Sentences with phrase «mark ballot papers»

At several polling stations I was able to see that voters were able to mark their ballot papers in complete privacy and place them in the same type of box with which I was familiar in Britain.

Rather than wait to be called before the Beak, perhaps David Miliband could tell us — and the Labour electorate now — before we mark our ballot papers.

My colleague Richard Adams points out that there is some alarm — mostly from Ukip voters, as far as we can see, though do let me know if this concern has spread to other parties» supporters — that voters are being asked to mark their ballot papers with a pencil.

Starting in 2015, voters would mark their ballot papers 1, 2, 3 to indicate their order of preference among the candidates, not «x» against a single name.

Not exact matches

The pro-Bill de Blasio drumbeat continues, with the labor - backed Working Families Party announcing its full support of the public advocate's candidacy — yet another development that will make it increasingly difficult for Bill Thompson to remain in the runoff, should the tallying of paper ballots push de Blasio below the magic 40 percent mark.

Voters mark a single X on the ballot paper against their preferred candidate.

What that means, in essence, is that the elector must attend a polling place, have their name marked off the register, and then either accept a ballot paper and vote, or leave.

YouGov said: «With the ballot papers out for the Labour leadership contest, Labour members will be dismayed to see the party's rating in the polls dipping below the 30 % mark once again.»

Problems included a lack of ramps and wheelchair - accessible doorways at polling sites and a dearth of accessible ballot marking devices (BMDs), which offer an alternative way to mark a paper ballot to then scan into the new optical scanning voting machines.

The Labour leader has previously won the award in 2001, 2007, 2011, 2012 (shared), 2014, 2015 and 2016, but was kept off the ballot papers this time around «to allow new Parliamentary beards to make their mark».

Each vote is a single choice - the voter marks their choice on each ballot paper with a single X.

Each voter has a vote on each ballot paper and makes a single choice - marked with a single X.

With optical scanners, voters are given a paper ballot, which they mark in a booth and then insert in a central machine outside the booth that counts the vote.

Instead of simply marking an X on the ballot paper, voters would rank candidates on offer.

The two candidates will need to mark out real differences about where they wish to lead the party, otherwise the public, the media and even the membership will be yawning by the time ballot papers are sent out in late November.

Optically scanned paper ballots allow for what Palfrey describes as «modular voting architecture,» meaning the steps of voting — registration, marking the ballot, voter confirmation, and counting — are kept separate.

I don't say ballot to metonymically refer only to each individual's participation in the election process, but literally each ballot — each slip of paper marked with the elector's desired candidate — because if you're not careful, your vote may not float.