1.   Because no one can tell which ballot applications the Republicans completed and which they did not, Jacobs wants all of them invalidated.

2.   Both the state Democratic and Republican parties interpreted the statement to mean that they could mail preprinted ballot applications to voters that included registration numbers and other data.

3.   But Republicans, unlike Democrats, left the code off their ballot applications.

4.   But while Leach was allowed to fix the applications, no action was taken to fix hundreds of other incomplete ballot applications, and they were not processed.

5.   Democrats claim the Goard, a Republican, should have set aside the ballot applications that did not contain the code.

6.   Democrats said the ballots should have been invalidated because Republican Party officials were allowed to supplement information on ballot applications, in apparent violation of state law.

7.   Goard has declined to say how many Republican ballot applications were corrected.

8.   In the Martin County suit, the facts are nearly the same, with the additional charge that some Democratic ballot applications were not sent out without the code.

9.   In those cases, Democratic plaintiffs want thousands of absentee votes tossed out because Republican officials corrected deficiencies in ballot applications.

10.   The Republican lawyers argued that the act of altering the ballot applications was not enough on its own to alter the outcome of the election.