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...anxiety is a shortage of poll workers in larger counties like Broward, where Fort Lauderdale is located. And McCrea warns that the Florida legislature hasn't provided for enough mandatory post-election vote audits. (It requires routine scrutiny of just one race - such as for President or a congressional contest - in each county, and for only 2% of the precincts at that.) "Routine scrutiny in the voting system is as important as it is in banking or airline maintenance," says McCrea. "If not, optical scan just gives us a paper trail to nowhere...
...Obama's schedule speaks louder than any poll about the opportunities he senses in the electoral map, even as a number of late polls show the contest tightening slightly. On Saturday night, he held a rally in conservative Springfield, Mo., packing tens of thousands onto a high school football field in a part of the state that went nearly 2 to 1 for George W. Bush in the last election. On Sunday night, the campaign announced that Obama will make his final stop of the campaign on Election Day in Indiana, a state that has voted Republican in each...
...Harvard field hockey team traveled to Hanover, N.H. on Saturday to face Dartmouth in its penultimate game of the season. The Crimson had won the last four meetings in Hanover and looked to snap a current four-game losing skid. The contest, which featured a total of only five shots on net, was a defensive struggle, but the Big Green (6-9, 4-2 Ivy) broke through on a penalty stroke late in the second half to defeat the Crimson (6-10, 2-4 Ivy), 1-0, on Dartmouth’s Senior Day. Most of the game was marked...
...Crimson (9-3-4, 4-1-1 Ivy) tied Dartmouth (7-6-2, 1-4-1) 1-1 on Saturday in Hanover, N.H., and now sits in a three-way tie atop the Ancient Eight standings. “It was a physical game, but a great contest,” Harvard coach Ray Leone said. “Just a really good game; a lot of ebb and flow for both teams.” Although the tie was not the result the Crimson had been hoping for, Harvard is still confident about its place in the standings...
Although Dartmouth was giving up 448 yards of total offense entering the contest, the Crimson struggled to find its strengths early, as the secondary played the receivers tight, forcing senior quarterback Chris Pizzotti to look to his feet rather than his arm for offense...