Organizing and administering elections is a complex job that the states administer and it is expensive. The Help America Vote Act provides funding to states that are willing to abide by new standards but they must comply with important changes. Which passage indicates that compliance is not voluntary?

HAVA (creates new mandatory minimum standards) for states to follow in several key areas of election administration. ….
HAVA also (established the Election Assistance Commission (EAC)) to assist the states regarding HAVA compliance and (to distribute HAVA funds to the states). EAC is also charged with (creating voting system guidelines) and operating the federal government's first voting system certification program.

atman means 'eternal self'. the atman refers to the real self beyond ego or false self. it is often referred to as 'spirit' or 'soul' and indicates our true self or essence which underlies our existence.

there are many interesting perspectives on the self in hinduism ranging from the self as eternal servant of god to the self as being identified with god. the understanding of the self as eternal supports the idea of reincarnation in that the same eternal being can inhabit temporary bodies.

the idea of atman entails the idea of the self as a spiritual rather than material being and thus there is a strong dimension of hinduism which emphasises detachment from the material world and promotes practices such as asceticism. thus it could be said that in this world, a spiritual being, the atman, has a human experience rather than a human being having a spiritual experience.

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it allows shippers to carry commercial goods, which allows them to save time and money.

a historian is attempting to study how the puritans affected society in new england