Sentence examples for empty ballots from inspiring English sources

Exact(2)

A woman supervising the scanning told me that many people fed empty ballots into the scanner, but she couldn't check them — that would have been a violation of the voters' "privacy".

If voters do not want to support any given choice, they may cast empty ballots, rather than not voting at all and reinforcing apathy for the whole process.

Similar(58)

In the previous round of voting in August, several empty ballot boxes were lost over the side of a cliff.

The candidates wrote their names on slips of paper and placed them in an empty ballot box.

From the Chartists marching on the town centre to the empty ballot box in Bettws.

Your ability to "express yourself" by not voting not just submitting an empty ballot, damn it might not be a form of free expression many romanticize, but it's arguably just another weird part of the American experiment, and a freedom these other countries lack.

By afternoon, poll workers were seen dozing, some laying their heads on tables next to near-empty ballot boxes.

IN A cramped warehouse in the east-central town of Ghazni not long ago, 20 men, including a bunch of 15-year-olds who had bunked off school, gathered around plastic tables to empty out ballot boxes and recount votes cast during Afghanistan's parliamentary election last September.

"One single abstention, one single empty or soiled ballot paper," the paper said, "and Le Pen's score will be inflated".

In the 2009 Presidential election, some of them coöperated to stuff ballots at empty polling sites on behalf of Hamid Karzai.

In Oaxaca's capital, masked protesters emptied a vehicle of ballots, boxes and voting tables and burned the material in the main square.

Show more...

Your English writing platform

Write better and faster with AI suggestions while staying true to your unique style.

Student

Used by millions of students, scientific researchers, professional translators and editors from all over the world!

MitStanfordHarvardAustralian Nationa UniversityNanyangOxford

Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

Justyna Jupowicz-Kozak quote

Justyna Jupowicz-Kozak

CEO of Professional Science Editing for Scientists @ prosciediting.com

Get started for free

Unlock your writing potential with Ludwig

Letters

Most frequent sentences: