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Second, the START I and II verification measures are predicated on elaborate and artificial counting rules.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Is the Cold War Over��?
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Such differences over data and counting rules proved to be insurmountable obstacles to earlier efforts at conventional disarmament.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy
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Counting Rules: The emerging counting rules for ballistic missiles should be revised so as to reflect the number of weapons each missile can actually carry.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center for Security Policy | An Assessment Of Future Requirements For US Strategic Forces And Strategic Arms Control
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Ballot-box hanky-panky is also much harder in an age of machine voting (the controversy in 2000 was not over intentional fraud, but counting rules and ballot design).
FORBES: Elections Old And New
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The unsettling estimates driving the latest controversy about Pentagon weapons costs result in large part from unknowable inflation rates, lack of contextual data, arbitrary counting rules and neglect of mitigating factors.
FORBES: Massive Cost Estimate For Fighter Program Is Misleading
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It promises still deeper cuts and tougher counting rules.
ECONOMIST: Disarming again
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Encouragingly, Mr Obama and his Russian counterpart, Dmitry Medvedev, have agreed that a modest cut will accompany new weapons-counting rules to be fixed by the end of the year, with more ambitious reductions to follow.
ECONOMIST: Getting to zero
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And that is not even counting the hundreds of new rules dictated by Obamacare and the Dodd-Frank financial reform, most of which have yet to take effect.
ECONOMIST: The size of the state
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These rules apply to both manual and electronic counting of ballot papers and state the reasons why a ballot should be rejected if it does not bear the official marks, if votes are given for more than one candidate or party, if anything on the paper can identify the voter, or if they are unmarked or void for uncertainty.
BBC: NEWS | UK | Scotland | Scotland Office ballot response
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It deals with the rules and administrative arrangements, the casting and counting of ballots and how votes translate into seats, as well as the conduct and financing of the campaign itself.
ECONOMIST: New books to help you make sense out of the nonsense