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About a fourth of Americans vote the same way they take standardized tests or mark lottery tickets--by filling in circles or arrow lines on cards that are read on the spot by optical scanners. "You can have a multitude of people marking ballots at the same time, so you get rid of the waiting lines," says Ed Packard, election administrator in Alabama, where all but three of the state's 67 counties use the method. "And you can program the machines to kick overmarked ballots back to the voter to redo." The scanners also claim an optimal accuracy rate...
Sarah M. Hulsey '01 spends a good deal of her time at the Bow & Arrow Press, an old-fashioned letter-press workshop buried deep in what you might call the bowels of Adams House B-Entry. There, in a vaguely medieval space stuffed to the gills with drawers full of type (Helvetica, Futura, you name it), a quarter-century's worth of magnesium plates and the assembled knick-knacks of the letter-press trade, Hulsey prints books and broadsides of poetry written by her friends and roommate, Susannah Lang Hollister '01, in addition to original work. In a painstaking procedure...
...carve woodblocks and is testing out more experimental ground for her printing, eager as she always is to expand into new ideas, skills and projects. With lively enthusiasm, she talks animatedly about her latest work, an artist's book on taxidermy that she intends to print at the Bow & Arrow. Having stumbled upon this most unusual subject and gotten hooked, Hulsey isn't about to give up the infatuation any time soon...
...said the Bow and Arrow spot is quite attractive...
...names of the presidential candidates run down two pages, separated by a central column where voters can register their preference by punching a bubble indicating their choice. How to know where to punch? A neat arrow extends from the candidates name to the corresponding punch hole...