Word: contestability
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Maine scored three times in the third period to break open a close 1-0 contest...
...what's wrong with a Republican-dominated state legislature ending a contest that the courts had five weeks to settle and couldn't? These people were elected by Floridians; if Floridians don't like what their representatives did, they can fire them. (Heck, they've even got term limits down there.) The politicians, maligned as they are, are just the people the founding fathers had in mind to regulate American elections. Who better than elected officials? At least we don't have to wring our hands about how they've become politicized...
...been lost. And with the hawkish Benjamin Netanyahu enjoying a double-digit lead in opinion polls, Prime Minister Ehud Barak is unlikely to sweeten his offer. Netanyahu moved a step closer to overcoming legal obstacles to his candidacy Wednesday when Israel's parliament voted to allow any citizen to contest the special election triggered by Barak's resignation. The bill must pass two more votes to become law, and replace the current statute that restricts such an election to members of the current parliament, which excludes Netanyahu...
...select presidential electors looming, the Gore camp indicated that another court defeat would mean the end of the presidential contest at last...
...case focused on three issues, similar to those the court discussed in its Dec. 1 hearing on the Bush-Gore dispute, the only other time that it has heard a presidential contest case in its 210-year history...