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Show Students kick up money for lung association iouaro?.T Saturday SEPTEMBER 25, 2004 Utah Valley Edition www.harktheherakl.ccm ' YOUR TOWN, YOUR NEIGHBORS YOUR NEWSPAPER Jeaone .takes aim at 1Mda coast Officials raise doubt Jill Barton THE three-quarte- 10 Associated PressNOAA In thb satettte view Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage told Congress the elections must be held through- -' out the country, including areas gripped by violence. That contradicted Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, who said Thursday and again Friday that if insurgents prevent Iraqis from voting in some areas, a partial vote would be better than none at alL Asked about Rumsfeld's comment, Armitage told a House Appropriations panel, "We're going to have an election that is free and open, and that has to be open to alb citizens." Asked after the hearing if partial elections were being considered, he said: "No. Not now. Not that I know of." . Among areas of increasing bloodshed in Iraq are some where U.S.4ed coalition forces don't go because they are partly or wholly controlled by insurgents. Defense officials have put off trying to rout insurgents from those places, including the city of Fallujah, untilTraqi forces lifjwin" training are strong enough to hold , any area once it is retaken, Joint Chief s of Staff Chairman Gen. Richard Myers said recently. The interim Iraqi governjnent, , meanwhile, has been talking with tribal elders to negotiate a deal to end the insurgents' hold in some . ', y , .; ... vjplaces. ' Some lawmakers, meanwhile, fear more American troops may have to go to Iraq to hek in elec- -. tkms. Gen. John Abizaid, commander of troops in the region, said this week he couldnt discount the possibility, though he said believes Iraqi and possibly international troops could handle the job. Rep. David Obey, DWis., told Annitage that a plain relying on having sufficient Iraqis trained in time was "astoundingry optimistic." If Americans a to bear the extra as they have been forced burden from NOAA made available Friday afternoon, Hwricam Jeanne moves " toward the coast of Florida with a eye and wind speeds around 100 mpK well-form- Boise State Squeaks ELECTIONS, past byu See JEANNE, A8 Electronic ' cr J J j 'ft t I, Chris Gaither LOS ANGELES TIMES WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - ' 1 " More than 45 million people in 29 states and the District of Columbia are set to vote using touch-scree- n machines Nov. 2. But the devices once hailed as the answer to the United States' voting woes are stirring up some serious cases of buyers' remorse here and across the country. Election reform advocates rallied in 19 statessthis summer, demanding that the machines be retrofitted to produce paper ballots that could be tallied in the event of a recount. California officials have accused the companies that make electronic voting machines of delivering shoddy equipment and are suing to get their money back. Meanwhile, computer scientists from coast to coast have warned that the machines sometime err in counting votes and could be easily compromised by amateur hackers intent on disrupting elections. In either case, they say, a manual recount would be impossible because the votes would be stored on microchips. AD of this has left officials such as Palm Beach County Commissioner Addie Greene wishing they hadn't rushed to spend millions of . dollars on the new touch-screemachines so soon. In the last few months, as Greene campaigned for she told dozens of senior citizens to forget the newfangled voting terminals and put pencil to paper on their absentee ballots instead. 3 I if Elections Pro vioX7 n With t1 f W'V See spark jump in sharing services - '., J'V.,.-- ' V S:.:i'f:,'. , JOE JASZEWSKIThe Idaho Statesman : At the end of thtfirst half, Boise State defenders Cam Hall and Gabriel Franklin break up a pass intended for BYU's See Sports. Todd Watkinsi. Boise State beat BYU, 28-2. , Allison Unn ; , ; 7. A8 High costs of cars V ; VOTING, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS; informatioa New connector road opens today INSIDE 'UTAH D2 LOCAL PI 04 OBITUARIES UFE&STYIE "if OPINIONS AS HOROSCOPE B B MOVIES a SPORTS COMICS , : '- pleasant : car-shari- : VOLUME 82 ISSUE 56 nf errAntt ornin1 tVatrftran Mmwifafa "a eiyioad now allows motorists to go over it, con--f necting Utah and Salt Lake counties by a thorough- fare other than Interstate ' 4 ' SunCrest Drtve, which starts at the top of Tra i rerse Mountain in Draper and winds five miles into HighlancLkopens today, and to mark the occasion, As,Tfitrf-aa- HJGH78 L0W46 ; . : , M " the mayors of Highland and Draper will paint the ;. last dividing line on the four-lanroad, ' SimCrestDevek)pmentwhk built the ;bcmthoraighfare, is havmg a Corvette Oub Car j g . , JEREMY HARMONDaily Herald rests in hi truck as construction on Suncrest Road nearn mmn)ptinn. The road, which will orovide another ooint of access between Utah and Salt Lake counties, Opens today at 11a.m. A Stde braalc A worfeer '. See SUNCREST, T WOK , :, B rnwE ' d : e 61055 00050 SEATTLE Facing rising gas prices, high insurance costs and hefty parking fees, Shana Lehar came to the conclusion that she simply couldnt afford to own a car. But Lehar didnt want to give up the luxury of an occasional ride to the grocery store or trip to the beach So the Seattle resident one of thousands nationwide to sign up for a pro- gram, which promises easy occasional access to a car for a fraction of the cost of actually cwning one. "It just sounded like a really deal," said Lehar, 23, who food in the urban Capitol Hul neighborhood and expects to use Seattle-baseFlexcar several times ' a month. , across the programs country Gke Flexcar say business is booming as more and more city be--ca- Sunny and CIO WEATHER . hanging chad A8 the Nov. 2 just a few weeks the Dairy Herald will begin its coverage of the races and candidates that will appear on the ballot this year. Coverage will begin Monday with U.S. Congressional District 2 and will continue through Oct. 26, with one election story each day. On Oct. 28, the Herald will reprint all of these articles in one compact section that will arrive with your regular " Thursday newspaper. That section will include sample ballots and additional voter - wrecked by Hurricane Frances. A single state hasn't been hit by four hurricanes in a single season since Texas in 1886. Jeanne could continue a devastating run that has thrashed Florida's Panhandle (Ivan), southwest coast (Charley) and the state's midsection (Frances). Together, they have caused billions of dollars of damage and at least 70 deaths in the state. "I know people are frustrated, they're tired of all this," Gov. Jeb Bush said. "Trust me, their governor is as well." Crews with bulldozers worked Friday to clear the mess of flattened homes, torn roofs and snapped trees left over when Frances tore through the heart of the state earlier this month. But glitches may be the next V - See rs dents of Florida's east coast were urged to evacuate again as Hurricane Jeanne churned westward Friday and threatened the state with its fourth pounding in six weeks. h storm could come The ashore somewhere on the state's east coast by Sunday, targeting some of the same areas hit by previous storms and potentially turndebris ing piles of into deadly missiles. "I'm not staying in this bunch of Ed Oglesby said junk," as he patched his torn roof in a Hutchinson Island mobile home park still littered with twisted metal and insulation from homes 100-mp- offi- cials differed Friday over key details of planned Iraqi elections in January, including the unresolved issue of whether all Iraqis will be able to vote and who will protect them from their country's worsening violence. ) til ' ' Top US. PRESS FORT PIERCE, Fla. About of a million resi- Pauline Jelinek WASHINGTON ASSOCIATED r over Iraqi elections THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 50 CENTS " flKW V- - ' A. h - 1 See CARS, A8 |