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...hundreds of paid G.O.P. crusaders who descended on South Florida last Wednesday to protest the state's recounts. "The system is unfair, inaccurate, fraught with human error!" Strayer cried. In a Winnebago outside, G.O.P. operatives orchestrated the ranks up to the 19th floor, hoping to halt the tally of the largest potential lode of Gore votes...
...William Mahone of Virginia, by dangling before him the Agriculture Committee chairmanship and the power to pick the Senate's Sergeant at Arms. Republican Vice President Chester A. Arthur cast the tie-breaking vote so the G.O.P. could take over the chamber. But legislative business quickly ground to a halt when angry Democrats refused to show up for any floor votes...
Slow doesn't even begin to describe the beginning of the game, which ground to a halt faster than Robert Downey Jr.'s career. The two teams shouldn't have even bothered with the first five minutes of the game; the score was tied 3-3 with 14:51 minutes to play in the first half...
...week's end, the legal endgame was focused on two sets of lawsuits proceeding on parallel tracks. The Bush campaign had pinned its hopes on a federal challenge to hand counts that now seems to have sputtered to a halt. And the Gore camp was relying on the Florida state courts to force a reluctant Katherine Harris, the secretary of state, to accept votes from hand recounts that it hoped might provide its margin of victory...
...Bush files federal lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Miami to halt all hand counts. The argument: since there is no uniform standard governing hand counts, voters will be treated unequally, violating their equal protection rights guaranteed by the 14th Amendment to the Constitution...