Word: clerked
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...Anywhere but Texas," was how Summers had put it to Maartje Kok-de Bruijn, an Amsterdam bookstore clerk who led a European campaign to overturn his 1991 conviction - based solely on circumstantial evidence - for contracting the stabbing death of his parents and uncle. "Greg just didn't want to be buried in the state that was going to kill him," she says. Kok-de Bruijn became Summers' pen pal in 1992, visited his Huntsville prison 30 times and witnessed his Oct. 25 execution by lethal injection. Shortly before his death, Summers accepted a last-minute offer to be buried...
PAUL WILLIS, Pahrump, Nev., board clerk, spelling out why the town passed a new law making it illegal to fly a foreign nation's flag by itself...
...Unopposed, Cambridge City Councillor Michael A. Sullivan won his race to become the next Middlesex County Clerk of Courts, a position held for the last 48 years by his uncle, Edward J. Sullivan...
...multiple parties can sponsor a single candidate; and the third would allow unions to organize childcare workers at day-care centers throughout the state. Closer to home, City Councillor Michael A. Sullivan—the patriarch of the Cambridge political family—is running unopposed for Middlesex County Clerk of Courts, a position that has been held for the last 48 years by his uncle, Edward J. Sullivan. The younger Sullivan has said that he will serve out the remaining year on his city council term, and will determine if he wants to seek reelection as a city councillor...
...election reminded Americans that every vote makes a difference, and scrutiny of polling practices intensified. So just as America has moved to a process of electronic voting and tabulation intended to make voting more accessible, reliable and secure, trust in the system has actually gone down. Says David Orr, clerk of Illinois' Cook County: "We used to have a problem with giving people the wrong ballots. And if we were lucky, we'd catch it before they voted. Now, if the same thing happens with a touch screen, it's a conspiracy...