Sentence examples for evaluate ballots from inspiring English sources

But in Palm Beach, election officials set their own rules about how they would evaluate ballots, and many Democrats expressed concern that the standards there would not be sufficiently broad for Mr. Gore to capture enough votes.

In Palm Beach County, election officials had set their own rules about how they would evaluate ballots that lacked punched holes on the presidential voting line but might have indented chads, the "dimples" on which the legal struggle has focused in the last few days.

Suddenly, the positions of both sides in South Florida were reversed, with the Republicans arguing for leeway in evaluating ballots and the Democrats calling for strict compliance with the rules.

The standard for evaluating ballots set by the Florida Supreme Court -- that a vote is legal if there is a clear indication of the intent of the voter -- is drawn directly from Florida law and served as the basis for the successful manual recounting that was done last month in several counties.

"She has no authority over how the counties decide to evaluate the ballots".

Late today, Judge Jorge Labarga of Palm Beach County Circuit Court, like the Florida Supreme Court before him, disappointed Democrats by declining to offer specific standards for how to evaluate such ballots.

They are likely to hire an outside consultant to evaluate each ballot.

In addition, Mr. Halperin and Mr. Harris observe, Mr. Rove's detailed knowledge of the political climate, state laws and each state's electorate, enabled him to evaluate what "ballot measures might channel voter turnout," and to help recruit Republican candidates who might produce "reverse coattails" for Mr. Bush.

Our point is, with respect to the punch card ballots, is that there are different standards for evaluating those ballots from county to county.

How much more legitimate would a victory be for Vice President Al Gore of several hundred votes (or even less) based on evaluating dimpled ballots or on his attempt to ascertain the vote total based only on selected counties favorable to him?

Then they got into the process of evaluating these ballots and changed the standard from moment to moment during the first day.