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...declared the victor of the House election in Florida's 13th District by 369 votes in November. But 18,000 voters from a heavily Democratic county somehow didn't register a choice in that particular race, and Buchanan's opponent, Christine Jennings, claims their votes were swallowed up by paperless electronic-voting machines. Jennings has brought a suit asking for a revote, and on Dec. 20 she filed a dispute with the House...
...Alternative Voting: A number of states have gone to what is called "no fault" absentee voting this year, which means voters no longer need an excuse to obtain an absentee ballot. Applications for the absentee option have exploded partly because of worries about the paperless machines, and partly because both parties have mailed applications to millions of voters whether they requested them or not. That could shorten lines at the polls on Election Day but lengthen the count on election night. All around the U.S., the percentage of absentee balloting is exploding: most jurisdictions are seeing a jump...
Sure, Orman has the usual battery of electronic devices--in fact, she runs a paperless office but has strict rules for using her gadgets. "When I am writing, I don't answer phones. I don't care what else is going on," she says. She has a cell phone but never leaves it on. "You can't call me. I only call you. I think you have to stop thinking you are at everyone else's beck and call." Silence, she adds, is critical. "You cannot complete your thoughts with everything ringing...
...calligraphy or quality of the paper on which something was written can also confer extra value. "As we head toward a paperless society that communicates in an abbreviated, computer-generated style," says Debbie Gordon, founder of Snappy Auctions in Nashville, Tenn., "many people are drawn to the attention to detail in penmanship, expression and beauty of paper that reveals a slower way of life." And eBay, along with eBay drop-off centers for those who don't want to run an auction themselves, has made selling ephemera easier than ever...
...government is leading this charge into the medical information age--robustly and, by most accounts, effectively--because it pays 46% of the nation's medical bills. Dr. Mark McClellan, former head of the FDA and now director of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, is making paperless medicine mandatory for physicians who want to participate in the agency's potentially remunerative pay-for-performance scheme. The aim, sensibly enough, is to pay doctors for keeping their patients healthy, as opposed to the current fee-for-service basis that simply rewards patient throughput. A priority for McClellan is to improve...