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...voice, especially in “Blood in the Water,” a call to Harvard Law School students to roll up their sleeves and realize “you’re nothing until the thrill of the kill becomes your only law.” Supporting cast members contributed greatly to the performance. Natalie Joy Johnson was perfect as the ridiculous and bootylicious stylist Paulette, who becomes Elle’s confidante. Ven Daniel was the true star of the show as the UPS guy who, with one fabulous runway walk and come-hither glare, melts Paulette...
...card ballots (e.g., the butterfly ballot) as well as the flawed touch-screen voting machines favored by his conservative predecessor, Jeb Bush (the President's brother, who was governor from 1999 to 2007). A big reason: in a 2006 congressional race in Sarasota County, an incredible 15% of ballots cast on touch-screen machines registered no choice at all - in a race decided by a razor-thin margin of 386 votes. All 67 Florida counties have now adopted some form of a paper-ballot optical scan, in which votes are marked on a sheet and electronically tallied. Crist's move...
...rolls simply because their new address (or lack of one) suddenly doesn't match what's on file. Voters removed from the rolls get a provisional ballot that county elections supervisors are supposed to verify later; but in 2004, Florida ended up counting only 36% of the provisional ballots cast, far below the national average...
Since the country's colonial days, concerns of voter fraud have inspired ever-more complicated ways to cast one's ballot. Depending on where you live, you may vote tomorrow with a lever, a punch card, a marker or a touchscreen. As election scholar Andrew Gumbel notes, the U.S. has been both a "living experiment in the expansion of democratic rights" and a "world-class laboratory for vote suppression and election-stealing techniques...
...There are other issues at play. It remains to be seen whether Jill Long Thompson, the Democrats' gubernatorial candidate, can ride the expected surge of Obama's supporters. The incumbent Republican governor, Mitch Daniels, is popular and has cast himself as change agent. He was an early McCain supporter, but has been reluctant to appear at Palin's rallies. "It's a changed environment, a challenging environment, and he wants to appeal beyond his party's base," says Feigenbaum...