Word: final
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Broward County, hand-counters have held a quarter of their 400,000-odd twice-scanned ballots up to the light, fought over dimpled chads and fallen ones, and found only 50 net votes for Gore. Their final number is expected at the end of Monday...
...course, both attitudes neatly dovetail with the final rule in politics, whether it be in Washington or Tallahassee: You can always count on each party to do what is in its own best interest...
...think this matter is important enough to be decided by the Florida Supreme Court," Boies said, adding that, "if it's a matter of waiting two or three days," that would be far preferable to letting Lewis on Friday - and Harris on Saturday - have the final say in the matter. "You don't call the game after the first inning or the second inning, when you get ahead," said Boies. "You wait for the game to be played...
...Here's the plan: The Gore camp will wait for Bush's final Saturday margin - it's now at 321, according to the AP - and then fight tooth and nail to keep those hand counts going until they find margin-plus-one votes for Al Gore...
...remedy this, the U.S. Census Bureau has proposed using statistical sampling to improve the accuracy of the final tally. That means they would do an actual physical count of as many people as they can find in a given census tract, and then employ a mathematical model to fill in the holes...