Word: balloting
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Averell's name remains on the ballot, and he can still win the election if he garners the most votes...
...Supreme Court is now all alone on Al Gore's whiteboard. In its first non-bombshell decision in weeks, the Florida Supreme Court announced Tuesday at 4:30 that Al Gore's two nukes - the absentee-ballot application cases in Seminole County and Martin County - were officially duds...
...cases had been together from the beginning. They shared not only the essential issues but most of the Bush legal team, and the basic facts in both were never in dispute: Two Republican supervisors of elections had allowed Republican party workers access to two stacks of absentee ballot applications, in order to fill in voter ID numbers - left off the forms in a printing error - and save the applications from the trash...
...Ballot liposuction...
...oral arguments, Scalia missed few opportunities to sneer at Boies for ignoring "equal protection" - what may be sticking in conservative craws the most is the specific inequalities in the current hand count scheme. What could attract Scalia, Rehnquist and Thomas is a hand-count plan that codifies the ballot-by-ballot "voter intent" standard strictly, sensibly and statewide. Boies won't get anywhere with them defending the bloated Democratic counts in Broward, Volusia and one-fifth of Miami-Dade that were summarily blessed Friday by the Florida Supremes, and the conservatives on the high court won't relinquish their majority...