Word: balloting
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Would letting cameras in have ill effects sometimes? Maybe. OK, probably. But this is a country where we don't submit to such considerations. Democracy itself has ill effects sometimes. Voters make bad choices; look at any list of California ballot propositions. We stick with democracy, not because it's always the best system, but simply because it's the right...
...that's the end of the butterfly ballot...
...Florida Supreme Court spokesman Craig Waters relayed the news at the end of a very busy legal day: "We conclude as a matter of law that the Palm Beach County ballot does not constitute substantial noncompliance with the statutory requirements mandating the voiding of the election." With prejudice. Meaning end of story...
...heard increasingly convincing arguments that the Bush case before the U.S. Supreme Court is essentially meaningless. Even if the Court rules in favor of the governor, the logic goes, and agrees that the Florida Supreme Court did not have the authority to extend the certification deadline to allow more ballot counting to take place, the immediate outcome remains the same. After all, Bush came out ahead before and after the recounts, and what is now being battled in Florida's courts is a separate issue - a contest of the final, certified result. So why hasn't the Bush team dropped...
...will. Because next week, Clark plans to rule whether or not to toss out a very big stack of absentee ballots from Seminole County after Republican operatives filled out missing information on absentee ballot applications. Local Democratic activists charge that the extra help - mostly with voter ID numbers left off the form - constitutes improper conduct and discrimination against Democratic applicants, whose similarly incomplete forms were presumably rejected...