Word: counted
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...next big court ruling of Non-Election 2000 should come down Friday in the wake of a 2 p.m. hearing in Leon County court. The Bush team is asking Judge Ralph Smith for "immediate action" on ordering 14 heavily Republican, heavily military counties to count military absentee votes according to a lenient federal standard...
...Lieberman came out in front of the vice-presidential residence Friday to soften the p.r. ground for the battle, holding a press conference to accuse Republican supporters, via "orchestrated demonstrations" in Miami-Dade on Wednesday, of intimidating the canvassing board into dropping its hand count. Expect Gore's post-certification trump card to be well cared for all weekend...
...local control, this is like trashing the big bully behind his back and then enlisting his services when you get in a brawl. You'll notice that the Bush campaign called the Florida Supreme Court an "instrument of the Democratic party" when it agreed to let the manual count continue, but were silent about the court's bias when it rejected Gore's emergency appeal to force Miami-Dade to resume its recount...
...That we'll always have Miami-Dade, which started too late for the first deadline, quit too early for the second deadline, and now has Gore's lawyers trying to force it to undertake a dimple count it never wanted in the first place, to remind us of how absurd this...
...Unless 930 isn't 930. Bush, fighting fire with fire, has a back-up lawsuit percolating to force 13 Republican counties to force canvassing boards to count all acceptable military absentee ballots and get them in by the deadline...