Word: boarding
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...week ahead, two issues remain to determine the next President of the United States. One is the Gore case against the Miami-Dade County canvassing board--a group who, it seems, felt intimidated by the actions of Republican protesters crowding the halls of their offices Wednesday and decided to call off a count of the thousands of "no vote" ballots in their county. The actions of Republican partisans--taking to the radio to encourage angry citizens to descend on the canvassing board office and prevent them from doing their work--erode any credibility Texas Gov. George W. Bush...
...almost poetic that the reprieve came from the seven state supreme-court justices, six of them Democrats, who have been wrangling with Governor Jeb Bush this year--over capital punishment. Within two hours of the court's decision, the Vice President got more good news. The canvassing board in Miami-Dade County decided to begin a hand recount of its 654,000 votes. And a federal appeals court in Atlanta rejected Bush's plea to stop all manual recounts on constitutional grounds...
...time. The lawyers were due in court, and the generals were due on television; they were late for strategy sessions or conference calls with their candidate; they were keeping an eye on the polls and the catcalling protesters, the bickering recount monitors, the flawed, human, sometimes heroic county election-board officials trying to do the right thing despite gale-force political winds and media glare. For all the experience of men like Baker, Christopher and Daley, they had never been here before, didn't know the landscape, couldn't buy a map. They had never tried to win a presidential...
...Palm Beach, where the crucial hand count was delayed for days by legal wrangling, Republicans tried to stall the process further on Thursday by challenging every fifth ballot. That same day in Broward, a county G.O.P. lawyer named William Scherer stormed into the canvassing room to serve the board subpoenas. "You are acting in defiance of election laws," he cried, adding that the board members "would be testifying in court." And in court they were the very next day, further delaying the recount process until the judge threw out the suit...
...saying throughout the election campaign--that the government always screws things up. After all, compare the conduct of this election with the way things are done in the private sector. Private corporations hold elections all the time, and they routinely deliver victory to the management's nominees for the board of directors by huge majorities without any fuss. Only an election run by government bureaucrats would be handled so incompetently that it produces a close vote, let alone so irresponsibly that a Democrat is even allowed to win every now and then...