And if there's a recount, the paper ballot should be the official ones.
While bad ballot design has been blamed, Stewart says a paper ballot would have been the only way to be sure.
Cardinals must vote for the pope in person, via paper ballot only.
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The solution: Smith advocates an optical scan system where voters fill out a paper ballot that's subsequently scanned to create a digital vote.
Then you wait in a third line to hand somebody the handwritten ID form and have your paper ballot optically scanned by a scanning machine.
There were traditionally three methods of choosing a new pope, but the church abolished two -- leaving cardinals to pick a peer via paper ballot only.
Online voters even have the option to re-vote with a paper ballot in the event that hurried or pressured decisions were made from their remote voting locations.
Each time the cardinals vote, they will proceed one by one to the chapel altar, where each will kneel in prayer before dropping his paper ballot into an urn.
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Miller also indicated Friday that the Broward County Canvassing Board should consider as votes "dimpled" ballots and ballots with just one-corner of the chad separated from the paper ballot.
Cardinals must vote in person, via paper ballot.
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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.
In addition to the phone vote, members of the public who are part of the studio audience in the NEC on Sunday night will be able to cast their votes in a paper ballot at the venue and their votes will be added to the totals from the UK-wide phone vote.
These are the only reasons a ballot paper can be rejected and not counted and the regulations make no rule that ballot papers have to be visible at all points during the count.
It is too late for Mr Ryall's name to be removed from the ballot paper.
There has also been confusion about the difference between a rejected and a spoiled ballot paper.
All of them will need the support of 50 members to get on the ballot paper.
He wrote a letter on his ballot paper, voicing his frustration with the election.
The referendum ballot paper will have three options covering the number of politicians and size of constituency.
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If a majority opts for this odd feature of the Russian ballot paper, the poll becomes invalid.
That meant that many people who were illiterate had to find their way around a seven-page ballot paper.
All voters in the constituency will receive a ballot paper and a freepost envelope to return it in.
The Electoral Commission promised to set out new rules for ballot paper design, including how parties describe themselves.
That vote has been postponed because of a dispute over which candidates should be on the ballot paper.
Mr Schwarzenegger's supporters have appealed the decision, so, for the moment, the initiative remains on the ballot paper.
Mr Ryall's name will remain on the ballot paper because the discovery came after the closing date for withdrawals.
Tenants are to receive a ballot paper through the post asking them to vote by the 9 February deadline.
To make a difference, you have to get to the polling station and put a cross on the ballot paper.
Many Afghans are illiterate and rely on symbols like light bulbs and books to identify their candidates on the ballot paper.
Last week the Green Party candidate Ms Berry urged her backers to put Mr Livingstone as their second choice on their ballot paper.
Although he will no longer be standing, Mr MacNamara's name will remain on the ballot paper because the deadline for nominations has passed.
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