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Proposition 42 was put on the ballot by Building a Better California, a group funded by Google co-founder Sergey Brin, venture capitalists and other tech executives.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2026

It was one of two that garnered enough voter signatures to be placed on the ballot, but voters turned down the other measure.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2026

In the strike ballot, 76% of consultants who took part voted in favour of strike action, with just over half of eligible BMA members taking part.

From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2026

Kim Alexander, president of the nonprofit, nonpartisan California Voter Foundation, which has for years tracked ballot processing, said that compared to L.A.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 2026

In 2000, reformers finally had enough votes to get the issue on the statewide ballot, where a majority of voters chose to eliminate the ban, although 41 percent voted to keep it.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson

While some ballots are still being counted, Democrats had won 256 House seats to the Republicans’ 169, as of Friday, according to the Associated Press.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2026

For the last few weeks, in addition to its usual payload of passengers, medicine, and supplies, Alaska Seaplanes has carried some unique cargo: midterm election ballots.

From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2026

Meanwhile, a judge has denied an attempt by Peltola's campaign to get information about how many absentee ballots election officials rejected, as well as information about those voters.

From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2026

So far, the slow dribble of counting affidavit and mail ballots has favored Colom, something he predicted at the outset of Election Day.

From Slate ● Nov. 12, 2026

“If you’re saying that because of the switch in ballots, they won’t,” he said.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Staff at an East Dunbartonshire secondary school are being balloted on strike action over "serious health and safety concerns".

From BBC ● Dec. 15, 2025

Metropolitan Police staff are to be balloted for strike action in a dispute over pay, with a union claiming that civilian workers in the Met are treated as "second-class citizens".

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2025

Of the 83 hotels in Liverpool balloted about the visitor charge, 59% were in favour, on a turnout of 53%.

From BBC ● Apr. 25, 2025

And staff at the University of Edinburgh are also being balloted on strike action in a dispute over plans to cut £140m from its budget and fears of compulsory redundancies.

From BBC ● Apr. 15, 2025

One after another—first, second, and brevet—was proposed, balloted for, and elected in the same way as the captain.

From The Free Lances A Romance of the Mexican Valley by Mayne Reid

Under the state’s unique balloting system, three candidates are running to unseat Sen. Dan S. Sullivan: Democratic former Rep. Mary Peltola, a bandana-wearing gadfly named Gerald Heikes, and … another Dan Sullivan.

From Slate ● Oct. 28, 2026

Curtis claimed that he had written “a prototype” of software that would allow cheaters to alter votes using “invisible buttons” on touch-screen balloting machines.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 25, 2026

Such is the case after last week’s Lone Star State balloting, in which 2.3 million Texans voted in the Democratic primary and 2.2 million in the Republican primary.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 11, 2026

Andrews, a former Democratic congressman in the United States, voiced hope Sunday's final day of balloting would bring relief to Myanmar's people.

From Barron's ● Jan. 23, 2026

The balloting proceeded without incident on a shining September morning.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende