How to Use ballot box in a Sentence

ballot box

noun

• The ballot box in itself is not enough to sustain a democracy.
  — Angelina Jolie, Time, 17 Apr. 2021
• When those measures failed at the ballot box or were shot down in court, activists shifted their focus to trans youth in sports.
  — Krista Langlois, Outside Online, 24 Mar. 2021
• Menino emerged from a crowded mayoral field in 1993 to seize victory at the ballot box that fall.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 2 Apr. 2021
• Residents could override these laws at the ballot box via the state's permissive referendum process, the memo states.
  — Lauren Del Valle, CNN, 25 Mar. 2021
• That suggested that voting by mail helps to reduce inequalities in access to the ballot box, the researchers found.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Star Tribune, 8 Apr. 2021
• How the Georgia bill restricted access to the ballot box, Manfred did not, and could not, explain.
  — Isaac Schorr, National Review, 6 Apr. 2021
• Ensuring the integrity of the ballot box isn't partisan.
  — ABC News, 28 Mar. 2021
• The bill also sets new standards for maintaining the state’s voter registry and for absentee ballots, which would be tracked from voter to ballot box.
  — James Brooks, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Apr. 2021
• But the movement has also seen significant losses at the state level, particularly at the ballot box.
  — Lexi Lonas Cochran, The Hill, 27 Nov. 2024
• Many analysts believe the deadlock will lead to a fifth election, though some small parties that now hold a lot of power would risk elimination in any speedy return to the ballot box.
  — New York Times, 5 Apr. 2021
• Victory at the ballot box for King seemed within grasp, even though Black voters were just roughly 22 percent of the electorate.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 5 Apr. 2021
• Eleven states ban voting for the group indefinitely, requiring other actions or a pardon from government officials to head to the ballot box.
  — Jake Dima, Washington Examiner, 8 Apr. 2021
• To ensure that Black and Brown and disenfranchised voters never get the opportunity to make their voices heard at the ballot box.
  — Edward J. Markey and Mondaire Jones, CNN, 15 Apr. 2021
• That amendment was greenlit by the city council, signed by then-Mayor Catherine Pugh and approved by voters at the ballot box all within the span of six months.
  — Julian Baron, Baltimore Sun, 26 Nov. 2024
• President Biden, the left, and the national media are determined to destroy the sanctity and security of the ballot box.
  — Tim Darnell, ajc, 26 Mar. 2021
• Mace is the first of that group to be tested at the ballot box.
  — Hunter Woodall, CBS News, 10 June 2024
• The rubber meets the road when people go to the ballot box to vote.
  — Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN, 16 Sep. 2021
• 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 the ammo box.
  — Brian Stelter, CNN, 13 Sep. 2021
• 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
• That's because Michigan law gives the sick and weak the right to be heard at the ballot box, right up to the last minute.
  — Tresa Baldas, Detroit Free Press, 5 Nov. 2024
• 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
• Some of them were even prepared to punish Biden for it at the ballot box.
  — Monica Potts, ABC News, 16 Aug. 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
• And Biden, not Powell, could be savaged at the ballot box for it.
  — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 31 Jan. 2022

Last Updated: 4 Jan 2025