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After eliminating write-in votes in the first round of voting early Saturday morning, most of the 45 write-in votes in the presidential race went to Gusmorino, who picked up 13, and Stephen N. Smith '02, who picked up 10. In the vice-presidential race, most of the 52 write-in votes went to Lee after the first round...
...strength of this system, council members say, is that it allows people to cast write-in votes without "wasting" their votes...
Harvard celebrities John Harvard, Ann Radcliffe, Shuttlegirl, Jonathan Taylor Thomas '04 and Natalie Portman '03 also got write-in votes...
...case. All around him, Democrats were growing resigned; even close aides "just want it to be over," said one, and their verbs began to shift to the past tense. One reason his speechwriter had not drafted a concession speech was his own superstition that it was bad luck: write it, and he'll have to give it. True believers were increasingly isolated. "It's a small, closeted group," cracked one at midweek. "We meet in the basement, do our rituals and sing songs...
...where the first principles come in. Life is messy. It is often maddeningly so, as in the case of Florida. Over many centuries, people lucky enough to live in democracies have devised a method to draw some kind of certainty from life's irregularities. Through their representatives they write laws, and these laws become neutral, objective principles to which everyone can appeal. A law is intended to bring order out of chaos. When it turns out that the law is poorly suited to its purposes or otherwise deficient, then it can be changed. But it must be changed...