'Mega-development' foes offer Garcetti a deal to halt ballot campaign.
Commissioner Ford Frick stepped in, inserted Willie Mays and Hank Aaron into the starting lineup, and baseball halted fan balloting until 1970.
Elections officials had tallied less than a tenth of the ballots when the United States Supreme Court halted the vote recounts across Florida on Saturday afternoon.
Jim Prior, the then Northern Ireland secretary, proposed legislation to the cabinet in September 1983, requiring the thumbs of Northern Irish voters to be marked with indelible ink in an attempt to halt Sinn Féin "vote early, vote often" impersonation at the ballot box.
The counting of absentee ballots was halted at noon by the Michigan secretary of state.
The doctrine also did not prevent the court from intervening in the presidential election of 2000, when it halted the recount of ballots in the disputed state of Florida and effectively confirmed George W. Bush's victory, despite forceful arguments that, under the Constitution and relevant federal statutes, the matter was clearly one for Florida and Congress to decide.
Bill O'Field, spokesman for the District of Columbia Board of Elections and Ethics said that turnout had surpassed previous primaries, with some precincts ran out of paper ballots, but that voting was never halted because the stations had electronic voting machines as well.
The state attorney general has asked for a court order allowing her to halt a proposed ballot measure that would authorize killing gays and lesbians, saying it was both "reprehensible" and unconstitutional.
A federal judge halted the recount of presidential ballots in Michigan Wednesday night, confirming an earlier ruling that the petitioner, Green Party nominee Jill Stein, had no standing to demand it given she received just 1.1percentt of the vote.
Bush v. Gore 2000 Halted a manual recount of presidential ballots in Florida, effectively awarding an electoral-college victory and the presidency to Republican candidate George W. Bush.
