That cross-country maglev "cost" doesn't include obtaining the land to run it across - the killer in new rail projects. That's why trains don't go all the way through Boston, for example; it would cost fifty gazillion-billion-fagillion* dollars to get the rights to connect South Station and North Station.
*rounded to nearest -illion
There's comment in the Nashua (N.H.) Telegraph: http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080110/NEWSBLOG/836534599/-1/newsblog/
Note that New Hampshire doesn't use electronic voting machines, it uses optical ballot-reading machines that are made by Diebold. There are paper ballots available for recount, and recounts happen all the time. Also, note that only very small communities count ballots by hand any more, so the difference in results could reflect the fact that rural voters had difference preferences than urban voters.
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That cross-country maglev "cost" doesn't include obtaining the land to run it across - the killer in new rail projects. That's why trains don't go all the way through Boston, for example; it would cost fifty gazillion-billion-fagillion* dollars to get the rights to connect South Station and North Station. *rounded to nearest -illion
There's comment in the Nashua (N.H.) Telegraph: http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080110/NEWSBLOG/836534599/-1/newsblog/ Note that New Hampshire doesn't use electronic voting machines, it uses optical ballot-reading machines that are made by Diebold. There are paper ballots available for recount, and recounts happen all the time. Also, note that only very small communities count ballots by hand any more, so the difference in results could reflect the fact that rural voters had difference preferences than urban voters.