Plus, there's the uncertainty of possible runoff elections in Louisiana and Georgia.
New York officials have to settle this first round of primary votes quickly, because any possible runoffs to decide the Democratic nominees for mayor and public advocate would take place just two weeks later, on Sept. 25.
Poll workers are still to be informed of the new schedule and decisions made on using paper ballots in possible runoffs.
Speedy vote counts are critical in this year's elections because there are more than 300 candidates running for citywide, borough and district offices, and there is only two weeks between the primary and possible runoffs in citywide races.
Nahska in Washington asked a prophetic question last week, about a possible runoff between Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood and the former Mubarak prime minister Ahmed Shafik.
This was the election, after all, where more than 5,000 antique lever-action voting machines had to be dragged out of storage because the board knew it couldn't get optical-scanning machines ready for a possible runoff.
The bloc of nations, known as S.A.D.C., offered to send election observers to monitor the vote counting process and a possible runoff.
One is to print every possible runoff ballot before the primary is even held.
They are also more oxygen-deprived, because of agricultural runoff and other anthropogenic causes.
The large number of visible river paths indicates that large runoffs occurred in March because of snowmelt runoff; their number decreased in July, when predominantly major rivers were found in both years.
