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...voting was marred by lines of up to seven hours long in some precincts, found that the length of the ballot was the biggest predictor of delays. If a ballot included dozens of races and a long list of propositions, as it did in some precincts, it took much longer for a voter to complete it. Every hour, about 3% of the voters in those long lines gave up and left, according to Ted Allen, an associate professor of industrial and systems engineering at Ohio State University in Columbus, who co-authored the study...
...termed the extreme right-wing views of the Harvard Salient, which he feared had given more accepting Republicans at Harvard a bad name. The editorial, entitled “The Salient is not the Right,” sent a clear message to students: the new HRC no longer supported divisive exhibitionism of a polarizing “vocal minority...
...Hall. At the time, he was angling for a freshman position on the Undergraduate Council. I represented a potential constituent. We sat eating cereal and discussing Harvard’s same-gender rooming policy, on which we held opposing views. A nearby classmate, overhearing our debate, suggested that the longer Motley persisted with the conversation, the more likely he was to lose my vote...
...Ryabkina adds. “My class is just, I would say, my best friends in general, because they’re a huge support.”Playing out of her comfort zone with such enthusiasm shows just how far Ryabkina has come in a single year. No longer in it for herself, she has become the epitome of a team player. “Of course, our goal is to win every game, get to the national championship, [and] win that,” Ryabkina says. “I would say, for me, the most important thing...
This election season, the conventional wisdom no longer seems to apply, especially with regard to the perennial “battleground states.” Traditionally thought to include Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Florida, recent polling indicates that traditionally-red states, like North Carolina and Virginia, could come into play, possibly contributing the deciding electoral votes to Democratic candidate Barack Obama...