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...didn't campaign or anything," he said. "I just put my name on the ballot to see what would happen -- maybe I could get scandalized ... or something cook like that...
Proponents of a computerized system say it would provide more accurate and faster results and would save costs over the longrun. Equipment expenses would be small compared to the costs of hiring a cadre of Cantabrigians to count ballot for seven or eight days every two years, according to Healy...
Todd F. Braunstein's '97 case was muchpublicized, in large part because it involved TheHarvard Crimson. Braunstein, a Crimson editor, wasaccused by the Undergraduate Council oftrespassing and tampering with council property.He entered the council offices for the purposes ofrecording potential ballot stuffing, by means of akey he believed a Council member provided.Braunstein's case was essentially dismissed,; hereceived a "scratch," which exonerates the studentcompletely of any wrongdoing. Despite hisagreement with the decision reached, Braunsteinstill says the system could have been better. Inparticular he would have liked the opportunity tocross-examine his accusers, a feature of the legalsystem that many students...
...Walker says that because the provinces are essentially autonomous already, with their own schools and taxation systems, ETA has steadily lost support. Thus "Every now and then they have to attack someone to keep their name in the papers, but most Basques now prefer to settle this at the ballot...
Fried was apparently persuasive; the SJC voted unanimously to uphold the ballot question...