Sentence examples for the wrong ballot from inspiring English sources

This could be explained by voters putting the slips in the wrong ballot box.

In the south of England, Bournemouth council apologised after 100 people were unable to cast their vote in the local elections because an administrative blunder had led to the wrong ballot papers being issued.

It has also been asked to revisit the issue of whether to consider rejected ballots, like ones put in the wrong ballot box, as part of the total when calculating whether the 50 percent threshold had been passed.

In Tirana 249,184 people voted; Mr Rama, who is running for a fourth term as mayor, won by just ten votes.Yesterday the central election commission said there would be a recount it would count voting papers that had been inadvertently placed in the wrong ballot box.

Votes may have to be recounted in parts of Macclesfield because some voters in last week's local elections were given the wrong ballot papers.

Were the poll workers uninformed, and simply gave out the wrong ballot?

Some were given the wrong instructions, even the wrong ballots.

Well-intentioned though they may be, they sometimes get in car accidents on the way to the polling place, or hand out the wrong ballots, or give the wrong advice, or simply never show up.

Election officials have called for new elections in a handful of local races in recent years where there was evidence of fraud or that people had been given the wrong ballots.

In another contested race ― in which Republican Bob Thomas seems to have defeated Democrat Joshua Cole by a margin of 82 votes ― state officials said some voters received the wrong ballots.

It's happened in Dorset, too, and Bournemouth council have apologized after 100 people were unable to cast their vote in the local elections because an administrative blunder meant wrong ballot papers were issued.