He pantomimed a vote by jiggling his fingertips over a ballot before folding it and dropping it in an imaginary ballot box.
And all of those imaginary fraudulent votes, he insisted to ABC's David Muir, went to his opponent.
It's gratifying that the federal courts are taking a sophisticated view of what constitutes racial discrimination in voting (and scrutinizing claims that restrictions are designed to prevent largely imaginary voter fraud).
As presented in Charles Taylor's Modern Social Imaginaries (a course text for "One Person, One Vote") social imaginaries reflect the historical memory, common practices that pertain to them, and the social institutions that support and sustain an interlocking web of history, practices, and social imaginaries.
Brazil needs "a much higher primary surplus", says Paulo Leme of Goldman Sachs, an investment bank.In this section The dangers of tax and spend Talking left abroad Unguided missiles The vote next time Imaginary nation ReprintsThe fault lies with Mr Palocci's boss, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who has responded better to crisis than to opportunity.
Among this year's winners (thanks to the Associated Press) were some expected favorites: the James Levine-Lorriane Hunt Lieberson recording of Peter Lieberson's radiant "Neruda Songs" has caused a sensation, and Eighth Blackbird's win for "Strange Imaginary Animals" was an unsurprising vote of confidence for what is probably the best-known new-music group of the last decade.
Sir Robert Walpole warned that such a scheme might lure "the unwary to their ruin, by making them part with the earnings of their labor for a prospect of imaginary wealth.'' Parliament nonetheless voted in favor.
This would be in keeping with Republican strategy nationwide of using fears of voter fraud — which is imaginary — as an excuse to make voting harder.
It is ordered by the President who gave us the commission to investigate phantom voter fraud, the President who is obsessed with imaginary millions of immigrants whose illegal votes deprived him of a majority victory in 2016.
Andy Zaltzman examines different voting systems, real and imaginary.
