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...paper trail that enabled Marilyn Jo Drake, the auditor in Iowa's Pottawattamie County, to suss out an anomaly in a county-recorder race she was monitoring in June. She noticed that a 20-year incumbent was being beaten 10 to 1 by an unknown newcomer. Sensing a glitch, Drake cross-checked the electronic results against the totals on the paper vote and discovered the veteran was actually well ahead. The problem, it turned out, was the way the candidates' names had been ordered and coded into the access cards that activated the machines, which were made by Omaha...
...does he? Levinson imagines this as the first election in which votes are counted electronically by machines manufactured by Delacroy Voting Systems, one of whose employees (Laura Linney) detects a glitch in the system, proving that Dobbs ran well, but not victoriously. Next thing you know, she?s on the run from her bosses, who will stop at nothing to silence her, and into Dobbs?s arms. At which point a promising political comedy turns into a somewhat less engaging political thriller. Delacroy?s evil chief counsel (Jeff Goldblum) will stop at nothin - including murder - to prevent her from destroying...
...told TIME. She pointed to his recent non-vote during the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA). Taylor had originally said he would vote against the free trade agreement with Central America - which Shuler's camp claims has cost the region jobs - but abstained when he said an electronic glitch prevented his vote from registering. "There have been few as important votes to western North Carolina as the vote on CAFTA and all of a sudden he can't find his voting card?" Feinberg said. "He's not thinking about western North Carolina, he's thinking about what the Republican...
...dorm room assignment before Harvard officially told her. Even though housing assignments are not set to be mailed to first years until later this month, Lamas—and dozens of other members of the class of 2010—succeeded. Lamas was searching my.harvard.edu for some glitch in the system that would give her the answers. Eventually, a fellow freshman told her that when users view their student termbills—accessible under the Campus Resources tab of the my.harvard portal page—their dorm room phone numbers were displayed at the tops of their statements. Lamas eventually...
...career, Griffiths headed to Manhattan with a degree from Connecticut College in New London in 1974. Allen, a Yale Divinity student, would have settled down with Griffiths in any place but New York City while he answered a spiritual calling to become a Methodist minister. And that presented another glitch: Griffiths, an avowed Unitarian, couldn't imagine forsaking her religion. End of story...