Sentence examples for double ballot from inspiring English sources

An emergency meeting of the Oceania confederation agreed unanimously to appoint David Chung, the acting OFC president, to replace the suspended Reynald Temarii and become the 23rd votingmember at the double ballot in Zurich on Thursday.

The American official on whom England relied to stand any chance of hosting the 2018 World Cup has revealed why he voted for Russia as the fallout into the double ballot in Zurich shows no sign of abating.

The amendments introduce direct election of the president in a "French-style" double ballot, cut the presidential term from seven years to five, permit a sitting president to be re-elected and space general elections every four years instead of every five.

Since the double ballot encourages people to split their vote, backing a small party for the Knesset and the Labour or Likud candidate for prime minister, both big parties lost votes to smaller ones in the 1996 election, and are likely to lose even more next time.

In France a double-ballot system is employed for National Assembly elections.

Everybody else may be shocked by the double voting, the confusing ballots and the general all-around glitches of last week's elections, but the people who actually run elections say these things, uh, happen.

The Bush campaign also contended that it was not unusual for large numbers of ballots to be invalidated in Palm Beach County, saying that in 1996 more than 14,000 ballots were thrown out for double voting.

The new papers will be in specially coded envelopes, to avoid confusion and double voting in the event that the missing ballots turn up after all.

Consider that more than 20,000 ballots in Duval County were discounted, the vast majority for double voting.

A voting machine at a polling place should automatically stop a voter from submitting a double-marked ballot; but they can post them in.All legitimate concerns, but things can also go wrong with normal voting witness Florida's dimpled chads in the 2000 presidential race.

State bill on absentee voting: State Sen. Bob Hertzberg wants sample ballots to double as absentee ballots, writes The Times' George Skelton.