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...Diego's unbubbled ovals After Mayor Dick Murphy beat write-in candidate Donna Frye by 2,108 votes, a recount turned up 5,547 ballots that had been rejected because voters who wrote in her name failed to fill in the oval next to it. As Murphy, a Republican, was sworn in for a second term last month, Frye told TIME, "I doubt I'll be going gently into that good night...
...remove an older block. And American expats worldwide have complained that many U.S. states have been too slow to respond to registration applications, prompting fears that some overseas ballots won't arrive in time to be counted. Both Democrats and Republicans Abroad are busy handing out emergency federal write-in ballots to voters who haven't received their normal state ballots yet; their federal ballots will count if their state ballots don't reach election officials on time. Casting a vote from overseas can be "really complicated," says Jeffrey Wilson of AmDems in Shanghai. "In the U.S. it's simple...
NOVEMBER. Ken's take exceeds $4 million. He gets enough write-in votes in Florida to throw the presidential election into the House of Representatives. Ken declines bipartisan appeal to serve, arguing he has no authority, citing Esoteric Constitutional Provisions for $1,600. Ratings continue to climb...
...Republican Party’s primary ballot to make it explicit that he is a direct challenge to Cheney, whom he calls the “principal architect” of America’s foreign policy. He suggests Democrats vote for him as a write...
...voting system also allowed students to enter write-in candidates this year...