Of course, some constituencies will be more exciting than others.
They don't delight all of them every time, of course, and some constituencies very much dislike each of them, but overall I don't think it's too strong a claim.
But evidence from by-elections since 2006 suggests that the new signature system could lead to more rejections of postal ballots: in some constituencies 8% of them were scrapped, says Mr Wilks-Heeg.That brings its own troubles.
Kenya's Supreme Court on Monday ordered a recount of votes in some constituencies in the March 4 presidential election.
While some branches registered only those electors who actually showed up, others also included names of electors registered "automatically" in 2011.16This explains why the evolution of the number of ballots from 2011 to 2014 is disconnected from the evolution of the number of registered electors in some constituencies (Table 1).
According to the Merdeka Centre, an NGO in Malaysia, Indian support for Mr Abdullah dropped from 79% in October last year to just 38% by the middle of December.However, Indians only make up about 8% of the population; and in some constituencies the percentage of Indian voters is less than 5%.
The delays are being blamed on late arrival of officials, the absence of polling materials in some constituencies, and some technical problems with a new biometric registration system.
The Guardian Council, Iran's top legislative body looking into the complaints, has conceded that the number of votes surpassed the number of eligible voters in some constituencies but not in as many as the 170 that the defeated candidates had claimed.
But Rezai's unofficial spokesman Omidvar Rasai charges in an interview here that "between 70 to 80percentt of the votes in some constituencies was written with the same pen and with the handwriting of a single individual".
On April 1st the NLD won 43 of the 44 by-election seats it contested, with possibly over 90% of the votes in some constituencies.
