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ballot box

a box into which ballot papers are dropped after voting

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Sam Zailon Esmael, a resident of Datu Salibo, on Monday said the ballot box containing documents was found floating in a marsh in Barangay Sambulawan, Datu Salibo, on Friday last week, a month after elections were held.

Ballot box, poll documents found in Maguindanao marsh

A certain Sam Zailon Esmael on Friday posted photos on Facebookof the ballot box that was allegedly found in floodwaterbehind the municipal office by a village peacekeeper.

Ballot box found in Maguindanao floodwater was stolen, says Comelec

Resident Moadz Mindao was supposed to go fishing at a swamp near Barangay Sambulawan when he saw the ballot box floating.

Ballot box found in swamp

"The purpose of sealing the ballot box is to ensure that only votes can be placed in the ballot box and nothing else can be put in or taken out of the ballot box until the seals are removed when the box arrives at the place where the votes are to be counted.

Claims that election laws were broken are rejected; CAMPAIGN GROUP CALLS FOR WARD RE-RUN

All the ballots have been found"A voter came and took the ballot box. People failed to catch him, he ran out onto the street.

Drunk man stole ballot box and threw it outside the polling station

"Today, I encounter this question from the people: You encouraged us to go to the ballot box. Show me one instance that produced true reforms?" Khatami said to his audience.

Ex-prez questions if voting worthwhile

In Abonnema community ballot box snatching took place Wards 5, 6, 7, 10, 11 and 12.

Counting Underway As Ballot Snatching Overwhelms Poll In Rivers

The netizen started out by saying that two ballot boxes had been reviewed by his team and fewer than 10 votes had been rejected.

60 ballots 'evaporate' on first day of Taipei mayoral race recount

Summary: A storage site housing half of Baghdad's ballot boxes from Iraq's parliamentary election in May caught fire just days after Parliament demanded a nationwide recount of votes, drawing calls for the election to be run again.

Iraqi ballot box storage site catches fire in Baghdad

A ballot box was also retrieved from a pond in Sonadangi.

WB panchayat polls: Ballot boxed looted at gunpoint in Murshidabad

Once the recount on the first 1,400 ballot boxes is done, the PET will receive the other ballot boxes from Camarines Sur, Iloilo and Negros Oriental.

VP vote recount starts today

The ballot box deniers AS this year marks the centenary of women gaining the right to vote in this country; we should never forget that the ballot box not only gives us a say on who governs our lives, but it also allows us to hold them accountable for how they use those powers.