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...Which tactic works best? It?s really a matter of personal choice. But given that President Bush is a proponent of positive reinforcement (the constituent votes, you give him a cookie) - far more so, anyway, than Al Gore might have been (the constituent can?t figure out the darn ballot, you spend the next four years taking pot-shots at his intelligence) - I suspect the current administration will favor of a reward-based voting system...
...while voting irregularities in the Sunshine State may have garnered the bulk of our attention during those strange days, ballot problems weren?t specific to Florida. According to a new study by social scientists at MIT and Caltech, as many as four to six million votes were lost in the 2000 presidential election, all thanks to voting machine problems, ballot confusion, lost absentee votes and failed voter registration...
...other hand, we?re very concerned about absentee ballot on demand. That?s different than requesting absentee ballots with cause, which is if you?re traveling or in the military or you?re sick. On demand means you just don?t feel like making the effort - and the number of people asking for absentee ballots is growing, by 25 percent in California, for example...
...unrest at the ballot box is more likely than unrest in the streets. And Richard Riordan, the millionaire Republican who just moved out of city hall due to city term limits, is mulling whether he’ll try to march triumphantly up to Sacramento. Riordan, whose conservatism is of the fiscal rather than the Bible-thumping kind, is seen by many as the state Republican party’s best hope for the governor’s office in 2002. (They were desperate. For a time, Arnold Schwarzenegger was considered a possible Republican nominee...
...continue federal funding for research on human stem cells. The administration itself is sharply divided on the issue; HHS Secretary Tommy Thompson is fiercely in favor of continuing the research, while White House chief of staff Karl Rove, with one eye on the Catholic vote, has cast an adamant ballot against it. (This, despite the fact, that the majority of Catholic voters support federal funding...