ballot-boxes

The great question was: should Kansas be a free state or a slave one, and since it was up to the residents to decide, and America being devoted to democracy, both factions rushed in "voters" from the free North and the slave South (Missouri, mostly), elections were rigged, ballot-boxes were stuffed, and before you knew it fighting and raiding had broken out between the free Staters and the "Border Ruffians" of the slavery party.

THE NUMBERS 2010

Oggii and I were at School #23 in Ulnaabtaar at 7am when the polls opened with a ceremonial showing of the big blue ballot-boxes, counting of absentee ballots, and singing of the National Anthem.

Ming Holden: Witnessing Mongolia's Election 2009

Other candidates are complaining of widespread and organised fraud, which includes stealing of ballot-boxes, ballot-box stuffing and direct voter intimidation.

Fraud Claims Question Afghan Poll Credibility IWPR 2009

Only in the in-bred world of spin-doctors and political assistants do the theoretical results of MORI polls weigh more heavily than real votes in real ballot-boxes.

Goodbye Ming Glyn Davies 2007

Ten shillings a head would have sent three hundred Liberals to the ballot-boxes!

The Duke's Children 2004

They had offices, jobs, funds, a well-organized party system, the saloons, the dives, and those dark chambers where at late hours ballot-boxes are incontinently stuffed.

The Titan 2004

He had always been associated with a more or less silk-stocking crew who were unused to the rough usage of back-room saloon politics, yet every one suspected vaguely, of course, at times that ballot-boxes were stuffed and ward lodging-houses colonized.

The Titan 2004

“ADMONISH” one of the Colleague of his quarter, and upon redrawing, as the ballot-boxes would be nearly empty, chance would very likely occasion that either he or some associate of his would be drawn, and he would thus be rendered incapable of sitting as Gonfalonier.

The History of Florence 2003

The great question was: should Kansas be a free state or a slave one, and since it was up to the residents to decide, and America being devoted to democracy, both factions rushed in "voters" from the free North and the slave South (Missouri, mostly), elections were rigged, ballot-boxes were stuffed, and before you knew it fighting and raiding had broken out between the free Staters and the "Border Ruffians" of the slavery party.

Flashman and the angel of the lord Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1995

The great question was: should Kansas be a free state or a slave one, and since it was up to the residents to decide, and America being devoted to democracy, both factions rushed in "voters" from the free North and the slave South (Missouri, mostly), elections were rigged, ballot-boxes were stuffed, and before you knew it fighting and raiding had broken out between the free Staters and the "Border Ruffians" of the slavery party.

Flashman and the angel of the lord Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1995