Word: swatting
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...this election than on any ever before. When lawyers, paid advisors, volunteers and outside organizations are totaled, both Bush and Kerry camps have election law representatives numbering in the thousands. According to Bob Bauer, counsel to the Democratic National Committee, these teams of election lawyers, referred to as SWAT teams, “will have done nothing but prepare through the fall.” Republicans have prepared by creating a network of lawyers in battleground states, and augmenting them with reinforcements. The Bush-Cheney campaign says it is targeting 30,000 precincts in 17 states that were the scene...
...even more alarming than these uber-present SWAT teams, is the lack of election reform in the post-Bush v. Gore era. In 2002, Congress passed the Help America Vote Act to give states money to upgrade equipment, develop computer registration lists, and provide guidance through the newly 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...
...this election than on any ever before. When lawyers, paid advisors, volunteers and outside organizations are totaled, both Bush and Kerry camps have election law representatives numbering in the thousands. According to Bob Bauer, counsel to the Democratic National Committee, these teams of election lawyers, referred to as SWAT teams, “will have done nothing but prepare through the fall.” Republicans have prepared by creating a network of lawyers in battleground states, and augmenting them with reinforcements. The Bush-Cheney campaign says it is targeting 30,000 precincts in 17 states that were the scene...
...even more alarming than these uber-present SWAT teams, is the lack of election reform in the post-Bush v. Gore era. In 2002, Congress passed the Help America Vote Act to give states money to upgrade equipment, develop computer registration lists, and provide guidance through the newly 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...
...Although the virus that causes polio is highly contagious, bringing it under control is relatively straightforward because a cheap vaccine has long been available. "There is no magic to this," says Dr. Tumseh Salah, who is managing the Swat Valley vaccination program. "You immunize enough kids, and you can stop the virus." Indeed, the eradication program has been a spectacular success. In its 16 years of operation, the number of countries where polio remains a chronic problem has fallen from 125 to just six: Egypt, Niger, Nigeria, Afghanistan, India and Pakistan. (In all of Asia, just 34 cases were reported...