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...election. Despite gradual trends toward mechanization, in the case of a very close election, a hand count returns the power of the election to a human authority. The punch-ballots used in Florida are particularly prone to computer error as ballots cannot be counted unless the paper covering a hole is completely removed. It is possible that the computers did not count ballots clearly demarcated for a particular candidate that did not have fully punched holes. A hand count would catch ballots that were not counted for this reason...
...make one request. "Just stay with me," he said. That was their last conversation. Since his death, Pincus has tried to keep occupied. In the quiet hours, after a day spent teaching kindergarten and before her husband gets home, she sinks into deep sorrow and longing. "It's a hole, and it doesn't go away," she says. "I never thought about being orphaned until my rabbi said...
...only thing that reasonably fits this description is a black hole, an object whose gravity is so strong even light can't escape from it. "We have evidence of these supermassive black holes in several other galaxies," says Ghez, "but this is the most convincing case we know...
...couldn't, it might have been because of the cardboard ballots used in the disputed counties. The machines that tabulate the punch cards often invalidate ballots in which voters have not cleanly broken through the perforated hole. A bit of cardboard chaff clinging to the puncture, officially known as a "hanging chad," is enough to confuse the counting machine, which helps explain how thousands of ballots can register a vote for some offices but not others. Of the more than 600,000 votes cast in Broward County, the machines found no vote for president on 6,686 ballots...
...rule on remedies. The initial thing to determine is whether the confusing Palm Beach ballot was illegal in the first place. Democrats contend that it violates a provision of state election law that requires each candidate's name to appear to the left of the corresponding punch hole. Republicans say the Democrats are reading the wrong section of Florida law. Though the Palm Beach ballots are cardboard, the cards are read by machines, and the law, they say, allows the names of candidates on "mechanical" ballots to be placed on either side of the hole...