| 21. | Political activists say they successfully encouraged people to cast invalid ballots to show dissatisfaction with the two candidates.
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| 22. | Lien immediately demanded a recount, and one of his complaints was that there were 337, 297 invalid ballots.
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| 23. | "If invalid ballots are being handed out, I will not vote, " he said in a radio interview.
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| 24. | "It's a phenomenal figure since there were only 7 percent invalid ballots in last year's Senate election ."
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| 25. | The problem of the invalid ballots arose when election officials found that many ballots had been punched twice.
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| 26. | Invalid ballots include those that have no marks, more than one mark, or ballots not in an envelope.
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| 27. | Gore was among those chosen on 46, 000 of the invalid ballots, while Bush's name was punched on 17, 000.
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| 28. | Kovac, the president, told the broadcaster : " If invalid ballots are being handed out, I will not vote ."
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| 29. | The " single bubble " format is incapable of producing invalid ballots ( which might otherwise be rejected in counting ).
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| 30. | Voter turnout was less than 52 %, with 4, 688 voting for renaming, 4, 358 against, and 1, 016 invalid ballots.
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