Synonym: choice, poll, vote. Antonym: abstain, abstention. Similar words: balloon, lot, ball, lots, slot, plot, balls, pilot. Meaning: ['bælət] n. 1. a document listing the alternatives that is used in voting 2. a choice that is made by counting the number of people in favor of each alternative. v. vote by ballot.
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241. If a non-write-in candidate fails to match the raw ballot, that is a sure sign that you have a data integrity problem.
242. On the forty-ninth ballot, Pierce won. He would be the Democratic Party's candidate for president.
243. There is a big difference in how an American citizen voted in the 1820s and how that ballot is cast at the beginning of the 21st century.
244. Her daughter arranged for the ambulance ride at the last minute after Owen failed to get an absentee ballot.
245. The EVM2003 project is a SourceForge-hosted project to develop voting machine software that uses wholly free software, and whose machines produce a voter-verifiable paper ballot.
246. The new act stipulates that election to union office shall be by secret ballot of members.
247. Save Our Secret Ballot amendments prevent adoption of card-check laws by other states—but the NLRB's lawsuits could sweep those protections aside as well.
248. The rush to fix the latest glitches followed Comelec's revelation that it had evidence of a plot to disenfranchise voters by exploiting their unfamiliarity with the machine-countable ballot forms.
249. Officials and audience check the marks in favour of President Marc Ravalomanana on a blackboard during the ballot counting for presidential elections in Antananarivo, December 3, 2006.
250. Because the woman had passed out before inserting her ballot into an electronic tabulator, her vote will be hand counted.
251. Personhood USA hopes to get proposals on the ballot in nearly half the states by 2012.
252. "The European Commission can confirm that Microsoft has proposed a consumer ballot screen as a solution to the pending antitrust case, " it said in a statement.
253. The side with the tick boxes also contains an encrypted 2D barcodeunique to that ballot.
254. The Confederation of British Industry, an employers' body, wants the law changed to make it harder to strike, by requiring at least 40% of union members to vote in a strike ballot for it to be lawful.
255. Finally, on the forty-seventh ballot, support began to increase for one of the minor candidates. His name was Franklin Pierce.
255. Sentencedict.com is a online sentence dictionary, on which you can find excellent sentences for a large number of words.
256. The IOC President is elected by the IOC members by secret ballot for an initial term of eight years, renewable once for four additional years.
257. Khalif may be an unlikely candidate. But few of the women on the ballot are striding gung ho into the spotlight.
258. That was mainly because I was in Hong Kong already and I couldn't be bothered to figure out how to do an absentee ballot and I thought for sure Al Gore was going to win.
259. And to cut down on the chance of touts , festival organisers had stipulated that only the people named on the ballot would be allowed entry to the reading.
260. For example, a production ballot XML data file might have a name like election-20041102-US-MA-Franklin-2390-Dem-EN.xml or election-20041102-US-MA-Hampshire-3451-Rep-ES.xml.
261. I've told you before about Florence Stein (ph) of South Dakota who was 88 years old and insisted that her daughter bring an absentee ballot to her hospice bedside.
262. The return of an ongoing absentee ballot as undeliverable .
263. Susan B. Anthony was fined $100 for casting an illegal ballot in the 1872 presidential election.
264. The Trades Union Congress (TUC) did not support the NUM, seeming to support Thatcher's call for a national ballot.
265. She arrived at her polling place on a gurney in an ambulance, where an election judge and support worker climbed aboard with an electronic voting machine and let her cast her ballot.
266. These awards are all about "fair play" and as the independent ballot counter we will do our part to ensure that there is fair play in the counting process.
267. One early vote the Democrats were happy to advertise was that of President George Bush, casting his Texas absentee ballot for John McCain last week.
268. In the same vein, there are a number of non-partisan groups that observe the election to insure that there is no hanky-panky with any of the ballot boxes.
269. One of the party pamphlets distributed in ceremonies in Mandalay reads: "In the election, it is important to use the ballot wisely and correctly."
270. Stockholders often find it difficult to attend the annual stockholders' meeting, so most vote on company matters by means of proxy, a form of absentee ballot.