The use of the plate makes it difficult for a cardinal to drop two ballots into the chalice.
Then, on the following days, two ballots are held in the morning and two in the afternoon until a pope is elected.
Locog is still finalising the details of the sales process but is expected to stagger the sale of around one million Olympics tickets that were held back from the first two ballots.
With two-thirds of the ballots collated, an unofficial count showed Megawati Sukarnoputri with about 35%.
As many as 100, 000 voters were expected to cast pre-Election Day votes, but long lines were the order of the day Thursday and Friday, particularly at the six polling places set up in Broward County, with early birds waiting up to two hours to cast their ballots.
Thirteen candidates appeared on the first-round ballot, though two withdrew from the race after ballots were printed.
There were 13 candidates on the first-round presidential ballot, although two withdrew from the race after ballots were printed.
Each polling station will have at least two boxes -- one for ballots for the National Assembly, one for ballots for the provincial council.
The election ended in a tie between Jefferson and his running mate, Aaron Burr. (At the time, the Electoral College cast its ballots without distinguishing between president and vice president, and the two Republicans each got 73 electoral votes, throwing the decision to the House of Representatives.) It took 36 ballots before the House awarded Jefferson the presidency.
Two million voters are estimated to have cast their ballots.
In New Hampshire, two candidates have asked for a recount of optically scanned ballots.
Ashcroft was observing the latest challenge by Democratic candidate Al Gore's attorneys to try to compel two Florida counties to manually recount about 14, 000 ballots from the November 7 presidential election.
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The tightness of the race between the two Democrats suggested it could take days to count all the ballots.
The results of that election may not be known for two weeks, as election officials count more than 1 million absentee ballots.
The process of choosing a new pope involves cardinals from across the world gathering in Rome where they will then carry out a series of secret ballots until one of their number receives a majority of two-thirds of the votes.
In fact, some polling places were kept open two hours after their scheduled closing because of lines of voters waiting for ballots.
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