transferring them to counting stations.

In 2006, the first year Mexico collected ballots from abroad, the I.F.E. received about 53,000 applications for placement on the foreign voters list and accepted about 41,000; 33,111 cast ballots.

The public advocate, Bill de Blasio, discovered that, for lack of keys to start the new machines, his polling place in Park Slope, Brooklyn, did not start collecting ballots until around 9 a.m.

-ROGER KIMBALL, Wall Street Journal Europe Vote for This AT THE MOST BASIC LEVEL, democracy depends on those who serve long hours on Election Day, overseeing polling places and collecting ballots.

–MILTON FRIEDMAN, senior research fellow, Hoover Institution, New York Times Vote for This At the most basic level, democracy depends on those who serve long hours on Election Day, overseeing polling places and collecting ballots.

The Dowless employees in Bladen County who said they collected ballots also served as witnesses for a high number of people.