In Knox and Johnson counties, voters complained of "thin tissue ballots" that allowed the voter's choices to be seen through them.
Or they simply cast "tissue ballots" – dozens of thin tickets folded together to look like one.
Voting by mail also played a crucial role in the 2000 presidential election in Florida, when the margin between George W. Bush and Al Gore was razor thin and hundreds of absentee ballots were counted in apparent violation of state law.
This is a union-organizing measure in very thin disguise, placed on the ballot by a healthcare workers union that's having trouble organizing at two major dialysis chains.
A1 Berlusconi Suffers Setback Silvio Berlusconi's fight to remain prime minister of Italy suffered a possibly fatal blow, after the Interior Ministry announced that there were not enough contested ballots to overturn the thin victory of his challenger, Romano Prodi.
At week's end, Mr. Noland clung to a thin lead in his race as absentee ballots were being tallied.
Supporters of Kimberly Ellis, who lost her bid to lead the California Democratic Party by a razor-thin margin last weekend, started sifting through boxes of ballots at the state party headquarters in Sacramento on Tuesday to see if there were any voting irregularities.
All that talk of upholding law and order during the miners strike and of the importance of the ballot over unaccountable power looks a little thin in the light of what we now know about police conduct during the strike.
They added that the high-speed ballot counters would not help because, in a race with a razor-thin margin, the board's policy is to inspect paper ballots manually to assess the intent of voters.
Kasim Reed's thin lead in the Atlanta mayor's race increased slightly when the provisional ballots were counted.
In two other races, GOP Rep. Mimi Walters, who represents the Irvine area, and Republican candidate Young Kim of Fullerton are holding thin leads over their Democratic opponents, who have gained votes with each ballot count since election night.
