Earlier this month, the Appellate Division of the State Supreme Court tossed out the one decisive absentee ballot in the protracted mayoral race and called it a tie.
"Viewed narrowly, it is still not decisive at the ballot box," said Prof. Michael Nelson of Rhodes College in Memphis, another vice-presidential scholar.
Alejandro Encinas, a close ally who stood in as mayor when Mr López Obrador resigned to run for president, won a slim but seemingly decisive victory in a ballot for the party leadership held on March 16th.
It would be happier still if he were to lose.Frank Hsieh, a former prime minister who wants better relations with China, won the nomination after a decisive victory in a ballot on May 6th among members of the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP).
It may also fragment an opposition whose present unity may struggle to survive a decisive defeat at the ballot box.
The more complicated issue, which may prove decisive, has arisen over ballots where the voter made an indentation with the stylus, creating a dimple but no perforation.
Not surprisingly, this produced no decisive result, and the ballots were burned in the little stove that has been temporarily installed in the chapel for this purpose.
Though Davis and Cabrera have impressive numbers in key offensive categories Trout's offensive diversity could prove decisive in the MVP balloting.
ALBUQUERQUE — The decisive defeat of a municipal ballot measure here that sought to ban abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy left anti-abortion forces conceding that some of their tactics had backfired and that they had less support among Catholic Hispanic voters than they had expected.
In a national election laden with historical significance, Barack Hussein Obama captured a decisive majority in the 2008 balloting to become the 44th president of the United States; he was scheduled to be sworn into office on Jan . 20 , 2009
