Word: problem
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...weekend, declaring a voting holiday, extending voting hours and instituting simultaneous poll openings and closings between all time zones. But while these policies might have changed the outcome of the current election by bringing more and different people to the polls, none of them would have solved the current problem introduced by archaic and inconsistent voting procedures. Neither would any of them increase the reliability and rapidity of recounts...
Many of the advantages of electronic balloting overlap with those of other proposed reforms. But fundamentally, the root of the problem in determining such a close election lies with faulty and inconsistent balloting, which no reform of polling hours or voting day will address. It's about time we shake the moths out of our antiquated voting procedure lest they produce yet another national farce...
...card to withdraw it. Once you are abroad, Medicare will not pay for any medical expenses. In some countries expats are able to participate in the national insurance plan or health system. Many retirees simply pay local doctors as they go and return to the U.S. for any serious problem. A number of companies, like BUPA International, will provide coverage to expats; organizations like American Citizens Abroad can help them find a plan...
...today Haiti is as lawless as it is destitute. A breakdown in America's alliance with Aristide, who left office in 1996, helped create the kind of power vacuum drug lords love to fill. Now, after easily winning the presidency again last week, can Aristide do much about the problem...
...wasn't having any of those overvotes. "The problem with the machines is that they miss some votes," he responded to Baker. "The problem is not 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...