Word: outdatedness
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The state supreme court's ruling was extraordinarily ambitious, imposing a remedy no one had asked for. Gore's lawyers simply wanted a recount of 14,000 disputed ballots in two Democratic counties; the state supreme court ordered a recount of undervotes in 64 of 67 counties (three had already...
By and large, though, the law is messy and outdated. In Texas a 1985 statute allows wrongly imprisoned people to collect as much as $25,000 in compensation for pain and suffering. That works out to slightly less than $6 a day for the 12 years Kevin Byrd spent in...
Standardization will also enable counties to upgrade their equipment to the same, relatively high standards. Given that voting machinery is not high on the priority list of cash-strapped communities, disproportionately more problems arose at this past election in low-income communities with mostly outdated voting equipment.
More active Houses would greatly improve the lives of Harvard students, but there are currently roadblocks towards building this unity. First, students need to break free from current debate and old excuses. The council's "student services vs. social interaction" is an exhausted argument and an outdated way of thinking...
"I think it's a good thing that we're thinking about electoral reform. The dirty secret of American politics is that for a long time we've run elections in an amateurish way. The processes being used are totally outdated," she said.