Nick Clegg, the Liberal Democrat leader, questioned whether it was right for British soldiers to be "fighting and dying for an Afghan government that is deeply corrupt?" Brown replied: "No one can be satisfied with what happened during the elections – the amount of ballot-rigging that appears to have taken place.
But once you've done that process, the recount is a much more formal process of just reentering and re-examining small amounts of ballots.
According to Smartmatic, when Venezuela migrated from optical scanning to Smartmatic voting machines in 2004, it lowered the amount of spoiled ballots from 10percenttoto zero.
John Collins Swansea I returned from a week's holiday to be greeted with a huge amount of mail, including my ballot papers for the forthcoming elections.
Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder Dean Logan, whose office oversees elections, admits that there's a certain amount of subjectivity in the ballot designation process.
"There was a record-breaking amount of people casting their ballots this year," the Electoral Affairs Commission chairman, Barnabus Fung, told reporters on Monday.
Amount of money spent on California ballot measures this campaign season: Nearly half a billion dollars, a record.
I'm leaving a job I love to join your White House for one simple reason - like the record amount of voters who cast their ballot over the last month, I want to do everything I can to help deliver the change America needs.
After a Supreme Court decision in 2010 allowed corporations and unions to spend an unlimited amount of money in candidate elections, a ballot initiative in New York City calling for tighter campaign finance controls was approved in 2010 by 84 percent of voters.
Often it requires a large amount of signatures to get on the ballot however.
"We were not able to raise the amount of money we needed to place the two ballot measures on the ballot".
