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...names of the presidential candidates run down two pages, separated by a central column where voters can register their preference by punching a bubble indicating their choice. How to know where to punch? A neat arrow extends from the candidates name to the corresponding punch hole...
...ballot identical to the one used in Palm Beach. Actually, the ballot McGee used was a tad harder than its Palm Beach analogue. The two columns for best cartoon candidate got squeezed onto one page, not two, and they weren't separated by any sort of neat central punch space. But don't tell that to the dazed and confused in Palm Beach! Out of 74 fourth-graders, 74 verified they had correctly expressed their "will" the first time around...
...have thousands of votes for Vice President Al Gore '69 disappearing from a single county in New Mexico in a recount because of a "computer glitch." We see electors holding ballots up to the light, attempting to channel the voter who may or may not have meant to punch all the way through the flimsy card. We are told of "hanging chads," pieces of the ballot where the stylus should have punched all the way through and detached a small round confetti-like piece of paper, but instead leave the piece hanging by a cellulose thread. These chads, among other...
Bush and his supporters emphasized that he has talked openly about the drinking problems he had before he gave up alcohol in 1986. They saw the D.U.I. story as a suspiciously timed sucker punch, aimed at manipulating voters in the final days of a breathtakingly close race...
Arafat's aides say he recognizes a need to defuse the situation. He knew Israel's army was itching to punch harder. In fact, the deputy chiefs of staff of Israel's army, military intelligence and domestic intelligence service were pushing for a tougher response after the shooting deaths of three Israeli soldiers on Wednesday. Their plan, vetoed by Barak, included risky, lightning strikes into Palestinian villages by undercover forces dressed as Arabs. Arafat feared that the conflict would spiral into a full-scale war. Sources close to Arafat say he made contingency plans to flee to Yemen or Iraq...