Sentence examples for substitute ballot from inspiring English sources

For months, it failed to heed requests from the state department to post an emergency substitute ballot on its website that will mainly help civilians living far from consulates and military bases.

For instance, the clear intent standard comes from a statute that deals with a damaged ballot where you have to create -- to put through the machine a substitute ballot.

The issue was if the election officials took ballots and marked over the ballots, instead of creating a separate substitute ballot, they took that ballot and marked it over so it could go through an optical scanner, which the court found to be gross negligence -- whether they would discount the votes.

Mechanical problems in New York City with voting machines and shortages of substitute paper ballots resulted in long lines at some polling places last week.

This could lead to breakdowns in the 39-year-old voting machines and delays in counting substitute paper ballots, particularly if some of the candidates file lawsuits to challenge their validity.

Partisan groups vying to get out the overseas vote had begun posting the substitute write-in ballot, which covers federal but not local races or measures, on their own Internet sites out of concern that its distribution to consulates had made it too hard to get.

The substitute write-in ballot is also available from embassies and consulates, but voting assistance groups say some outposts are running out of forms.

But he hated retirement so much that he jumped at the chance to return the next year when the state's Democratic Party was looking for someone to substitute on the ballot for Senator Robert G. Torricelli, who stepped aside facing an ethics investigation.

State election law says that a name can be substituted on the ballot within 10 days of a candidate's death.

Mr. Corrigan quoted Pentagon officials as saying that while they could not offer the same balloting service to civilians, they would look into posting the substitute federal write-in ballot.

His death came too late in the campaign to put a substitute Democrat on the ballot.