In Zyra, where the president's wife was running, one woman left a voting booth holding three ballot envelopes, heading for the ballot box.

My daughter's ballot was duly sealed in an official ballot envelope and signed on the outside.

But the court declined to order that the ballot envelopes be preserved, leading to today's appeal.

All information contained on each ballot envelope was entered into a database by a firm hired by The Times, Quality Data Systems Inc. of Crofton, Md.

Party rules state that no literature in support of individual candidates can be included in the ballot envelope.

Must a witness or a notary sign the application for an absentee ballot or the ballot envelope?

They determined that by the return addresses on the ballot envelopes.

In reconstructing the story of the absentee vote, The Times collected copies of virtually all the overseas ballot envelopes that arrived after Election Day and built a comprehensive database for statistical analysis.

The clearest illustration of the differing strategies was in the pre-printed protest forms that each campaign prepared for use with the canvassing boards as they scrutinized each ballot envelope for legal defects.

Local mail - If you live in an area with efficient mail service to the United States, you can affix sufficient international postage to your ballot envelope and mail it promptly.