Word: counted
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...course, both parties are doing what's in their own self-interest. There's no such thing as statesmanship in a close election. It just so happens that it's in the Democrats' interest to "count every ballot" and it's in the Republicans' interest to certify things as they...
...When it was in the Republicans' interest to count every ballot, as it was in the Seminole and Martin counties cases, that is precisely what they argued. Just as the Democrats took the diametrically opposite view in those cases...
...Florida Republicans name a Republican slate, and the courts count up a Gore win and order a Democratic slate, then its on to the U.S. Congress - on Jan. 6, two weeks before the inauguration. The House and Senate would each have the opportunity to choose its own slate, with the House's narrow GOP majority choosing Bush...
...Bush's legal team has already requested an emergency injunction against the count while they march the case straight back to the highest court in the land. The U.S. Supremes, acting hesitantly, have already "vacated" one of the Florida high court's rulings, finding that it needed to be clarified. How will they look at this sharply divided ruling? They can end this with one ruling, or decide that their Florida brethren finally got it right. Or lock their chamber door and let the counters sort...
...statewide undervote count with a vote-by-vote standard, one more like Palm Beach than Broward, might just be as Solomonic as we get these days. It may not favor Al Gore as much as he thinks, but for him it sure beats losing. It may not endanger George W. Bush as much as he thinks, but for him it sure doesn't top winning. If the Supreme Court stays out of this, Al Gore's quest will be George W. Bush's too - a trench war between counters, between operatives, between politicians of high office...