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...first poll attendant reports to the check-in desk, heaving a sealed crate and a large padded bag—sheltering his all-important Accu-Vote counting machine—onto the table...
...vote count itself comes from memory cards taken in the Accu-Vote machines and subjected to computer analysis. Today, some of the problem ballots—those with write-ins or marking errors—will be hand-checked, and the count will be finalized in a process called The Real Thing...
Each ballot was then scanned into a memory card using Accu-Vote scanners sold to the city by LHS Associates Inc. of Methuen, Mass. Once all ballots were scanned, memory cards and scanners were delivered by pollsters to the Senior Center. The first delivery occurred at 9:20 p.m., about 35 minutes behind schedule...
...fault of its own, a pitifully weak mandate. The College has not granted the council enough power to make it more than the bickering, glorified dance committee that it presently is. Its ex officio memberships in College committees are strictly advisory, yet the ridiculous scandals and vicious counter-accu-sations that dominate council politics undermine any credibility any-way. The ineffectual, non-binding resolutions that the council passes on any issue of consequence--like ROTC, the structure of the College, or the search for the new dean--come across as bloated, bombastic and ineffectual squeals. Moreover, the council's process...
...behind Brickell. When the city manager cut $5 million from the school budget two years ago, 30,000 citizens signed petitions opposing the cut; hundreds came to a public hearing to praise the school system and attack the city manager. "Revolutions happen not suddenly but after a long accu- mulation of grievances and awareness of defects," says Philosopher Mortimer Adler, who is optimistic that the re-forms will continue. "This is the first time that the central matter is being discussed teaching and learning. Not civil rights or free lunches or girls vs. boys." If state legislatures, public forums...