Word: final
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Hand recounts are "arbitrary and chaotic" and should not be included in any final count, he said...
...know Harvard doesn't trust me. It hires proctors to watch my every move during final exams and provides me with special lamps lest I use my halogen irresponsibly and burn down my dorm. When I ate in Annenberg, I wasn't allowed to take an apple when I left, and clearing up a typo on my study card took three signatures and four phone calls--my word was worth almost nothing...
...Bush's statement was emotionally all "finality" and about holding firm behind a schedule that appeals to America's growing sense of impatience. "This is precisely why the laws of the state of Florida have deadlines for certification of the election vote... The next and final deadline comes Friday at midnight, when overseas absentee ballots must have been received to be counted in Florida. I don't know who these ballots will support and neither does Vice President Gore." Nice bit of suspense, even if Bush has no doubt whatsoever that the absentee ballots will add to his official...
...evaluation of their ballots." (Gore misstatement alert: Palm Beach County has not yet begun to count, and Dade County has actually decided not to. Broward, of course, had also decided not to but was forced to reconsider by the Democrats.) The results of those recounts would be added to final tally - and Gore drops all his lawsuits and both sides abide by the result...
...indeed. We're all waiting for the final recount from the Sunshine State, and assuming some consensus is reached by December 18, the Democratic or Republican slate of electors will be certified to vote in the state capital. Their ranks include Diane Glasser, a National Democratic Committeewoman from the Fort Lauderdale area, and Tom Slade, the former chairman of the Florida State Republican Committee...