Sentence examples for fair balloting from inspiring English sources

Senior Russian officials tend to tie themselves in knots explaining how governments that have crushed opposition movements can conduct fair balloting.

This incident, though, actually highlights a larger dilemma: At the Arab summit meeting now being held in Beirut, not one of the 22 Arab leaders represented has been elected in a free and fair balloting.

The chances of a reasonably fair ballot are good and there has been no serious violence.

They know that if even vaguely free and fair ballots were to take place throughout Sudan, they would lose heavily.

But in the end it ruled, rightly, that the greater need was to ensure "full and fair ballot choice for the voters of New Jersey".

In the 2000 presidential election, universally acclaimed as a free and fair ballot, the party's Francisco Labastida won more than 13 million votes.

Biti, credited with steering Zimbabwe from hyperinflation to economic stability, called for a "road map" to a free and fair ballot.

Mr. Tsvangirai had asked for a delay of at least 25 days to institute democratic reforms and changes to electoral laws to allow for a free and fair ballot.

Larry Rohter (NYT) AFRICA SIERRA LEONE: POLL DECISION BACKED -- The United Nations and Britain backed a decision by Sierra Leone to postpone its presidential election, saying the country was too unstable for a fair ballot to be held.

"The court should invoke its equitable powers in favor of a full and fair ballot choice for the voters of New Jersey," Chief Justice Deborah T. Poritz wrote in the seven-page decision.

The New Jersey justices, ruling unanimously on Wednesday, said the expired deadline for ballot changes could be overlooked because the state's election laws should be "liberally construed" in favor of "a full and fair ballot choice for the voters of New Jersey".