Sentence examples for manual ballot from inspiring English sources

An additional piece of corroborating evidence was the result from the 15% of polling stations that used the old-fashioned manual ballot.

A frantic round of manual ballot recounts ordered by the Florida Supreme Court last week, and due this evening, nearly halved Mr. Bush's previous official, uncertified lead of 930 votes.

The Florida Supreme Court ruled unanimously tonight that the results of manual ballot recounts in three heavily Democratic counties must be included in the state's final tally, as long as they are submitted no later than Monday morning.

Bolstered by a Florida Supreme Court decision that allows manual ballot recounts to go on in the state, Democrats planned to press ahead with their efforts to get a hand count in Miami-Dade County.

It is one thing for James Baker to express the Bush campaign's dismay over the ruling by the Florida Supreme Court that the manual ballot recounts should be included in the state's final tally.

The manual ballot recount was requested by the Florida Democratic Party, which chose three Palm Beach County precincts with an unusually high number of ballots that did not choose a president at all in Tuesday's election.

Now we don't think any ballots should be counted, because the manual recount of ballots is finished.

With only hours to go before a winner is declared in Florida's presidential balloting, weary election officials in Broward County finished their manual recount of ballots late tonight, cutting Gov. George W. Bush's lead over Vice President Al Gore in half.

If there is to be a manual count of ballots, the Gore team wants the judge to agree that indentations on a ballot card should be read the same way as a fully punched hole.

A15 Democratic lawyers say any decision on challenging the Florida vote in court will await a more detailed manual recount of ballots in three Florida counties that Democrats hope will give Mr. Gore a victory outright.

I also agree with the trial judge's conclusion that in a statewide election the only way a court can order a manual recount of ballots that were allegedly not counted because of some irregularity or inaccuracy in the balloting or counting process is to order that the votes in all counties in which those processes were used be recounted.