That would hardly be the outcome the opposition Democratic Co-ordinator alliance has been struggling for since 2001.Second, the CNE declared that the vote would be fully automated, with no mention of a simultaneous audit of paper ballots.
A victory in Mississippi: Voters in the Magnolia State defeated a ballot initiative that would have declared that life begins at fertilization, which supporters saw as a legislative foothold from which to launch a challenge to reproductive rights nationwide.
More critically, with about 5percentt of the ballots still uncounted, Mr. Ben-Eliezer declared that the Burg camp had stolen the election through ballot-box stuffing and other irregularities in precincts where members of the Druse offshoot of Islam live.
During the dispute over unpostmarked absentee ballots, the Montana governor, Marc Racicot, declared that "the vice president's lawyers have gone to war... against the men and women who serve in our armed forces".
It was yet another election day slap in the face for Californians on Tuesday: Hours before voters were to cast ballots that one presidential candidate promised would upend the race, the media declared that the race was actually over.
As early as 1894, Carrie Chapman Catt declared that the votes of literate, American-born, middle-class women would balance the votes of foreigners: "[C]ut off the vote of the slums and give to woman…the ballot".
The court declared that such a ballot -- ordered by the Puerto Rico Legislature after local voters won a suit in a lower court -- violated the Puerto Rican Constitution.
The election committee also declared that some sample ballots had been placed in the ballot box even though Barbara Deinhardt, a lawyer who is District Council 37's ethical-practices compliance officer, had assured the committee that she had inspected all the ballots and had found no sample ballots mixed in.
