This is due to a change in state law that makes a ballot request good for two years.
"It's a kind of truth that you don't go around in this life making those indentations on a ballot if you don't intend to make a vote," Mr. Boies said, holding his eyeglasses in one hand as he stood at a lectern.
But an equal or greater irritant, many said, was that the council was moving ahead without a public vote, and on an accelerated schedule — fluoridation is to be put into effect in only about 18 months — which could make a public ballot challenge difficult.
It's possible to make a provisional ballot transform from a temporary one to one that is counted, depending on your state's laws, but as the graphic above shows, you should do everything within your power to cast a regular ballot in the general election.
In Broward County, officials moved slowly through some 1,800 ballots, trying to discern whether voters who did not make a clear ballot-card punch had intended to vote for one of the presidential contenders, while Republican demonstrators spilled off of buses to stand outside chanting anti-Gore slogans.
This year, Personhood USA, the group behind the country-wide push for laws which would give fertilised eggs the same rights as people, has tried and failed in seven different states to secure enough signatures to make it a ballot measure for voters or to make the deadline required.
Already some are complaining that in the old system at least a voter had to care enough to travel to Oxford and that the new rules make casting a ballot entirely too easy.
Critics say voter I.D. laws like the one in Texas make casting a ballot particularly cumbersome for the young, seniors and the poor, who are less likely to have official state identification, as such laws often require.
The report stripped a third of President Hamid Karzai's original tally to deny him outright victory and put him under enormous international pressure to accept a run-off before winter weather makes a fresh ballot impossible.
My vote will never again be indecisive, or casual, or so apathetic that I could make a feeble stab at a ballot mark and walk away with a shrug.
