The estimated cost is $60,000 to the county for the operation. If the county wants him in jail, it should pay for the surgery.

The evaluations were done before the charges were filed. There was no reason for him to be faking deafness.

The majority of them were read-back errors, not a battery issue.

I do anticipate we'll have some failures that will need to be addressed. When it fails, we'll have to be ready.

In that case, that could be an issue when we go to program the election. We have no information that is in fact happening, but that is a legitimate question.

In this case, that is the appropriate action.

If there's any question to the propriety of accounting, we always have the ballots so they can be examined. That's something that doesn't exist with the touch-screen voting.

I'm not surprised, given the tape-recorded evidence. Detective Dave Callahan did a great job of giving him the opportunity to back out of the scheme.

No matter what equipment fails, voting will not be interrupted.

That kind of difference is normally translated into a 20-to-30 percent reduction in risk of stroke, ... Those kinds of differences in pressure are not insignificant.