Word: counted
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2000
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...recount of the entire Miami-Dade county if the Florida Supreme Court rules that Gore's request for a manual recount of 14,000 disputed ballots is justified. If Bush can counter that over 1 million votes need to be manually recounted, there will not be enough time to count the votes before the electors must vote on Dec. 12--Bush will win by default. Pretty clever Dubya, a great way to win an election indeed. What was that you said about being "a uniter and not a divider...
...There is a flickering possibility that Judge N. Sanders Sauls, who basically spit tobacco juice on David Boies' black Reeboks, left the Gore team a back door: what the judge deemed the "reasonable probability" that the hand count could "change or place in doubt the outcome of the election." And Boies' case is that there's only one way to tell...
...novo. Start fresh and count the votes. Sauls, the Gore lawyers say, shipped the ballots all the way to Tallahssee. He entered them in evidence. Then he took the word of two flimsy statisticians without ever looking at a warehouse fill of real evidence: the ballots themselves...
...David Boies was out within the hour to downplay the decision - "We think the U.S. Supreme Court decision does not in any way affect the contest before Judge Sauls" - before favoring reporters with some well-spun analysis of the implications. For Boies, still fighting for a clean-slate hand count of some 14,000 votes, a decision that at worst costs his client only the 400-odd Broward County votes and does nothing to the ongoing "contest" except muddy it up a bit is just another fly on his legal windshield. "There's no reason this needs to delay things...
...Florida Supreme Court takes supplemental briefs from Gore and Bush lawyers Tuesday at 3 p.m. on the case SCOTUS sent back to them for retooling, and by then court spokesman Craig Waters will likely have announced the arrival of the Sauls hand-count appeal, which Gore still thinks he can win on legal grounds. Sauls' sweeping "burden of proof" rejection may well have been an acknowledgment that David Boies was going to sue no matter what he did. So Sauls kicked the whole mess upstairs, and it'll be up to Florida's highest court - barring a 5,000-vote...