He was the friend of the Ku-Klux and ballot-box stuffers.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3] Reference

But the Blair phenomenon is about more than a ballot-box victory.    From Wordnik.com.  [Getting The Hang Of Power] Reference

The legally appointed moment for closing the ballot-box had come.    From Wordnik.com.  [The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12] Reference

They will not listen then; they will remand us to the ballot-box.    From Wordnik.com.  [Debate on Woman Suffrage in the Senate of the United States, 2d Session, 49th Congress, December 8, 1886, and January 25, 1887] Reference

The people gave their verdict at the ballot-box in favor of Congress.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States] Reference

The presidents took their seats at a table on which stood a ballot-box and an urn.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886] Reference

Repeating, ballot-box stuffing, ruffianism, and false counting decided everything.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3] Reference

In New York ballot-box stuffing and repeating were the rule in sections of the city.    From Wordnik.com.  [The United States Since the Civil War] Reference

'That's very wrong, Jim; you shouldn't have marked it,' and drops it into the ballot-box.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Imperialist] Reference

At ten o'clock in the evening he went out and stuffed the ballot-box, I mean the letter box.    From Wordnik.com.  [Walking-Stick Papers] Reference

The poet sees what the ballot-box may be, ought to be, and, in some rare instances, really is.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays] Reference

Therefore when men go to the ballot-box they till vote "no," unless they have actual argument on it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Debate on Woman Suffrage in the Senate of the United States, 2d Session, 49th Congress, December 8, 1886, and January 25, 1887] Reference

The law contemplated only one, the straight drop into the ballot-box; but the "boys" had other views.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Imperialist] Reference

The ballot-box that they talk about is the ballot-box that ought to be and not the ballot-box that is.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays] Reference

The aggregate vote, I think, shows that the purity of the ballot-box was preserved in a remarkable degree.    From Wordnik.com.  [Forty-Six Years in the Army] Reference

He was very pugilistic and had taken an active part in ballot-box frauds in the several elections just previous.    From Wordnik.com.  [California, 1849-1913; or, the rambling sketches and experiences of sixty-four years' residence in that state] Reference

Man and the ballot-box might gain, but woman would lose, and men and the ballot-box themselves would lose in the long run.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays] Reference

A man's duty as citizen does not end with the ballot-box, or with the election of members either to the national or local council.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life and Conduct] Reference

This is a very splendid sort of a ballot-box, and he is a very fine sort of an American who sings about it; but what are the facts?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays] Reference

The difference arises from the fact that the State of Massachusetts has seen fit to exclude a portion of her citizens from the ballot-box.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States] Reference

It is, therefore, quite incorrect to speak of the state as an aggregate of families duly represented at the ballot-box by their male head.    From Wordnik.com.  [Debate on Woman Suffrage in the Senate of the United States, 2d Session, 49th Congress, December 8, 1886, and January 25, 1887] Reference

It is all very well to say that the presence of woman at the ballot-box would purify it, and restrain the manners of the men around it; but.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays] Reference

The ballot-box is the bass, and it should be man's business to sing it, while woman should give him home melody with which it should harmonize.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays] Reference

Governor Hayes in this message demands laws to secure honest elections, because "to corrupt the ballot-box is to destroy our free institutions.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life, Public Services and Select Speeches of Rutherford B. Hayes] Reference

I believe that greater wisdom is concentrated in the decisions of the ballot-box when all citizens of a certain age vote than when only a part vote.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States] Reference

College for those held not fit to sit as jurors, not fit to testify in court, not fit to be plaintiff in a suit, not fit to approach the ballot-box!.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States] Reference

Nearly 6 million ballots were cast last year, though the widespread ballot-box stuffing means it was difficult to know how many people actually voted.    From Wordnik.com.  [Afghanistan Elections 2010: 'Serious Concerns' Fraud Concerns, Dead Election Workers Found] Reference

So long as there were candidates for vacancies and the ballot-box went round, so long were the books printed in demand and valuable to their possessors.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author] Reference

Less than nine months later, however, Karzai crushed pro-Western candidates in an presidential election that was marred by widespread ballot-box stuffing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ex-CIA heavyweight on Afghanistan: Dump Karzai] Reference

An "appeal to the ballot-box," the sovereign remedy of a true American for every ill; the enactment that two and two shall make five, which is about what the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878] Reference

Last year's presidential vote was so tainted by ballot-box stuffing and rejiggered tallies -- much to Karzai's benefit -- that nearly a third of his votes were thrown out.    From Wordnik.com.  [Afghanistan Elections 2010: 'Serious Concerns' Fraud Concerns, Dead Election Workers Found] Reference

Liberals like Young and Windle may talk big, but when it comes to the ballot-box you'll have the whole manufacturing interest of the place behind you, and nobody the wiser.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Imperialist] Reference

But it was soon made plain to the advocates of the George plan that what they had succeeded in forcing through the Convention would be defeated by the people at the ballot-box.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Facts of Reconstruction] Reference

Does thee not perceive that every novel and every poem carries to the parlor, or, if it please thee, to the theatre, an influence which will eventually re-act on the ballot-box.    From Wordnik.com.  [Autographs for Freedom, Volume 2 (of 2) (1854)] Reference