Sentence examples for completed ballot from inspiring English sources

Then Howard Phillips, the party's presidential nominee, announced at a press luncheon that his party had quietly completed ballot access work in 30 states, no small political achievement if all 30 are eventually certified.

Belgium, Britain and South Africa, amongst others, have taken a much tougher line: those who publish a picture of their vote risk a hefty fine".Stemfies" or "boothies" (voting-booth selfies) became a craze in the Netherlands at the local elections in March after the leader of the liberal-democrat D66 party, Alexander Pechtold (pictured), tweeted a picture posing with his completed ballot paper.

1.5 hr wait at 7 00am.Unacceptable — Jonathan Newman (@RuleOfRescue) November 6, 2012 At Riverside Church, Jesse Appelman said his paper ballot was not even scanned: @michaelpaulson My completed ballot was not scanned, just put straight through the slot into the bin.

The Republican officials released the names of a few people who had signed complaints, including Robert Hernandez, 42, who said that after he voted in his Milwaukee precinct, he was told to put his completed ballot on top of a stack of other ballots because the tabulating machine was temporarily broken.

Lots of states actually have old laws against taking photographs in polling places – in many cases you're not even allowed to show your completed ballot to another human – but New Hampshire has updated its voting laws to prohibit "distributing or sharing the image via social media".

Rather, the fear is that by allowing people to record their votes for posterity the state could be encouraging the sale of votes, as in, "Here's a picture of my completed ballot, now where's my five bucks?" • Despite new laws like North Carolina's, the 2008 election will surely be the most recorded in history.

The first completed ballots have already been scanned into computers.

County election officials will use the system to receive voter registration applications, provide ballots to voters and accept completed ballots.

Most security experts support the idea of using the Internet for registering to vote and for accessing blank ballots, but not for transmitting completed ballots.

Most of the states that have created pilot programs for Internet voting will allow voters to send completed ballots as an e-mail attachment.

The plans include helping to register voters expressly to vote absentee, mailing out tip sheets on avoiding errors that could disqualify absentee votes, and collecting completed ballots.