The new College Football Playoff has caught its first cheater: a ballot-stuffer in Austin, Texas.
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But the truth is that Mr Lukashenka could probably do without all the ballot-stuffing.
Or perhaps, since the clever stuff can go wrong, ballot-stuffing is a safety valve.
The cardinals swear an oath as they are casting their ballot -- further discouragement.
For Latin America's sake, as well as Peru's, it is essential to draw the line against ballot-rigging.
That victory was a watershed in South Asian politics: it proved that economic reforms are not ballot-box poison.
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Finally, someone demanded a secret ballot -- and it passed by one vote.
The canvassing board there reverted to election night tallies after discovering a ballot-counting machine had malfunctioned during the recount.
The first real battles of ballot-measure strength in the 1998 election were tested in the June 2 California primary.
No commercials, no long walks down the aisle, no speeches about the ballot-counters.
Oltmanns and Rosas lead a tight-lipped team of accountants who conduct the same ballot-counting method that they have used for decades.
He said a consultative ballot was being held - not an industrial action ballot - about willingness of crews potentially to withdraw standby cover.
Of the area's 696 registered voters, 680 have turned up to cast their ballot - 616 of them within four hours of the station's opening.
If you're drawing a blank about any such ballot-casting, you did it with each duly noted click -- meaning that, Kumbaya-style, our list is also your list.
Moreover, in many ballot-friendly states, voters can offer up new constitutional amendments or state initiative petitions so that the voices of small businesses can be heard with future changes.
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Clinton won both primaries -- Obama's name was not even on the Michigan ballot -- and had those states counted at the beginning, well, who knows what would have happened.
The elections marked only the second time since 1934 that a president's party did not lose House seats in a midterm ballot -- the first time for a Republican president since 1902.
In California, where his petition drive fell well short, his campaign is considering new ways to try to get on the ballot -- keeping the information close to the vest lest Democrats try to thwart him.
The Republican Party built on its majority in the House of Representatives, marking only the second time since 1934 that a sitting president's party didn't lose House seats in a midterm ballot -- the first time for a Republican president since 1902.
PVTs, which are based on observed ballot-counting at a statistically significant number of polling stations, work particularly well with a mechanism for ensuring an honest vote count (or exposing a dishonest one) in circumstances that prevent monitors from observing every polling station.
In a riposte to Mr Yushchenko's allegations (backed by western election observers) of vote-rigging in Mr Yanukovich's power base in the Russian-speaking east of Ukraine, Mr Yanukovich has alleged ballot-stuffing in Mr Yushchenko's Ukrainian-speaking stronghold in the west, and has filed his own complaint to the Supreme Court.
According to a report on contingent elections by the Congressional Research Service, the procedures undertaken for that 1825 vote -- the House met in closed session without reporters, for instance, and voted anonymously by paper ballot -- would be "precedential, but not binding" for similar elections in the future.
The complicated paten-and-chalice ritual ensures that each cardinal votes once -- his ballot is visible -- and also keeps his hand out of the chalice holding the other votes.
Nobody is even remotely close to first-ballot consideration as first-timers such as Jeromy Burnitz, Vinny Castilla, Brian Jordan, Javy Lopez, Bill Mueller, Terry Mulholland, Phil Nevin, Brad Radke, Tim Salmon, Ruben Sierra, Bernie Williams, Tony Womack and Eric Young all could be one and done.
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We're not on the ballot in -- there's a campaign that's going on in Massachusetts.
No area was immune from the rejected ballot problem - it was pervasive and infected all Scottish constituencies.
This morning, one Arab television channel reported the loss of a few ballot boxes - well, the loss or theft.
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Labour were duly hammered at the ballot box - Plaid Cymru in particular cannily putting up candidates standing on tickets such as "Plaid Cymru - Save Llandudno Hospital".
What the commission does want the nation to strive for is a dramatic reduction in ballot spoilage -- that is, ballots thrown out due to malfunctioning equipment, confusion on the part of voters or mistaken information given by poll workers.
Before the steroid issue, Clemens was a first-ballot lock with a record of 354-184, an unprecedented seven Cy Young Awards and 4, 672 strikeouts, second all-time to Nolan Ryan.
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