Word: audition
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...every state - there were reports of glitches, ballot errors, machines communicating in the wrong languages with voters, and continued doubts about chain of custody in the wake of multiple reports that most of the machines can be easily hacked. More than 26 states have adopted some kind of verifiable audit trail so voters can check their choices against the machine, but many states lack a paper trail of any kind, contending that it's not necessary or the printers are too expensive. Guam, at least, isn't taking chances: On Saturday, the American protectorate's governor signed a bill suspending...
Rather than waiting for results to be contested, some states are requiring election officials to conduct random samples of electronic results next week and compare them with the paper printouts. Minnesota's secretary of state, Mary Kiffmeyer, plans to audit the tally from two precincts in each of her state's 87 counties to make sure the electronic tabulation matches the paper trail. Audits, says Kiffmeyer, "just build confidence." In Los Angeles County, officials aren't waiting for the election to start running their tests. They will soon conduct random audits of 5% of the devices used in early voting...
...Toulouse, France, and Hamburg, Germany, both work on the plane, but their software is not always compatible. Streiff admitted to employees last week that the design tools for wiring "could not keep pace with the rest of the program." Management communication is also poor. Leaked minutes of an EADS audit committee meeting last May, for example, show senior executives contradicting each other and giving highly divergent opinions about how long or serious the delays were likely...
Shanghai's sweltering August temperatures usually keep visitors to a minimum, but more than 100 officials from Beijing descended on the city last week?and they were bringing heat of their own. Investigating what state media have dubbed Shanghai's biggest financial scandal in years, the Beijing audit team is probing allegations by the central government that the city's already undercapitalized $1.25 billion pension fund may have been used to illegally finance various business deals and speculative real estate projects. Among those hit by accusations of bribery or improper loans are Zhu Junyi, the pension fund's supervisor...
HALLIBURTON A 2004 government audit found that Halliburton's Kellogg, Brown & Root subsidiary could not account for 34% of the U.S. goods it was responsible for in Baghdad (worth $18.6 million), including two armored trucks and a $735,000 generator. KBR disputes the audit...