In 2000, thousands of voters in Florida made a similar mistake by accidentally choosing two candidates for president, invalidating their selections and helping plunge the razor-thin contest into a chaotic stalemate for weeks.
Democrat Mark Herring and Republican Mark Obenshain, locked in a razor-thin contest for attorney general, on Wednesday both named transition teams.
Ranked voting (in forms based on allocating points) was used in recent razor-thin contests for the Heisman Trophy and National League Cy Young.
Their departure leaves a thin field contesting the Democratic nomination, a group headed by Vice President Al Gore and including former New Jersey senator Bill Bradley, and possibly Massachusetts Senator John Kerry, House minority leader Richard Gephardt, and civil rights activist Jesse Jackson.
Stuffy lawyer type, NBC's general counsel, seems to think remixing songs isn't part of fair use, which really puts that Beatport Sasha remixing contest on thin ice.
There is not much time left ("super Tuesday", with many states simultaneously in play, is on 1 March) for them to emerge as the mainstream alternative to the Cruz-Trump show before the contest eventually thins into a more conventional affair.
The former governor placed first in the contest by a thin margin over Paul.
But the razor-thin results of last week's contest has placed the board's process on center stage.
Like an aging hippie with a thinning ponytail, this week's Covers Contest searched in vain for a single unifying theory of the universe.
A quarter of a million votes looks like an impressive total on the scoreboard of a Labour leadership contest; it is a thin sliver of the national electorate.
On March 7, Mr. McCain's limited resources will be stretched thin by having to compete in Republican contests in 16 states, including New York and California.
