Eventually, after multiple ballots, the critics settled on "American Splendor" for the top honor.
In desperation, after multiple ballots, the cardinals settle on an elderly, pious abbot presiding over a small, ancient seminary in the South of France, where he taught Scripture and immersed himself and the seminarians in music.
The initial vote on caucus night is simply a preference poll and not necessarily binding, it's the delegates who make the final decision and are totally unbound if the RNC goes to multiple ballots over the summer.
Trump won the state and should be allocated its 99 delegates to the convention, but Lewandowski noted that a state party official loyal to Sen. Marco Rubio would appoint 30 of those delegates, who may change their support if the nominee selection requires multiple ballots at the national convention in Cleveland.
The elections were rigged in Moscow not only by middle-aged people with Soviet memories, but by thousands of pro-Kremlin younger folk gathered from across the country and dispatched to cast multiple ballots around the city.
The national conventions, if not the political spectacles they were in the days of multiple ballots, do tend to be about something: the fight over the party platform and the announcement of a vice presidential choice.
The most comprehensive study to date — The Truth About Voter Fraud, by Justin Levitt of Loyola Law School, found about 31 different incidents (some of which involve multiple ballots) since 2000, anywhere in the country.
But protest leaders pledge to strengthen their push for the dissolution of the new Parliament and for new elections under the former rules, which allowed voters to cast multiple ballots and appeared to favor the opposition.
A number of other plans were also mentioned: destroying the bar codes on ballots cast for opposing parties, allowing voters to cast multiple ballots, buying credentials to increase the presence of Party loyalists at individual polling places.
Katon Dawson, a Gingrich supporter from South Carolina and a former state party chairman, pointed to language in Arizona's rules as one example of a state whose 29 delegates are currently with Mitt Romney, but could move to another candidate at the national convention in Tampa if there was a contested convention and the vote went to multiple ballots.
The conventions were often tense affairs, and sometimes multiple ballots were needed to overcome party divisions particularly at conventions of the Democratic Party, which required its presidential and vice presidential nominees to secure the support of two-thirds of the delegates (a rule that was abolished in 1936).
