One Massachusetts state legislative race from November 2, 2010 is still not settled. The original tally showed the Republican nominee defeating the Democratic incumbent by one vote, but the Democrat then sued to overturn the results. See this story. One witness testified that he was not permitted to vote. Other evidence was taken over one ballot in which the voter seems to have changed his or her mind while voting, and voted for the Democrat, but then crossed that off and voted for the Republican.
ANY OBJECTIVE definition of a LEGAL vote in ALL States using ANY election system ???
NO guessing games or style points or taste (as in art or music).
P.R. for ALL legislative bodies — extremely UN-likely that the total results would ever depend on ONE vote (in larger elections at least).
Do the party hacks in the MA legislature have the final final word on election results ???
Standard stuff due to the EVIL Brit monarchs in the 1500s-1600s trying to have their stooges control the English House of Commons.