There were many who said they knew they mistakenly voted for him but had not realized it until after they cast their ballots.

But the callers logged the names of 2,400 people who told them they might have mistakenly voted for Mr. Buchanan.

Ms. Berkowitz, the lifelong liberal who said she mistakenly voted for Mr. Buchanan - "I wanted to shoot myself," she said ruefully - stayed up all night.

Upon claiming that she mistakenly voted for Jillian, Topaz pleaded with show producers to allow her vote be changed - to no avail.

Adley prevailed on the issue because four south Louisiana representatives, confused in debate, mistakenly voted for the counter position on the bill.

Ms. Kivelson and others said that it was very likely some voters would mistakenly vote for delegates committed to other candidates.

If military personnel being deprived of their votes over "some technicality" is wrong, isn't having your ballot thrown out in Palm Beach County because you mistakenly voted twice wrong as well?

In the Sept. 3 primary, eight Democrats and Independents mistakenly voted in the Republicans' supposedly closed primary and another five voters cast their ballots in the wrong precinct.

Evil triumphed last weekend, not in the person of those people who went out and mistakenly voted for the wrong side, but of those who told them lies and deceived them.

I mistakenly voted in favour of the proposed resolution, when I had meant to vote against, as I did on the legislative proposal.