In the ballots center margin, near both candidates' names, were holes for voters to punch to vote for either candidate.
Going into yesterday's balloting, the margin of control of the House was the closest since 1954, when there were 219 Republicans, 215 Democrats and 1 independent on Election Day.
In a historic day for the left, the anti-austerity Syriza won the ballot by a margin of nearly four points over the conservative New Democracy party led by prime minister Antonis Samaras.
The final results of the referendum were expected late Friday night, but, with almost all the votes tallied, the 'no' votes had overtaken the 'yes' ballot, by a margin of some 12 million to fewer than 6 million, guaranteeing defeat for Mr. Clegg's proposal.
Johnson's opponents tried to agree on a single candidate who might gain majority support and defeat him, but failed, and he was elected on January 26 on the 54th ballot, with a margin of a single vote.
Under Florida law, if the number of improper absentee ballots exceeds the margin of victory, a judge can, under some circumstances, disqualify all absentee ballots arriving after the election and base the results on only those ballots cast and received by Election Day.
Mitt Romney eked out a very narrow victory in Ohio over Rick Santorum, but won Massachusetts and Virginia (where Ron Paul was the only other candidate on the ballot) by huge margins.
By carrying independent voters who chose a Democratic ballot by huge margins.
The recount is exposing ways we should improve how we handle and record ballots, but the margin between the leading candidates has barely changed.
Voters in Montana and Colorado have approved statewide ballot measures by margins of three-to-one instructing their elected officials to use every means at their disposal to overturn Citizens United.
