21.   The counting gave some members of the public their first real glimpse at how the ballot design had played a part in the election.

22.   The final ballot design was selected in early October.

23.   The occasional bad ballot design is not the only obstacle confronting this most loyal bloc of voters, experts say.

24.   The report lays out a detailed recipe for improving elections, from improving voting machinery and ballot design to strengthening state registration procedures.

25.   The review also found that thousands of voters were flummoxed by confusing ballot designs and marked off two candidates.

26.   The president has wanted steps taken to assure that overseas voters have their votes counted and that voting procedures and ballot design be reviewed, according to McClellan.

27.   There was one other ballot design in Florida that also would be damaging to the Democrats.

28.   Those standards would govern ballot design, election day operations, poll worker recruitment and training, as well as vote counting and recounting procedures.

29.   Three-fourths of them were punches for two candidates, most of which experts say can be attributed to the ballot design.

30.   Unless a judge rules that the ballot design violates Florida law, those votes will have to remain invalid.