Person marking a ballot

Usage examples of voter.

Gore effort to challenge absentee votes on a legal technicality, especially since the intent of these voters was quite clear.

Seminole County Canvassing Board allowed Republican Party volunteers to fill in missing voter registration numbers on applications submitted by registered Republican voters requesting absentee ballots.

The Alabama statute was very clear that the absentee ballots had to be notarized by the voter in order to be counted, and that procedure had been followed for years.

It had been announced in the speech from the throne that government would, in the present session, take up the question of the registration of voters in Ireland.

There were, moreover, many other voters who, while regarding Greenbackism as an economic heresy, were convinced that bimetallism offered a safe and sound solution of the currency problem.

But lie was tossed out of Parliament for bribing voters, and the success of his syndicates THE MAN WHO BECAME A COUNTRY 11 depended directly on bribing politicians.

Illinois Apportionment law, which created districts now having glaringly unequal populations, was attacked as unconstitutional on the ground that it denied to voters in the more populous districts the full right to vote and to the equal protection of the laws.

Rotary Club about dollar devaluation, gave Diefenbaker a valid base from which to reawaken the resentment against Liberal arrogance that had been strongly felt by Canadian voters in 1957.

State laws regulating direct primaries were amended so as to enable voters participating in primaries to designate their preference for one of several party candidates for a senatorial seat: and nominations unofficially effected thereby were transmitted to the legislature.

Some twelve thousand voters in the heretofore Slave State of Louisiana have sworn allegiance to the Union, assumed to be the rightful political power of the State, held elections, organized a State government, adopted a Free State constitution, giving the benefit of public schools equally to black and white, and empowering the Legislature to confer the elective franchise upon the colored man.

It won 55 percent of the posts that were filled by gubernatorial and local elections in May 1990, which gave it control of everything from street sweeping to voter registration.

They had made the law unwittingly, for threefourths of the voters objected to it, and yet three-fourths of the votes were in favour of it.

In their disillusionment, Quebec voters turned in 1962 to the political iconoclasm of Social Credit, and in 1963, back to the Liberal Party.

Others might regard it as a historic opportunity to broaden the political process to include those who customarily have been shut outthe dead, distant or otherwise ineligible voter.

That and his hair and his clothes had all been developed to make him seem like a cool norteamericano, not the jumpy, emotional Mexican that blue-eyed Duluth voters were afraid of.