Ms. Lane had the misfortune of falling on the cover of a utility box electrified with 57 volts from an exposed wire.
More than 8.2 million households were without power by midday Tuesday, with more than a fifth of them in swing states — a potential problem in an age when the voting process, which once consisted of stuffing paper ballots into boxes, has been electrified.
With a punishing 12th-round technical knockout of Fernando Vargas, Trinidad electrified fans and elevated his already lofty status in boxing.
"He's one of those strikers who can be almost non-existent outside the penalty area, but when he enters the box it's as though he's been electrified by the ground under his feet.
Each time the lights in the box went off, half of the floor would become electrified, shocking the poor animals.
The utility said it also checked almost all of the 250,000 service-box lids and manhole covers, discovering 120 were electrified.
Carter Kustera makes light of the notorious Abu Ghraib photograph of the hooded man on a box with "Electrifying" (2005), a watercolor and gouache on paper presenting the figure as a fashion model for an up-market clothing chain.
Since then, the tape had degraded to the point that the copper wire was partly exposed and was making contact with the frame of the service box, thus electrifying the metal plate above.
