Word: contestability
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FOWL ART A Minnesota wildlife painter, Robert Hautman, bested 315 other artists in the 2000 federal duck-stamp contest with his acrylic of a northern pintail...
...some famously disputed Florida elections of recent years. In the Miami Beach mayoral race three years ago, incumbent Joe Carollo, a Republican, won 51% of the votes cast at polling places. His challenger, ex-mayor Xavier Suarez, who ran as an independent, won 61% of the absentees, forcing the contest into a runoff that Suarez won with a large number of absentee ballots. Carollo filed suit, claiming that Suarez forged signatures on absentee ballots. In March 1998, Judge Thomas S. Wilson Jr. found massive fraud and ordered a new election. When Carollo appealed, arguing he should simply be declared...
Democrats looking to pick off Senate seats tagged that of Spencer Abraham, a first-termer and Michigan's first G.O.P. Senator in more than 20 years, as their easiest target. The contest turned out to be a squeaker, but two-term Congresswoman Debbie Stabenow finally delivered. Though outspent by nearly 2 to 1, the bubbly Stabenow outshone her often lusterless opponent on the campaign trail and in the debates. Stabenow, 50, who had previously served in the state legislature for 16 years, starting at age 28, campaigned most vigorously on prescription-drug benefits for the elderly. For months, the Abraham...
Imagine for a moment what it was like to be Al Gore on Wednesday morning. The man who said the presidential election wasn't a popularity contest had won the popularity contest. He collected more votes than Bill Clinton ever did, more votes than any other Democrat in history. But like his father before him, he couldn't hold on to his home state, and that could cost him the race. The most fervent environmentalist in national politics was foiled by the Green Party; the guy who as a young Congressman made his name investigating tainted baby formula and influence...
...first line to draw was between "protest" and "contest." Joseph Klock, for Harris, argued that the Gore team was "trying to conduct a contest proceeding before there is a certification." Meaning that if Democrats have evidence that the election result Harris wants to certify is incorrect, let her certify it - and then the law gives them from the first certification (a week after the election) until the end of the world...