Word: trailing
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...race - such as for President or a congressional contest - in each county, and for only 2% of the precincts at that.) "Routine scrutiny in the voting system is as important as it is in banking or airline maintenance," says McCrea. "If not, optical scan just gives us a paper trail to nowhere...
...final weekend of the campaign, Obama was joined not only by his wife Michelle, but by his daughters Malia, 10, and Sasha, 7, who generally have not been out on the trail with him. "In the last couple of days, I've been just feeling good," he said a bit wistfully as he introduced his family onstage in Cleveland. "Sometimes it's lonely on the road." But their family reunion was short-lived. At the city's airport, Michelle and the girls headed for a separate charter jet that was bound for home in Chicago, where school beckoned. Obama returned...
...latest crop of voting innovations are not flawless either. "Direct-recording electronic" (DRE) equipment like touchscreens don't leave a verifiable paper trail. During a 2006 congressional race in Florida's 13th district, where DRE equipment is used, an astonishing 15% of voters cast their ballots for ... well, no one. According to the ballot results, some 18,000 voters hadn't registered a choice at all. That the election was determined by less than 400 votes made the lack of tangible records even more troubling. Florida Republican Governor Charlie Crist wants to scrap such machines, saying, "I get a receipt...
...town hall that took place on Sunday night featured a McCain who is hard to find these days on the campaign trail - candid, jovial and largely nonpartisan. He parried a question about the country's borders by speaking of the bigotry that Irish immigrants endured at the turn of the 20th century. He gave a full five minutes to a representative of the One Campaign, allowing the activist to talk up new federal funding for AIDS treatment in Africa. When someone asked about problems at the polls, he hinted at the registration problems he has hammered on elsewhere. But then...
...pictures of John McCain's final push on the campaign trail...