The Nurhadi and Aldo accounts appropriate the classic Indonesian campaign aesthetic, a pious-looking candidate pictured next to their ballot number, or a lofty social program, often abbreviated into a catchy acronym.
White campaign banners flutter along virtually every block of the major avenues, some with the coalition's symbol, a lit candle, or its ballot number, 555.
Campos said the low number of candidates may have had an effect on the ballot numbers.
Citizens are told to vote for candidate number seven and given a ballot where the number is pre-written, as well as surgical masks in case of a chlorine attack "so they can still vote before they head to a safe place".
On Wednesday, House Republicans rejected a call for a full slate of leadership elections, but 85 lawmakers backed the idea on a secret ballot, a number that caught the leadership off guard.
In those elections, 28.4% of eligible Palestinian voters in East Jerusalem cast a ballot, a seemingly respectable number.
A ballot measure limiting the number of medical marijuana dispensaries in the city and raising taxes on purchases also passed.
Only 37.4 percent of eligible voters cast a ballot, about half the number who voted in the first round on Oct. 11, when 16 candidates were running.
Rennard won in a ballot of peers, so mistake number one – his own impatience – was compounded by mistake number two, the peers' collective failure to spot a large, still unexploded bomb.
The fundamental problem is that a ballot offers only a finite number of candidate choices, but an optical-scan ballot can be marked by a voter in an infinite number of ways.
