How to Use ballot box in a Sentence

ballot box

noun
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  • The machines were built to be more portable and lighter than traditional ballot boxes.
    — Hari Kumar, New York Times, 17 Apr. 2024
  • And diminishing those voices can keep voters from making the most informed choices at the ballot box.
    — Justine Calma, The Verge, 3 May 2024
  • The question now is whether the two sides will negotiate a middle ground or if both approaches will advance this year, setting the stage for a fight at the ballot box.
    — Anabel Sosa, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2024
  • Biden and the Left’s lust for power and assaults on democracy are despicable and must be defeated at the ballot box.
    — Brittany Carloni, The Indianapolis Star, 30 May 2024
  • And if Trump does indeed pose a long-term threat to democracy, then beating him at the ballot box can be a legacy-defining achievement in and of itself.
    — Christian Paz, Vox, 24 July 2024
  • Election analysts look at all sorts of metrics to measure how a particular candidate might perform at the ballot box.
    — Carmela Guaglianone, Detroit Free Press, 25 July 2024
  • Passing over the first woman and first person of color to fill the vice presidency would be politically tricky for a party that relies on those constituencies at the ballot box.
    — Brian Bennett, TIME, 21 July 2024
  • Kamala Harris is the most qualified and experienced individual who can beat Trump at the ballot box.
    — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 25 July 2024
  • The ruling was unprecedented and marked a major victory for Lucas, who sued over the ballot question last year arguing that voters were misled at the ballot box.
    — Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 28 May 2024
  • Latinos now make up the largest and one of the fastest-growing segments of minority voters in the nation, yet have the lowest levels of civic engagement and participation at the ballot box.
    — Jazmine Ulloa, New York Times, 16 May 2024
  • White city officials and landowners codified segregation through attempts to control not only the ballot box but also private and public spaces like grocery stores and curb markets.
    — Faron Levesque, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 May 2024
  • Mace is the first of that group to be tested at the ballot box.
    — Hunter Woodall, CBS News, 10 June 2024
  • The GOP should be well positioned to clean up at the ballot box.
    — Noah Rothman, National Review, 8 Nov. 2023
  • We have been gunned-down at the grocery store and silenced at the ballot box.
    — Essence, 27 June 2022
  • Democrats have all but thrived at the ballot box in recent years.
    — Matt Stout, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Feb. 2023
  • Like bears stuff their face with fish, our ballot box, too, has been stuffed.
    — Prarthana Prakash, Fortune, 11 Oct. 2022
  • For over a decade, the left wing have failed to do this at the ballot box, and in recent years have come up with a new idea.
    — Anshel Pfeffer, The Atlantic, 27 Mar. 2024
  • The parties all face the hurdle of coaxing voters to turn up at the ballot box.
    — Chris Buckley, New York Times, 4 Dec. 2023
  • LaRose wants to increase the threshold at the ballot box for passage from 50% plus one vote to 60%.
    — Jake Zuckerman, cleveland, 22 Nov. 2022
  • Efforts to fight the development at the ballot box and in court failed to stop it.
    — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Jan. 2024
  • But successive attempts over the next few decades to increase the levy at the ballot box failed.
    — Christine Wen, The Conversation, 15 Feb. 2024
  • There is still only one way to keep Donald Trump out of the Oval Office: at the ballot box.
    — Peter Baker, New York Times, 31 May 2024
  • On Tuesday, Rhode Islanders are heading to the ballot box.
    — Rayna Reid Rayford, Essence, 4 Sep. 2023
  • And Vox is part of a Europe-wide trend of far-right parties gaining support at the ballot box.
    — Patrick Smith, NBC News, 22 July 2023
  • But if the next UK prime minister doesn’t step up to the challenge, heading to the ballot box will be all but inevitable.
    — Sofia Lotto Persio, Quartz, 2 Sep. 2022
  • And the opposition Labour Party, while now leading in the polls, has been a loser at the ballot box.
    — Ben Kamisar, NBC News, 21 Oct. 2022
  • As did the project of securing access to that ballot box itself—not a new challenge to those gathered on the steps of the Supreme Court.
    — Nathan Heller, Vogue, 22 June 2022
  • North Dakota has proven at the ballot box, the citizens voting.
    — CBS News, 12 Feb. 2023
  • The criticism shows how the Fed has come under fire from some on the left for the high cost of living that threatens to hurt Democrats at the ballot box this fall.
    — Matt Egan, CNN, 4 Oct. 2022
  • If voters want safer streets, their only recourse is the ballot box.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 8 June 2022

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