Sentence examples for half of the ballots from inspiring English sources

That means about half of the ballots cast were unlikely to be received as of Tuesday, elections officials said.

White voters, by contrast, amount to a third of the population, but will probably cast just over half of the ballots.

With fewer than half of the ballots estimated to have been counted in a largely mail-in election, 52percentt of voters had approved the measure, Referendum 71.

The recount has been good to Mr Franken, and as of last count the Republican was up only 136 votes, 79 votes down from his height with less than half of the ballots counted.

"While all studios campaign up to the last minute to try and convince Academy members to vote for their nominees, almost half of the ballots are mailed in right away," Gregory Ellwood writes at the HitFix blog.

David Ammons, a spokesman for the Washington secretary of state, said that in King County, which is the state's largest and includes Seattle, opponents were leading with less than half of the ballots counted.

Observers from the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) said the count of half of the ballot papers was "bad or very bad".

Lawyers for the voters say they will argue that many of the 3,407 votes cast for the Reform Party candidate, Patrick J. Buchanan, were intended for Mr. Gore, whose name was on the opposite half of the ballot's face.

With more than half of the ballot papers counted, Ms Tymoshenko's block appeared to have a lead over the party of her arch-rival and current prime minister, Viktor Yanukovich, although later results suggested a swing against her group.Ms Tymoshenko could get 31% of the votes polled.

In 2016, for the first time in our nation's history, people of color, unmarried women and millennials very likely will cast over half of all the ballots in the presidential election.

Democrats contended that fewer than half of the rejected ballots were military, while Republicans said that more than half were.