Democrats say that Republicans are challenging one in five ballots in Palm Beach County as an attempt to delay the process.
The National Front fielded little more than a dozen candidates in each of the general elections in the 90s, and its vote share dropped from 0.1% in 1992 to 0% in four ballots from 1997.
Through the years, as many as one in four ballots have left this race blank — this year, though, 83% of participating voters weighed in.
The sizable chunk -- more than one in six ballots -- could alter the outcome of a controversial solar energy measure, known as Measure B, and one race for the Los Angeles Unified School District board.
In seven ballots, Bernice Labedz, 65, of Omaha, a public relations director for a brewery, could not come up with 25 votes or more, a majority, to win the top spot.
Approved better than two to one, the referendums in four ballot propositions authorized bonds totaling $255 million, the largest amount ever submitted in a single election on the Island.
In one ballot he was only two votes short of being elected.
The support now coming from Republican legislators was previously seen among Republican voters in two ballot initiatives passed on Election Day 2012.
In two ballot measures Tuesday that amounted to a regional referendum on how much tech corporations should contribute to the common good, voters in San Francisco and in Google's hometown of Mountain View decided that some wealth redistribution was in order.
Gone are the days when freewheeling multi-ballot conventions gave us some of our best presidents: Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932 (four ballots), Woodrow Wilson in 1912 (46 ballots), and Abraham Lincoln in 1860 (three ballots).
