Word: counted
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Gore's salvo Wednesday night was timed perfectly, not just because it interrupted the network news, but because he had a pretty darn good idea that the Floriday Supreme Court would do exactly what it did this afternoon: approve the continuation of the hand-count. Which is exactly what Palm Beach County started doing within minutes of the ruling. First move to Gore...
...Gore laid out two hand-count proposals - one for including the three counties, one for hand counting statewide. Both, he figured, would put him over the top, and both, he suspected, would be unacceptable to the Bush camp, who had spent the last five days insisting that hand counts were less accurate than machine counts. And Proposal 2 not only has an appealing air of fairness but takes the Republicans' potent "cherry-picking" argument off the table...
...Bush? Bush ran on "trusting the people" and giving power to "the local folks," and these days finds himself in the uncomfortable position of trusting machines and suing in a federal court to stop the counts, when he's all about states' rights. Republicans are also a bit boxed in - having decried the unreliability of hand counts for days and sued to stop them, they didn't have much choice but to pass on the statewide count. Which made Bush's job (once he hustled up from Crawford and got on the air at 10:15 from the governor...
...Thursday, yet another court decision was added to the volatile mix that is the Florida election, this time from the Florida Supreme Court giving the go-ahead to Palm Beach County to continue with its hand count...
...count of overseas votes (due Friday at midnight) maintain Bush's lead in Florida, Harris could certify the votes Saturday and declare Bush the winner. First, of course, she'll have to get past Florida's Supreme Court, which on Wednesday and Thursday refused legal moves to block hand recounts, and might well overturn a circuit court decision or a unilateral conclusion by Harris, and order the manual recounts to continue and be included in the statewide figures...