And, while I'm at it, I would check the ballot for hot fudge sundae rather than for apple pie, which, though sweet, contains no chocolate and is therefore not a dessert.
At the start of the election day you check the ballot box to be sure it is empty.
According to the Orange County registrar of voters office, it has a week after receiving the request to begin double-checking the ballots from the Nov. 6 election, which saw Duffield edge out a win by just 36 votes after 3½ weeks of counting the nearly 37,000 votes cast.
Tibisay Lucena, the president of the electoral authority, rejected calls to check the paper ballots against the electronic result.
"I'm checking the absentee ballots," the woman said, explaining that she was making sure that they were in good enough condition to be filed into the ballot reader.
Voters even tramped into one polling station, No. 85, to dutifully check the single name on the ballot.
In New Jersey's case, voters who opt for electronic voting will have to waive their right to privacy, since election officials will have to check the name printed on the ballot against the voter and registration rolls (to avoid duplicates, among other possible sources of fraud and mistakes).
Leaders from the three main opposition parties, who urged their supporters to check the "abstain" box on their ballots, predicted that many governing party candidates would not be able to take office because electoral law requires unopposed candidates to have the votes of at least 20percentt of eligible voters.
Or did they just look at the ballot and unthinkingly check the candidates they were familiar with, or who happened to be their pals?
But the canvassing board responded that the signatures were checked when the ballots first arrived in the mail.
