Balloting used in a sentence

Balloting in a sentence as a noun

The same forces are now at work pushing vote by mail and then electronic balloting. For the vendors, is about charging for the upgrade and switchover costs.

And to really get a big picture of what's going on, one has to track the news from multiple states, since every state manages its own balloting system. A full and exhaustive audit takes time.

This year the count was just slower due to so much mail-in balloting, which everyone was warned about. The "official" election was simply a rubber stamp.

That is why paper balloting is such a durable voting mechanism. Pretty well anyone can understand how you would take a stack of paper ballots and decide who got the most votes.

It seems awfully suspicious that plantiffs had no issue with the mail balloting until they lost the election.

One is messing up absentee balloting, so that they then get maybe a narrow advantage in the electoral college, on election day."

Postal balloting is very different from running poll sites. Oregon and Washington experienced a lot of growing pains.

The parent post was making a point that paper balloting seems to work well in Australia, and I took the poster at their word. If you are insisting paper ballots worked well in India and machines don't, I can only imagine you don't know what you are talking about.

Apartment living is also a big factor for postal balloting. Security of mail boxes, inconsistent updates for forwarding addresses, etc.

We have observers party from both sides throughout the whole process of balloting and counting till the results are announced and we can protest if there's peeking at particulars or foul play

We have reasonable "automation friendly" balloting designs-- Scantron style fill-in-the-circle ballots can be quickly machine read, but still manually audited. That feels like the sweet spot-- it fits into tiny budgets, and requires little user or setup training.

For the balloting methods we commonly use in the United States, ballot counting is trivially parallelizable and, therefore, easily scalable. Again, this was solved more than 100 years ago.

Until cryptographically-sound voting systems are pervasive and well-vetted, there is absolutely no hope of making online balloting both reliable and secret.

The reason the two types of balloting had such a difference in party-support is that the President in the Republican party had been telling his supporters not to use mail-in balloting because it would be rife with fraud. People took him at his word on that side of the political divide, so there's a resulting bias in the likely candidate supported by the mail-in ballots.

Unfortunately, this also applies to less extreme examples where balloting is secret and intentions uncertain: in order to shift the Nash equilibrium of a particular proposal in your favour you simply raise the spectre of an [additional, and credible] proposal you anticipate your adversaries will like even less.

The ballot drop boxes exist largely because certain government officials have worked to undermine faith in the postal service: Both with rhetoric suggesting postal balloting is susceptible to fraud and through active steps to make the post office slower and less efficient, so it might in fact struggle to deliver mail-in ballots by election day.