In Orlando, the operation was slowed by quirky write-ins, smudges left by the rubber rollers from the first time ballots were counted and ballot cards the machine had shredded or folded.
C. A Rundell, of Cronus, informed me during an interview in his office in Dallas last fall that because of the chad problem, and also because of wear and tear on the ballots, vote totals may not change the first time ballots are run through the card reader, and probably won't the second time, but the third or fourth time they may change, "and then you've lost your audit trail".
One, Roger Clemens, failed to gain election in his first time on ballot this past year because many voters have concluded that he used performance-enhancing drugs to bolster his career.
This is not the first time absentee ballots from Bladen County have been questioned.
When New York voters go to the polls for the primary on Sept. 10, South Asians in Queens will for the first time find ballots translated into Bengali, the first new language to be introduced at city polling booths in more than a decade, election officials said.
And unless you register to vote in person, like at a city clerk's office, you won't be able to use an absentee ballot the first time you vote.
This was the first time on the ballot for Wilander and Shriver.
As an Austrian national and a serial absentee voter based in the UK, I felt for the first time that my ballot paper might make a difference.
It was unexpected but shouldn't be so astonishing that their first time at the ballot, the voters largely chose conservative.
The election of Mr. Morales, Bolivia's first indigenous president, in 2005 was a watershed in South America, as long-marginalized native peoples took power for the first time — through the ballot box.
