Sentence examples for first time ballots from inspiring English sources

In Orlando, the operation was slowed by quirky write-ins, smudges left by the rubber rollers from the first time ballots were counted and ballot cards the machine had shredded or folded.

C. A Rundell, of Cronus, informed me during an interview in his office in Dallas last fall that because of the chad problem, and also because of wear and tear on the ballots, vote totals may not change the first time ballots are run through the card reader, and probably won't the second time, but the third or fourth time they may change, "and then you've lost your audit trail".

It's the first time ballot papers are being scanned at a federal level and the scale of ballot papers that need to be entered is much greater than at past elections.

When New York voters go to the polls for the primary on Sept. 10, South Asians in Queens will for the first time find ballots translated into Bengali, the first new language to be introduced at city polling booths in more than a decade, election officials said.

One, Roger Clemens, failed to gain election in his first time on ballot this past year because many voters have concluded that he used performance-enhancing drugs to bolster his career.

And unless you register to vote in person, like at a city clerk's office, you won't be able to use an absentee ballot the first time you vote.

Kirby Puckett, Kirk Gibson, Lance Parrish, Dave Stewart and Andy Van Slyke also appear for the first time on the ballots, which were mailed this week to 10-year members of the Baseball Writers Association of America.

Mr. Gregory said Democratic Party workers instructed voters, many persuaded to go to the polls for the first time, to cast ballots in every race and "be sure to punch a hole on every page".

Of the 573 members of the Baseball Writers Association of America who cast ballots last year, only 112 (or 19.5 percent) voted for McGwire, in line with the meager totals he had drawn on previous ballots; and only 72 voted for Palmeiro (12.6 percent), mimicking the dismal support he got the previous year, his first time on the ballot.

This was the first time on the ballot for Wilander and Shriver.

As an Austrian national and a serial absentee voter based in the UK, I felt for the first time that my ballot paper might make a difference.