His non-resistance covered ballots as well as bullets, and slavery, the creation of brute force and ballots, must not be attacked by any weapon, save moral suasion.
You have the choice to make; you, the free citizens of this country, whose ballots sway its destiny, will settle these questions in November.
The guarantee of the Constitution that the State shall have a republican form of government is only executed when the majority in the States are allowed to vote and have their ballots counted.
The ballots were brought to Washington and were counted.
It did not appear that the ballots were not blanks.
Do you suppose if they had ballots they would not make their voices heard here and get for the same work the same pay?
No white male citizen was ever born with three ballots in his hand, one his own by birthright, and to be used without restraint, the others to be granted, given to women and to colored men at his pleasure or convenience!
They then tendered their ballots at the polls, with evidence of qualification and offer to register, etc.
To prove it the boxes would be opened, the ballots counted, and lo!
There will be no investigation, and if it is a fact that those ballotshave been changed in the box, the ones who changed them shall receive no benefit from their nefarious work.
The new amendment required that two-thirds of the registered voters cast their ballots in favor of the candidates before declaring that an election had taken place.
About 4,373 election ballots were declared void because of irregularities.
It is analogous to predicting the results of an election when only a small proportion of the ballots have been counted.
The urns are so arranged that the white and blue ballots fall into different compartments, not at random, but arrange themselves against a graduated copper rod, which shows at a glance the number of ballots for or against.
It was finally determined that ballots should be prepared and placed in a box arranged for that purpose, and that the person who drew a red ballot should perform the duty of assassination.
After a protracted sitting, during which several ballots were taken and no decided result obtained, the convention adjourned, to meet in the city of Baltimore on the eighteenth day of June succeeding.
After the ballots had been drawn the President again addressed the assembly.
Disfranchisement began with the Ku Klux in 1870, and in most states the larger part of the Negroes at once lost their ballots because driven away from the polls by violence or terror.
When the eightballots had been counted, strange to say Maine was first choice with every one, and the Rockies well in the lead as second.
Ballots for Tilden and ballots for Hayes were sent in at the same time from these states, and in the absence of any recognized means of determining which ballots to count, the two parties in Congress submitted the result to arbitration.
At the polling-place the ballots are kept in an inclosure behind a railing, and no ballot can be brought outside under penalty of fine or imprisonment[36].
The electors make separate ballots for president and for vice-president.
The ballots are printed by the state, and contain the names of all the candidates of all the parties.
Carefully observe the official specimen ballots to be posted and published just before election day.
The bronze urn is carried to the archon, and there is an uneasy hush while the 401 ballots are counted by the court officers.
Congress proceeded to the election of a Superintendent of Finance; and the ballots being taken, Robert Morris was unanimously elected.
Congress proceeded to the election of a Secretary of Foreign Affairs; and, the ballots being counted, Robert R.
The Chairman of the National Council shall be elected by ballots signed by the voting members and the one receiving more than one-half of the total number of the votes cast shall be elected.
In order, however, to secure entire immunity from trouble or complaint, it was in many instances provided that the ballots should be destroyed as soon as counted, and the inspectors were sworn to execute this law.
The ballots had been carefully counted and the result scrupulously ascertained and declared.
We have a thousand good and true men in Horsford whose brave ballots will be found equal to those of five thousand vile Radicals.
In the House on election for Speaker two blank ballots were cast, shall they be counted?
Mr. MACON thought there could be no question on the subject; he also recollected the case of the Presidential election instanced by his colleague, and was of opinion that blankballots could not be counted.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ballots" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
