Word: counted
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Florida Supreme Court will decide whether it is legal for the counties to hand count their ballots and whether Harris is required to accept these counts...
...lawsuits filed in the past week and a half scare you. The legal morass is shallower than it first appears. In essence there are just three continuing legal battles: the Republican attempts to stop all manual recounts from going forward, the Democratic attempts to get counties to hand count their ballots and to keep these recounts going, and the struggle of some Florida citizens to force a new election in Palm Beach County. The Palm Beach cases are moving slowly, but in the others there has been a clear winner, at least so far: all but one decision has favored...
...Democrats sue Broward County to go ahead with a hand count (the county had voted against doing so because of Harris' directive not to proceed...
...Broward County reverses itself and begins a full hand count...
...Federal District Court, Bush lawyer Theodore Olson argues that the hand-count process is "selective, standardless, subjective, unreliable and inherently biased." Gore lawyer Bruce Rogow responds that the hand count is more accurate and actually increases democracy. Judge Donald Middlebrooks, a Clinton appointee, rejects the Bush argument, finding that election mechanics are a state, not a federal, issue...