Sentence examples for the previous ballot from inspiring English sources

The previous ballot in 2011, when Jonathan defeated Buhari hands down, was widely hailed as a success yet still led to riots and more than 800 deaths in the north.

Some environmental groups opposed the previous ballot measure because it also would have lowered other taxes, meaning that the state would not have netted much new revenue for climate or energy projects.

Given the fact that some 70% of the state's spending is mandated by law and previous ballot initiatives, the referendum route may be the best way for Arnold to go.

Mr. Weinblatt said voters who sent in absentee ballots could override their choices by turning up to vote in the regular election and asking that their previous ballot be discarded.

The Eurocrats will be pleased with predictions that turnout will be about as high as in the previous European ballot in 2004, as vote-inducing outrage over MPs' expenses cancels out vote-reducing lack of interest in Europe.

She actually led the effort against the previous legalization ballot measure in her state (Proposition 19, which failed back in 2010).

Rights groups denounce those messages, which are similar to those broadcast in previous ballot fights, as misleading scare tactics.

A previous ballot measure allowed those who remarried after that date to collect their former spouses' pensions.

But ahead of the elections, the rules of the game were altered significantly from previous ballots, widely seen as a way to give the junta every electoral advantage and prevent the dominance of parties linked to ousted billionaire Thaksin.

Mr. Sobyanin's campaign manager, Lyudmila I. Shvetsova, said that the mayor, who himself last ran for office in 2001, was committed to holding a fair election, acknowledging the criticisms leveled against previous balloting.

BAGHDAD — Iraq's most influential Shiite cleric urged people on Monday to vote in the upcoming provincial elections despite dissatisfaction with previous balloting held since the American-led 2003 invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein.