21.   She knows any Democratic challengers will likely want to remind voters about hanging chads and foggy definitions of voter intent.

22.   Some say the gap is insurmountable, with voters intent on showing disapproval of him.

23.   The answer may depend in part on how far the counties are willing to go to read voter intent into indented, or dimpled, ballots.

24.   The different standards mostly involved competing notions of what expresses voter intent on a punch card.

25.   The night before had dealt a huge setback to his presidential bid by rebuffing his arguments against hand recounts and strongly affirming the search for voter intent.

26.   The new election reform law directs the department to come up with statewide rules to determine exactly what constitutes a clear indication of voter intent when marking a ballot.

27.   The state Supreme Judicial Court agreed unanimously, noting that state law requires officials to try to discern voter intent.

28.   These so-called overvotes were properly invalidated, as it was impossible to divine voter intent.

29.   Throughout the country, including in Texas, hand counts are relied on as the surest arbiter of voter intent.

30.   Admittedly, the use of differing substandards for determining voter intent in different counties employing similar voting systems may raise serious concerns.