Word: boarding
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Gore campaign will challenge the Palm Beach board's recounting method in court today, complaining they used too stringent a standard to determine which votes were valid...
Yesterday, with time running out before the 5 p.m. deadline for submitting final vote tallies to Harris' office, Palm Beach remained 800 to 1,000 ballots short of finishing its hand recount. The Palm Beach canvassing board then requested that Harris include its partial recount in her final tally, but Harris denied the request. The partial recount would have given Gore a net gain of 180 votes...
...Board members had met in round-the-clock sessions the since early Saturday morning in hopes of completing a re-canvass of 14,500 questionable ballots, but simply ran out of time...
Over Thanksgiving weekend, the work of the Palm Beach County canvassing board--three elected individuals who probably expected an honorific rather than horrific job--worked tirelessly to count the votes of the county's citizens. Thousands of the ballots had not shown a vote for president due to a combination of imperfect ballots and imperfect machines. The canvassing board has already faced allegations of improper action over the butterfly ballot and an unusual number of votes for Pat Buchanan that Buchanan himself says were intended for Vice President Al Gore...
...federal probe of the incident. Sources close to Democratic Miami-Dade mayor Alex Penelas tell TIME that a GOP intermediary, Miami political consultant Herman Echevarria - at the behest of state Republican leaders - tried to approach Penelas Wednesday morning to see if the mayor "might talk" to the canvassing board. The sources say Penelas preferred to stay out of it. (Dade elections supervisor David Leahy, a board member, also works for Penelas.) Both Echevarria and Florida GOP chairman Al Cardenas deny such contact. But Penelas, a Cuban American, is seen as vulnerable by GOP leaders because he has been estranged from...