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...proper tally of votes, as humans should have the ultimate say over an election. Despite gradual trends toward mechanization, in the case of a very close election, a hand count returns the power of the election to a human authority. The punch-ballots used in Florida are particularly prone to computer error as ballots cannot be counted unless the paper covering a hole is completely removed. It is possible that the computers did not count ballots clearly demarcated for a particular candidate that did not have fully punched holes. A hand count would catch ballots that were not counted...
Republican lawyers will ask Judge Donald M. Middlebrooks to issue an injunction barring a hand recount of every ballot cast in Palm Beach County, on the basis that such recounts are significantly prone to error, and that Bush and his running mate, Dick Cheney, would be deprived of their constitutional rights...
...particular the quadriceps (front leg muscles) and hamstrings (back leg muscles)--play a critical role in keeping the knee stable during athletic performance. Strength in the hamstrings has been shown to protect the ACL from excessive strain; women, however, tend to be stronger in the quadriceps, creating an injury-prone imbalance...
...report, after all, President A. Lawrence Lowell, Class of 1877, argued that students should never be allowed to control their housing for the same shameful reason: "Large communities tend towards cliques based on similarity of origin and upon wealth. Great masses of unorganized young men...are prone to superficial currents of thought and interest, to the detriment of the personal intellectual process that ought to dominate mature men seeking higher education...
...seeks MLB team prone to disappoint yet capable of pulling out 9th inning victories. Experience as an underdog a plus. Baseball teams from Boston need not apply...