41.   Three senators cast blank ballots.

42.   They urged voters to return blank ballots.

43.   They urged voters to return blank ballots to protest what they called an unfair and undemocratic election.

44.   Vice President Al Gore nearly lost a vote in the Electoral College on Monday, when an elector for the District of Columbia cast a blank ballot.

45.   Vice President Al Gore apparently lost a vote in the Electoral College on Monday when an elector for the District of Columbia cast a blank ballot.

46.   What she does care about is the District of Columbia not having a vote in Congress, and she made her point by casting a blank presidential electoral ballot.

47.   Blank ballots will not be accepted.

48.   Defiance of government does occur when voters cast blank ballots, but the government never reveals their number.

49.   The rest cast blank ballots.

50.   There was one blank ballot.