Word: dade
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...course of five and a half hours, the GOP called five witnesses. Three discussed the alleged irregularities they personally observed during the Miami-Dade recount process - including dropping ballot boxes, fanning the ballots like cards, doing pretty much everything short of taking the ballots along with them to the bathroom - apparently hoping to establish the fallibility of human hands when it comes to counting ballots and to discredit the idea of recounting once again...
...That Guy in the Photograph? One of these witnesses, a Republican observer, a lawyer named Thomas Spargo, was caught off-guard by a photograph presented by the Gore team showing him clapping and chanting with GOP activists outside the 19th floor counting room in the Miami-Dade municipal building. Even the preternaturally dispassionate Judge Sauls was intrigued by the photograph and asked Spargo a few pointed questions regarding the lawyer's whereabouts and intent that...
...Marais replied. The Gore team's projections, he went on to explain, are unreliable because they are based on three heavily Democratic precincts in Miami-Dade County. If the numbers were divined from a more accurate (less partisan) source, Marais concluded, they would be admissible...
...piece of paper, from which he began to read: "Mr. Ahmann, is it not true that in 1981 you went to the U.S. Patent Office because you were worried about defects in the voting device you'd approved - and which had been installed and still operates down in Miami-Dade county...
...Hengartner with hypothetical questions relating to the left-hand side of the voting machine, apparently hoping to discredit Brace's testimony but serving primarily to underscore a serious miscalculation on the part of Gore's legal team - which would probably have been wise to 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...