In 34 cases, I placed successful phone calls to state election officials to clarify ambiguity or to get confirmation on a certain interpretation of a voting law or policy.
Mr. McCain, campaigning in Charleston, S.C., offered a far different interpretation of the vote.
Moreover, the court's interpretation of "legal vote," and hence its decision to order a contest-period recount, plainly departed from the legislative scheme.
His defeat accordingly contributed to a distorted, because grossly simplistic, interpretation of the vote nationwide, as a revolt by the rural poor against a government that favoured the urban elite.
To support a particular painter was to endorse a clear interpretation of the present, to vote for a specific vision of the future.
What could cause people who are not struggling financially, or who have plenty of education, or who have a literal interpretation of the Christian Bible, to vote for a vulgar, twice-divorced, woefully ill-informed businessman whose history is soiled with multiple major bankruptcies and a long record of contractors he and his company have simply failed to pay?
Stockman's take on the matter is simply the most cynical possible interpretation of Cornyn's votes during the 2013 government shutdown, in which the division between him and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) amounted to a simple disagreement over political tactics.
The Florida attorney general issued a contradictory opinion declaring that when the law describes an "error in the vote tabulation" it includes errors in interpretation of ballots that leave some votes uncounted like those that have been alleged in Palm Beach County and elsewhere in Florida.
One of the principal issues in the appeal we have accepted is precisely whether the votes that have been ordered to be counted are, under a reasonable interpretation of Florida law, "legally cast votes".
