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...Election Assistance Commission. The actual election commissioners, however, weren’t appointed until Dec. 2003, and there is a conspicuous lack of funding. Moreover, the technical voting problems of the Florida ballot still exist; an estimated 32 million voters in 19 states will use the ill-fated punch cards. Thus we must prepare ourselves for an encore of the notorious hanging chads. The few reforms that have been instituted are still vulnerable to litigation post-election. For example, new electronic voting equipment that resemble ATMs are supposed to be far more accurate than the old punch card or lever...
...irresponsibility, or inability to govern: Canada’s unashamedly named Liberal Party has formed the government for roughly 37 of the last 50 years. When I left home this September for university in “the States”, I brought with me my Liberal Party membership card: I am a Canadian liberal...
...more heavily than the Kerry plan does on volunteers, who are given what amounts to sales quotas and are expected both to sell the candidate and recruit more volunteers. "Think creatively about other people who may not be registered," reads a campaign e-mail. "Do you have a Christmas card list? Or sing in a church choir? Are you a member of a veterans' group? What about the other parents on your child's soccer team? Have you touched base with your old friends from school lately...
...with U.S. consumers shelling out an estimated $250 million for them in 2004, according to research firm Zelos Group. Verizon alone offers more than 350 titles. Old favorites like Pac-Man and Tetris have been redesigned for smaller cell-phone screens. They rank among current best sellers, along with card games like blackjack and poker. But there are also plenty of sports and action games out for this fall. The newest trend is multiplayer titles like Family Feud, which let you compete against hundreds of other gamers in real time and see top scores--though often the graphics aren...
...spot, a whole neighborhood enveloped in an invisible field of high-volume Internet access that covers 100 city blocks. The same way some libraries and coffeehouses offer wireless Internet access, all of downtown Spokane is a wireless surfing zone. If I'd had a laptop with a wi-fi card, or even a Web-enabled PDA or cell phone, I could have surfed the Web right from that park bench for free...