The ballot contained a provision for registering the Presidential preference by the total popular vote, and this vote stood Mr. Taft 74,808, Mr. Roosevelt 71,203, hence the delegates-at-large, representing the State as a whole, should vote for Mr. Taft despite the fact that Mr. Roosevelt's delegates-at-large secured a majority.
This satirical ballot contains some special extra-credit questions covering categories like "Self-Adulation," "Windbaggery," "Award Handling," "Topicality," and "Buzzwords".
To make the results less suspect, they also counted a ballot containing some Republican votes a total of six times.
The last convention, in 1967, put a single measure on the ballot containing a broad array of constitutional changes.
The November ballot contains Proposition 23, which would freeze the state's landmark global warming law, AB 32, barring a precipitous drop in the unemployment rate.
"We don't have hanging chads or dimpled things," said Mrs. Kiffmeyer, a Republican, who voted absentee this morning in Sherburne County, where the new ballot containing Mr. Mondale's name was ready.
(A written ballot contains the homeowner's name and is used in lieu of a live vote at the meeting, while a proxy allows someone the ability to vote on the homeowner's behalf should they wish to defer their voting power).
Readers can vote by ballots contained in the four-issue series, the first installment of which hits the stands on Wednesday.
In addition, hundreds of ballots contained a punch at the number immediately below that of the Gore/Lieberman punch hole in a location that could only evince the voter's intent to cast a ballot for the Gore/Lieberman candidacy.
The court agreed with Judge Sauls that 3,300 votes that had been evaluated in Palm Beach County need not be recounted, because the county elections board had already determined which ballots contained votes.
Because so many workers are illiterate, having been denied educational opportunities, the ballots contained photographs of the candidates seeking to represent them.
