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...Each record is a reaction against the last,” he related of this year’s excellent release. “This one is simpler and quicker, like in the beginning. It’s the old rock cliché: the records were getting more and more complex, and then we went back to basics...
...satisfied merely with the availability of absentee balloting is to completely ignore how simple and self-explanatory some states have made the process. Students who think they were disenfranchised by an unfair or ill-designed system should ask their state to adopt the simpler, more efficient model of a state like California. A government premised on the rule of the people is made more legitimate by high voter turnout and especially high voter turnout across all slices of America. With a few simple changes, states could strengthen the democratic fiber of America by delivering the legitimacy the even slightly higher...
Meanwhile, in Florida, 15 counties are hoping that their new voting machines don’t melt down in the Florida heat, and that the votes they cast will be the ones that are counted. A simpler way of doing this, of course, would have been to buy optical-scanning machines - which comply with HAVA standards, reduce the number of machines required, and already produce the contemporaneous, human-readable physical ballot necessary for true voting security. For those who prefer things truly paper-free: require open source code in any voting machine, and print out a final receipt...
...Congress recently, reporters from both Fox News and CNN attended the same speech—but they didn’t write the same stories. The headline on CNN.com read, “Bush: US Won’t Abandon Iraqi People.” Fox News chose the simpler: “Allawi: Thank You America.” Judging only from the headlines, Fox’s pro-Iraq war, conservative stance comes through loud and clear. The articles also highlight different aspects of the speech, with Fox focusing on Allawi’s gratefulness to America where...
...they recall schoolboy crushes, ice cream trucks and stickball, their reminiscences also conjure up a safer, simpler world. Maybe that's why what began as a video scrapbook of their joint 70th birthday celebration wound up an award-winning film, The Bronx Boys, which has appeared on Cinemax, played at a few film festivals and begun appearing on PBS stations this fall. Carl Reiner is the host of the film, which was edited and directed by Benjamin Hershleder, a filmmaker in his 30s. "They have something special, these 15 guys," Hershleder says...