But Chris Whitmire, a spokesman for the State Election Commission, said, "We have no reason to doubt the outcome of the election or to believe that there were any irregularities concerning the voting system".
Jack Mortell, the leader of the United States short-track team, said that if there was any irregularity in a race, the referee could order a restart within a half-hour.
McLaren have already said they have found no evidence that Alonso's car suffered any kind of mechanical failure following the crash at Turn Three of Spain's Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya on 22 February, or that there was any irregularity in the energy recovery system.
They spent millions of our tax dollars auditing them -- if there was any irregularity it would have been found.
A cartilage defect was identified as present if there was any irregularity on the cartilage surface or the cartilage bottom with a loss of cartilage thickness on at least two consecutive slices at any site of that compartment.
An examination at higher magnifications (Figure 2b) reveals that grain boundaries are without any irregularities and that the surface of observed crystals is free of defects and without any amorphous layers.
Tang did not reply to a request for comment, but Adrian Dubock, executive secretary of the Golden Rice Humanitarian Board in Switzerland disputes that there were any ethical irregularities and argues that the retraction is not warranted.
Supporters of Kimberly Ellis, who lost her bid to lead the California Democratic Party by a razor-thin margin last weekend, started sifting through boxes of ballots at the state party headquarters in Sacramento on Tuesday to see if there were any voting irregularities.
