There is a good chance voters will encounter problems due to manpower shortages and computer breakdowns.
After 9/11, the Americans threw enormous resources of manpower, money and computer time into the "global war on terrorism," which was also about tracking the potential terrorist at home, in a country with a tiny and mostly well-integrated Muslim population.
On Wednesday, Kroes drafted in more manpower, appointing British computer scientist Neil Barrett to monitor whether Microsoft is complying with the 2004 antitrust decision.
Yet they have the manpower, or at least, the computer power, to send termination letters.
They are employed by Hewlett Packard or by Manpower to do internal IT work, computer support".
The problems weren't unforeseeable: neither the computer meltdowns nor the manpower shortage.
Last year Hewlett-Packard (HP), the world's biggest computer-maker, bought Electronic Data Systems, a big provider of computer services, giving HP more manpower to help its customers build more advanced data centres.
The Others division is involved in the operation of computer-related, credit cards, guarantee, manpower dispatching and consulting businesses, as well as the investment to venture companies and the agriculture, forestry and fisheries industry.
While Manpower has struggled to get a new global computer system into gear (cost: $115 million and counting), Adecco is rolling out such innovative tools as its interactive Job Shop kiosks (see box, p. 52).
