The board cited a ruling by Harris' office that hand recounts may only be conducted if there is evidence of voting machine failure.

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The intelligence in the ThingShapes can monitor for relevant business events, compare them to past results, and notify the industrial social network of people and other things about important events such as a quality problem, a machine failure, or a late order.

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How easy is it to repair for example: it is clearly greener to repair one component or replace it in the case of failure rather than insist on an entirely new machine.

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Still, some critics suggest that the failure to tap Soros shows that the Democrats are no match for the Republican money machine that conservatives began building in 2010.

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