We waited in a little wooden building as a cheerful chap with a set of scales weighed us one by one and then shouted the weight to another who kept a tally with paper and pencil.
Here's how the daily 'qualities' break down under the categories Finding, Folding, Reading, Jotting and Misc, each given a score out of three with the potential maximum tally per paper being 15.
Normal procedure calls for the commission to release final results after cross checking its electronic tally with paper forms.
But last weekend, Mr. Saland concluded he had little chance of winning, and told his lawyers to ease up; on Thursday, officials in Dutchess County finished tallying the paper ballots, and Mr. Saland conceded defeat to Mr. Gipson.
The blog Retraction Watch, which monitors and reports on retractions for fraud, plagiarism and other dubious practices in the academic publishing industry, says this latest announcement brings the tally of papers withdrawn for faked reviews up to 230 in the past three years.
They applied for the funding and brought you in primarily to increase their own personal tally of papers.
Soon after the hurrahs died down following the Dow Jones Industrial Average regaining the curiously elusive milestone level of 11,000 on Monday, investors and advisers nationwide tallied their paper profits and plotted their next moves.
And those are just the voters who have used the state's online registration system; state officials haven't yet tallied the paper registrations that have been submitted.
... Next, we get a paper tally at the end of the night that we match against physical count of voters who used machines (like an odometer).
In Harris County, Tex., which includes Houston, electronic machines can print a paper tally, but do not give voters a paper record, meaning they would not comply with Mr. Holt's bill.
