Sentence examples for conventional ballot from inspiring English sources

Internet voting would allow explanatory material to be presented before the vote (making for a more decision) and would cost a fraction of a conventional ballot, Turnbull argues.

Under the guise of asking about their preferences in the then-upcoming Canadian election, the researchers polled 116 passers-by at an Edmonton mall, half via a conventional ballot, half via a butterfly ballot.

It's time to open up the political imagination and think outside the conventional ballot box.

The combination of these two types of ballots could easily exceed the margin of victory from the conventional voting in several states.

None of the people using the conventional one-column ballot made a mistake.

The real wildcard, though, is white voters, and specifically the white working class, a voting bloc that once voted solidly Democratic, but whom conventional wisdom suggests now cast their ballots for Republicans.

"The conventional wisdom is that Republicans use absentee ballots and Democrats vote early," he said.

"We won the machine count, and while there are a number of discrepancies in the absentee ballots, according to the press, the conventional wisdom is that when they are all counted, the absentee ballots are going to turn against us".

In conventional proxy fights, each side sends out its own ballot.

"We're right at the cusp, and it is the conventional wisdom that we can't go to the ballot to repeal and lose," said Kate Kendell, the executive director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights in San Francisco.

The group ranked all 50 states based on more than 15 criteria, including wait times, lost votes and problems with absentee and provisional ballots, and the order often confounds the conventional wisdom.