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...have thousands of votes for Vice President Al Gore '69 disappearing from a single county in New Mexico in a recount because of a "computer glitch." We see electors holding ballots up to the light, attempting to channel the voter who may or may not have meant to punch all the way through the flimsy card. We are told of "hanging chads," pieces of the ballot where the stylus should have punched all the way through and detached a small round confetti-like piece of paper, but instead leave the piece hanging by a cellulose thread. These chads, among other...
...that flow through the airspace were switched to the emergency system. Some of them were not up to speed on that version, though, and they became confused and started yelling, "The backup system isn't working!" The problem was caused by what an agency spokesman called a glitch in the software--installed just that morning--although, he added, safety was never compromised...
WORST NEWS OF THE DAY In Japan a glitch shuts down a radiation alarm at a nuclear plant, causing concern but no leaks...
...plagued the Clinton White House," she says. The Justice Department investigation revolves around thousands of e-mails lost between 1996 and 1998, when members of the administration mistakenly sent transmissions to the nonexistent "MAIL2" folder, instead of typing "Mail2." Northrop Grumman, which built the e-mail system, caught the glitch in January 1998 and immediately notified the White House. Three of the firm's employees now say they were threatened by presidential aides with dismissal and jail time if they reported the lost e-mails, which, according to one techie, included dirt on the Lewinsky scandal, Filegate and campaign finance...
...Hampshire to South Carolina to Michigan, his mood has hit highs and lows. The banter on his bus started to go dry in ferocious South Carolina; he was testy with reporters. Before a TV interview the night of his defeat, he was so agitated by delays and a technical glitch that piped a celebratory George Bush into his earpiece he threatened to walk out of the interview. He quickly apologized, but it was a rare slippage for a candidate who admonishes his staff to "keep a steady strain...