RT News Roundup - 12/16/07 Edition
There’s a lotta stuff going on today in the news. In the D&C alone:
- The state continues to fight back against the Justice Department rushing us to replace our trusty lever voting machines, in hopes that we’ll buy crappy ATM-style voting machines that other states have trashed because they’ve had so many problems:
A U.S. Justice Department demand that New York replace its 20,000 lever voting machines by November to comply with a voting-modernization law could create chaos at the polls in a presidential election year, Attorney General Andrew Cuomo said in court papers Friday.
“Indeed, an unrealistic implementation schedule, unrestrained by practical considerations, merely heightens the risk that the uncertainties which plagued the 2000 presidential election and led Congress to enact HAVA (the Help America Vote Act) would reoccur in the thousands of precincts across New York,” Cuomo said in a response to a motion filed by the Justice Department last month.
- The GOP’s unFAIR plan is going to hurt kids. Who could’ve predicted that?
School bus stops could be among the first casualties of Monroe County Executive Maggie Brooks’ F.A.I.R. plan in the Greece Central School District.
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School Business Administrator Lou Alaimo outlined some spending cuts the district could make in next year’s budget during a Board of Education meeting.
According to his presentation, some of those savings could come from boosting class sizes, instituting a hiring freeze and even increasing fees charged to community and other groups for using school buildings and fields.
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