Word: correctness
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Miami-Dade County, and all of Florida, is for all ballots which show clear voter intent to be counted. Only then can the winner of Florida's electoral votes be decided with certainty. We have suffered for Bush's miscalculation not to support a full recount. Only when the correct decision of manually counting votes was made did the Bush team understand they had missed the opportunity to recount heavily Republican counties and took to protesting Gore's legal actions through a public-relations smear campaign...
...will of the people, not a hyper-technical reliance upon statutory provisions, should be our guiding principle in election cases" - and hand counts are supreme. "Our society has not yet gone so far as to place blind faith in machines. In almost all endeavors, including elections, humans routinely correct the errors of machines...
...Bush team, Baker warned, will consider "whatever remedies we may have to correct this unjust result." Including revving up the Florida legislature, which under a dusty law can step in and select the state's electors if they feel the law they wrote is being mangled by the working lawyers and judges. A legislature that is Republican, and that just Monday gave Katherine Harris a standing ovation...
...Orchard Elementary School in Delray Beach. On the way out, when he heard people complain that the ballot had confused them, he assumed they had not paid enough attention. But at lunch later with friends, Fladell says, he broke into a cold sweat when he heard them describe the correct punch hole for Gore-Lieberman. Fladell realized that he too had inadvertently voted for Pat Buchanan, a man who has had, to put it mildly, some problems with Jewish voters. "A ballot is supposed to lead me to my vote," says Fladell, who is now a plaintiff...
...years ago. Is that it? Or are we one nation, so intricately balanced in its impulses, so symmetrically cracked down the middle, that we cannot decide whether we are compassionate conservatives or fascist bleeding hearts? It's not that George Wallace was right long ago, and Ralph Nader is correct now in asserting that there's not a dime's worth of difference between a Democrat and a Republican. Allowing for inflation, there's several dollars' worth...