Word: cannot
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...humans should have the ultimate say over an election. Despite gradual trends toward mechanization, in the case of a very close election, a hand count returns the power of the election to a human authority. The punch-ballots used in Florida are particularly prone to computer error as ballots cannot be counted unless the paper covering a hole is completely removed. It is possible that the computers did not count ballots clearly demarcated for a particular candidate that did not have fully punched holes. A hand count would catch ballots that were not counted for this reason...
...past years, Rollins has been accused of fielding a mediocre band to serve as a foil for his spectacular extemporaneous flights. The same cannot be said of his present band. In pianist Stephen Scott and trombonist Clifton Anderson, Rollins has two tremendous talents with which to share feature time. Percussionist Victor See-Yuen, drummer Perry Wilson and bassist Bob Cranshaw (an intermitent member of Rollins' bands for 40 years) keep rock-solid time and provide the springboard for the virtuosic solos of the three leads...
When inactive voters, whose names must by law be kept on the books even though their continued residence cannot be verified, are included in the tally, the participation rate drops to 63 percent...
According to Neighbor, the commission just learned last year that it was required to include inactive voters in its calculations, so this year's rate cannot be compared against those of previous elections...
...extent of the Corporation's inaccessibility cannot be understated. When submitting our petition, we were told that the Corporation's meetings are not open to students--ever--and that the times and places of such meetings are confidential. Furthermore, we were told that our petition--the demands of 400 students--would be passed along to the Corporation's members only at their Secretary's discretion. We therefore have good reason to believe that most or all members of the Harvard Corporation will never set eyes on our demands. These strategies--closed doors and secret meetings--may be acceptable at Exxon...