Sentence examples for in the wrong ballot from inspiring English sources

This could be explained by voters putting the slips in the wrong ballot box.

It has also been asked to revisit the issue of whether to consider rejected ballots, like ones put in the wrong ballot box, as part of the total when calculating whether the 50 percent threshold had been passed.

In Tirana 249,184 people voted; Mr Rama, who is running for a fourth term as mayor, won by just ten votes.Yesterday the central election commission said there would be a recount it would count voting papers that had been inadvertently placed in the wrong ballot box.

Votes may have to be recounted in parts of Macclesfield because some voters in last week's local elections were given the wrong ballot papers.

In the south of England, Bournemouth council apologised after 100 people were unable to cast their vote in the local elections because an administrative blunder had led to the wrong ballot papers being issued.

Were the poll workers uninformed, and simply gave out the wrong ballot?

Well-intentioned though they may be, they sometimes get in car accidents on the way to the polling place, or hand out the wrong ballots, or give the wrong advice, or simply never show up.

Some were given the wrong instructions, even the wrong ballots.

Some states, for example, strictly count only those provisional ballots cast in the precinct where the resident lives, while others accept those cast in the wrong voting precinct.

"It was emotional," echoed Margarita, 67, also in Red Hook, who laughed that she was so overcome, she first filled in the wrong bubble on her ballot and had to ask for another.

COLUMBUS, Ohio, Oct. 14 - A federal judge in Toledo ordered this state's Republican secretary of state on Thursday to count so-called provisional ballots filed in the wrong precincts, a victory for Democrats who contend such ballots are more likely to be cast by low-income and minority voters than others.