Sentence examples for real ballot from inspiring English sources

(If the real ballot subsequently arrives, election officials are required to discard the FWAB and count the regular ballot).

When people cast "real votes in real ballot boxes" on Tuesday, Obama was two points lower on 36 per cent, Clinton nine points higher on 39 per cent and Edwards a point off on 17 per cent.

5. Hold a Mock Election: Hold a class or schoolwide mock election using a "ballot" that has all the offices and issues that will appear on the real ballot.

But, like any by election, it involves real votes in real ballot boxes and so, imperfect as it might be, will be interpreted as an insight into the popularity or otherwise of the parties.

This short preview is of the impact of a real ballot proposal -- which only needs another two hundred thousand signatures to qualify for the November ballot.

Mr Coleman had sued to challenge more than 100 ballots that he alleged had been counted twice they were lacking the markings that differentiate real ballots and duplicates, so they might have been fake.

"You talk about testing with real bullets, this is going to be testing election reform with real ballots," said Doug Chapin, executive director of a nonpartisan election watchdog group, electionline.org.org

Actual ballot papers were completed for Alternative Vote (AV) and Single Transferable Vote (STV), using real candidate names and so on.

They fed thick stacks of orange demonstration ballots, which like the real pink ballots are studded with 312 chads, through loudly clacking card reading machines counting 1,000 ballots a minute.

It is up to the winner, or any other contestant, to decide whether to try to get on the real presidential ballot.

(The winner of the 2011 poll was Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota, who finished sixth in the real Iowa balloting and quit the presidential race the next day).