Word: ballot
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WHILE KIMBERLIN AND OTHERS were mixing fact and fiction in the blogosphere, organizations with more power and authority were grappling with the challenges of e-voting too. Some studies have found that e-voting reduces ballot errors by preventing voters from voting too many times or not enough in individual races. But the errors e-voting does produce often can't be caught because most electronic machines don't keep a reliable, independent record of the vote as it occurs. Asked to do a recount, a paperless e-voting machine will simply spit out the previous result. That, combined with...
...presidential election was not the only item on the ballot. Students overwhelmingly favored the Environmental Action Referendum, which received over 88.3 percent of the votes. The EAC called for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions...
...they had been stepped back into the 1940s. After a brief introduction by Daren F. Stanaway ’07, Vivek G. Ramaswamy ’07 took the stage to moderate discussion between 11 young men in suits and ties. Of all the 11 candidates on the presidential ballot this year, just one was a woman, and she ran for vice president on a ticket that openly did not expect to win. In fact, there has not been a ticket with a female candidate for president since 2001 when an all-female ticket led by Sujean...
...savagely should their list be overrun with irrelevant e-mails. Because tracking candidate e-mails and personnel lists is nearly impossible, we favor self-regulation through which those turned off by e-mails can voice their opposition through complaints to a campaign—or even through the ballot box. Failing retribution, there’s also the not so far-fetched possibility that some of these e-mails could serve the worthy function of informing the electorate and activating student interest...
...ballot statement also asks students to take initiative themselves. Part of the statement reads, “I pledge to do my part to realize these reductions while I am at Harvard...