"You have this perfect-storm election year for Hawaii," said John Hart, the chairman of the communications department at Hawaii Pacific University.
"It was the perfect storm for election screw-ups," said Ken Johnson, a spokesman for the committee and Representative Billy Tauzin, Republican of Louisiana, who is the chairman.
Despite a winter storm on election day, 1,450 people voted — nearly 1,200 of them voting "yes". The Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs had made history as the first tribal group in the state to pass a pro-pot measure — though it is still illegal to use or possess pot on the reservation.
Then they briefly stormed the election commission, and, in the final straw on April 7th, the compound around parliament.
On New Year's Day 1995, Antanas Mockus became mayor of Bogota, having stormed the election on a promise to root out corruption.
A3 Pre-Election Violence in Gaza Palestinian gunmen stormed four election offices in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, adding to the climate of political instability in advance of parliamentary elections.
A day after gunmen stormed an election office near the home of one of the candidates in Afghanistan's upcoming presidential election — killing at least four people — a group of young Afghans took to the streets of the capital to tell the Taliban they won't let the intimidation keep them from voting.
Meanwhile the Brotherhood's now legal political party has stormed the elections and taken the NDP's parliamentary seats.
Most of us remember the perfect storm of Florida election administration that kept the 2000 presidential election hanging on 537 votes for over a month, only to be finally handed to George W. Bush by a 5-4 vote backing an unsigned Supreme Court opinion.
Asked by a reporter if he is worried about the storm affecting the election, he said no. "I am not worried at this point about the impact on the election.
That's a speck of confetti in a storm of pre-2012 electindicatorstors in America, but it's also a fact that Mr. Obama's most diligent canvassers in 2008 often came from the country's campuses.
