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...According to USA Today, the 3,141 counties in the United States use six different methods to record and tally votes: 40 percent use optical scan devices (think of No. 2 pencils and the SATs); 18 percent use punch cards (think Palm Beach and Votomatics); 15 percent use '50s-era lever machines (flip the switches and pull the lever); 12 percent use paper ballots (drop them in a box or mail them in); 9 percent use electronic touch-screens; 2 percent use Data Vote, which is punch-card voting without the Votomatics...
...TEMPORARY DUNESCAPE OUTDOOR SUMMER PAVILION Architect firm SHoP's temporary "urban beach" in Queens, N.Y., became an inviting summer sensation. Made from 6,000 2-in. by 2-in. boards that rolled, twisted and slid about, it offered wet and dry places for visitors to bask, wade and escape the sun. It was an architectural drawing come to life...
While reading about Castano, I could not help thinking that the cure was worse than the disease. MICHAEL D. MOLOHON Daytona Beach...
With the Ryder truck being auctioned off on eBay for $80,000 or more, good sense says the driver has to be worth at least half that much. But Enos, 38, is still putting in days as the voting-system manager in West Palm Beach. I don't really understand what he has to do with the voting-system mess down there, but it does seem like a good idea for Spillane to be scouting out other work...
...something spectacular like run for President," he says. In level of fame, Enos ranks himself below Bronson Pinchot and even under Spillane clients Divine Brown and Faye Resnick. "Those people are focused on a whole story," he says. "I'm just one person who transported ballots from West Palm Beach to Tallahassee." In fact, Enos seems kind of creeped out by the attention. "I'd see people run across the overpass and wave and take pictures, and I was thinking, 'Why are they doing this? They could be waving at a truck with someone taking furniture somewhere...