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.
  • So cast your ballot and join me.
    — Michael Schneider, Variety, 15 Jan. 2026
  • The first ballot will be spoiled.
    — Niraj Warikoo, Freep.com, 10 Oct. 2025
  • For starters, there are a lot of ballots to count.
    — Mark Z. Barabak, Mercury News, 18 Feb. 2026
  • Smith was named on five ballots this week and sits in sixth place.
    — Mitch Sherman, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Joe Biden is not on the ballot this fall.
    — ABC News, 6 June 2026
  • So why bring it up in the ballot language?
    — U T Editorial Board, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Apr. 2026
  • So why bring it up in the ballot language?
    — U T Editorial Board, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 May 2026
  • So mailing your ballot may work out fine, or may not.
    — Los Angeles Times, 5 Feb. 2026
  • His name still will appear on the ballot.
    — Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2026
  • Their names have not been removed from the ballot.
    — Steve Sadin, Chicago Tribune, 5 Feb. 2026
  • Want to cast your ballot in person?
    — Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Oc Register, 24 Oct. 2025
  • The barcodes help track ballots through the mail.
    — Bart Jansen, USA Today, 29 May 2026
  • Swift is a first-year ballot inductee.
    — Cathy Applefeld Olson, Forbes.com, 21 Jan. 2026
  • There should never just be a team that like, doesn’t get the ballot.
    — Doug Feinberg, Los Angeles Times, 3 July 2026
  • But for a great football coach not to get in first ballot, that was wrong.
    — Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 29 Jan. 2026
  • What does the ballot measure say?
    — Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 27 Aug. 2025
  • For the players ballot, click here.
    — Assistant Sports Editor, Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan. 2026
  • The union said that 2,567 ballots were cast.
    — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Tickets for the event are free and will be awarded via a ballot.
    — Sophie Williams, Billboard, 7 Nov. 2025
  • After that, a name cannot be removed from the ballot.
    — George Skelton, Mercury News, 25 Feb. 2026
  • The ballots go out at the beginning of next month.
    — Tom Wait, CBS News, 17 Apr. 2026
  • At least one voter revealed why he was left off their ballot.
    — Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 29 Jan. 2026
  • One of the reasons might have been the wording on their ballot.
    — Melissa Gomez, Los Angeles Times, 4 July 2026
  • Many other local races are on the ballot across the state.
    — Irene Wright, USA Today, 15 May 2026
  • The nine hosts left off the ballot were more surprising.
    — Michael Schneider, Variety, 12 June 2026
  • Mail-in ballots are not addressed in the state measure.
    — Cbs Miami Team, CBS News, 1 Apr. 2026
  • What is now needed to even get on the ballot used to be enough to be the best in the world.
    — Dom Luszczyszyn, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2026
  • Hence the reason this didn’t go to a public ballot.
    — Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 Apr. 2026

ballot

2 of 2 verb
  • Rollins and Howard, both ballot first-timers, didn’t get much love from the voters.
    — Anthony Stitt, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2022
  • Priest has been on the Rock Hall ballot a couple of times at this point.
    — Gary Graff, cleveland, 5 Oct. 2020
  • 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
  • Arizona has not seen a case of election fraud linked to ballot collection, however.
    — Andrew Oxford, azcentral, 11 Feb. 2020
  • But island leaders are working to reschedule balloting there, too.
    — Author: Will Weissert, Brian Slodysko, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Mar. 2020
  • 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
  • One idea is to create intelligent barcodes that would be applied to ballot envelopes.
    — Patrick Marley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 19 May 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
  • 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
  • Both Alexander and Dorsey finished ninth in the Heisman balloting in those seasons.
    — Mark Inabinett, AL.com, 12 Dec. 2017
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Regardless of how the award balloting shakes out, Olson is playing her best basketball at an opportune moment.
    — Sabreena Merchant, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • The Times editorial board presents its picks for the 2022 midterms, from candidates to ballot measures.
    — Los Angeles Times, 8 Nov. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • California’s vote-counting is notorious for taking weeks to get results, but that’s a function of screwy deadlines rather than the mail-in balloting itself.
    — Steven Greenhut, Oc Register, 5 Sep. 2025
  • His first nine full seasons included three MVP Awards, four times in second, and fourth and fifth in balloting the other two seasons.
    — Kurt Badenhausen, Sportico.com, 17 Mar. 2026
  • So, over that period of time, states have learned from each other — best practices for not only avoiding fraud, but just generally administering mail balloting well.
    — CBS News, 12 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • The results are based on nominations and balloting from NSMA members.
    — Jim Barnes, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 Nov. 2025
  • Democrats extended California’s late-count provision and mail balloting to make voting more accessible and to tally all valid ballots.
    — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Mar. 2026

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