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He said that because there were no agreed-upon standards for deciding when a defective ballot could be counted, the result would differ county by county.

By a 4-3 vote, the state justices ruled that voters who sent in a defective mail ballot could go to their polling place on election day and file a provisional ballot that would be counted.

The state judges agreed those defective ballots were “void” and could not be counted, but they said the voters should be permitted to cast a provisional vote in person.

The report concluded the current process of self-certification for drivers over 70-years-old is "significantly defective" as it relies on the driver accurately reporting their condition.

I pointed out the defective logic of blaming the minority party when Republicans controlled both house of Congress and the executive branch, and observed that Democrats were unanimously opposed.