Sentence examples for postal balloting from inspiring English sources

The Bush legacy Reprints Related items Postal balloting: Stamp of approval?Mar 16th 2006 American democracy: Competition callsMar 16th 2006Incumbents and the courts have blocked term limits elsewhere.

The government insisted the delay was due to concerns over hitches with all postal balloting in the regions following the June local and European elections.

Correction: Maine's water wars Reprints Related items America's mid-term elections: The vultures gatherNov 2nd 2006 America's mid-term elections: Goodbye to the permanent majority?Nov 2nd 2006 Postal balloting: Stamp of approval?Mar 16th 2006The other states take a middle path.

"Some people say 'count every vote'; it'd be better if you just counted every legal vote," says Dino Rossi, a Republican who lost by a wispy 129-vote margin.Yet Washington is forging ahead with the very election method that helped to muddle that crazy race: postal balloting.

Thurston County's clerk, Kim Wyman, thinks costs are 20-50% lower with postal balloting: you don't have to rent polling places or employ as many staff.Postal ballots change the nature of campaigns because they usually arrive around a month before election day.

The results of the postal balloting of the party's 318,000 eligible members were announced in a low-key ceremony at Conservative Central Office this evening, a day later than scheduled and with none of the planned festivities, out of deference to the victims of the bombings in New York and Washington.

They take forever to count because of postal ballots.

29 November is the closing date for a city-wide postal ballot on the Olympics.

For in truth cynicism pervades this whole issue.Take the current row over postal ballots.

That is when all the postal ballots in Florida are due to be counted.

It suggests three possible voting mechanisms: mobile polling stations, internet voting and postal ballots.