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...system is very vulnerable to mistakes and abuse. For many years, no one noticed, but then again, most times the candidates in a presidential race were separated by millions of votes. Voting disputes were something that happened in races for city council. And then in 2000, the margin of error was larger than the margin between George Bush and Al Gore in a few crucial counties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's 2000 All Over Again | 10/21/2004 | See Source »

...that the cable news folks get to color-code every time they get a new poll. My home state, New Mexico, was the closest state in the union in 2000. Late on election night, Bush was winning the state by 4 votes when a retired engineer noticed a mathematical error that had lopped 500 votes off Al Gore’s total. When the error was fixed and all the ballots were counted, Gore had won the state by 366 votes. If Gore had claimed one other state—say, Tennessee—he would be President right...

Author: By Samuel M. Simon, | Title: It's the Turnout, Stupid | 10/19/2004 | See Source »

...Letting him go was a fatal error. Upon returning to Pakistan's lawless Waziristan region, Mesud rallied tribesmen and former Taliban fighters to hit back at the U.S. and its ally, Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf. On Oct. 9, as Mesud later told the press, he ordered his men to kidnap two Chinese engineers working on a dam site near the Afghan border. China and Pakistan have close diplomatic and economic ties, and the engineers' capture caused embarrassment in Islamabad and anguish in Beijing. In exchange for his hostages' freedom, Mesud demanded the release of dozens of Islamic militants arrested...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Out of Captivity | 10/18/2004 | See Source »

Fitzpatrick and company took immediate advantage of the untimely error, striking again within minutes. A 25-yard reverse to Edwards set up Dawson’s one-yard touchdown run, and the floodgates officially opened...

Author: By Aidan E. Tait, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Boston TD Party | 10/18/2004 | See Source »

...came to fight and did, staring down opponent and questioner alike. If polls show that even 33% of Bush voters are looking for a second-term course correction, Bush had little to say to them. He is holding fast, no doubts, no surrender. There would be no admission of error, despite a weeklong discussion within his campaign about whether to show any contrition about anything. "There's no turning back now," says an outside adviser to the Bush team. "It's too late for the President to admit mistakes or take a nuanced position on Iraq. He just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign '04: CRUNCHTIME | 10/18/2004 | See Source »

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