Word: balloting
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Democrats hoping to tilt Florida to Al Gore," reported the Associated Press on Nov. 10, "scoured the state for examples of alleged election irregularities." Hence the parade of Gore supporters eager to testify on camera to their inability to read a ballot. Hence the sit-ins and demonstrations, the legal action and partisan pressure--in essence, the postelection election campaign. Such maneuvers, intended to alter the result of an election after the balloting, are the kind of spectacle one expects in a banana republic. Win or lose, Gore's threats of protracted political and legal action to overturn unfavorable results...
...more than 200 years, we have agreed that a ballot cast settles the issue. However the final, authorized vote comes out in Florida, the candidate with the lower number should do a Nixon: pick up the phone and show some grace...
...Republicans, signs that containment is indeed possible when it comes to the county's notorious "butterfly ballot" suits: Circuit Judge Jorge Labarga canceled a hearing on a Palm Beach revote, saying "the relief sought by the plaintiffs is not permitted by law." Even Labarga, however, expects an appeal...
...discretion of hers to include a manual recount to be included in the total. But in the absence of anything that compelling, it was up to her. (This one appeared not to sit well with Justice Peggy Quince, who seemed to grasp the Democratic argument that a hanging-chad ballot could pass through the machine unread without it really being "machine error" - but was still a vote deserving of tabulation...
...Vice presidential nominee Joe Lieberman was among the first Democrats to take a conciliatory stance on the military ballot issue, saying on NBC's "Meet the Press" he thought vote counters should give those ballots "the benefit of the doubt." Nobody within the Gore campaign would comment on Lieberman's sentiment, or whether the vice president shared it. But when you take the senator's assertion in conjunction with Butterworth?s announcement, you have what looks very much like a change of heart. Now we'll just have to wait to see if beleaguered election officials are as susceptible...