Word: counted
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Only a couple more court cases (and maybe a hand count, and possibly a few constitutional confrontations...
...counties should be recounted and not every county. In the words of one witness, who lives in the Central Time zone and says she turned around on her way to vote after her husband informed her the networks had called the state for Gore, "I think my vote should count...
...history," was what Warren Christopher had to say to the Cheney clip on an abbreviated "Late Edition." Christopher, like Gore used to, is talking up the next-year "itch" as something Bush doesn't want either - "wouldn't it be tragic if at some later time, these votes were counted and..." The new Gore bogeyman is a post-inaugural hand count by the media, via the Sunshine Law. (For good reason - the Miami Herald, in Sunday's paper, modeled a 23,000-vote victory for Gore under "perfect" conditions...
...have stuck with the Miami-Dade recount as the basis for their contest. Then, instead of wasting two witnesses trying to prove esoteric mechanical flaws of machines in Palm Beach, the Democrats might have scored a few points by insisting they were only trying to procure a first count of 10,000 Miami-Dade ballots...
...bound to be some opinion involved in situations like this," Burton remarked ruefully during Bartlit's direct) those doubts may be enough to plant a lingering question in Judge Sauls' mind. If all Palm Beach County needed was a set of guidelines to ensure "a fair and accurate" count, could Sauls be just the guy to set such parameters...