Sentence examples for have a postmark from inspiring English sources

Republican criticism, though, focused particularly on what election officials said was the most common problem, failure to have a postmark.

On Friday, Fred Galey, elections supervisor in Brevard County, said: "In the past, we have not counted ballots that didn't have a postmark.

Florida law states that an overseas ballot must have a postmark, either from a foreign country's postal service, or from a United States military post office.

Mr. Lieberman and Mr. Butterworth have said that any ballot thrown out purely because it did not have a postmark should be allowed.

One state law says that only overseas ballots with postmarks can be counted, while an administrative rule says that overseas ballots can be counted as long as they have a postmark or are properly signed and dated before Election Day.

"Every single one that didn't have a postmark also didn't have a signature, or a witness signature, or a date, so they wouldn't have been counted anyway," she said.

Because the postcard already had a postmark, Ms. Reid said, the insufficient postage would not have been detected by the machinery in Denver that sorts and cancels mail.

Florida's Democratic attorney general, Robert A. Butterworth, issued a memorandum explaining that military ballots did not necessarily need a postmark to be counted: they were legal, he said, as long as they either had a postmark or a dated signature.

Mr. Lobb said he was worried about anthrax -- worried enough that when he received a letter this morning from the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet about his overdue car emissions testing, and it had a postmark of Niagara Falls, N.Y., and an ink return address instead of the usual embossed seal, he turned it over to the police.

We can look at pink planets and green galaxies to our heart's content, but if the postcard has a postmark and a hand-scribbled note, we'll probably like it better.

In Polk County, canvassers and observers from both parties were stumped by a ballot from Israel that appeared to have a blurry postmark in Hebrew.