How to Use ballot box in a Sentence

ballot box

noun
  • Mace is the first of that group to be tested at the ballot box.
    Hunter Woodall, CBS News, 10 June 2024
  • At the end of the day, the 2024 election won't be won online, but at the ballot box.
    Tommy Barone, ABC News, 7 Aug. 2024
  • The soapbox, the ballot box, the jury box, and then the cartridge box.
    CBS News, 18 Mar. 2022
  • 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
  • When the ballot box is gone, there is only the cartridge box.
    James Pogue, Harper’s Magazine , 16 Mar. 2022
  • 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
  • The ballots were taken inside and dropped in a ballot box.
    CBS News, 3 June 2022
  • 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
  • Macron is the only other leader of modern France to win a second term at the ballot box.
    Sylvie Corbet, ajc, 25 Apr. 2022
  • 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
  • The power of the Kennedy name has also been in precipitous decline at the ballot box for years.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 17 July 2023
  • The result was an outburst of voter fury at the ballot box in 1978, enacting the worst option of all.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2024
  • Even here at home, voters didn’t connect the climate crisis to their choices in the ballot box.
    The Salt Lake Tribune, 29 Nov. 2022
  • Whether that informs their future choices at the ballot box remains to be seen.
    James D. Long, The Conversation, 13 July 2022
  • But over the past 10 years or so, she's been prosecuted twice for trying to help people at the ballot box.
    ABC News, 21 Oct. 2022
  • Each person then deposits their receipt in a ballot box.
    Madeline Armstrong | The Center Square, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 31 July 2024

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