Word: punch
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...Cleveland, OH, the elections board is running television advertisements on how to properly punch an absentee ballot, and in Florida lawsuits are already underway to challenge the use of touch screen voting machines in 15 counties. While the final weeks before the election may find much of the country arguing over who they will vote for, in many places, the real question is how they will vote...
Widespread DRE use is already being realized. In response to the debacle that was Florida in the 2000 presidential election, Congress passed the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) in 2002. HAVA allocated $3.86 billion in federal funds for the replacement of lever and punch card voting systems across the country. To comply with HAVA, a state may either continue to use punch card systems by “(i) establishing a voter education program specific to that voting system that notifies each voter of the effect of casting multiple votes for an office; and (ii) providing the voter with instructions...
...invisible to the boy she adores. Mom, now called Helen, copes with raising two troubled kids, while Mr. Incredible, now just plain Bob, faces a joyless desk job with thinning hair and a gigantic spare tire. He still does furtive good deeds, but when he makes a celebratory air punch, he throws his back out. He sounds like an ex--high school football star mired in memories as he says, "Reliving the glory days is better than acting like they didn't happen...
...softball questions. "You're on CNN," Stewart said. "The show that leads in to me is puppets making crank phone calls." "I was just shocked by how sanctimonious he was," Carlson later told TIME. "I thought, This must be some elaborate routine, and there's going to be a punch line at the end." Which there was, sort of. "You're more fun on your show," Carlson told the comic. Shot back Stewart: "You're as big a [male appendage] on your show as you are on any show." Easy there, guys. That kind of talk...
...created Election Assistance Commission. The actual election commissioners, however, weren’t appointed until Dec. 2003, and there is a conspicuous lack of funding. Moreover, the technical voting problems of the Florida ballot still exist; an estimated 32 million voters in 19 states will use the ill-fated punch cards. Thus we must prepare ourselves for an encore of the notorious hanging chads. The few reforms that have been instituted are still vulnerable to litigation post-election. For example, new electronic voting equipment that resemble ATMs are supposed to be far more accurate than the old punch card...