Sentence examples for failed ballot from inspiring English sources

We are hearing multiple reports of failed ballot scanners around NYC. What are you seeing as you go vote?

And her sister once lobbied for a (failed) ballot initiative that would have reformed the three-strikes law to exclude non-violent crimes.Both Ms Harris and Mr Cooley opposed that reform.

Correction: December 3, 2003, Wednesday Because of an editing error, an article yesterday about Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's failed ballot proposal to end partisan primary elections gave incorrect figures in some copies for the spending per vote by Mr. Bloomberg and by the proposal's opponents.

Nowhere has that pushback been stronger than in Oakland, Calif., where federal drug agents recently raided Oaksterdam University, a cannabis industry training school that had been at the forefront of failed ballot effort in 2010 to legalize in California.

Observers of the movement away from failed ballot initiatives and toward courtrooms say child welfare and parenting will again be central to court battles because the argument over same-sex marriage often swirls around questions of whether changing the definition of marriage has an impact on children.

Snyder says a failed ballot proposal to enshrine collective bargaining rights in the constitution triggered the discussion that led to the passage and signing of right-to-work.

And Italian MPs will continue to vote on their next president, after two failed ballots yesterday.

Newsom supported HOPE, a failed local ballot measure that would have allowed increased condo-conversion rate if a certain percentage of tenants within a building were buying their units.

These were special last-resort ballots to be used only when a voter's regular state ballot failed to turn up in the mail.

Two other measures on the ballot failed by wide margins.

Fluoridation efforts have failed at the ballot box here, most recently in 1980.