"I think in theory, when you have a greater dissatisfaction, voters are probably willing to look at other names on the ballot, figuring they can't be any worse and it is a way to protest dissatisfaction," Rothenberg added.
Overseas military ballots figured prominently in the contested Florida recount in last year's presidential election.
Long queues, in part caused by an 2.55m upsurge in voting figures from 2005, meant hundreds were unable to cast their ballots before the 22.00 deadline.
However, when expressed as turnout – that is, the proportion of that age group that cast their ballot – the figure rose to 24%.
France always belonged to the top three countries to accept refugees in recent years, although the IOM ballot showed ambivalent figures of support.
Others who aren't on the ballot this time figure into that, too.
So I hope, along with everyone else I think, that they will get the chance in Egypt and Tunisia and other countries too, to flex their opinions against a ballot box and figure out system that can represent them more.
She had applied to vote by mail weeks ago, she said later, but forgot to send that ballot in and figured that she could still vote in person on Tuesday.
That election official, Susan Bysiewicz, secretary of the state, greeted the ruling with the raised eyebrows of someone who has just been asked to scrap her state's established ballot regulations and figure out how to handle a potential deluge of political hopefuls with no real chance of winning.
If the scanner rejects your optical-scan ballot, "try to figure out what's wrong," he said.
