There will be more interest in primary-style ballots to select parliamentary candidates.
American officials still insist they will hold caucus-style ballots in Iraq's 18 provinces to select members of a transitional assembly, though they have said they are willing to make some changes in this mechanism.
Instead, the machines that scan the new SAT-style ballots are programmed to start beeping and to offer a choice on their digital touch-screens: a green button for voters to confirm their choices and cast their ballot, or a red button to scrap their votes and start over.
Mr. Gulotta declined to endorse a Suffolk-style ballot proposition for parks or open space.
The Soviet Union-style ballot lists a single candidate for each position.
World Cup tickets will be on general sale from 12 September with an Olympic-style ballot to determine who gets what.
The statements make it increasingly apparent that the White House will have difficulty selling Iraqis on its plan for caucus-style balloting.
The centrist opposition claims there has been Ukrainian-style ballot-stuffing and implausibly high turnouts in the strongholds of the governing ex-communist party, and is demanding a re-run.
When Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, the most influential Shiite cleric in Iraq, spoke out a week ago, calling for full national elections instead of the caucus-style balloting envisioned in the American plan for self-rule, most secular politicians concluded that he hoped the voters would elect a theocracy.
The filmmaker Barry Levinson prefers the old-school style of ballots – "I just like the idea that you just put a little mark and you mail it," he said on Wednesday, at an event celebrating "Silver Linings Playbook" – and planned to vote that way.
Instead, each athlete received paper and a pencil, according to Saxer, and then cast their votes in a grade-school style secret ballot.
