Sentence examples for register a vote from inspiring English sources

All these are ballots that when counted by machine did not register a vote for president.

When Mr. Brace said that not everyone punches hard enough to register a vote, Mr. Beck made a sardonic aside about whether "one big brute in every 20 voters" might be able to register a vote.

On that interpretation, punch-card ballots for which the machines cannot register a vote are not "legal" votes.

"I wanted to register a vote of confidence in Lower Manhattan," Ms. Sheppard said, "to help show that the area could come back.

And then the Florida Supreme Court ordered a manual recount of ballots on which the state's machines did not register a vote for president.

An analysis by the Washington Post found that one-third of the ballots in the black sections of Jacksonville Floridaa's fourth-largest city) did not register a vote for president.

The problem, they said, was that they punched a hole on the ballot next to Mr. Gore's name that actually registered a vote for Mr. Buchanan.

When the Brexit referendum is done, tens of millions of Britons will likely have registered a vote against the liberal vision of European unity and assimilation.

Absentee ballots were hand-punched, they argued, so there was no excuse for not punching through them and clearly registering a vote.

However, the technology is in place to do things differently, and by the next election, registering a vote online could be as easy as ordering groceries from Tesco.com.

Fewer than half of the electorate actually registered a vote for independence on 1 October.