| Tomorrow morning a special Caucus meeting will be held to ballot for the new positions on the frontbench. |
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| They voted unanimously to ballot to strike in defence of educational provision in the borough. |
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| It's also worth noting that even if people don't apply for an absentee ballot, in many states you can vote early, which is what I plan to do. |
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| Teachers voted to ballot for industrial action yesterday after calling for reduced class sizes in Scotland. |
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| Some question as to whether can you get your absentee ballot, vote on it and get it back in time for the election. |
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| This was the fourth time the workforce had been asked if they wanted to ballot for strike action. |
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| Ambulance workers in the West Midlands and Shropshire are set to ballot for strikes over the implementation of a new pay deal. |
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| Those members who cannot attend the Convention are urged to exercise their right to vote by casting an absentee ballot. |
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| State law requires local boards of elections to conduct absentee ballot voting at nursing homes. |
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| My mother was not allowed to vote today because someone had already submitted an absentee ballot in her name. |
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| This latest ballot was necessary after both candidates failed to win an absolute majority in the first ballot held two weeks ago. |
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| Election officials complain of paper jams, maintenance problems at the polling places, and high costs of printing and ballot management. |
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| Her election by acclamation, rather than ballot, immediately reminded us of past political practices which did not tolerate dissent. |
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| Tradition also fell by the wayside when councillors nominated two members to serve as deputy mayor, causing a ballot. |
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| He said that the ballot was balanced on a knife-edge and that it looked to be tipping against the Prime Minister and his top-up fee plans. |
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| It is vital that all the broadcasting unions move to ballot for action swiftly before the mood turns to resignation, they say. |
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| The Teachers Union of Ireland is preparing to ballot its members on the offer. |
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| The GMB union had threatened to ballot its 2,000 members at Warrington, Cheshire and Aylesford in Kent in a row over contracts of employment. |
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| The drivers' union ASLEF is preparing to ballot its members for a 48-hour strike. |
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| The pressure not to have a ballot came from the rank and file, not Scargill and the NUM union leadership. |
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| The Ticket Window random draw ballot for individual matches at the ICC Cricket World Cup 2003 is now complete. |
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| I was instructed to vote for two candidates, whereupon I looked at the ballot sheet and found there were only three people standing. |
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| Finally, the man told the woman to express her opinion where it counts, at the ballot box. |
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| So roll up for your tax cut, folks, and pencil in a trip to the ballot box this year. |
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| The election will be a postal ballot, with voting papers going out from 4 October. |
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| They were accused of a whitewash, and the voters expressed their contempt at the ballot box. |
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| If a printer breaks, the voter is not allowed to cast a vote until the ballot is finished printing. |
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| The three tellers read each ballot successively, and the third one reads the name aloud. |
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| At least a dozen councils are yet to supply ballot packs to the Royal Mail ready for posting. |
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| With a postal ballot, community patriarchs can insist on inspecting the ballots before voting. |
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| A manual count is a laborious process whereby each ballot is scrutinised individually by local electoral officials. |
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| A letter confirming the ballot paper would be sent out was also received yesterday. |
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| The threat of a tube strike over anti-terrorist safety measures receded today when a drivers' union decided not to ballot for industrial action. |
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| Morales garnered 21 percent of the ballot to place a surprise second in the presidential race. |
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| Punch cards have averaged a residual vote rate of 2.5 percent in presidential elections and 4.7 percent down the ballot. |
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| The turnout for the ballot was 68 per cent, and of those, the vote was 2,947 in favour of action and 2,246 against. |
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| The demand to reopen the ballot box was sparked by a statement made by three councillors who witnessed the ballot counting. |
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| Debs won 897,000 votes on election day, 6 percent of the ballot before women had the right to vote. |
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| Ray predicted that violations would be rampant during both legislative and presidential elections and during the ballot counting. |
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| In the ballot for industrial action a majority of 82 percent voted in favour of strike action. |
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| Of the 16,000 workers who participated in the ballot, 84.4 percent voted in favor of strike action. |
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| Instead, his vote dropped by over a million votes and in the first round of voting he gained just 34.9 percent of the ballot. |
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| There was a low turnout in the ballot with just 30 percent of teachers voting. |
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| The nut has won the argument and now we need to maximise the turnout in the ballot. |
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| His vote share grew and in the Assembly elections he led the party in securing 45 per cent of the ballot. |
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| Last July, after negotiations failed to produce any progress, workers overwhelmingly voted in a union ballot to strike. |
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| Mental health workers in Manchester have voted for a strike ballot over cuts they claim will kill patients. |
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| Eurotunnel train drivers are to hold a strike ballot over the issue of trade union recognition, it was announced this week. |
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| And residents will have to choose from a huge 15 nominations for councillor positions when they vote by ballot. |
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| The questions to be answered are selected by groups of practicing family physicians who vote through an online ballot. |
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| The workers are to begin voting in a strike ballot on January 25, following their rejection of a proposed two-year wage deal from the company. |
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| A person's membership may be revoked for cause, other than nonpayment of dues, by a two-thirds vote by ballot of the Board of Directors. |
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| Under-siege managers refused to discuss the planned ballot by baggage handlers today. |
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| With no love lost between the rivals, there were two clear camps as 78 tellers flicked through the ballot papers. |
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| Well, the problem here is, the ballot initiatives mandate something like 70 percent of the spending in the budget. |
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| Fortunately, there are scads of principled, hopelessly marginal parties and candidates for whom you can cast a purely symbolic ballot. |
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| However, one teaching union has already threatened to ballot its members over possible strike action if the six-term year is introduced. |
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| The completed ballot paper is then mailed back in a numbered envelope placed in another envelope. |
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| The early adoption of the institutions of representative democracy included the secret ballot. |
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| One of the biggest stories is the upcoming Australian ballot for the leadership of the ruling Labor party. |
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| The ballot is to take place in the next fortnight over the sacking of a non-driving employee after he tested positive for alcohol at work. |
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| The RMT will ballot members at Silverlink trains, which runs services from London to the Midlands, and at Docklands Light Railway in London. |
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| He yesterday challenged the IRA to consider jettisoning forever its strategy of holding the Armalite in one hand and the ballot box in the other. |
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| Thereafter, the IRA and Sinn Fein went forward on a twin-track policy, combining ballot box with Armalite. |
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| Each respondent then dropped the questionnaire into the store's ballot box. |
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| There can no longer be an acceptable half-way house between the Armalite and the ballot box. |
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| In each of them the voters will cast a ballot for the party they prefer and will list the four candidates they have chosen. |
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| Under its provisions, parties are able to produce and distribute their own version of the postal ballot form to apply to vote by post. |
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| The first in line made the sign of the cross against his chest before dropping his ballot into a clear plastic container. |
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| West Yorkshire police said further arrests were expected as part of an ongoing investigation into ballot rigging in the Bradford area. |
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| Does anyone remember when he said Liberal Party members would select candidates in their ridings by ballot in a democratic election? |
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| If I had my way, those politicians would have to take a lie-detector test just to get on the ballot! |
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| He got put on the ballot in Oregon temporarily by catering to a virulently anti-gay right-wing group. |
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| Voting requires an anonymous ballot, which means that most of our anti-fraud systems from the financial world don't apply to voting. |
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| They mentioned that, by law, there has always been an anti-fraud device on the ballot paper, even with traditional elections. |
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| The bar code will be printed on the reverse side of the ballot paper on the declaration of identity. |
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| All had appeared in readiness for Harris to deliver the coup de grace to Gore on Saturday, once the absentee ballot returns were completed. |
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| Question 8 stood alone as the only straightforward, answerable question on the entire ballot, and yet it too was fraught with complexities. |
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| Only a few fake ballot papers were found by the commission ahead of the April 5 legislative election. |
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| Alaska's ballot measure attempts to legalize marijuana for adults 21 and older. |
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| Well don't bother annihilating them at the ballot box, just ban them instead. |
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| In the event of an improper vote, the scanner rejects the ballot and the voter corrects the mistake and resubmits it. |
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| Each Area conducted their own ballot, and it was expected that the others would follow the lead set by the Yorkshire Area. |
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| Millions of Italian voters will go to the ballot boxes today and tomorrow to decide who leads the next Italian government. |
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| Although the party is not demanding a rerun of the May ballot, they have called on council chiefs to launch a full investigation. |
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| Enter your zip code to find out who's running for offices on your ballot and where the candidates stand on issues. |
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| And another ballot was found to have violated state law requiring that candidates for nonpartisan office be listed alphabetically. |
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| This campaign exposed the ballot access barriers that confront all third party and independent candidates. |
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| He won by a landslide in the second round of a secret ballot, defeating four other candidates. |
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| Second preferences on the alternative vote ballot paper are expected to be decisive. |
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| A two-month ballot period will follow for a vote of yea or nay, with only editorial comments allowed. |
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| It was regrettable that the workers felt that they had been put into a corner where they had to ballot for industrial action. |
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| Activists are now going all out to win the ballot for action over the next few weeks. |
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| In part, that's because getting young voters to the ballot boxes costs three times as much as doing so with older voters. |
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| There she will be able to fill in her ballot paper in private and put it in a ballot box. |
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| On a very basic level, the ongoing violence would make it difficult for voters to reach the ballot box. |
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| That is a dramatic distortion of what voters said at the ballot box and created yet another phony majority government. |
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| It is time to register to vote and at all levels hold our elected officials accountable at the ballot box. |
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| Unfortunately, there will only be two names on the presidential ballot in my jurisdiction, with no space for a write-in. |
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| Disaffected Republicans and disaffected Democrats will remain disaffected or sit out the election or cast a write-in ballot. |
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| A demand for a recount can only be filed by a presidential candidate who was on the ballot or a certified write-in candidate. |
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| The High Court ordered ballot boxes sealed pending an investigation, but has not ordered a recount. |
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| Once polling ends, ballot boxes will be sealed and transferred under guard to eight counting centres. |
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| I shook his hand just before the primary up here and told him I was a registered Republican and I was writing him in on my ballot. |
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| Even though his name wasn't on the ballot, he was written in by nearly half of the voters. |
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| If the Prime Minister refused to explain himself over the war, his conduct would be judged at the ballot box, he added. |
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| Who, other than the voters, via the ballot box, should control the government? |
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| Chan failed to mention that many of the past campaigns he was involved in were defeated by voters at the ballot box. |
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| Unions are to ballot for industrial action from this week over fears that regional airports will not be able to survive on their own. |
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| Over 8,000 drivers, warehouse and support staff in Morrisons are to ballot for strike action. |
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| It would be equal to a political public beheading if your office denies access to ballot for SEP on the basis of any bureaucratic assault. |
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| Many of these voters had voted an absentee ballot and wanted to know what would happen to their ballot. |
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| By exchanging the bullet for the ballot box, they are helping to create a better world order that all of us dream of. |
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| He said growers were passionate about the issue, and would make their feelings known through the ballot box. |
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| Firefighters in York have voted unanimously to ballot for county-wide strike action in protest at the controversial sacking of a colleague. |
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| Spoiling your ballot paper today is an abdication of personal responsibility. |
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| In a few states, such voters can get an absentee ballot, but that takes foresight and planning that most of us lack. |
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| It was so recent that he wasn't able to request an absentee ballot but he was, nonetheless, determined to vote that day. |
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| But if the Board maintains its present approach the union will be forced to ballot for protest action to protect services and jobs. |
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| The train drivers' union Aslef is also threatening to ballot for strikes in a separate dispute over pay. |
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| In all, more than 1,400 El Segundo voters applied for an absentee ballot, and almost 1,300 of those ballots were actually voted. |
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| He defeated the National Awakening Party candidate by just one ballot. |
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| Promotion of photo ID to protect the integrity of the ballot box from fraud? |
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| If we can collect 200,000 signatures on our petition, then our candidate will be included on the ballot. |
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| Weeks of preparation and discussions led up to Friday's ballot. |
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| The ground game in Iowa has traditionally revolved around an absentee ballot program. |
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| In Stark County, the total number of early votes cast by absentee ballot and in person is up from 2008 for Democrats. |
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| In case they fail to secure it in time, they are helping him get an absentee ballot. |
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| Van Flein, who is also the Palin family lawyer, is observing the absentee ballot counting for the Miller camp. |
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| This means the favored candidate gets an advantageous spot on the ballot and a distinct electoral advantage in that county. |
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| If the first 10 amendments were each put to a vote on nation-wide ballot initiatives, how would they fare? |
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| However, more than 20 players on the ballot this year were probably worthy of being enshrined in Cooperstown. |
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| If 29 vote for someone else, the race for speaker goes to a second ballot for the first time in almost 100 years. |
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| At least 29 fellow Republicans must vote against Boehner for a second ballot to be reached, and that seems very unlikely. |
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| That November, many of us were stunned as voters in four states supported marriage equality at the ballot box. |
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| The message is that strong progressive leadership is within reach if women seize it at the ballot box. |
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| Beltrami believes the minimum wage bill was introduced because it would hurt Republicans no matter what the ballot. |
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| Romney and Ron Paul will have Virginia to carve up between themselves because Newt and Santorum failed to make the ballot. |
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| But the effectiveness of this strategy depends, in part, upon whether a campaign can effectively predict who will cast an absentee ballot and which voters will do so early on. |
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| Make sure your vote counts, order your absentee ballot today. |
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| In California, where vote-by-mail has been in place for two decades, 38 percent of the voters who voted by mail in 2000 had not cast an absentee ballot in the last four years. |
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| Your absentee ballot will ensure that your vote can be verified. |
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| The switch last fall from the punch-card ballots to the optical scanner machines allows a voter to complete an absentee ballot and feed it into the machine immediately. |
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| We must arrange to vote by absentee ballot in the general election, so that we can go to the swing states and work to get out the vote on election day. |
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| You have to remember that we have an official who sent these voters their absentee ballot forms, they filled them out, they voted them properly, they were counted properly. |
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| The result for the ballot on London weighting was due on Friday. |
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| My ballot papers arrived but with the wrongly-named addressee. |
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| Reasons for the high figures include misunderstanding of the forms and voters being unhappy about putting their signatures on to a secret ballot paper. |
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| North Dakota has a less subtle constitutional amendment on the ballot stating that life begins at conception. |
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| The ballot uncertainty that convulsed the nation after Florida's vote in 2000 could not happen in Mexico or Brazil. |
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| A teacher at the school took a copy of the New York ballot paper, photocopied it and whited out all the nominees names, putting school subjects in their place. |
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| It also helps that he kept Cory Booker off the ballot with a crafty scheduling of a Senate special election last month. |
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| Once that has been done, council can choose to add the smoke-free question to the fall election ballot instead of passing the bylaw on final readings. |
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| Wednesday, one of his political advisers said he will make a formal announcement after the recall is officially certified and a date for the ballot is set. |
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| Considering that there are often over 50 people on the ballot, voters to tend just defer to their party. |
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| After each candidate was nominated by a designee, they would give a speech before the first ballot. |
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| Van Auken and vice presidential candidate Jim Lawrence are on the ballot in New Jersey, and are urging supporters in New York to cast write-in votes. |
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| All that will remain is for the voters to register their opinions with a cross on a ballot, the tallying of opinions and the announcement of results. |
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| If that's true, then a former inmate who already has what it takes to clean up his act isn't likely to relapse into a life of crime just because he can't cast a ballot. |
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| In our phone poll more than 80 per cent favoured postponing the ballot. |
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| Republicans gather in every county and go through several rounds of voting by secret ballot. |
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| The pay-off for Boehner arrived when it was time to vote by secret ballot on the leadership for the 112th Congress. |
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| When the department meets to discuss the case, the discussion is confidential and the vote is tallied by secret ballot. |
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| Without a secret ballot, many people did not have the opportunity to vote their conscience. |
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| Some are members of Congress on the fast track, others are on the ballot looking to make their marks. |
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| Here was the feistiness that likely could have made him the victor had his name been on the ballot. |
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| If Conyers doesn't make the ballot, he would be the second Michigan incumbent to be felled by these issues in the past two years. |
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| And if candidates on the ballot this year are reluctant to campaign alongside Sanders, they are not shy about taking his money. |
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| The students roar with approval, and, even though the principal expels her and crosses her name off the ballot, her fellow students vote for her anyway. |
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| Georgette Gagnon reports from Kabul on missing fingers and stolen ballot boxes. |
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| The ballot on Monday, of Rudd versus gillard, is seen as a test of his popularity against her competence. |
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| In California, there is talk of exploring a 2012 ballot initiative to require the labeling of GMO foods. |
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| But democracy is a set of mechanisms to guarantee freedom of thought and assembly and peaceful competition for governmental authority through ballot boxes. |
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| Having a secret ballot means that there will be no way to audit the results and we will have to trust a system that has known security weaknesses to tell us who won. |
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| Republican legislation and a long ballot led to shamefully long lines in the Sunshine State. |
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| Voters in Maine, Maryland and Washington State became the first to approve same-sex marriage at the ballot box rather than through courts or legislatures. |
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| Early on Saturday tallymen could be seen rushing between booths leaning over the makeshift partitions as ballot papers were unfolded and laid out in bundles. |
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| The system's side effect is to invite the French to use their first ballot as a protest vote. |
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| I visited one babushka's home to monitor the use of mobile ballot boxes. |
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| A ballot comes to us from the Italian word balotta for a little ball, since such balls were used for secret voting by placing them in the appropriate urn or box. |
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| The issue is making sure every ballot cast is counted, not impeding the individual freedom to fill out a form. |
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| The ballot boxes may not open until 5 May, but the postal votes on which many of Labour's most marginal seats will be decided began dropping on to doormats last weekend. |
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| Voting by ballot in Division elections shall be conducted by mail and shall include the option of electronic means as provided for by the Board of Directors. |
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| Every district secretary, every regional secretary was elected by ballot. |
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| There has been a strike ballot over the issue, which closes this week. |
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| While out of office, he campaigned for further reforms, including vote by ballot, household suffrage, and triennial parliaments, embarrassing the Whig ministers. |
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| Britain's firefighters voted to hold a ballot for strike action today. |
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| Votes in a ballot for strike action are still being counted. |
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| Almost two out of three who voted in a preliminary ballot said they would strike over plans by Essex County Council to make the changes in September. |
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| Voter complaints about being given incorrect ballots and mismatches between ballot totals and the number of people who signed up to vote also surfaced in San Diego. |
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| The union was unable to reveal the level of turnout for the ballot. |
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| Maureen was one of 1,000 lucky people to have won tickets for the event in a competition ballot, and among an estimated 200 to have seen both events. |
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| Unfortunately being a member does not give you priority on home England matches anymore and you have to enter a ballot to get tickets for away matches. |
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| Since we also assume that demand will far outweigh the available allocation of tickets, we will perform a ballot on 31 January 2006 of all orders received. |
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| The Ticket Window, sometimes known as a ticket ballot or lottery, will give every applicant an equal chance of getting seats for individual matches. |
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| Now they are holding a ballot to decide which of the villains will win the dubious honour of having his or her effigy burned on a Guy Fawkes bonfire next month. |
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| They would then ballot their 11,000 members on such an offer. |
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| The union will ballot its nearly 500 members at First Bus on the offer. |
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| The National Union of Journalists is preparing to ballot its members over a cull of staff at Express Newspapers that could see up to 13 jobs lost in Scotland. |
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| At its annual conference in April, the National Union of Teachers voted to ballot its members on boycotting the testing of pupils at ages seven, 11 and 14 in England. |
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| A mass meeting of over 500 Unison members held at the end of November voted unanimously to ballot for further action in support of the social workers. |
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| Hundreds of striking Yorkshire miners are set to ballot for further industrial action, in a ground-breaking legal manoeuvre which could safeguard their jobs. |
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| About 300 school caretakers and cleaners employed by Jarvis in Huddersfield and Dewsbury, west Yorkshire, are set to ballot for strikes over pay and conditions. |
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| He demanded that the Central Election Commission seal all ballot boxes in the 13,000 polling booths around the island so that a recount could be done. |
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| The current disagreement is over the process to deal with the ballot boxes that are found to contain invalid votes. |
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| Until the 1993 election, the ballot was not secret, voters were not registered and they did not elect representatives directly. |
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| With control of the ballot box and more access to credit, white planters bought out such farmers, expanding their ownership of Delta bottomlands. |
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| Membership of the Liberal Democrats rose from 45,000 to 61,000 as the party prepared to hold its 2015 party leadership ballot. |
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| In 2008, Nader formed Independent Parties in New Mexico, Delaware, and elsewhere to gain ballot access in several states. |
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| I'm not sure that anybody had ever termed butterfly ballot, and that's what it was called ever since. |
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| Hanging chads, a butterfly ballot, and the Supreme Court remain the most vivid memories of that political donnybrook. |
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| He analyzes the disputes surrounding the butterfly ballot employed in Palm Beach County and the absentee ballots in Seminole and Martin Counties. |
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| The voting methods are to be made uniform state-wide, and the confusing butterfly ballot design is to be abandoned. |
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| Provoked by the infamous butterfly ballot, citizens and many political leaders apparently prefer a uniform ballot across the country. |
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| I saw nothing peculiar in his conduct, and thought that his arrangement of the ballot box was perfect. |
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| There is universal suffrage for adults over 18 years of age, with a secret ballot for all elected offices. |
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| In points of order before the debate, many members demanded a secret ballot. |
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| In response to the continuing problem of Taser abuse in Eugene, Randy Prince submitted a prospective petition and received a ballot title. |
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| Voters have one vote which can be cast for an individual candidate or for a party list on the district ballot. |
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| Voters, therefore, do not have the option to express their preferences at the ballot as to which of a party's candidates are elected into office. |
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| At the time, there was a term-limit initiative on the Florida ballot for which Canady expressed support. |
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| To paraphrase James Watt, public policy can be decided by the ballot box or the cartridge box. |
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| The NUM ran a national ballot on possible strike action, and this was passed by members. |
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| Seats and days are allocated randomly and ballot tickets are not transferrable. |
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| The strike was deemed illegal by the courts on the basis that the NUM rulebook required a secret ballot for a national strike. |
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| The most recent figures from 2011 suggested there were four applicants to every ballot ticket. |
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| Following an unofficial strike in 1969 about the pay of surface workers, it was decided that the threshold for the ballot should be lowered. |
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| The CGF members later voted for their preferred candidate in a secret ballot. |
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| Meetings also occur every three months where supporters are invited by ballot and are invited to ask questions to the Board. |
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| The Act also defined a procedure by which local communities could petition for a ballot for an end to selection at schools. |
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| A man smashed ballot boxes with a golf club at a polling station at Carrick Knowe in Corstorphine in Edinburgh. |
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| In several states, the administrations of public universities are elected via the general electoral ballot. |
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| This was the origin of what became known as the Armalite and ballot box strategy. |
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| Since the introduction of the Australian ballot in the 1880s, virtually all voting is conducted secretly. |
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| By swapping the Armalite for the ballot box, as the well worn phrase puts it, the IRA have pledged to change the means towards their ends. |
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| The wording of the ballot paper loaded the vote in favour of the Conservative candidate. |
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| The new alternative vote system also lets non-members join the ballot for the first time. |
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| Out of the survey response by 433 cooperatives, 52 reported frequent use and 132 have occasional use of write-in candidates on the ballot. |
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| But a group of wharfies rushed the ballot box, opened it, and ripped up some voting slips and threw others over a fence. |
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| You must send your vote-by-mail ballot by Friday for it to arrive in the election office in time to be counted. |
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| Their simplest and most effective scheme is to create a disturbance during which they can stuff the ballot box as they tried to last night. |
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| In fact, La Jornada ran a still photo from a videotape clearly showing an IFE official stuffing a ballot box. |
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| Many states have developed laws, rules or procedures that limit access to the ballot box. |
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| We'll brief them on the process of opening the ballot box and the screening process. |
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| Ballot papers with blue color are for Chairman and Vice Chairman while the white color ballot papers is for electing the General members. |
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| A North East Ukip candidate has been left off ballot papers delivered to a polling station in an election day glitch. |
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| Republicans were said to have stuffed the ballot box with illegal votes, and the Democrats were accused of a lot of things too. |
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| Several council officials were convicted of stuffing the ballot box in 1996 to guarantee approval of a widely disliked contract. |
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| Dr Jonathan Grant feels the best way to show his disaffection with political parties over Iraq is to spoil his ballot paper. |
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| In modern elections, held by secret ballot, a voter can discover how their vote was distributed by viewing detailed election results. |
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| The names of entrants are then shuffled in a ballot to produce a random order in which they will be called by the Speaker. |
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| The completed ballot paper therefore contains an ordinal list of candidates. |
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| In the most common ballot design, they place a '1' beside their most preferred candidate, a '2' beside their second most preferred, and so on. |
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| Instead of a series of checkboxes, preferential block voting uses a preferential ballot. |
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| The spoiler effect is the effect of vote splitting between candidates or ballot questions with similar ideologies. |
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| Voter turnout is the percentage of eligible voters who cast a ballot in an election. |
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| Article 3 provides for the right to elections performed by secret ballot, that are also free and that occur at regular intervals. |
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| I'll be talking to colleagues in the party encouraging them to back Chris when ballot papers start dropping through their letter boxes. |
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| The need to make an audible signal also compromises any situation in which a secret ballot may be desired. |
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| As there was no secret ballot until 1872, the landowner could evict electors who did not vote for the man he wanted. |
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| Many countries also have the none of the above option on their ballot papers. |
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| In Uruguay, the President and members of the General Assembly are elected by on a single ballot, known as the double simultaneous vote. |
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| Between 1838 and 1848 a popular movement, Chartism, organised around six demands including universal male franchise and the secret ballot. |
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| If a voter wants to make a complaint, marking a tendered ballot is the first step in pursuing the complaints procedure. |
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| After marking the tendered ballot in private, the voter must not place it in the ballot box. |
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| Thatcher was replaced as Prime Minister and party leader by her Chancellor John Major, who prevailed over Heseltine in the subsequent ballot. |
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| One of the most prominent aspects of the papal election process is the means by which the results of a ballot are announced to the world. |
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| The plate is then used to drop the ballot into the chalice, making it difficult for electors to insert multiple ballots. |
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| Local government elections take place every four years and are conducted by the Tasmanian Electoral Commission by full postal ballot. |
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| As most historians agree, the British government keenly wanted Confederation on the ballot and they made sure that it was. |
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| One of the stumbling blocks is that the August AGM did not appoint a returning officer or scrutineer to conduct the ballot. |
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| Sanjay Grover, Practising Company Secretary as Scrutinizer for conducting the postal ballot. |
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| After a voter enters an address, the voter's specific ballot displays in a clickable, markable form. |
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| In Denmark and the Faroe Islands, people are the most eager at the ballot box, as the percentage of electorates is close to 90 per cent. |
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| Members are elected annually via a postal ballot, and current standing orders mean that at least ten seats must change hands each year. |
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| Strayhorn and Friedman's presence in the race resulted in a splitting of the ballot four ways between themselves and the two major parties. |
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| The first step will typically be to find out the initial feeling or reaction of the jurors to the case, which may be by a show of hands, or via secret ballot. |
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| These juries voted by secret ballot and were eventually granted the power to annul unconstitutional laws, thus introducing the practice of judicial review. |
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| Backlash against illegal aliens led to the passage of California Proposition 187 in 1994, a ballot initiative which would have denied many public services to illegal aliens. |
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| Disabled voters can also request the Presiding Officer in the polling station or bring along a family member to mark their ballot papers for them if they wish. |
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| Although Thatcher won the first ballot with 204 to 152 votes and 16 abstentions, Heseltine had attracted sufficient support to force a second ballot. |
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| She defeated Heath on the first ballot and he resigned the leadership. |
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| Abar said authorities have started transporting ballot boxes from polling stations around the country to the main tally center in Tripoli, CNN reported. |
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| If a voter requests a ballot paper but someone has already voted in their name, or they are listed as having requested a postal vote, they can only cast a tendered ballot. |
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| Though she initially stated that she intended to contest the second ballot, Thatcher decided, after consulting with her Cabinet colleagues, to withdraw from the contest. |
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| The strike's effectiveness was reduced because the NUM leaders refused to nationally ballot members on strike action and argued that it was an issue for each area to decide. |
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| At the Landsgemeinde, citizens of a district or canton assemble annually in a public space under open sky to vote on a series of ballot questions. |
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| The same often applies in the case of strikes conducted without an official ballot of the union membership, as is required in some countries such as the United Kingdom. |
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| The Ballot Act 1872 replaced open elections with a secret ballot system. |
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| The term of office of a parish councillor is four years, and council seats are elected en bloc through multiple non transferable vote, by secret ballot. |
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| In all other cantons democratic rights are exercised by secret ballot. |
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| The surge in support for the veteran leftwinger has seen him overtake the Shadow Health Secretary as the frontrunner with just over a week before ballot papers go out. |
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| A ballot now exists annually for the chance for individuals to purchase a maximum of two tickets from a special allocation of 100 stalls seats for the Last Night. |
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| In the 130s voting by ballot had been introduced in elections for choosing magistrates, passing laws and deciding legal cases, replacing the earlier system of oral voting. |
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| Section 19 modifies the rules on joint ticket candidatures at elections, permitting the use of an emblem of one of the parties or a combined emblem on ballot papers. |
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| Both sets of positions are directly elected by postal ballot. |
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| Other breaches were recorded, particularly the absence of the number of polling station on the ballot boxes and even the existence of a ballot box which was not sealed. |
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| In the thirteenth century, a new method of appointing the doge, by the famous ballot of Venice, a complicated mixture of choice and chance, was adopted. |
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| However, the last minute redesign of ballot papers that was blamed for the high number of rejections in two electoral regions was done to make electronic voting easier. |
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| Both safe packages and seals for ballot boxes and documentation show a sign 'opened' on a security strip if a ballot box or a folder with voting documentation is opened. |
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