ballot box

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

To put fraudulent votes into (a ballot box).

Obama at the ballot box. 'President Obama gave us reasonable belief that he would enforce our trade laws, ' said USW spokesman Gary Hubbard.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

It concludes with the phrase, "Voting is a pleasure" , after she puts her voting slip in the ballot box.

It's called a ballot box. What people put into the box on election day can change the course of history.

In the following decades, voters kept tightening the fiscal straitjacket with more "ballot-box budgeting" .

But he remains popular, and his loyalists in the People's Power Party (PPP) romped home at the ballot box last December.

But California, where such matters inevitably go to the ballot box, is likely to be its most spectacular front.

As Nagasaki shows, the Japanese have learned to exact summary justice at the ballot-box.

Democracy barely counts, as even parties thumped at the ballot box return to office.

"But democracy is about more than a ballot box. " FDR, he noted, hadn't even included voting in his famous 1942 "Four Freedoms" speech.

Several factors explain this surge in enthusiasm for the ballot box.

Voters decide many big issues directly through the ballot box.

On election day, June 4, 1989, Solidarity was far from sure of winning. But we were very well prepared for the battle at the ballot box.

But as important as elections are, democracy is not just about the ballot box.

Tunisia has never experienced a transition in power at the ballot box.

If another player wishes to run for mayor they can add their name at any time to the ballot box to run against the incumbent.

Moreover, in 2010 voters will return to the ballot box for the Diet's less powerful upper house.

Without one, the LDP will continue to get pummeled at the ballot box.

MPs' biggest concern is that voters are so disgusted by the expenses scandal that they will abandon the ballot box entirely.

Men may settle this and other questions at the ballot-box, but you have no such right.

Would the introduction of the ballot-box into China make the Chinese a democratic people, and fit them for republican rule?

HAS the supermarket trolley dethroned the ballot box?

"The real solution to the economic malaise is the ballot box, " she says.

Acrylic ballot box lets participants clearly see how many tickets have been entered.

But where the young outnumber the old, they can hope to secure a better fate through the ballot box.

The seal on the ballot box have is tamper with.

Where the old outnumber the young, they can use the ballot box to their advantage, instead.

If they did better than that, perhaps even winning power at the ballot box, some fear they might never let go.

Crafted of silver vinyl, the bra is boldly labeled "ballot box" while the matching skirt is made from ballots.

There is little doubt in my view that a higher fees policy would cost a party valuable votes at the ballot box.

It is a crime to stuff the ballot box.

When, ahead of upper-house elections last year, Mr Kan unexpectedly discussed a tax increase, voters punished the DPJ at the ballot box.

Rising property prices are also raising concerns in Hong Kong, where there could be consequences at the ballot box.

What we see now is that most people in Central Europe have more trust in the market than in the ballot box.

Mobile Ballot Box: A Present Choice of Village Election

Open the ballot box and count the ballots