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...campaign], I love the people,” she said. While the two camps were congenial, the competitive air was still alive as Martel’s supporters held up signs reading, “Hanging Chads, Election Stolen” and “We Demand a Recount, Some Cabot Voters Barred From Booths,” after the Sundquist-Sarafa victory was announced. “This election is not over,” Martel supporter Rachel A. Montana ’08 said. “We will squeeze this orange until the pips squeak...
While the two camps were congenial, the competitive air was still alive as Martel's supporters held up signs reading, "Hanging Chads, Election Stolen" and "We Demand a Recount, Some Cabot Voters Barred From Booths," after the Sundquist-Sarafa victory was announced...
...Chvez was still losing by less than 2 percentage points. But the CNE, seemingly overwhelmed by the close contest, delayed its announcement while Chvez waited for the margin to drop below 1%, at which point he'd seek a recount (as Al Gore did in Florida in 2000, he said later). But the margin barely budged, and the opposition started seething in the streets, fearing fraud. Around midnight, Chvez's ex-defense minister, Raul Baduel, who opposed the reforms, warned that Chvez was flirting with popular unrest. By 1 a.m., says a government insider, Vice President...
...prominent individuals have been left-handed. Such statements are far too generalizing, yet indicative of how Penn approaches discussing all of the trends—as if every possible personality trait could be world-altering.While the substance of the topics that Penn covers in the book are novel enough to recount as asides over dinner, substantial amounts of information that he provides are lost in a quagmire of numbers. The book, which should instead have been christened “75 Groups of People that Allow Me to Wax Statistics for 300+ Pages,” is a collection of figures...
...hard to believe now what a darling touch-screen voting was seven years ago. After the Florida presidential vote recount debacle - which made traditional paper voting, especially the infamous "butterfly" ballots and hanging chads, look positively Third World - electronic voting was embraced as the way back from America's electoral humiliation. Some 50,000 touch-screen machines were bought in 37 states at a cost of almost a quarter of a billion dollars...