Word: boarding
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Republicans in Broward County file suit in state circuit court to stop the county's hand counts. Lawyers subpoena Broward's 3-member canvassing board...
...tiny butterfly pin to mock the infamous ballot, she faced the cameras and vowed to count every last vote. Why wait for court approval? Why should the battle for the Constitution wait for a judge? "What happens? Do we go to jail?" she asked the lawyer for the board of canvassers. "Because I'm ready to go to jail...
This is how Roberts got her spotlight. As a county commissioner, she sits on the canvassing board, a job that most find dull but she enjoys because she likes to be in the action on election night. For her, the unending election night was heaven--and Palm Beach the red-hot center of paradise. After a sample of ballots were hand counted for an excruciating 17 hours and Gore picked up extra votes, Roberts did the math in her head: if he got 19 more votes from recounting only 1% of the ballots, he might get 1,900 more votes...
...waited until the canvassing board reconvened in front of live TV cameras to make her move. She called quickly for a vote, cutting off debate. When Charles Burton, the county judge who chairs the board, suggested they wait for legal opinions from secretary of state Katherine Harris, Roberts said, "I'm not asking for an opinion, I'm asking for a vote." Burton later accused Roberts of "bushwhacking" him. He'd thought they were on friendly terms, having taken smoking breaks with Roberts during their marathon counting sessions...
Last week armed sheriff's deputies guarded Roberts after she received threatening phone calls at home. Republicans have pushed her to recuse herself from the board, accusing her of physically bending, twisting and manipulating ballots in favor of Gore. She has hired a lawyer and denies the charges...