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...seems perfectly reasonable that election officials in Palm Beach County, Fla. would have wanted a change in their voting equipment after the 2000 election. And touchscreen voting machines seemed like an obvious choice: Confusing butterfly ballots that had made the state a national laughing-stock were replaced by clear, well-labeled, brightly colored buttons; the machines were backed by the latest developments in counting technology (a field which has, somewhat counter-intuitively, apparently seen a fair bit of action in recent years); and most importantly of all, the nearest Chad would now be the one in North Africa...
...voting machines themselves reveals some interesting trends. The entire state of Massachusetts, where votes are recorded in large part by older optical scanning equipment, reported a total of 7 such incidents out of nearly 3 million ballots—one for every 500,000 or so votes cast. Palm Beach County had 27 machine related incidents out of their 550,000 votes—each voter there was roughly three times more likely to report trouble with their equipment than a voter was here...
...executive producer Zuiker says that CSI: NY is meant to be more "character driven" than its two siblings. Sinise's character, Detective Mac Taylor, we learn, lost his wife in the World Trade Center. In the first episode, Taylor describes throwing out all his wife's effects except a beach ball she blew up the weekend before she died. "Her breath is still in there," he says. The promise of emotional scenes, says Sinise, helped persuade the Oscar nominee and Golden Globe and Emmy winner to take a role that still largely involves staring very, very seriously at garbage. That...
Michael A. Codini ’08, who is from Laguna Beach in Orange County, said that the program was not representative of his home...
Every Mustang has aimed for muscle-beach attitude, but this one appears more confident in its skin. Gone are the side scoops, in favor of a cleaner profile. Ford elongated the hood, raised the beltline and rear deck, and pushed the front wheels forward to convey a more aggressive posture. A hockey-stick formation accents the sides, leading up to rear quarter-windows, one of several contemporary touches...