Word: chadli
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...shame worked wonders on getting state legislators to cut that check, just think of how officials feel in the sinkhole's epicenter - Palm Beach County, of "butterfly ballot" and "hanging chad" fame. The county will receive $1.9 million from the state to replace those disco-era Votomatics with shiny new optical-scan machines (think lottery ticket machines...
...Today/Miami Herald/Knight Ridder study of the 61,195 "undervote" ballots shows that if the standard that Al Gore advocated had been used - if every dimple, hanging chad and mark on the ballots had been counted as a vote - George W. Bush would have won Florida, all 67 counties, by 1,665 votes, more than triple his official 537-vote margin...
FOILED FEB. 7, 2001 Fort Collins, Colo. Just 66 miles from Littleton, Chad Meiniger, 15, and Alexander Vukodinovich and Scott Parent, both 14, were allegedly hatching an elaborate plan to "redo Columbine." Police were tipped off by two female classmates of the boys, who said they had overhead them plotting. Officers say they found a weapons cache, ammunition and sketches of the school...
...started from the get-go. Bush's joke about half of Congress not inviting him tonight was a tacit admission about how close the election had been. Had Bush talked about fixing America's lousy voting machines - there are bills in Congress to prevent another chad disaster - he would have nailed it even more. But the humility sufficed. His acknowledgment that statistics show a country thriving and stumbling at the same time also seemed to capture the national mood just right...
THUMBS UP Entrepreneurs have wasted no time in seizing the business opportunity created by the Florida chad debacle. On Capitol Hill last week, Identix and EDS demonstrated a voting system that works only after you've verified your identity with a fingerprint scan. Since most voters haven't been fingerprinted, the first users are likely to be the roughly 2.5 million military personnel whose prints are on file...