Word: counted
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...nation's electors gather to cast their ostensibly preordained votes for president. And if Florida's electors remain captives of extended legal maneuverings or the 49th recount, the other 513 electors would probably just have to vote on their own. And although Al Gore currently leads in the electoral count, since only about half of those electors are legally required to vote the party line, a new vote could easily mean a victory for either candidate...
...Things are so much easier in totalitarian systems. As Joseph Stalin once noted, it's not who votes that matters, but who counts the votes. In authoritarian societies, the government tells people how to vote and then they count the votes and then they win. It's so much neater and less confusing that way. You don't need butterfly ballots when there is only one person to vote...
...democracy, as the founders noted, every man is a king. (Of course, women didn't count in those days.) That can get to be a problem. One king is simple; 100 million kings is chaotic. Let every voice be heard is the rule in democracy, but it makes for cacophony, not harmony. "Democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention," said James Madison, who helped create ours...
...going to take a while for an information-addicted people - and their dealers, the media - to adjust to this pace. With a reporter working every one of Florida's 67 counties, as of Thursday night the Associated Press had nailed them all down. Their unofficial Recount count, sans absentee ballots, was George W. Bush...
...much-anticipated end-of-Thursday, end-of-the-recount press conference held by Florida's Secretary of State Katherine Harris revealed that with 53 of the state's 67 counties reporting, George W. Bush was winning Florida by 1,784 votes. Which was the same count the AP had already forwarded to the chattering class for dispensing to the bound-to-be-curious-who-their-next-president-will-be viewing public...