Sentence examples for faulty ballots from inspiring English sources
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Hall pointed to a litany of "independently sufficient" causes for Gore's defeat, including the electoral college, the Supreme Court and faulty ballots in Florida.
The fact that some voters were afforded a right to fix faulty ballots while others were not, depending on the resources spent by their particular county, makes a powerful case for ballot reform.
And should voters end up filling out faulty ballots, the Chicago board of elections will have a whole new set of legal issues with which to deal.
In the past, such voters have been given a chance to correct minor mistakes on their ballot forms; now, at Husted's direction, faulty ballots may simply be thrown out and voters disenfranchised.
But when they used optical-scan systems that alerted them to a faulty ballot, the percentage of uncounted votes was 1.1 in poor districts and 0.5 in affluent ones.
One uses a counting machine in the polling place and alerts the voter to a faulty ballot; another is linked to a central counter and does not provide an alert.
Selker points out that in 2000, most of the votes that were lost because of equipment malfunction were caused by faulty ballot design (remember the "butterfly ballot"?), not faulty machines, and that by far the largest number of votes (several million) lost could be blamed on bad voter registration procedures.
The survey cited faulty voting equipment, confusing ballots, voter error and problems at polling places, including long lines, short hours and inconvenient locations.
On Election Day 2000, they asserted, there were far too many instances in black precincts of voting list discrepancies, too many arbitrary disqualifications, too many faulty voting machines and ballots.
Although the scientists did not attempt to say which candidate would have benefited if all the votes had been counted, they attributed the shortfall to faulty voting equipment, confusing ballots and problems at voting places.
