Sentence examples for used ballot from inspiring English sources

The central issue is whether California voters — who have repeatedly used ballot measures to rewrite state law — overstepped their bounds by passing Proposition 8, which added 14 words to the California Constitution stating that only male-female marriage would be "valid or recognized".

The central issue is whether California voters -- who have repeatedly used ballot measures to rewrite state law -- overstepped their bounds by passing Proposition 8, which added 14 words to the state Constitution stating that only male-female marriage would be "valid or recognized".

Over the last two years, nearly a quarter of all states have used ballot initiatives to reform their economic systems.

Elected to the presidency in 2000, and now serving as prime minister, he has used ballot-box fraud, disqualification of rival political candidates and control of national television to stay in power.

"The people had used ballots instead of bullets," Health Minister Maithripala Sirisena told a local radio station on Sunday, according to Reuters.

In a handful of other states -- Arizona, Arkansas, Oklahoma and Montana -- campaigns backing narrower health care proposals, like requiring tobacco settlement money to go toward health, are using ballot initiatives as well.

We identify a natural experiment in Danish local and regional elections involving more than 10,000 candidates on 103 different ballot papers using ballot layout to study ballot position effects.

If successful, voters can use ballot initiatives to address all avenues of economic inequality -- paid sick leave, equal pay, family and medical leave, fair scheduling, student loans, housing -- and start to rebalance our economy.

Using ballot papers, one primary and one secondary school were randomly selected from each administrative ward.

Lubaga was randomly selected out of the five using ballot papers.

One arm of each eligible class in the selected schools was randomly selected, also using ballot papers.