Word: balloting
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...expert on voting machines, but Bush cross-examinations saw to it that their testimony took up most of the day. Bush's team offered two witnesses and planned to call 18 more. At times the proceedings dwelled on small but crucial matters, like whether old chads build up behind ballots and sometimes prevent a hole from being fully punched. Gore won a victory on that point, but Bush lawyer Phil Beck expertly cross-examined the Gore team's statistician, Yale professor Nicolas Hengartner. The professor had to admit that he had in fact never inspected a certain ballot that...
FINDS FOR GORE! [or] FINDS FOR BUSH! Decides the Florida Supreme Decides that the Florida Court did not usurp the Supreme Court did overstep Florida legislature's power its bounds in extending the when it extended the deadline ballot-counting deadline from...
...seemed like a strange little sideshow, barely worth noticing. But now both candidates are realizing that the sideshow could potentially decide the election. A lawsuit--filed not by Al Gore but by an Altamonte Springs personal-injury lawyer--demands that the county throw out some 15,000 absentee ballots because of alleged fraud. That would give Gore a net gain of about 5,000 votes, more than enough to win the White House. The plaintiff, a Democrat named Harry Jacobs, charges that because G.O.P. workers were allowed to fill in blanks on thousands of absentee-ballot applications last October, none...
...warrant. His popularity has already slipped 5 points. Up for re-election in two years, he has a black community angered anew over voting-rights violations. Then there are the seniors, who became fair game for driving too slowly, eating too early, and because they couldn't read a ballot although they can manage a dozen bingo cards. There are the Jews, ridiculed for letting a simple butterfly ballot trick them into voting for Nazi-revisionist Pat Buchanan. And there are the random voters who had the misfortune to vote in heavily Democratic precincts using antiquated machines that have...
...Seminole case is scheduled to be heard by Judge Nikki Clark on Wednesday in Tallahassee. But it was in the making well before Election Day, when Republican operatives realized that the firm they hired to print ballot applications had accidentally left off the voter ID numbers required by state law. (Both parties in Florida mailed out thousands of partly completed applications for members to sign and return--a little end run around voter apathy.) In Seminole, when elections supervisor Sandra Goard noticed the omission, she put the forms in a pile to be tossed. But in mid-October, a G.O.P...