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Harvard historian Jill Lepore has a piece attacking gun rights in the latest New Yorker, and a follow-up post on the magazine’s website. Most of it is basically what you’d expect: some numbers about gun violence, some horrifying anecdotes about people who’ve misused guns, some reporting from a gun range, some artsy writing (“a gun is a machine made to fire a missile that can bore through flesh”), and an overarching history of the gun-rights movement.More irksome, however, is Lepore’s analysis of the Second Amendment’s meaning. By leaving out or misrepresenting key historical details, she shortchanges the idea that...

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil - A prosecutor on Friday sought formal charges against two U.S. pilots and four Brazilian air traffic controllers involved in the South American country‘s worst-ever air disaster, which left 154 people dead. Lepore, 42, and Paladino, 34, were flying an Embraer Legacy 600 executive jet on Sept. 29, 2006 when it collided with a Boeing 737 operated by Gol Linhas Aereas Intelligentes SA, sending the larger plane crashing into the rain forest and killing everyone onboard. Lepore and Paladino were detained in Brazil for two months and allowed to leave only after promising to return for...

Muslim group attempts late Florida vote dump Pushy activist brings box of 550 applications after close of county registration deadline Posted: October 9, 20041:00 a.m. Eastern © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com A pushy Muslim activist demanded a county elections office worker accept a box of 550 applications to vote after the close of business on the last day to register in Palm Beach County, Florida. According to a report in the Palm Beach Post, Theresa LePore attempted to close the office at 5 p.m. last Monday when a young man showed up 15 minutes after the deadline, insisting she accept a box of 550...

Theresa LePore vowed to close the Palm Beach County elections office at 5 p.m. Monday, the final day to register to vote in the Nov. 2 election, but a young man who arrived about 15 minutes after the deadline managed to drop off 550 applications on behalf of a group of Muslims determined to oust President Bush

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., Sept. 1 (AP) - Theresa LePore, the official whose confusing butterfly ballot design contributed to the turmoil of the 2000 presidential election and became the butt of jokes on late-night talk shows, lost her bid for re-election Tuesday. With all 692 precincts reporting, a challenger for her post as Palm Beach County elections supervisor, Arthur Anderson, had 91,134 votes, or 52 percent, while Ms. LePore had 85,601, or 48 percent. Ms. LePore declined to meet with reporters early Wednesday, but as the polls closed Tuesday she said she was too busy overseeing the counting of ballots...

Thousands of ballots miscounted in Palm Beach County By Patty Pensa and Anthony Man Staff Writers September 2, 2004 In a bizarre twist, the election that cost Supervisor of Elections Theresa LePore her job became mired Wednesday in a major vote-counting problem when thousands of absentee ballots were counted twice. Palm Beach County voters cast 31,138 absentee ballots on Tuesday. But when the counting was done early Wednesday morning, the totals showed 37,839 absentee ballots -- an extra 6,701. With LePore skipping work the day after her narrow loss to Arthur Anderson, the discrepancy was disclosed during a Wednesday morning...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - The passionate rants of Democrats during the 2000 election recount are again being heard in this home of the infamous butterfly ballot, except this time, they're centered on a countywide race that typically would receive only a mention in local newspapers. At the center of the clamor is the woman who some blame for starting all the chaos in 2000, Theresa LePore, the Palm Beach County elections chief who created the confusing ballot. Some voters said the ballot design, which listed the names of presidential candidates on opposing pages, caused them to mistakenly vote for...

BOCA RATON, Fla. -- A congressman pushing to require electronic voting machines to produce a paper trail is taking his case to the courts. U.S. Rep. Robert Wexler, a Boca Raton Democrat, filed a lawsuit Friday in Palm Beach County against Florida Secretary of State Glenda Hood and Palm Beach County Supervisor of Elections Theresa LePore, claiming the officials are violating their duties to ensure votes are counted accurately by not using machines with paper printouts. Wexler, who said he wrote Hood and LePore over the issue several months before he filed the suit, wants printed duplicates of all ballots...