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However, TAs at public universities have long been considered state employees and have been able to unionize since 1969, when the University of Wisconsin-Madison first formed a union...
...punch cards introduce their own problems. Holes that are incompletely punctured by the voter can baffle the counting machines. Those problems led Wisconsin to ban the cards in the 1990s, just as New Hampshire had done in 1986. In 1988, a report by the National Bureau of Standards, a federal agency, recommended that punch cards be abandoned everywhere. William Gardner, the New Hampshire secretary of state, recalls a test run in which just five cards were put through a counting machine three times--and produced three different counts. "It was not the most comforting feeling when...
Shalala has previously served as president of Hunter College in New York City and chancellor of the University of Wisconsin in Madison, where she helped build up the athletic program and stressed undergraduate education...
...penalties for deviating from the popular vote. But in most of those states, the sanctions are relatively minor--in Oklahoma, for instance, it's a $1,000 fine. Of the states that are currently in some dispute, Florida, Iowa and New Hampshire don't try to bind their electors; Wisconsin, New Mexico and Oregon do. But it's worth noting that no elector has ever been prosecuted for being unfaithful. Throughout U.S. history, only nine electors out of some 18,000 have violated their pledges. It's going to be hard to find one who's going to break...
Outside Florida, four other states, Iowa, New Mexico, Wisconsin, and Oregon, also continued to count their ballots today. Gore is leading in all four states, though his margins vary from 377 in New Mexico to 5,805 in Wisconsin...