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This procedure has several marked and readily apparent advantages over the current system: In addition to making vote counting and certification more reliable, online ballots would also make civic responsibility an even easier duty to uphold. Augmented convenience and security would also serve to enfranchise more citizens who might otherwise be inhibited by the difficulty of finding time in their busy day to vote. Furthermore, the demand for precinct voting supervisors would be diminished as well by home and work balloting, which would reduce the number of voters showing up to vote in person at each precinct...
...police handle rape well, and for myriad reasons. The most obvious being that this type of criminal investigation is all that the police department does. They are a law enforcement body charged with the responsibility to uphold and sustain criminal laws and to investigate, pursue and detain all who violate this code. The Ad Board, in contrast, is composed of individuals who split their time between administration and discipline within the College. An Ad Board member could conceivably spend his entire day grappling with the overcrowded Houses and then shut down his computer and rush...
Kovacevich, whose family owns a grape farm in Calif., told The Crimson in 1997 that he was pleased with the campus vote to uphold HDS's decision...
...Expect to hear from Warren Christopher or Bill Daley within the hour, because while both sides wait for the Florida Supreme Court to uphold or toss out Judge Lewis's decision, the challenge in the meantime is to make the result look good to the public. But while Baker tries to make holding the line sound like the proper course, the Gore team figures to have an ace up its sleeve: the numbers...
...issue before Democratic-appointed Florida high court that had already given pesky Palm Beach County explicit permission to begin one, it wasn't over legally, not by a long shot. But they held out hope that the Supremes would kick this one back to Judge Lewis, or maybe even uphold his decision...