How to Use ballot in a Sentence

ballot

1 of 2 noun

• They cast their votes in a secret ballot.
• She was elected by secret ballot.
• The plan is 1 vote away from the November ballot Is Flagstaff the snowiest city?
  — Madeline Nguyen, The Arizona Republic, 30 Mar. 2024
• All 140 seats in the legislature are on the Nov. 7 ballot.
  — Gregory S. Schneider, Washington Post, 18 July 2023
• Around forty per cent of the country didn’t vote in the first round, and almost a quarter of the ballots cast were blank or voided.
  — Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2023
• Still, the group is currently working on getting on the ballot in a dozen states.
  — Emily Jacobs, Washington Examiner, 10 Nov. 2023
• If the state fails to comply with the party's demands, the president could also be left off the ballot.
  — Misty Severi, Washington Examiner, 14 Sep. 2023
• The attempt to remove him from the ballot could have a similar effect.
  — James Pindell, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Sep. 2023
• If the entire ballot had been disallowed, Snider would have won by nine points.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2023
• All nine seats on the Cambridge City Council are on the November ballot.
  — Matt Stout, BostonGlobe.com, 16 July 2023
• Members will have until June 5 to vote and were mailed ballots on Thursday.
  — Jenny Goldsberry, Washington Examiner, 25 May 2023
• Other candidates are harder to vote for, sloughed off to ballot Siberia, in columns far to the right.
  — E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2024
• The decision was the first time the 14th Amendment was used to bar a presidential contender from the ballot.
  — Mark Sherman, Fortune, 5 Jan. 2024
• Then the idea would go on the election ballot for Detroit residents to approve.
  — Detroit Free Press, 31 May 2023
• Krell jumped to an early lead, nabbing about 28% of initial ballots.
  — Brianna Taylor, Sacramento Bee, 6 Mar. 2024
• Weber’s office has been sued four times over Trump’s right to ballot access.
  — Noah Bierman, Los Angeles Times, 20 Dec. 2023
• The ballot deadline comes a day after the DGA reached a tentative agreement on a new contract.
  — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 4 June 2023
• Also, the city is not required to mail ballots to some people in the state’s voter roles, according to city code.
  — Emily Goodykoontz, Anchorage Daily News, 24 May 2023
• Each week, these ballots are posted at 7 a.m. on Mondays.
  — Melanie Laughman, The Enquirer, 29 Mar. 2024
• If Trump is kept off the ballot in a state, the former president could launch a write-in campaign, though the rules for doing so differ by state.
  — Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 20 Nov. 2023
• The last athlete of the week ballot will be Monday, June 5, with certificates mailed to the athletic offices before the end of June.
  — Melanie Laughman, The Enquirer, 2 June 2023
• In an address to the Russian people on the eve of the election, Putin urged voters to cast ballots as a show of national unity.
  — Nathan Hodge, CNN, 18 Mar. 2024
• When Liao’s name was dropped from the final ballot for village chief, his supporters grabbed papers and wrote in his name.
  — Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 22 Nov. 2023
• Kennedy still needs money to fuel his ballot access campaign, which so far has him on the ballot only in Utah.
  — Ron Elving, NPR, 30 Mar. 2024
• But even with the lower chamber’s historic approval, the legislation’s chances of ending up on the Nov. 7 ballot looks bleak in the Senate.
  — Aarón Torres, Dallas News, 18 May 2023
• Democrats in the state are running into trouble but are taking multiple routes to remove Trump from the ballot.
  — Brady Knox, Washington Examiner, 28 Nov. 2023
• The justices will weigh whether the ballot language is or isn't misleading and applies to a single subject matter.
  — Liz Landers, ABC News, 15 Nov. 2023
• Voters delivered a clear verdict on Proposition HH, a ballot measure that would have raised the caps on what the statehouse can tax and spend.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 8 Nov. 2023
• Based on the nature of the topics presented by speakers at the forum, the proposal calls for a shift back to paper ballots hand counted in front of the public.
  — Kelly Dereuck, USA TODAY, 18 Aug. 2023
• Helping someone complete a ballot is a Class A misdemeanor, punishable by up to a year in jail.
  — Ralph Chapoco, al, 9 June 2023

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ballot

2 of 2 verb

• Priest has been on the Rock Hall ballot a couple of times at this point.
  — Gary Graff, cleveland, 5 Oct. 2020
• Rollins and Howard, both ballot first-timers, didn’t get much love from the voters.
  — Anthony Stitt, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2022
• Judas Priest has been on the Rock Hall ballot three times and placed sixth in this year’s fan voting.
  — Gary Graff, Billboard, 5 May 2022
• The Howell product is one of two goalies to make the top 10 in Hobey Baker Award balloting this season.
  — Ryan Ford, Detroit Free Press, 24 Mar. 2023
• Dragic was not listed among the Top 10 guards in the initial results of fan balloting released last week.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun-Sentinel.com, 9 Jan. 2018
• Mills said a 2010 ruling by the supreme court has created doubt in the state’s mind about how the single-subject rule should be applied to ballot measures.
  — James Brooks, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Oct. 2019
• Both Alexander and Dorsey finished ninth in the Heisman balloting in those seasons.
  — Mark Inabinett, AL.com, 12 Dec. 2017
• Israelis head to the polls on March 2 for the third election in less than a year after earlier rounds of balloting ended in deadlock.
  — Ivan Levingston, Bloomberg.com, 29 Apr. 2020
• The top three in balloting at each position - nine in the outfield - will vie for starting roles in a second round of balloting.
  — Henry Schulman, SFChronicle.com, 21 June 2019
• Balloting for the NBA's awards was completed before the start of the playoffs, through polling of 100 media members, with the same panel utilized for each award.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun-Sentinel.com, 19 May 2017
• Mayfield's late-season heroics helped him finish fourth in the Heisman balloting in 2015 and third last year.
  — USA TODAY, 30 Oct. 2017
• The Times editorial board presents its picks for the 2022 midterms, from candidates to ballot measures.
  — Los Angeles Times, 8 Nov. 2022
• At polling stations, duct tape or stickers marked 3 feet of social distancing space from nearby streets to ballot booths.
  — Fox News, 15 Apr. 2020
• Last year, five states added new restrictions to ballot drop boxes, according to research by the Voting Rights Lab.
  — Anthony Izaguirre, BostonGlobe.com, 17 July 2022
• Historically, the court has given wide latitude to the will of the voters and shot down most challenges to ballot measures.
  — Brian Melley, The Seattle Times, 6 June 2017
• Arizona has not seen a case of election fraud linked to ballot collection, however.
  — Andrew Oxford, azcentral, 11 Feb. 2020
• Park finished runner-up in Norris Trophy balloting four times, each of them to Orr, during his run on Broadway.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 27 Oct. 2019
• Despite the vitriol, results of the Nov. 5 balloting proved there are people in the larger community who respect the candidates enough to go to the polls and vote for them.
  — Jeanne Houck, Cincinnati.com, 7 Nov. 2019
• Media balloting counts for 25%, and player voting counts for the remaining 25%.
  — Vince Ellis, Detroit Free Press, 17 Jan. 2020
• Her union, the British Medical Association, will soon ballot its members over whether to strike.
  — Anna Cooban, CNN, 1 Sep. 2022
• There’s no limit on donations to ballot measure committees like the one that is backing Buscaino.
  — Benjamin Oreskes, Los Angeles Times, 1 Feb. 2022
• Mayfield, who finished fourth in the Heisman Trophy balloting last season, will be eligible to play for the Sooners in 2017.
  — The Associated Press, New York Times, 3 June 2016
• But amid legal challenges, officials moved balloting to this week while converting to a mail-in process since the state remains under a stay-at-home order.
  — Time, 29 Apr. 2020
• One idea is to create intelligent barcodes that would be applied to ballot envelopes.
  — Patrick Marley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 19 May 2020
• But island leaders are working to reschedule balloting there, too.
  — Author: Will Weissert, Brian Slodysko, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Mar. 2020
• The election mail volume has led the Postal Service to throttle resources to ballot collection, processing and delivery, the agency said.
  — Jacob Bogage, Washington Post, 30 Oct. 2020
• Trump’s campaign team is mounting legal challenges to ballot counting in some states, but critics say the effort will prove futile and that Biden has secured a clear victory.
  — Susan Ferrechio, Washington Examiner, 9 Nov. 2020
• Others ballot measures this fall would roll back a law that limits taxes on businesses and exempt ride-share services from a new state employment law.
  — Washington Post, 25 June 2020
• The Trump campaign has sued in Pennsylvania state court, claiming its observers haven't been allowed to get close enough to ballot counting in Philadelphia.
  — USA TODAY, 6 Nov. 2020
• The absence of the security sleeve isn’t the only change Multnomah County election officials are making to ballot packets for the May 17 election.
  — Jamie Goldberg, oregonlive, 26 Apr. 2022

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