The electronic voting records on touch-screen machines are a back-up measure listing everything that happens from boot-up to shutdown, documenting in an "event log" when every ballot was cast.
Because of court rulings, some of the 36,000 state employees who received layoff notices leading up to the shutdown continued or returned to work during the shutdown.
That is what they said as loudly and as clearly as possible in the days and weeks leading up to the shutdown.
An average of the final live interview surveys in the two weeks leading up to the shutdown had McAuliffe ahead by 6.3pt.
In a report, the commission determined that several procedural steps had not been taken in reporting events leading up to the shutdown, and a follow-up evaluation in 2006 showed that some problems remained, Ms. Screnci said.
In the lead up to the shutdown, Cruz gave a 21-hour speech on the Senate floor to protest the funding of the Affordable Care Act, during which he recited Dr. Seuss Green Eggss and Ham.
In the run up to the "shutdown" crisis, the president, if he spoke publicly at all, still spoke to us from an old script, one rendered mute by the results of the midterm election.
The latest round of open houses and pop-up events are also planned for the final months leading up to the shutdown, which will see the L train close every weekend in February, and the first few weekends of March, to prepare for the Big One.
