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Rather than waiting for results to be contested, some states are requiring election officials to conduct random samples of electronic results next week and compare them with the paper printouts. Minnesota's secretary of state, Mary Kiffmeyer, plans to audit the tally from two precincts in each of her state's 87 counties to make sure the electronic tabulation matches the paper trail. Audits, says Kiffmeyer, "just build confidence." In Los Angeles County, officials aren't waiting for the election to start running their tests. They will soon conduct random audits of 5% of the devices used in early voting...
...departments we must answer to, every month, for the rest of our lives, or be stripped of the right to practice medicine (as well as the ability to earn a living). Every doctor lives under continuous scrutiny from federal, state, hospital, insurance company, specialty board, medico-legal, and professional conduct organizations. Hundreds of pages of forms must be filled out, hundreds of thousands of dollars spent, hundreds of hours of study and examination must be completed every year - just to stay in practice - and that's after Board Certification, a process at then end of ten years of intense training...
...senior officer has admitted to any serious mistakes, or been reprimanded or sidelined for tactical, operational or strategic errors, is troubling to many officers. In contrast, they point to the example of Israel, which had barely withdrawn all its troops from southern Lebanon before it launched investigations into the conduct of the war against Hizballah...
...program taped at the church and broadcast on public radio stations across the country. Poet Mark Nepo introduced Zinn and interviewed him on-stage before opening up to the audience for questions. Zinn was interrupted on multiple occasions by applause while he criticized the U.S. government’s conduct of the war in Iraq. “I believe most people don’t want to live in a country that prides itself on its military power...a country that countenances torture,” Zinn said. Zinn also stressed the importance of learning history to building...
...Core status of four new Humanities courses until the Committee’s first meeting in October, leaving it to Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles and Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 to fastrack them into the Core. Second, committee members must conduct unannounced audits of classes that have already been given, or may be awarded, a “general education” designation. In addition to determining whether a course should be listed under general education, these audits should provide valuable feedback to professors about how to improve their teaching...