Word: amendments
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...Secretary of State Katherine Harris certifies the election results minus the overseas absentee ballots, with Bush holding a 300-vote lead. She gives counties that are still doing hand counts and wish to amend their results until 2 p.m. Wednesday to submit their reasoning...
Collier County, in southwest Florida, discovered 24 additional absentee ballots that had not been counted. Collier County officials hoped to get Harris' permission to count the ballots and amend their results...
...different arrest, in 1968, when Bush and his Yale fraternity brothers were charged with stealing a Christmas wreath in what they described as a prank. Slater says he asked Bush whether he had been arrested since that incident, and Bush said no. Bush then seemed to want to amend his answer, Slater recalled, but spokeswoman Hughes prevented the interview from going further, leaving his answer as a denial. Hughes has disputed Slater's account, saying Bush insists he didn't answer no to the first question; by leaving Slater with the "impression" that there might have been another arrest...
Closer to home, we are deeply disappointed by the voting results of Massachusetts ballot initiative Questions 2, 3, 4 and 8. Massachusetts residents voted to amend their state constitution and overturn a state supreme court precedent by denying incarcerated state residents their voting privileges. This decision has symbolic ramifications more than anything else; prisoners have never voted in especially strong numbers in Massachusetts and have never had any significant impact on election results, but they have now been stripped of a fundamental civil liberty...
...Undergraduate Council made the prudent decision Oct. 29 to swallow its pride and amend the failed anti-homophobia grant bill it passed last March. In its original form, the bill provided a $1,000 grant to a student group or group of students who came up with the best plan to fight homophobia at Harvard. By the Oct. 29 meeting, however, no applications had been received to date. As amended, the grant offer will terminate at the end of November unless applications are given to the council beforehand...