Sentence examples for white ballot from inspiring English sources

The air was quiet in the musty stone room where one by one they stepped up to a table to register their thumbprints and check a box on the white ballot slip.

A total of 6,651,166 Yemenis voted for Mr. Hadi and 15,974 voted against, by writing "no" in the box next to a photo of Mr. Hadi on the white ballot sheet, according to Nadia al-Sakkaf, the editor in chief of the English-language Yemen Times newspaper, who is helping to organize information about the election for Western news media.

Pundits were blaming a "whitelash" for Donald Trump's win and called it a massive exercise of angry white ballot power.

At Precinct 451, members of the local electoral commission set about counting a pile of glistening white ballots.

The permanent members had red ballots and the non-permanent members had white ballots," said the UK ambassador to the UN, Matthew Rycroft.

But it centers not on which candidate to vote for but on whether to take part in the system or not -- that is, whether to vote with a white slip, a blank ballot, or whether to stay home.

I feel like I've committed a crime!" It was something she would repeat later, with tears in her voice, when the observers and I tried to get close to the table where the paper ballots were dumped from the white plastic ballot boxes.

The origins of apartheid - apartness - went right back to the very beginnings of European rule in Southern Africa, but it was only with the election of the first National Party government in 1948, in a white-only ballot, that racial segregation was thoroughly codified in law.

In Louisiana, where Kerry got a quarter of white voters' ballots, Obama was down to 14%.

Clearly, though, he will need to get more than 10% of white voters' ballots to be competitive in a general election, should he make it that far.

Nationwide, if only whites cast ballots, Romney would win 51-42, according to Pew Research.