Each league's award is voted on by members of the Baseball Writers Association of America, with one representative from each team, which means 14 ballots are cast for the American League winner, and 16 ballots are cast for the National League.

The ballots are distributed and each cardinal elector writes the name of his choice on it and pledges aloud that he is voting for " one whom under God I think ought to be elected " before folding and depositing his vote on a plate atop a large chalice placed on the altar ( in the 2005 conclave, a special urn was used for this purpose instead of a chalice and plate ).

Before being read, the ballots are counted while still folded ; if the number of ballots does not match the number of electors, the ballots are burned unopened and a new vote is held.

Once the ballots are counted and bound together, they are burned in a special stove erected in the Sistine Chapel, with the smoke escaping through a small chimney visible from St. Peter's Square.

The ballots from an unsuccessful vote are burned along with a chemical compound to create black smoke, or fumata nera.

) When a vote is successful, the ballots are burned alone, sending white smoke ( fumata bianca ) through the chimney and announcing to the world the election of a new pope.

) MVP ballots have ten ranked slots, and sportswriters are traditionally asked to recuse themselves if they feel they cannot vote for a pitcher.

Secret ballots are nearly universal in modern democracy, and considered a basic right of citizenship, despite the difficulties that they cause ( for example the inability to trace votes back to the corresponding voters increases the risk of someone stuffing additional fraudulent votes into the system: additional security controls are needed to minimize such risks ).

The ballots are burned after each vote.

It is fully understood by the voters and the Electors themselves that they are the representative " stand-ins " for the individuals to whom they have pledged to cast their electoral college ballots to be President and Vice President.

If ranked ballots are not used, the spoiler candidate takes votes away from the viable similar candidate ( an effect called vote splitting ).

After nominees have been determined, final voting ballots are sent to Recording Academy members, who may then vote in the general fields and in no more than eight of the 30 fields.

The Mayor and the Municipal Councillors are elected by direct popular suffrage but into separate ballots – one for the Mayor and the other for all the Councillors.

Carrie and Tommy are elected prom king and queen after Chris's henchwoman, Tina Blake, exchanges fake ballots for the real ones.

Municipal elections in Greece are held every four years and voting for the election of nomarchs and mayors is carried out concurrently but with separate ballots.

When the electoral ballots were opened and counted on February 11, 1801, it turned out that the certificate of election from Georgia was defective ; while it was clear that the electors had cast their votes for Jefferson and Burr, the certificate did not take the constitutionally-mandated form of a " List of all the Persons voted for, and of the Number of Votes for each ".

Since ballots did not distinguish between votes for President and votes for Vice President, every ballot cast for Burr technically counted as a vote for him to become President, despite Jefferson clearly being his party's first choice.

In the May 2012 elections, challengers Mike Bagnell ( with 1, 213 votes ) and Frank Sarno ( 1, 175 ) won seats on the commission, while incumbent Theresa Kelly won the third seat with 1, 164 votes, putting her two votes ahead of Albert Battaglia after provisional ballots were counted.

The ballots were counted, and the veterans ' ticket was elected, ending the Battle of Athens.

Social Credit went on to emerge as the largest party when the ballots were counted in the 1952 general election.

* April 6, 1789: Senate first achieved a quorum and elected its officers ; the Electoral College ballots were counted and George Washington was unanimously elected President of the United States

On February 3, the panel allowed Coleman to introduce evidence that as many as 4, 800 absentee ballots were wrongly rejected and should now be counted.

After examining the 400 ballots on April 6, the panel ordered that an additional 351 ballots be opened and counted.

On April 7, the additional 351 ballots were opened and counted before the panel and a packed courtroom.

A court ordered that the ballots be counted for both.

However, since the machines were not designed to separate ballots as such when originally counted, the identification of these ballots can only be approximate ; the totals do not match.

The study was unable to review the ballots in Broward and Volusia that were counted as legal votes during the manual recounts thus analysis included those figures that were obtained using very loose standards in its calculations.

The election was heavily rigged ; Doe had the ballots taken to a secret location and 50 of his own handpicked staff counted them.

In April 2007 the Maryland General Assembly voted to replace paperless touchscreen voting machines with paper ballots counted by optical scanners, effective in time for the 2010 general ( November ) elections.

When the ballots were counted, the Green Party secured 4. 3 percent of the popular vote, thereby surpassing the 2 percent threshold required for party financing under new Elections Canada rules.

Counties used this time to count any absentee ballots or provisional ballots not yet counted, to reconcile the number of signatures on the roster of registered voters with the number of ballots recorded on the ballot statement, to count any valid write-in votes, to reproduce any damaged ballots, if necessary, and to conduct a hand count of the ballots cast in 1 % of the precincts, chosen at random by the elections official.

Its appeal from ballots to bullets at Fort Sumter ended by costing the Southerners their right to have slaves -- a right that was even less compatible with the sovereignty of man.

Secret ballots were introduced, and a bicameral parliament was elected on 9 March 1857, by which time 109, 917 people lived in the province.

On June 27, a day before the election, Zelaya followed by a big group of supporters entered the base and ordered, as Commanding Officer of the Armed Forces, for the ballots and polls to be returned to him.

Major won by 218 votes to Redwood's 89 ( with 12 spoiled ballots, eight ' active ' abstentions and two MPs abstaining ), enough to win in the first round, but only three more than the target he had privately set himself.

Their influence in territorial elections was often bolstered by resident Missourians who crossed into Kansas solely for the purpose of voting in such ballots.

Both the general election and runoff were marked by peace and order, with thousands of Liberians waiting patiently in the Liberian heat to cast their ballots.

Otherwise, each ballot is read aloud by the presiding Cardinal, who pierces the ballot with a needle and thread, stringing all the ballots together and tying the ends of the thread to ensure accuracy and honesty.

A Habitation Clause issue arose during the 2000 presidential election contested by George W. Bush ( alongside running-mate Dick Cheney ) and Al Gore ( alongside Joe Lieberman ), because it was alleged that Bush and Cheney were both inhabitants of Texas and that the Texas electors therefore violated the Twelfth Amendment in casting their ballots for both.

In 1838, Charists issued the People's Charter demanding manhood suffrage, equal sized election districts, voting by ballots, payment of MPs ( so poor men could serve ), annual Parliaments, and abolition of property requirements.

The Kansas-Nebraska Act also lick that these two new Territories would decide either to allow or disallow slavery depending on ballots by the residents of these two territories.

Another group of 80 legislators supported an amendment offered by Steve King of Iowa, seeking to strip provisions from the Act that required that translators or multilingual ballots be provided for U. S. citizens who do not speak English.

As other Red Tory candidates were eliminated during the first four ballots, Clark gradually overtook Mulroney and then Wagner to emerge as the victor on the fourth ballot, by 1, 187 votes to 1, 122.

If white smoke appears, created by burning the ballots of the election, a new Pope has been elected.

If a candidate receives less than a two-thirds majority, the cardinals send up black smoke — created by burning the ballots along with wet straw and chemical additives — it means that no successful election has yet occurred.

As of 2010, ballots are audited by accounting company PricewaterhouseCoopers.

The wealthy continued to try to influence the voting by inspecting ballots and Marius passed a law narrowing the passages down which voters passed to cast their votes in order to prevent outsiders from harassing the electors.

The plaintiffs alleged that the certification of election was improper, and that certain pre-marked " unofficial " ballots printed by supporters of the new county were cast in place of official ballots, and should be voided.

Since the number of lost ballots exceeded the lead held ( by Steve Troxler over Britt Cobb ) in the statewide race for agriculture commissioner, the State Board of Elections decided to hold a special election on January 11, 2005, open only to the 18, 500 voters in the county who either failed to vote or whose votes were lost.

In 2001, a consortium of news organizations, assisted by professional statisticians ( NORC ), examined numerous hypothetical ways of recounting all the Florida ballots.

If Florida's 67 counties had carried out the hand recount of disputed ballots ordered by the Florida Supreme Court on December 8, applying the standards that election officials said they would have used, Bush would have emerged the victor by 493 votes.