At this time of year, if baseball isn't talking money it's talking performance-enhancing drugs, and that discussion can now revolve around the Hall of Fame ballot filled with steroids all-stars.
Then there was a clever scam called the Tasmanian Dodge: get your hands on a blank ballot, fill it out, and pay someone to cast it while smuggling out another blank, and you can vote as many times as you like without ever casting a ballot.
In a ballot filled out by thousands of writers, Annie Hall, written by Allen and Marshall Brickman in 1975, was voted the film that made them all laugh the most, beating classics such as Some Like It Hot, Airplane! and The Big Lebowski to top the list of 101 funniest screenplays.
By the time his turn came here, at 9 this morning, to pick up a paper ballot, fill it out in a cardboard booth behind a plastic curtain that said "The Vote is Free and Secret," and stuff the folded ballot into a cardboard box with a clear plastic window on each side, roughly 250 people were waiting behind him, many of them from California as well.
On Tuesday, voters will face an extremely long and complicated ballot, filled with important questions on issues from the death penalty to mass transportation to healthcare financing.
In order to interact with the installation, the visitors must insert a specially-designed paper ballot filled with sample drum patterns.
Minnesota votes with paper ballots — filling in ovals as in S.A.T. tests.
The nominations are culled from ballots filled out by local club bookers and staff, and journalists.
At issue are the paper ballots filled out by people whose names do not appear on the voter rolls.
For both candidates, turnout will be important, with both sides trying to get voters to the polls and have absentee ballots filled out.
