How to Use balloting in a Sentence

balloting

noun
  • The Dodgers edged the Braves among the players surveyed, with those two clubs in a league of their own in the balloting.
    Lawrence Dow, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 Mar. 2024
  • On the day’s second round of balloting - the 13th this week - Jordan got six votes.
    Sabrina Eaton, cleveland, 6 Jan. 2023
  • In the last five years, Ramirez has finished second once, third twice and sixth once in the balloting.
    Paul Hoynes, cleveland, 18 Nov. 2021
  • The Sox did not have any finalists for the All-Star team starter balloting.
    Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 22 June 2023
  • Cy Young balloting and a third-place finish for Rookie of the Year.
    Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY, 12 Feb. 2022
  • Not all-stars who are among the top five vote-getters in the WNBA fan balloting.
    Candace Buckner, Washington Post, 10 July 2024
  • The election and the recount are boiling down to the kind of balloting that drew protests from Trump and his allies: mail-in votes.
    David Jackson, USA TODAY, 25 May 2022
  • The Heat continue to play from behind on fan balloting for the All-Star Game.
    Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 12 Jan. 2023
  • Atlanta Braves were elected from the first round of balloting as the top vote-getters in their leagues.
    Ronald Blum, Chron, 9 July 2022
  • Youngkin went on to defeat McAuliffe in last week's balloting.
    Meg Kinnard, Chron, 11 Nov. 2021
  • Alabama is only the second team to have three of the top five in the balloting, joining the 1946 Army team.
    Michael Casagrande | McAsagrande@al.com, al, 5 Jan. 2021
  • More than 1,800 clerks in cities, towns and villages oversee the balloting.
    ProPublica, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Of note: Acuña became the first Braves player to lead in fan balloting since Dale Murphy in 1985.
    Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 29 June 2023
  • Labour had the lead in all public opinion polls before the balloting.
    Bloomberg.com, 27 Mar. 2022
  • The top two vote-getters in the first round of balloting, which ends Thursday, advance to a final round.
    Evan Grant, Dallas News, 18 June 2023
  • Heat guard Tyler Herro is not among the top 10 in East backcourt balloting.
    Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 4 Jan. 2024
  • In the first update, Diggs ranked fifth in the overall balloting.
    Mark Inabinett | Minabinett@al.com, al, 2 Dec. 2021
  • Atlanta Braves already were elected from the first round of balloting as the top vote-getters in their leagues.
    Ronald Blum, Hartford Courant, 9 July 2022
  • In that case, the top two vote getters would advance to a second round of balloting in August.
    Isabella Murray, ABC News, 17 June 2024
  • Frey led the pack early on, but came in second behind Nezhad in the final round of balloting, earning 40% of the votes.
    Faiza Mahamud, Star Tribune, 17 June 2021
  • That lead was built on votes cast by mail and in advance of Tuesday’s in-person balloting.
    Kathleen Ronayne, Michael R. Blood, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Sep. 2021
  • The remainder of the balloting process will be combined.
    Jenelle Riley, Variety, 9 Dec. 2021
  • Tensions were high as the East African nation awaited the results of the balloting, which took place nearly a week ago.
    Harold Maass, The Week, 16 Aug. 2022
  • Lyman points to the state’s use of universal mail-in balloting as an avenue for fraud.
    Bryan Schott, The Salt Lake Tribune, 23 June 2022
  • As the balloting progressed to the end, Knuth, who had the lowest delegate votes, dropped out of the endorsement race.
    Faiza Mahamud, Star Tribune, 17 June 2021
  • The writers themselves will vote on the contract in a week of balloting that begins Monday.
    Andrew Dalton, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2023
  • The Guardians’ third baseman advanced past phase one of the online fan balloting as one of the top two vote-getters at the position.
    Joe Noga, cleveland, 1 July 2022
  • There were drop boxes, no-excuse mail-in balloting, and things to that nature.
    Washington Post, 6 May 2021
  • Team success was not a factor in this year's balloting.
    Steve Gardner, USA TODAY, 18 Nov. 2021
  • Many of the cases involve challenges to mail-in balloting, ballots from overseas voters and claims of voting by people who are not U.S citizens.
    Alanna Durkin Richer, TIME, 20 Oct. 2024

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