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With the Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings films and the upcoming Eragon, boys have had more than their share of fantasy-lit icons on the big screen. Now in production: The Golden Compass, in which a young heroine played by newcomer DAKOTA BLUE RICHARDS (yes, another little blond named Dakota) journeys to a universe of flying witches, armored bears and humans living alongside their animal-shaped souls. "It's a character-driven effects movie, if there is such a thing," director Chris Weitz says of the tale from Philip Pullman's series His Dark Materials. And what plays...
...SCREEN...
...making her choices. After reviewing each race, the machine checked to see if she was satisfied with her selections and wanted to move on. Each time, she pressed YES, and the machine progressed to the next race. When she was done, a waving American flag appeared on the screen, indicating that her votes had been cast and recorded...
...trust in the system has actually gone down. Says David Orr, clerk of Illinois' Cook County: "We used to have a problem with giving people the wrong ballots. And if we were lucky, we'd catch it before they voted. Now, if the same thing happens with a touch screen, it's a conspiracy...
...scattered reports of glitches. In three Virginia cities, for example, electronic voting machines have inadvertently shortened the name of the Democratic candidate in one of the tightest Senate races in the nation. In Charlottesville, Falls Church and Alexandria, James H. Webb's name will appear on the ballot summary screen page simply as "James H. 'Jim'"--with no last name. Sounds like a crisis--except that the same thing happened in the June primary and Webb still...