They include illegal votes and do not include legal votes that were improperly rejected.

The spondee is improperly rejected, as I shall presently show.

What we don't have here is evidence that any scientific research papers were rejected improperly.

In a 2001 case, the judge also sided with a man challenging a murder conviction, this time after finding that the lower court judge had improperly rejected one of the man's arguments.

In his written protest to the county's canvassing board, Mr. Braxton argued that some absentee ballots were improperly rejected and that others were missing when the vote was certified.

Six weeks after the Federal Emergency Management Agency promised to re-evaluate more than 7,000 applications for disaster aid that it conceded might have been improperly rejected in the months after Sept. 11, the agency said today that it had granted 85 additional awards.

The suit, filed today in Chancery Court in Delaware, where the company is incorporated, by Moise Katz, an individual shareholder, sought class-action status and contended that Unitrin directors had improperly rejected the bid, which at the time represented a 30 percent premium over Unitrin's stock price.

- Ensure accountability and establish an appeals process: Create an Office of Consumer Advocate; conduct random audits of modifications; and establish an independent appeals process for homeowners who believe their modification has been improperly rejected or handled in violation of program rules.