Sentence examples for invalidate the ballot from inspiring English sources

Any other marks on the form can invalidate the ballot.

The idea being, presumably, that a lot of scratching to write a tick would disfigure, and thus invalidate, the ballot paper.

On Sunday, Serbia will make its third attempt this year to elect a new president, but disillusionment with political infighting is so intense that low voter turnout could once again invalidate the ballot.

The questions are written in Russian, Ukrainian and Crimean Tatar, the three most widely spoken languages on the peninsula, and the paper carries a warning in all three languages that marking both options will invalidate the ballot.

Some 19,000 ballots were disqualified because voters, Mr. Jackson said, realizing that they had mistakenly voted for Mr. Buchanan, went ahead and punched the card again for Mr. Gore, invalidating the ballot.

If someone voted against Golkar, all a pollster had to do was take a nail and poke a second hole, therefore invalidating the ballot entirely.

"It's an over-vote," she says, meaning the voter chose more than one candidate for president and invalidated the ballot.

If the Democrats had persuaded the court to invalidate the absentee ballots in Seminole and Martin Counties, it would have cost Gov.

Under state law, if Volusia County failed to certify its votes by 5 p.m. Tuesday, the state could invalidate all the ballots.

The Republican challenged in court a ballot that had previously been invalidated, arguing that the ballot should have been counted in his favor.

SCOTUS is likely to dismiss Hollingsworth v. Perry on jurisdictional grounds, so the 2010 ruling by California's 9th Circuit Court of Appeals could stand which still invalidates Prop 8, the ballot measure enacted 140 days after the state Supreme Court validated gay marriage way back in 2008.