ballot box

NOUN
  1. a box where voters deposit their ballots
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How To Use ballot box In A Sentence

  • In the end, despite these tight controls, the US-backed generals failed to win a majority of the vote, securing a plurality only through frenzied last minute stuffing of the ballot boxes.
  • The people make their wishes known through the ballot box.
  • I should also note that he did a fine job of stuffing the ballot box with phony phone calls to Smith to make him look he supported the draft.
  • The arrogation of such power to the judges would usurp those functions of government, which are controlled and distributed by powers whose authority is derived from the ballot box.
  • The major focus of reform bills would require supermajorities of two-thirds or even three-fifths of voters to approve a constitutional amendment at the ballot box before it would become law.
  • Except in the case of conviction for a criminal offence, there is no mechanism for removing them except at the ballot box. Times, Sunday Times
  • When they step into the ballot box come election time. The Sun
  • No society which believes in democratic values can allow the ballot box to be overridden by the bomb and the bullet.
  • She went to the ballot box touching her hat.
  • Or the fact that even in ultraliberal California, a majority of voters opposed same sex marriage laws at the ballot box. Ah, gerrymandering. | RedState
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