18 example sentences using ballot.
Ballot used in a sentence
Ballot in a sentence as a noun
Stuff like this is why the secret ballot exists.
It's a secret ballot -- you cannot have any way to prove which candidates you voted for.
If you go to the ballot for everything, you end up with disasters like San Francisco. No, benevolent dictators are the way to go.
Yeah, it's a warning that was passed by ballot initiative. If the initiative had said "Warning: this building is known to contain body thetans" then they'd have to print that on the sign.
In short, voting with your wallet or voting with your feet means far greater efficacy and voice than going through the ceremony of voting with a ballot. -- Rule by an elite is inevitable.
The only thing that constrains those is a public that cares enough to extract a price for the abuses, starting with public outcry and action at the ballot box.
The US political system is a effectively a convoluted equivalent of having a ballot with only one name on it. Only in this case it's a dollar sign.
It's like that joke about a Belarusian referendum ballot: Do you not object for the president to remain in power indefinitely? [ ] No, I don't object [ ] Yes, I don't object
I'd bet voter apathy has more to do with the available choices on the ballot than difficulty in filling it out on time. Further, I don't think Internet voting is automatically a smart way to boost turnout.
Ballot in a sentence as a verb
Here's how it works: every Venezuelan voter gets TWO ballots. One is electronic, the second is a paper print-out of the touch-screen ballot, which the voter reviews, authorises, then places in a locked ballot-box.
Judge Leon's ruling is a good step, but I'm disappointed and ashamed that the first president I cast a ballot towards is stonewalling on such an important issue.
I mean, why on earth would you tamper with a voting machine so that it stuffs the ballot, but have it update the UI so that the user can see and report the error? This should fall to the way side of failing basic logic, but it doesn't because people want a sensationalist article to argue over.
In 2012, Klayman filed on behalf of a Florida resident an unsuccessful challenge to Barack Obama's placement on the primary ballot and claimed that the latter is not a natural-born citizen." What a hero."
And don't forget that once the wealthy have pulled their children out of the public schools, they'll vote for ballot initiatives and candidates that reduce funding for public schools. The poor, who care less about the quality of education their children are receiving, won't bother to fight back.
If Id liked a ballot measure that failed to pass, for example, I dont think it would be in any way dishonorable to stop following it now, even if I still completely supported its aims.
Society must seize the capital which belongs to it, by the ballot if it can, by revolution if it must. Once in possession of it, it must administer it on the majority principle, though its organ, the State, utilize it in production and distribution, fix all prices by the amount of labor involved, and employ the whole people in its workshops, farms, stores, etc.
The voting box is an incredibly coarse-grained tool to effect political change, especially in American democracy where you have one of two candidates to pick from, who've already gone through several political processes to arrive at your ballot box. If you care about politics get involved.
If you say everyone cannot be educated about every issue, fine, I can "follow" PG's votes on wall street reform and grellas's votes on IP tort reform and Schneier's votes on TSA etc just by copying their votes on those issues into my ballot, a permission which I can revoke at any time or on a vote-by-vote basis, as easy as unfollowing them on VoteTwitter. This is better than the proxy of professional politicians deciding every issue with fixed terms.
Ballot definitions
a document listing the alternatives that is used in voting
a choice that is made by counting the number of people in favor of each alternative; "there were only 17 votes in favor of the motion"; "they allowed just one vote per person"
vote by ballot; "The voters were balloting in this state"