Word: punching
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...According to USA Today, the 3,141 counties in the United States use six different methods to record and tally votes: 40 percent use optical scan devices (think of No. 2 pencils and the SATs); 18 percent use punch cards (think Palm Beach and Votomatics); 15 percent use '50s-era lever machines (flip the switches and pull the lever); 12 percent use paper ballots (drop them in a box or mail them in); 9 percent use electronic touch-screens; 2 percent use Data Vote, which is punch-card voting without the Votomatics...
...Democrats spend the next four years training their supporters how to punch a ballot, they may have less trouble in 2004." CALVIN WHEELER Auburn, Wash...
...Politics has become a ridiculous Punch and Judy show, a senseless struggle between people of overweening personal ambition surrounded by the jackal howls of the media...
...still struggling to score goals, and we just couldn't get the knockout punch there for a while" UNH Coach Richard Umile said. "After all that work, you don't want it to be a one-goal hockey game. But we came back in the end to score a couple of pretty goals to put the game away...
...tendencies that Connery has honed for so long. Thus, when Forrester rails against his life’s misfortunes, his attitude seems unreal, an instrument of the plot. When he cries, he’s positively painful to watch. And when he shouts at Jamal to “Punch the keys, for God’s sake!” as he types, it’s a meaningless snatch of adrenaline meant to look snazzy in his Oscar nomination clip...