But last week's votes threw up more difficult questions for the SNP too.
Democrats want all of the county's 15,000 absentee votes thrown out.
As the Brennan Center report notes, poor, minority, elderly and disabled voters are disproportionately likely to have their votes thrown out.
The leading opposition candidate, Abdullah Abdullah, placed second to Mr. Karzai in the 2009 election, which saw tens of thousands of fraudulent votes thrown out.
It was a Bush/Gore hanging chad sort of affair with two recounts and several crucial votes thrown out.
None of the candidates in 1824 received 50percentt of the electoral votes, throwing the election into the House.
The Times analysis shows that about 16,500 of the votes thrown out were cast in precincts with Democratic majorities that, when taken together, were comfortably carried by Mr. Gore.
An even more implausible possibility is that each candidate could claim 269 electoral votes, throwing the verdict into the hands of Congress.
But this week in the Seminole County suit, he and his team argued that voters should not have their votes thrown out because of errors committed by others.
That has not been enough to satisfy the Karzai government, or the many losers who saw significant numbers of votes thrown out — at least 25 percent of ballots — because of concerns about fraud.
Mr Berlusconi said that votes cast for his opponents would be votes thrown away, referring mainly to those who may vote in favour of Pierfernando Casini UDC, a recent defector from Mr Berlusconi's centre-right coalition.This was condemned by Georgio Napolitano who said that no vote was a wasted vote, the statement was also condemned by several candidates of the centre left.
