When nothing caught the union’s fancy, UMass offered a land swap, and talks seemed to be progressing when the BTU settled on another site at UMass Boston. The BTU - whose members include about 5,500 teachers and 3,500 retirees - needs a facility for meetings and training, as well as its credit union and eye-care center. To help reach an agreement, Walsh offered many sites for a new union home. That’s exactly what the BTU has been doing. When a wealthy sports mogul wants something you have, it would be stupid not to drive a hard bargain. Negotiations between BTU and Kraft have not gone smoothly, however, prompting some doubts that the project can come to fruition. Kraft is seeking to utilize roughly 10 acres for the project, and has sought to acquire an adjacent 2.7-acre parcel that is used for the Boston Teachers Union headquarters. The scope of the 20,000-to-25,000-seat stadium requires more land than what the Bayside site can offer. While concerns about traffic and other issues have been raised, officials– including Massachusetts governor Charlie Baker–have expressed a willingness to work with Kraft to see if the project can be successful. In his effort to land a soccer-specific stadium for the Revolution, Kraft has focused on the site of the former Bayside Expo Center, which is owned by UMass Boston. Gross is a reporter for the IDG News Service.New England Revolution owner Robert Kraft has hit a roadblock in his effort to a build a stadium in Dorchester, with property acquisition being an issue. 'The fact is, the existing DRE systems without the paper trail have a proven track record,' she said.

Los Angeles County has had no problems with DREs since it began using them in 1999, said Conny McCormack, registrar-recorder and county clerk. 'It's not good enough for elections to be accurate the public has to know that they're accurate,' he said. DREs are tested before and after elections, and election officials have better forensic tools to find errors on DREs than on other types of ballots, said Ted Selker, chairman of the CalTech/MIT Voter Technology Project.ĭavid Dill, a computer science professor at Stanford University, said that without verification, voters have no idea of what's going on inside a DRE. Two computer scientists disagreed over the effectiveness of voter-verified paper-trail ballots.

'All I'm trying to do is make sure the machines are kept honest.'

'There is no way to build a completely secure electronic system,' Ensign said.

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