Word: could
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...this way for the unsung heroes of this young team. At the start of this season, many wouldn't have recognized the names of Nick Palazzo, Matt Leiszler or Dante Balestracci. Now, after their enormous contributions to the team and their competitive drive, it's hard to imagine we could soon forget those names. It is unjust for such a good group of talented and dedicated players to go without the laurels of victory...
...votes by hand. Harris told the counties they were legally required to submit their vote totals within seven days of the election. Leon County circuit court judge Terry Lewis, who was assigned the case, issued an initial decision that offered something to each side. He ruled that the counties could continue their hand counts, but he also affirmed that Harris had the authority not to accept those recounted votes. And there was one more thing: Harris could not abuse her discretion in rejecting the hand-recounted votes...
...Every twist in the Florida postelection legal journey has been met with a flurry of overreaction. Friday morning, when Judge Lewis ruled that Harris could certify the state results, the punditocracy was declaring that Gore's hopes of winning were over. By the end of the same day, after the Florida Supreme Court's ruling that she could not, talk resurfaced of a possible Gore victory. But the truth lay somewhere in between. The Gore camp will have a chance to argue before the Florida Supreme Court this week that "the votes have been cast, and they ought...
...legal argument may be not that Harris abused her discretion, but instead that she had no discretion at all about whether to count the hand-recounted votes. Florida law imposes an obligation on the counties to act when a sample manual recount indicates an error in vote tabulation that could affect the outcome of the election. And among the options given to counties is manually recounting all the ballots. In a county such as Miami-Dade, where 653,963 punch-card ballots were cast, it may not be possible to set up the procedures, recruit the staff and the Republican...
...place in election law. Florida law expressly provides for hand recounts. And courts that have reviewed elections decided by hand recounts - from Alaska to Indiana to South Dakota - have overwhelmingly supported them. If the Florida Supreme Court is concerned about the way in which hand counting is occurring, it could take steps to oversee it more directly, either by setting out its own counting standards or by appointing a special master to supervise the process...