(City officials also acknowledged that they had left a ballot-filled box unmonitored for a time after the vote, but said they found no evidence of tampering).
After all: one can leave a ballot-line blank, which allows better-informed individuals to make that given judgment.
By Masha Gessen September 21, 2016 A woman holds a ballot as she leaves a voting booth in Moscow during Sunday's parliamentary elections.
CLEVELAND — Mike Pence's quest to be vice president has suddenly left a gap on Indiana's ballot for governor, and the battle to replace him has been playing out in the unlikeliest of places: a desolate airport hotel in Cleveland, the temporary home of Indiana's Republican delegation.
In the latest episode of the California Politics Podcast, Myers leads a discussion on some new polling of ballot propositions that have left a lot of voters undecided.
But the real avatars of the new loafing were those Florida voters who could not muster the effort to poke all the way through the ballot, leaving a lazy dimple as a measure of their intentions.
Vice President Al Gore received 266, one fewer than expected, because a District of Columbia elector left her ballot blank to protest Washington's lack of a voting representative in Congress.
Mr. Gore had 266, one less than he had expected, because a District of Columbia elector left her ballot blank to protest Washington's lack of a voting representative in Congress.
But it was still unclear late tonight whether so-called dimpled chads -- indentations left in the ballot by a vote that did not punch through the paper ballot but only dented it -- would be counted.
A faithless elector from the District of Columbia left her ballot blank to protest Washington's lack of a voting representative in Congress, an abstention that left Mr. Gore with 266 electoral votes, one fewer than he had expected.
Multiple reports of voting machine problems, including from a school teacher who had to leave without casting a ballot because he had to get to school before classes started.
