Although we don't know why voters needed to cast a provisional ballot, a reason may be a voter who was issued a mail ballot but cast a second ballot in-person because the mail ballot was lost.
A second ballot, in 1994, also favoured rejection, this time by the narrower margin of 52.2% to 47.8%.
The Florida Democratic party edged closer Thursday to giving its voters a chance to cast a second ballot in the presidential primary — by mail.
National Review editor Rich Lowry excerpts some Evans-Novak prognostication at The Corner: "The race on Thursday is very likely to reach a second ballot, in which case Blunt is toast".
He is outraged that Colorado didn't hold a Republican primary and mystified by the fact that some delegates who are required to vote for Trump on a first ballot at the Republican Convention in Cleveland, in July, might not-so-secretly be Cruz supporters who would abandon Trump in a second round of voting, when they are no longer pledged.
If Trump succeeds in winning nearly all of the available delegates, he will be more likely to win the GOP nomination on a first ballot at the convention in Cleveland -- assuming he also wins coming primaries across the Northeast, where he is similarly popular among Republican voters.
This time, the goal was not finding someone who could beat Trump to the 1,237 delegates needed for a first ballot victory in Cleveland in July, but instead simply to deny Trump a first ballot victory.
But Ted Cruz will not (per Mitt Romney) lay low in the Sunshine State to give Rubio a leg up, toward Romney's objective of denying Trump a first ballot victory in Cleveland.
But with new TV ads and the right sort of messaging, Hart vaulted ahead again, winning by five points and, with what in some respects was a winner take all system by district, crushing former Vice President Walter Mondale in a delegate landslide, though he was able to cobble together enough super-delegates to win a first ballot victory in San Francisco.
Voters choose between the parties that did best in a first ballot.
