Word: precisionism
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It became clear on Saturday that while B.C. has by far the more polish and experience, the Crimson has just as much raw talent on the ice. Harvard cannot pass with precision and sling the puck around the ice like B.C. can, but it was also clear that the Crimson...
Three cheers for democracy in action. But should the future of free elections rest on the continuing popularity of big hair? The one heartwarming lesson from the Bush-Gore debacle is supposed to be that every vote counts. The less comforting lesson is that a lot of votes don't...
Although today electors dwell in deserved obscurity, they still have to gather, usually in their state's capital, a month or so after Election Day and actually cast votes. They have carried out that task with admirably robotic precision: only nine have ever failed to vote as they pledged. But...
And those waters are roiling: As the word spread over the weekend that as many as 1,500 overseas votes (many of them military, and many presumably meant for George W. Bush) had been discarded due to bureaucratic fine print, protests erupted around the country. The outrage was fueled on...
There is no such thing as a perfect census or a perfect vote count - whether you do it by machine or hand or personal visits with candy and flowers. The Democrats yearn for something close to the Platonic ideal of counting everybody, whereas the Republicans are more laissez-faire about...