How to Use on the ballot in a Sentence

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  • Three spots on the Arkansas Supreme Court will be on the ballot in March.
    Neal Earley, Arkansas Online, 5 Nov. 2023
  • The deadline to get a candidate on the ballot is Aug. 12.
    Scott Wartman, The Enquirer, 1 Apr. 2024
  • Congress does not have the power to rewrite the 14th Amendment and tell the states who can be on the ballot.
    Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 6 Mar. 2024
  • So which Tarrant County races will be on the ballot again in May?
    Eleanor Dearman, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 Mar. 2024
  • Five of the nine Supreme Court seats are on the ballot next year, including chief justice.
    Mike Cason | McAson@al.com, al, 30 June 2023
  • Holvey now has three days to decide whether to resign or appear on the ballot.
    Misty Severi, Washington Examiner, 26 Aug. 2023
  • Many of his competitors also plan to put their names on the ballot there this week, too.
    Aaron Navarro, CBS News, 10 Oct. 2023
  • Because of all that, if this were an election with anyone on the ballot who wasn't Trump, this would be a race about change.
    Domenico Montanaro, NPR, 6 Mar. 2024
  • Ashcroft was charged with writing summaries to appear on the ballot.
    Breccan F. Thies, Washington Examiner, 21 Nov. 2023
  • Schlosberg is planning to cross out every name on the ballot.
    Kim Hjelmgaard and Anna Nemtsova, USA TODAY, 15 Mar. 2024
  • Three of the five San Diego City Council members on the ballot have no opponent at all.
    Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Feb. 2024
  • Deegan, who was one of two Democrats on the ballot, was the top vote-getter during the first round of voting in March, winning 39%.
    Ben Kamisar, NBC News, 16 May 2023
  • That left Tempe and the Coyotes with just two choices: either put the deal on the ballot themselves or wait for someone else to do it.
    Sam Kmack, The Arizona Republic, 16 May 2023
  • The number of slots on the ballot for the four top Grammy categories has been a moving target for years.
    Ben Sisario, New York Times, 10 Nov. 2023
  • Former Linfield coach Paul Durham is among the coach candidates on the ballot.
    oregonlive, 5 June 2023
  • For the city of Sacramento, the offices of mayor, and council member for Districts 2, 4, 6 and 8 will be on the ballot.
    Theresa Clift, Sacramento Bee, 24 Jan. 2024
  • There are 25 Republicans and 21 Democrats on the ballot.
    Kelsey Walsh, ABC News, 17 Jan. 2024
  • Carlson will remain on the ballot but has endorsed Cano.
    Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 4 Sep. 2023
  • Holvey now has five days to decide whether to resign or appear on the ballot in October.
    Julia Shumway, oregonlive, 24 Aug. 2023
  • But, the variety of opinions on the ballot measure was greater in Kansas City than in the rest of Jackson County.
    Natalie Wallington, Kansas City Star, 8 Apr. 2024
  • When voters head to the polls Aug. 20, Villavicencio’s name will still appear on the ballot.
    Arturo Torres and Samantha Schmidt, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Aug. 2023
  • But Crow and Michael joined Elliott in scoring with voters in their first appearances on the ballot.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 3 May 2023
  • The issue of whether Trump can be on the ballot is not the only matter related to the former president or Jan. 6 that has reached the high court.
    Mark Sherman, Fortune, 5 Jan. 2024
  • The elections board dismissed the campaign’s objection to Matos being on the ballot.
    Alexa Gagosz, BostonGlobe.com, 21 July 2023
  • Republicans swept the 2022 races, the first with a partisan label on the ballot.
    USA Today, 24 July 2023
  • The City Council is expected to put a reform proposal on the ballot in 2024.
    Caroline Petrow-Cohen, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2023
  • The price of being on the ballot The 2018 Mexican election was the largest in the country’s history and also the most violent.
    Karol Suárez, The Courier-Journal, 11 Mar. 2024
  • The Green Party is already on the ballot in two other key swing states: Michigan and Wisconsin.
    Abby Cruz, ABC News, 22 July 2023
  • Mansfield school board: The Mansfield school district has two trustee positions on the ballot.
    Eleanor Dearman, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 22 Apr. 2024
  • But the state lurched to the right last year when Republicans won five statewide races on the ballot by an average of 18.9 percentage points.
    Shane Goldmacher, New York Times, 10 Nov. 2023

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