Word: numbering
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Americans have a Social Security number. That number or some other "voter identification code" would verify voters' identity just as picture identification currently does at most polling places. Voters can then vote online either from the comfort of their own home, or at their regular polling place using publicly provided computers. After a person has voted, a confirmation screen would pop up reading, "You voted for --; Is this correct?" followed by a "No, I want to change my vote" and a "Yes, count my vote" option...
...Augmented convenience and security would also serve to enfranchise more citizens who might otherwise be inhibited by the difficulty of finding time in their busy day to vote. Furthermore, the demand for precinct voting supervisors would be diminished as well by home and work balloting, which would reduce the number of voters showing up to vote in person at each precinct...
...blank. But sometimes the machine reading a ballot misses a vote that was cast. That can happen when, for example, a chad isn't fully dislodged from a punch card. Florida has more than 61,000 undervoted ballots from this year's presidential race, a large but not shocking number for a state that uses old Votomatics...
...Boies, out front for the Gore camp and learning to talk a very good political game, admitted "obviously we think the dissent had it better" when it came to what result would damage the country. He hopes he can boost their number. But he's also primed to make the ruling five look like activist blunderers, calling the Florida law "absolutely clear" on his ability to challenge any specific group of votes he wants, and the ability of the Florida Supreme Court to fashion any remedy it wants...
...pile weeks ago - were mere hours from yielding their secrets. Four teams of two circuit judges each had rolled up their sleeves first thing Saturday morning and promised to be done by nightfall, with the tough-but-fair vote-by-vote Palm Beach standard in place and the final number headed toward reliability...