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One recourse might be to recount the paper ballots by hand, but as we saw in Ohio in 2004, in the absence of a secure chain of custody the accuracy of any after-the fact recount of optical scan and hand-count ballots remains problematic - and the clock is ticking.
UPDATED Obama-Clinton: remarkable opscan v. handcount results 2008
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The ceremony in question is a private, after-the fact ceremony.
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In its statement says, "the court found that it would be inappropriate to re-write our contract after-the - fact."
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In its statement says, "the court found that it would be inappropriate to re-write our contract after-the - fact."
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“Rice also tried to dismiss the Senate report as being after-the fact…”
Think Progress » Rice: ‘There Were Ties Going On Between Al Qaeda And Saddam Hussein’ 2006
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So, his defense wasn't a defense, and it also was an after-the - fact rationalization.
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However, this was accomplished so well that after-the war, we undertook, successfully, to build up an industrial population to convert our natural resources into the highest manufactured form in which they might be marketed.
Some Aspects of the Unemployment Problem and The Present Russian Trade Proposals 1931
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WHAT an odd, provincial, pleasant little old New York was that of the seventies, just when the waves of after-the - war prosperity had begun to strike its sides and make it feel the impulse toward a progress never afterward to cease!
Harrison, Mrs. Burton, 1843-1920. Recollections Grave and Gay 1911
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The valley wanted to get everything to market in one generation, indifferent to the fate of those who should come after-the passes through the mountains being choked by cars carrying to the coasts crops from increasing acreage of declining productivity or the products of swiftly disappearing forests or the output of mines that must soon be exhausted.
The French in the Heart of America John Finley 1901
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However, whether for sanction or for chastisement, Mr. Bulstrode, hardly fifteen months after-the death of Peter Featherstone, had become the proprietor of Stone Court, and what Peter would say "if he were worthy to know," had become an inexhaustible and consolatory subject of conversation to his disappointed relatives.
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