Word: methodically
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...found some really interesting, quirky contestants that had some really good interaction with Regis [Philbin, host of the show]. I don't know if that's just because they're younger, hipper and trendier or because we changed our method of selection," Miller said...
...Gore campaign will challenge the Palm Beach board's recounting method in court today, complaining they used too stringent a standard to determine which votes were valid...
...would require poor districts and rich ones to agree on what is affordable. "The states are rightly in charge," says Curtis Gans of the Committee for the Study of the American Electorate, a nonpartisan research group. But while Gans and other experts don't support a uniform nationwide voting method, they do favor measures such as design standards for all ballots. Ballots at every polling place could have a standard type size and style and be marked in the same spots for each office...
...that are read on the spot by optical scanners. "You can have a multitude of people marking ballots at the same time, so you get rid of the waiting lines," says Ed Packard, election administrator in Alabama, where all but three of the state's 67 counties use the method. "And you can program the machines to kick overmarked ballots back to the voter to redo." The scanners also claim an optimal accuracy rate of 99%, but the scanning machines are costly...
...Palm Beach County, where Judge Jorge Labarga's vote-by-vote dimple-counting method is running its own legal gauntlet, counters will concentrate on their larger machine-accepted pile while waiting for the next court's word...