Word: contestability
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Such an electronic balloting system would provide rapid and nearly, if not entirely foolproof, ballot counting and certification. The system could be set up to keep a list of voters and whom they voted for. Hard-core civil libertarians might contest the possibility that such a system wouldn't maintain voter anonymity. But stipulations could be legislated to prevent disclosure of this information except in the event of a court order based on substantiated allegations of voter fraud...
...Crimson had a golden opportunity to put the game away on the power play with 13:48 left in the contest. Instead, it was the Catamount--with some help from the officials--who turned the game around...
Perhaps we should have known it was too good to be true. Last Friday, the Florida Supreme Court, by a narrow 4-3 margin, ruled in favor of an electoral contest suit filed by Vice President Al Gore '69. The ruling rightly set in motion a method of counting the over 43,000 ballots that voting machines had not counted, working to ensure every voter's voice was heard and the winner--whose identity was and is unknown--could rightfully receive Florida's electoral votes through certification tomorrow. Counting these undervotes. not just in Democratic counties, but across the state...
Bucknell jumped out to an 18-8 lead to begin the game, but Harvard slowly crept back into the contest, cutting the lead to 25-21 with 4:57 remaining in the first half...
...that they register votes that are not there." As for what happens if he loses, Boies sounded like he's ready to take on the Republicans in Congress. If the 5-4 majority held, "then that's the end of it." Boies said. "With respect to the contest we have brought." January hearings, anyone...