Sentence examples for piles of ballots from inspiring English sources

Forbidden to talk, they will count separate piles of ballots.

Through a glass partition, network television cameras recorded roomsful of election workers in the county seats of Palm Beach County and Volusia County, poring over piles of ballots.

In the mêlée inside, nobody knew.Past midnight at school 104, another polling station in the same constituency, piles of ballots marked for Ali Kerimli, a leader of the Azadlig (Freedom) opposition block, lay dumped on the floor.

It was hardly a surprise last week, amid protests and clamours for a recount, to learn that piles of ballots favouring the opposition Constitutionalist Party were found on a rubbish heap.

Mr. Racicot spoke of Bush ballots mixed in with Gore ballots, of ballots used as fans, of exhausted elderly counters dropping piles of ballots on the floor where they were trampled by other counters.

They would together count, sort and stack piles of ballots by their marked vote.

A12 Haitian Election in Question The results of an undetermined number of legislative races from voting on Sunday may have to be voided because ballots were either damaged, lost or left susceptible to fraud when tired and poorly trained poll workers dumped huge piles of ballot boxes outside electoral offices.

The 1872 Ballot Act changed this with the invention of the "modern" polling station - the church hall with its wooden booths, a pencil on string and piles of ballot papers handed out by earnest election workers.

"The Krueger side wants to count the pile of ballots most likely to be invalid," he said, "and discard the pile most likely to be valid.

By the time the next song was over, there was a small pile of ballots on the edge of the stage.

Plowing through the pile of ballots (the board insisted that it will finish this process on Friday afternoon, regardless of how long it has to work on that day) Franken's vote pickup total rose to more than 220 by 12 45 P.M.