Word: could
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...firm grip on her discretion. The Florida Supreme Court had given her a nice out - if a timid but honest canvassing board like Palm Beach's (we know they're honest because Gore is suing them in the morning) wasn't going to finish on time, she could give them 16 more hours if the Secretary of State's office was closed on Sunday...
...charges, but video cameras caught scenes of activism that had morphed into menace. The organizers in the RV outside, who GOP protesters have told TIME were led by hardball Washington strategist Roger Stone, had phone banks churning out calls to Miami Republicans, urging them to storm downtown. (Stone could not be reached for comment.) One of them was a fire fighter, Rob Eltus, 45: "What Americans are finally seeing is Republicans...
...votes for Gore. Palm Beach, about half-done with its own stack of 9,500 questionables, has turned up a net of 46 for Gore. For a while, the canvassing board thought it wouldn't be done in time, and sent an extension request to Katherine Harris. Legally, Harris could play it cool by not showing up for work and just letting Palm Beach turn in its numbers Monday morning. Nobody's expecting her to do that, though, and the board now hopes to be finished...
...could go either way. A court obsessed with states' rights might find it quite natural to defend the right of the Florida legislature to write and enforce a body of election law that is, shall we say, eminently disputable. After all, there's nothing unconstitutional about confusing legislation. (Suggestion for the next state congress: Leave the deadlines in place, but make the hand counts more manageable by confining them to ballots not read by the machines. And if that doesn't work, buy new machines.) Then again, the high court might side with Gore's insistence that a state Supreme...
...might know the outcome by Friday. Ninety minutes of arguments (which two Florida GOPers want to get in on) start at 10 a.m., and Rehnquist has a reputation for fast turnarounds. If the Justices go with Bush, it's all over; if they go with Gore it could start all over again, with Bush likely to turn to the lawmakers in Florida (and maybe Washington) for help and Gore continuing to ride Boies all the way to the White House...