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Ballot boxes are in place in France as the country is getting ready to select a new president.

Once qualified, minor party candidates are placed directly on the General Election ballot and do not appear on primary ballots.

Ballot said the primary aim of the computer link between Dutch and Indonesia was to raise public awareness of the apes and their plight.

For the moment, across Europe, there is no party of the far right or the far left that looks close to winning power through the ballot box.

Finally, on the forty-seventh ballot, support began to increase for one of the minor candidates. His name was Franklin Pierce.

But it is hard to think of a recent ballot in a developed country that has led to a stockmarket taking a decisive new course.

Smith and McAdoo battled it out for 16 days until the exhausted convention nominated John W. Davis of West Virginia on the 103rd ballot.

Now we see that what civilian government wants to do in Turkey can only be checked at the ballot box, not the generals anymore.

Egyptian voters came out in force Saturday for the first ballot since popular protests swept away the previous government.

There was an open nomination, there was a secret ballot, and there was full particpation in this election.

Had Daniel Ortega not got himself illegally on to this year's ballot to seek a third term, his wife might have run in his stead.

No one would be apt to respond that lawmaking was going on, or object that the age requirement did not say anything about ballot access.

"We cannot be a party that strips working Americans of the right to a secret-ballot election, " he warned.

Each decision shall be adopted by secret ballot and with a simple majority of the committee members supporting.

The Trades Union Congress (TUC) did not support the NUM, seeming to support Thatcher's call for a national ballot.

The vote date of a ballot delivered by mail shall be the date on which the ballot was posted as evidenced by the postmark.

Decisions that require a vote of the entire Membership shall be referred to all members by mail ballot.

Accompanying the ballot papers shall be any information provided by the candidates to the General Manager regarding their candidacy.

Six of the 18 judges will also be replaced, in a ballot preceded by an unseemly round of bargaining and canvassing.

However, none of the candidates is thought likely to secure enough support on the first ballot, and a run-off vote is expected.

North Korean mass media claim that this is the most democratic form of a direct voting by secret ballot.

Back in June, when campaigning kicked off, Lula told the nation that without him there would be a void on the ballot papers.

If young people seem to be rejecting Islam at the ballot box, many seem to be more devout in their private lives.

The finding may also offer a clue as to why income inequality doesn't yet seem to be getting that much traction at the US ballot box.

He said he can be elected president without ballot stuffing.

The Election Committee was to have voted in a secret ballot on the next chief executive on March 24.

So if the user searches for the word "selection" , the code should return results that contain words like "vote" , "choice" , and "ballot" .

Mark the ballot by writing an 'X' in the circle beside the name of your chosen candidate. Then, put the ballot in the ballot box.

The ballot-rigging turned that support into a mass protest against the system itself.

Conversely, turnout may rise when the race between candidates is considered to be very close or controversial issues are on the ballot.

In the general election, voters make the final determination from among the party candidates listed on the ballot.

The result of a secret ballot is expected to be announced shortly.

Don't you know -- I disagree with Lomax on this issue -- that the ballot is more important than the dollar?

And the late delivery of ballot papers, which were securely printed abroad, delayed the voting by a week.

He no longer faces any trial at the ballot box, and is not even intent on securing the presidency for his vice-president.

His condition was that Proposition 14 would be on this month's ballot.

Oh, and a spoiled ballot is not a vote for "none of the above" , it's a non-vote.

Mr Brown is now planning to collect signatures to put a tax increase on next year's ballot.

This was a very general knowledge test, but individual ballot measures require much more detailed understanding.

But if there should remain two or more who have equal votes, the Senate shall choose from them by ballot the Vice President.

For 6, 000 to have voted in an hour at the 12 ballot boxes, they would have had an average of seven seconds each.

With a huge worldwide television audience tuning in and the Hollywood elite in attendance, the ballot process requires complete secrecy.

They realize that their future is wrapped up in a special package--the ballot box.

Typically, local officials exploit the requirement to kick democratic candidates off the ballot, claiming signatures have been forged.

He could also go the longer route and let other sponsors collect signatures to put the vote on a November ballot.

Her daughter arranged for the ambulance ride at the last minute after Owen failed to get an absentee ballot.

Elected politicians are going to pay a terrible price at the ballot box for offering to foot any of the bill.

The organization also cited a number of instances of group voting and of voters taking photographs of their marked ballot papers.

Folding the bath-towel-sized ballot paper will also be tough, and voting will take so long queues will need patience.

The High Court ordered all ballot boxes sealed to preserve evidence , but did not order a recount .

The ballot count is underway in a crucial primary election in the U. S. state of Pennsylvania.

By the time he was done, Obama's was the only name left on the ballot.

"If that's how you want it, " I said. "we'll put all out hopes on the ballot. "

But many Indonesians will take whatever freebies are on offer and cast their secret ballot as they would have done anyway.

In past elections voters had to write down the names of their preferences for up to 32 national or local positions on blank ballot forms.

Did Labor panic? Perhaps some caucus members did, but it was anger, not panic, that was the deciding emotion in today's leadership ballot.

There are plenty of candidates in Sunday's elections. Because of that, no one expects clear winners without a second ballot.

Why are the French so fed up and so ready to protest at the ballot box?

But only candidates proposed by the incumbent board make it on to the ballot that the firm sends to shareholders.

If no coincidence occurs among the chosen institutions, then it will be decided by the court from open ballot.

If a candidate decides to withdraw after the deadline, it may be too late to have the name removed from the ballot administratively .

She is only the second woman to be on the presidential ballot of a major party, and the first for the Republicans.

One political answer might be to return to the ballot boxes, by holding a referendum to approve an application to join the EU.

This overwrites any draft ballot entry for the associated e-mail address, effectively starting the process again from the beginning.

Known as spoiling the ballot, it is a tactic common in this region when voters do not support the process or the candidates.

At the ballot box, politicians that do not meet, or respond to, the needs of society suffer popular rejection.

These deep divisions are the legacy of a man whose name will not appear on the ballot in November.

The ballot code has an arbitrary length and is generated randomly to help prevent manipulation.

The four Europeans on the ballot, including the first woman to be considered, Norway's Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland, trailed badly.

Among the local ballot measures to be decided on Election Day, California's Proposition 8 is perhaps the most fiercely contested.

The secrecy requirement for the ballot may be waived, subject to a unanimous decision by the Board.

In Maine opponents of gay marriage overturned a state law at the ballot box that would have allowed same-sex nuptials.

Campaign committees for a number of presidential candidates have accused others of stuffing ballot boxes or throwing out votes.

Then it dawned on neoconservatives and liberal internationalists that there is more to all this than a ballot box.

Mr Allawi says the National Alliance tried to remove some of his allies from the ballot the night before the poll.

The core agenda is to reverse decades of eroding union membership by eliminating the right to secret ballot in union organizing.

His people were asking for guns, he said, but he promised them the ballot box.

To put fraudulent votes into (a ballot box).

In August, two miners from Manton colliery who protested that the strike was not "official" without a ballot took the NUM to court.

To put the vote on the ballot the traditional way, Mr Brown needs a supermajority (two-thirds) in the legislature.

In the nuclear ballot, the turnout was 55%. The majority against Mr Berlusconi's proposed "nuclear renaissance" was an overwhelming 94%.

Iran's Guardian Council declared that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had been re-elected as president, dismissing claims of ballot-rigging.

With a trio of victories under his Andean hat, Mr Morales can feel secure about his popularity at the ballot box.

Why all this fuss with paper and pens and ballot boxes when machines can simplify the whole task?

At one point, he said, that if Jesus could vote in Illinois, he would cast a ballot against Obama.

Mr Rudd says if he wins the ballot tomorrow he will not be giving ground to the right on issues like climate change and asylum seekers.

Indeed, the number of ballot measures, once the novelty wore off, declined and stayed low as the Southern Pacific's power faded naturally.

No one can be certain that if Islamists gain power they will give it up at the ballot box, but secular rulers sometimes fail that test.

So only a few countries give voters Swiss-style rights to take their own proposals to the ballot box.

You don't throw your ballots until you see a target, and if that target is not within your reach, keep your ballot in your pocket.

So only a few countries give voters Swiss-style rights to take their own proposals to the ballot box.

You don't throw your ballots until you see a target, and if that target is not within your reach, keep your ballot in your pocket.

Iraqi Sunnis in general feel he is trying to flout the people's will expressed at the ballot box.

Mr Rudd resigned from the leadership at a caucus meeting on Thursday rather than force the party to a ballot.

Others, he said, defaced their ballot papers.

He has taunted millions of Iranians by praising their unprecedented participation in an election many now view as a ballot-box putsch.

Mr Rudd would not speculate whether Ms Gillard would stay on as Deputy PM if she lost the ballot tomorrow.

Voter Pushpa Banya cast her ballot, just across the road from one of the Royal Palace gates.

Because of that, no one expects clear winners without a second ballot.

Winning candidates piled up huge victories on high turnouts in places where the ballot papers had never even arrived.

This was the last nationwide ballot before the presidential elections in 2012.

Each places a folded ballot onto a small desk, and then the ballot is dropped into a chalice.

Unfortunately for Thai democracy, it's a question that's unlikely to be answered through the ballot box alone.

He was elected by the unusual method of a secret ballot among the 15 board members to prevent lobbying by candidates.

Despite the NLRB's heavy hand, actions to protect the right to secret ballot at the state level proceed unabated.

Each MP is elected from the various candidates proposed for each constituency through a secret ballot .

During the reconciliation process, poll workers scan the paper ballots to produce reconstructed ballot images (REBIs).

It is essential that Africa as a whole gets used to the idea that ruling parties bow out when they are rejected at the ballot box.

If no candidate wins a majority in the first round, the two front-runners from the ballot qualify for a decisive second round on May 6.

If all of you upset him and her, a ballot paper can break him and her friends.

When the head of the armed forces refused to carry out an order to distribute the ballot papers, the president sacked him.

Californians rejected a ballot measure that would have made their state the first to legalize marijuana for recreational use.

What surprised Jin, though, was the 70% support that he won in a secret ballot amongst senior managers.

But Republicans are thought to be more energized than Democrats and therefore more likely to actually cast a ballot in this election.

In September the High Court ruled that the NUM had breached its own constitution by calling a strike without first holding a ballot.

After four years of constant defeats at the ballot box, Mr Morales's foes will need to find new ways to challenge him.

But aren't we petty, the candi-dates say, for photocopying our napkin ballot and leaving copies in thousands of bars and restaurants?

"Where you see a hat [on the ballot], tick, " Museveni recently told voters in the Pallisa region of Uganda.

According to the analyses of economics, the main policies to solve the "constructing cities" problems must be ballot and legislation.

Hamid Karzai was declared re-elected as president of Afghanistan when a second-round run-off ballot was cancelled.

So prevalent was the good feeling that Roosevelt and Garner were nominated by a mighty shout on the first ballot.

In fact, we apparently like to see the familiar presidential names on the ballot, Justin wrote.

Yet the foremost way in which religion has expressed itself around the world has been more peaceful: the ballot box.

But some may check a name on a ballot for a more primal reason: the candidate's stature.

But Mr Odinga's Orange Democratic Movement was not spotless; some ballot boxes in Nyanza were reportedly stuffed on his behalf.

Belarus election law, the president by secret ballot by the voters elected term of 5 years and can be re-elected.

They are being forced into prostitution , and they are being barred from the bank lending offices and banned from the ballot box.

Americans Elect has collected enough signatures to get a ballot line in eight states, including Michigan and Missouri.

Unions have collected enough signatures in Ohio to get a measure to reinstate collective bargaining onto the ballot this November.

Finally, all the members of the club decided to vote by ballot.

If there is a vote for fans, I really want to give every one of you a ballot because I'm so proud of your contribution and performance! ! !

Thousands of signature-gatherers are now on the streets of California to get some 74 initiatives qualified for the ballot in November.

And California's voters have, in ballot measures over the decades, made all money matters more complicated than necessary.

He may not be on the ballot this year, but mid-terms are in large part a referendum on the president.

Ballot measures have amended the constitution to prohibit gill nets and to regulate how fowl are to be kept in coops.

After years of struggle they finally gained the ballot.

In any case, since a few jurisdictions use ranked preference voting, this ballot XML format needs to accommodate it.

Voters in California will vote Tuesday on a ballot measure to require special notices on all foods made with genetically modified organisms.

A woman folds her ballot paper at a polling station in Kampala, Uganda.

His victory was subsequently attributed to large-scale ballot rigging by the Chicago mayor Richard Daley's Irish-run administration.

Cynics are even saying that members of the social elite are "voting with their feet" in a no confidence ballot over the country's future.

But their battle with him will be at the ballot box.

On October 8th the CWU announced the results of a national ballot of its Royal Mail members: 76%, it said, had voted to strike.

Any desired abbreviation of the name for use on ballot papers.

Labour's priority is the "Employee Free Choice Act" , which would allow unions to organise without a secret ballot.

To deny anyone or any group the ballot lessens its importance, for the individual and for the community.

Proposition 8, a ballot-box initiative passed in November 2008, ended California's short stint as a state that allowed same-sex marriages.

This caused long queues and in places there was a shortage of ballot papers and ballot boxes.

With Democratic voters depressed and Mr Obama off the ballot, reversals are inevitable.

Nader said he expects to do better this time and will work to get his name on the ballot in all 50 states.

The right to secret ballot is a cornerstone of American democracy.

But Hamas is banking on Egypt's Muslim Brothers soon coming to power, perhaps in a coalition, by the ballot box.

Fowler notes that people who vote often do so even when they know their lone ballot will not change the outcome of an election.

"I will be a candidate in tomorrow's ballot, " she said.

But one thats on my mind tonight is about a woman who cast her ballot in Atlanta.

Supporters of the ballot question have used the disputed new study to push their campaign for required GMO labeling in California.

Mr. Obama said some lawmakers might feel that differences can be settled only by voters at the ballot box.

But the mere fact of the ballot's existence is an astonishing victory for legalisation advocates.

This was combined with a random number in order to make it difficult to predict the URL to validate a draft ballot.

But one that's on my mind tonight is about a woman who cast her ballot in Atlanta.

split tickets in the ballot box, voting for Republicans for some offices and for Democrats for other positions.

But one that's on my mind tonight's about a woman who cast her ballot in Atlanta.

Ballot designs should pass usability and countability tests before being shown for final approval to the parties invested in the election.

The body has received 120 complaints, including ballot box stuffing in Kandahar province.

And Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has declared victory. But his opponent, Mir-Hossein Mousavi, is claiming ballot fraud and wants an investigation.

In the matches will be taken by secret ballot, to maximize the embodiment of the public assessment of the fairness of the voting.

Wait a minute, that means someone left Kobe off of their ballot.

The election came after what Kremlin critics called unprecedented pressure on vote monitors who were amassing evidence of ballot fraud.

Note : PAR means a Project Authorisation Request, to be submitted to ballot.

Confidence has also been rattled by plans to pass a bill letting unions organise without a secret ballot.

Never mind the ballot box: vote with your supermarket trolley instead.

Perhaps half a dozen other states may see a constitutional amendment blocking Obamacare on the ballot in November.

Conference Committee set up a provisional vote, by secret ballot for Speaker of the election.

California tried to do the same in 2004 with a ballot measure virtually identical to this year's Proposition 14, but voters struck it down.

In the second ballot, opposition leaders urged supporters to "vote for the crook not the fascist" .

Nor would it want to: thanks to its addiction to ballot initiatives, Californian politics is a mess.

Unions have collected enough signatures inOhioto get a measure to reinstate collective bargaining onto the ballot this November.

The vehement reaction to the usual practice of stuffing the ballot boxes was also unexpected.

Initially the Giza Pyramids were top contenders in the Internet and phone ballot to make a new list of world wonders.

A donkey transports ballot boxes to villages unreachable by vehicles in Panjshir province, north of Kabul September , .

These candidates are considered by the Executive Board (EB), which nominates one person by secret ballot.

Every Saturday morning, she and Davila knocked on doors for petition signatures that would put Barack on the ballot.

Ballot boxes are being flown by helicopter and hand- carried by porters to counting centers across this remote Himalayan country .

By raising poor citizens' voice, through the ballot box and making information widely available.

Mr Schwarzenegger has proposed suspending a spending formula that voters explicitly chose at the ballot box.

Because states still controlled voting, women began by lobbying state legislatures for the ballot.

Preventing moderate Islamists from gaining power at the ballot box only encourages extreme ones to seek it by violence.

Yet in Ohio the public-sector reforms of the Republican governor, John Kasich, were roundly rejected in a ballot on November 8th.

The most ardent advocates of capitalism claim that the market, not the ballot box, is the real democratic forum.

Democrats hope the presence of such initiatives on the ballot will lure their supporters to the polls.

Mr Musharraf eventually resigned when parliament threatened to impeach him; Mr Zardari won an indirect ballot to replace him.

Real diehards grumbled that a ballot might be a trick to bypass them.

Having clipped their president's wings, Mr Saakashvili's foes hope to take control of parliament in another ballot later this year.

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Confused and bored by the wonky and tangled wording on the ballot, most voters ignored the election entirely.

A woman had passed out while casting her ballot at an early voting site.

His campaign needs to gather a quarter-million voter signatures to qualify the measure for the November ballot.

One case seeks to block California's 2008 ballot measure known as Proposition 8. The measure banned same sex marriage in the state.

These delegates, typically party leaders, can cast their ballot as they choose.

Under the constitution, the winning candidate needs more than half the available votes cast in a national ballot.

We didn't make the ballot on the first two days. "Let's give it another day, " he said.

Section 3. Election of Directors: Elections of the directors of the corporation shall be by written ballot.

He has sponsored a voter initiative, which has just been cleared for the November ballot, for the legalisation of marijuana in California.

The side with the tick boxes also contains an encrypted 2D barcodeunique to that ballot.

Under AV voters would be invited to rank candidates on the ballot in order of preference.

Despite the troubles, the conservative party of the pro-Western Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski is expected to win the ballot.

In her late thirties, she cast a ballot for the first time in her life to back Obama, citing healthcare as her biggest concern.

More people have gone to the ballot box, but too many governments still fail to protect the rights of their people.

Votes tied for Popeye and Bluto - No ballot yet from Miss Olive Oyl. Only resident of Green County - Her vote will decide election.

Activists are pushing a ballot question to restrict the amount of carbon dioxide the power plants can emit.

One is simplicity: voters place a cross next to one name on the ballot, the candidate who secures the most crosses wins.

Now Lincoln's victory at the ballot box threatens this traditional way of life, the slavery it is built on.

It led to hundreds of ballot measures as citizens increasingly legislated directly and in tense competition with their own representatives.

One type of ballot was merely a blank piece of paper with the seal of The village office chopped on it.

That year a flurry of ballot initiatives banning gay marriages ended up on general-election ballots across America.

Some protestors had called for voters to stay away from the ballot box yesterday.

Instead, it encourages special interests to wage war by ballot measure until one lobby prevails and imposes its will on all.

Change is coming. China is already having secret ballot and competitive elections at the local level.

"a large number of persons accused of . . . tampering with ballot boxes" (James Bryce).

California struck down its gay-marriage law in a ballot in 2008, just six months after it was passed.

Many may fail even to get to see a ballot paper.

Thus its publicity folk call the upcoming ballot measure a "referendum on jobs and investment in California" .

Whatever the doubts, the ballot boxes are being flown to the provinces, trucks, helicopters anddonkeysdonkeys will deliver them.

There is limited accountability through the agency of the media; through the ballot box it remains non-existent.

Besides, Mr Arman and the other politicians supposedly boycotting the election still appear on the ballot papers.

Under the early voting system, 32 states allow voters to cast a ballot before election day, either in person at the polling site or by mail.

States vary in the number of signatures they require to place an initiative on the ballot.

The American people's message at the ballot box was loud and clear, and it is past time that the administration listened.

Then in 1994 came a ballot initiative, supported by Mr Wilson, which sought to make life much more difficult for illegal immigrants.

The plan was derailed when only 209 of the 493 deputies voted for the project in a ballot that required majority support.

Secret ballot booths shall be set up for election.

A party logo must be registered before writ day to appear on the ballot paper.

Yet less than 20% of voters say they plan to cast their ballot for the Socialist Party, according to recent surveys.

Other quick count surveys also put President Susilo on top of the ballot counting, which avoids the second run-off.

In the latest polling, a majority of voters do, in fact, favour putting the decision on a ballot, although their support has been declining.

In some jurisdictions, the order of the candidates and parties on the ballot has to be randomly assigned.

Supporters of the ballot measure say people believe in the institution of marriage.

On Monday morning, lawyers for Bush and Gore laid out their oral arguments on Florida's disputed ballot recount .

The new act stipulates that election to union office shall be by secret ballot of members.

The accusations include stuffing of ballot boxes, vote rigging, using outdated voter rolls, including names of people long since dead.

Secret ballot enables the voters to express their free will on the candidates without any restriction.

That means the parliament approved the routine budget bill that was on the ballot, but only because 321 lawmakers abstained from voting.

In the Republicans who never thought they'd pick up a Democratic ballot, but did.

If only. The ensuing election was rife with examples of voter fraud and ballot-stuffing.

Moreover, few decisions at the fund are ever put to a formal ballot.

Two measures on the 2006 ballot weighed in at more than 17, 000 words (half as long again as this special report).

Gyan received well over half the votes in a public ballot conducted by text and email.

His immediate challenge will be to collect the two million signatures he needs to get on the ballot by mid-January.

It was voters, for example, who by means of ballot initiatives insisted that the state spend more money on schools and stem-cell research.

Ms. Gillard predicted Saturday's ballot will be an 'absolute cliffhanger. '