Sentence examples for through ballot from inspiring English sources

California empowers its citizens through ballot initiatives.

We will do it through ballot boxes and referendums.

We will work to ensure that the peaceful transfer of power occurs through ballot boxes and legal institutions.

"In India the change of government has always taken place through ballot and never by bullet," she said.

Thirty other states have passed definition-of-marriage laws, including Hawaii and Alaska, which did so through ballot initiatives.

Most, however, managed to knock off these pesky competitors through ballot challenges and proceed with business as usual.

It has many nonpartisan mayors and city managers, and legislatures often take a back seat to direct democracy through ballot initiatives.

Hawaii is the eighth state to decriminalize the use of medical marijuana, but the previous seven states did so through ballot measures.

PAGE A4 Idaho Repeals Term Limits Idaho became the first state whose legislators repealed term-limit laws that voters had approved through ballot initiatives.

They are not arguing nonstop, and chads -- the scrap of paper left over from a punched-through ballot that is sometimes left partly hanging -- are not being flung around with wild abandon.

DENVER — Few elected officials would ever dare say, at least within earshot of a microphone, that voters making public policy decisions through ballot-box referendums are less capable or wise than legislators deliberating under a capitol dome.