Sentence examples for hidden votes from inspiring English sources

If the high court rules in Mr. Gore's favor, the following few days could be filled with a frenzied counting of 14,000 disputed ballots from South Florida, which Democratic lawyers say might contain hidden votes for the vice president.

In their arguments, the two sides differed as always over whether the judge should order a count of 14,000 disputed ballots from South Florida, which Mr. Gore's team believes contain hidden votes that will give him the election.

All the ominous predictions, all the fretting about hidden votes and closeted racists frustrating a victory for the nation's first African-American president came down to this: the so-called Bradley effect did not exist.

Aware that they could not stop the transporting of all the ballots, Mr. Gore's lawyers barely objected to the move, asking only that the disputed ballots that might contain hidden Gore votes be separated from the mass.

But wanting to hide those votes began to seem eminently reasonable to reformers both in the United States and in Britain, where suffrage had also been expanding.

To make sure all that soap was paying off, ballots grew bigger, and more colorful, so bright-colored that even "vest-pocket voters" — men who went to the polls with their ballots crammed into their pockets — could barely hide their votes.

Dmitry Gudkov, an MP, warned on Friday that a new form of election trickery had been invented in the provinces, with ballot boxes containing fake votes hidden in the cars of officials who visit the sick and infirm.

With our votes hidden, the other side becomes faceless, and the use of mail-in voting amplifies this effect.

But let's take a closer look at the conventional wisdom as expressed by Minnesota's Democratic chairman, Mike Erlandson: "I don't think there are a lot of Bush votes hiding in the Nader vote".

Voting expert Bev Harris, author of Black Box Voting: Ballot Tampering in the 21st Century, describes the black box as "any voting system in which the mechanisms for recording and/or tabulating the vote are hidden from the voter, and/or the mechanism lacks a tangible record of the vote cast".

Super PACs, the new type of political committee created after two court rulings allowed independent political groups to raise unlimited contributions from corporations, unions and individuals, could use a loophole in current Federal Election Commission rules to keep their donors hidden until after early voting states have already chosen a GOP presidential candidate.