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...Montana's double-marked ballots With control of the state legislature hinging on a three-way contest in Lake County, Democrat Jeanne Windham and the Constitution Party's Rick Jore wound up in a 1,559-to-1,559 tie. But those totals included seven ballots marked for both Jore and the Republican also-ran--votes that recount officials awarded to Jore. The Montana Supreme Court last week threw out "one or more" of the double-marked ballots, thus handing victory to Windham and the statehouse to the Democrats. --By Julie Rawe. Reported by Sandeep Kaushik and Jeffrey Ressner

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Hanging Chads | 1/2/2005 | See Source »

...appear to have little to do with the merits or demerits of our book), the reviewer proceeds: "Both rebuffed globe-girdling Cinemactor Douglas Fairbanks when he tried to hire them for small parts in his Mr. Robinson Crusoe. Both have been made (by decree of Governor Léonce Jore of French Oceania) chieftains in the Kilyan tribe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 26, 1934 | 2/26/1934 | See Source »

This is news to us, and I am sure that the first of the statements would be news to Mr. Fairbanks as well; and the second to ex-Governor Jore. You should sit on the head of your office-boy reviewer when he makes such gratuitous assertions, for some of your readers may believe them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 26, 1934 | 2/26/1934 | See Source »

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