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...DIED. HOWARD KEEL, 85, barrel-chested star of stage, screen and television; in Palm Desert, California. A powerful stage actor of the 1940s and '50s, Keel's ringing baritone and cavalier stage presence won him critical acclaim in Hollywood musicals including Show Boat, Kiss Me Kate and Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. Keel rocketed to stardom as sharpshooter Frank Butler in Annie Get Your Gun, the first of a string of musicals he made for MGM. In 1981 he landed the role of oil-rich widower Clayton Farlow on the nighttime TV soap Dallas...
...seems perfectly reasonable that election officials in Palm Beach County, Fla. would have wanted a change in their voting equipment after the 2000 election. And touchscreen voting machines seemed like an obvious choice: Confusing butterfly ballots that had made the state a national laughing-stock were replaced by clear, well-labeled, brightly colored buttons; the machines were backed by the latest developments in counting technology (a field which has, somewhat counter-intuitively, apparently seen a fair bit of action in recent years); and most importantly of all, the nearest Chad would now be the one in North Africa...
What the election officials were probably not expecting, however, was the experience of one particular Palm Springs voter, who after patiently tapping through screen after screen of national and local officials fulfilling her civic duty was presented with an unsatisfying message of all too familiar a form: “Vote save error #1,” the machine said, “use back-up voting procedure...
...voting machines themselves reveals some interesting trends. The entire state of Massachusetts, where votes are recorded in large part by older optical scanning equipment, reported a total of 7 such incidents out of nearly 3 million ballots—one for every 500,000 or so votes cast. Palm Beach County had 27 machine related incidents out of their 550,000 votes—each voter there was roughly three times more likely to report trouble with their equipment than a voter was here...
...company that first put the Palm Pilot in your pocket is launching two new handhelds, the Tungsten T5 and the Treo 650 PDA phone. The 650 is not a radical redesign of the immensely popular Treo 600--appearance-wise, it's actually hard to tell the older model from the new one--but it is an all around improvement. The LCD screen looks better in sunlight, and the internal memory holds data even after the battery has drained. With certain service providers, the new Treo will be able to access a fast data network known as EDGE, giving it better...