Word: final
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Yesterday, with time running out before the 5 p.m. deadline for submitting final vote tallies to Harris' office, Palm Beach remained 800 to 1,000 ballots short of finishing its hand recount. The Palm Beach canvassing board then requested that Harris include its partial recount in her final tally, but Harris denied the request. The partial recount would have given Gore a net gain of 180 votes...
...Crimson struck first at the tail end of a man-advantage in bang-bang fashion. In the final second of the power play, Botterill controlled the puck at the right half-boards, and spotted Shewchuk wide open on the left side of the crease. Botterill fired a bullet across the ice to Shewchuk, who one-timed the service forcefully and accurately into the fleetingly open portion...
...finish the job, Gore believed, it could provide him the margin he needed. Gore planned to contest the county's decision and told people he would accept a bipartisan "master" to oversee a recount; but that would involve days and days of counting and a new deadline for a final tally. "The tragedy is we have truth on our side," said a top Gore adviser, "but time...
...Supreme Court decision to take the case looked like a huge Bush win: no matter what the final hand counts revealed, there was now a chance they'd be tossed out. But some Democrats saw it as a lifeline: it was a chance to fight on at least another week and, if the Justices ruled their way, to gain the ultimate legitimization of the manual recounts. "I don't think Gore can walk away," said Louisiana senator John Breaux, widely considered the most agnostic about new legal challenges to the election. "As long as something is pending in court...
...Leave the deadlines in place, but make the hand counts more manageable by confining them to ballots not read by the machines. And if that doesn't work, buy new machines.) Then again, the high court might side with Gore's insistence that a state Supreme Court deserves the final say. And, by the way, the court still wants to know from both sides what they'd recommend as a solution...