Sentence examples for punch ballot from inspiring English sources

Nearly 60percentt of voters cast ballots on the punch ballot system, while more than a third use optical scanning system.

Chuck Smith, a systems administrator in Hillsborough County, said that the county had long been aware of limitations of the punch ballot system used there and had been working for years on a successor system.

(The first time I voted in a US election from Australia, the state of Illinois mailed me a punch ballot, a foam-backing pad and a metal spike so I could cast my vote).

Punch ballots are used in 27 of Florida's 67 counties.

A report on Deadspin.com revealed that one involved soliciting a dating Web site, CougarLife.com, to try get its members to punch ballots for Wright.

The standard should be the sunshine rule -- that only punch ballots that are perforated so that you can see light through them can be counted.

Mr. Mone said another concern had been that the punch ballots represented "the only electoral process where you record your vote on a piece of paper and then you can't see it to check it".

He craned his neck as two other observers took their turns at the touch screen: Neerja Chowdhury, an Indian journalist who wore a flowing red kurta and shawl, and Somsri Hananuntasuk, a petite Thai woman who, for the purposes of show-and-tell, had brought along a joblos, an icepick-like device used to punch ballots in Indonesia.

Are people really going to punch ballots with "Robert Ritchie" on them?

And it would have none of those bedeviling bits of paper -- "hanging chad" -- that can cling to an incompletely punched ballot card and confound its tabulation.

The board debated at length when a partially punched ballot would be counted as an acceptable vote and when a ballot marking would be considered too ambiguous and therefore invalid.