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Cambridge’s candidates Flaherty, E. Denise Simmons, and Dennis A. Benzan garnered 46, 31, and 13 percent of the city’s votes, respectively. DiDomenico won 6 percent of Cambridge ballots??173 votes—and Michael J. Albano earned the remaining 3 percent. Less than 1 percent of the 2,921 votes cast by Cambridge Democrats went to the final candidate, Charlestown lawyer Daniel C. Hill...
...election. A cursory look at their data on problems related to the voting machines themselves reveals some interesting trends. The entire state of Massachusetts, where votes are recorded in large part by older optical scanning equipment, reported a total of 7 such incidents out of nearly 3 million ballots??one for every 500,000 or so votes cast. Palm Beach County had 27 machine related incidents out of their 550,000 votes—each voter there was roughly three times more likely to report trouble with their equipment than a voter was here...
According to Teresa Neighbor, the executive director of the Cambridge Election Commission, unofficial results—not including some provisional and overseas ballots??indicate that 41,712 Cambridge voters cast ballots in the 2004 general election, or nearly 88 percent of active voters. In 2000, 40,317 Cambridge voters cast ballots for an 83 percent rate...
...results of the upcoming presidential election, they must learn from the debacle last time around in 2000 and demand curbs to the troubling new trend of electronic voting. Without a tangible record of the votes—a “paper trail” of cast ballots??there remains the potential that Americans will once again witness a mockery of one of the most important events of the decade...
...this year, Miramax only had about three weeks between Cold Mountain’s December 25 release and the January 17 deadline for Oscar nomination ballots??not enough of a window for the studio’s post-holiday campaigning to make the needed impact on the psyches of Oscar voters...