Some people could not get ballots.
You've got all-star ballots in basketball.
Several Democrats said Mr. Lieberman's comments made it more difficult, if not impossible, to block renewed efforts by the Republicans to get overseas ballots accepted.
Critics say that the delay is effectively eliminating the right to vote for people who will not get ballots in time to return them.
Mr. Aufhauser decided that the Republicans would try to push this argument further than it had ever been pushed to get military ballots counted.
Foreign election monitors like Mr. Stein expressed particular concern over the delays in getting tally sheets and ballots to counting centers.
"My mother kept getting ballots when she went to the store."
Election officials concede that tens of thousands of Americans overseas might not get ballots in time to cast votes.
"It's doubtful we'll get ballots to people in nuclear submarines and on aircraft carriers in the middle of the Indian Ocean."
They asserted that the word "jurisdiction" referred to counties, and that voters should get provisional ballots as long as they are in the right counties.